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TiJay
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Yeah, it's definitely squealing not grinding.
TiJay
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Yeah, that's the other thing that was suggested to me. I might get the brakes checked by Toyota when it goes in for this throttle recall thing (yay, another niggle!)
TiJay
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Thanks for the help! When the ABS comes on it doesn't seem to be stopping any quicker, I'd assume it'd be a hard, sudden stop but it slows at a "normal braking" pace.

The brakes feel okay, I am quite hard on them though so I'll get my pads checked this weekend. Wouldn't be surprised to find warped discs...

[rant]Can't wait to be shot of the thing in summer and get an MX-5, to be honest. The niggles on the Aygo are starting to annoy me, which is a shame as it's great fun on a sunny day on the twisties. Unfortunately, the gearbox is rubbish and the engine needs to be worked hard to get any power, which knackers the fuel economy... And on the motorway, fuel economy takes a nose dive as it's revving so high at 70ish and needs full throttle to maintain that speed up an incline...[/rant]
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Car help - ABS activating prematurely & squeaky brakes!
TiJay
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I thought I'd post this here as there's lots of people who know about the greasy stuff on a car...

In the last 3 and a bit years since passing my test, I haven't activated the ABS/locked the brakes on a car once yet it's happened twice on my Aygo in the last week, which leads me to think it's the car. Once was pulling upto the stop line at a roundabout, braking no harder than usual from about 10-20mph as there had previously been a car in front. The other time was following a line of traffic at the same sort of speed, the traffic in front slowed quickly and I braked firmly but no harder than I usually would. The bunched-up cars in front stopped without drama yet my ABS came on. Can anyone offer a suggestion on this?

Also, my brakes have been squealing for the past few weeks, I'm assuming this indicates brake pad wear? And could low pads = more ABS activation?

I bought the car from Toyota used in September and haven't put more than a few thousand miles on it. No idea if the pads were fresh when I bought it...

Thanks
TiJay
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I've not had any problems with that so far Touch wood!
TiJay
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Tits, I have an Aygo which is on the list. Surely the fault would affect C1s and 107s too?

Ah well, I have a manual. Clutch down, engage neutral, engine off.
TiJay
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Dajmin: I had that loads in secondary school. It was just stuff that was really likely to happen then I went to school and it happened. Had others where the opposite to what I dreamed happened the next day though. It's your brain going through the potential outcomes to prepare you for the day I guess.

STF: Fascinating, may have to read that...
TiJay
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Mid-90s Escort estate? New enough to be reliable, old enough to not be offensive to the eyes or stuffed with gadgets to go wrong.
TiJay
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Quote :From what I've heard, if you're in a lucid dream and you realise it isn't real, the dream can end.

I thought the point of lucid dreaming was knowing it's not real/you're dreaming but it still feels real and you can control it?
TiJay
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Lucid dreaming is awesome because it feels real. Just make sure it isn't actually real before jumping off tall buildings
TiJay
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I had a dream I got two speeding tickets through in the space of a week. 6 points woo! What a bitch that would be... Certainly made me take it easy when I drove today though!
TiJay
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Apple used to make useful/innovative lifestyle products... The iPod was revolutionary, the.... nope, nevermind. Everything they've made since the iPod has been a useless, overpriced crock of shit.

+1 for the G5 Macs though.

EDIT: No Flash?? Are they having a laugh! My N97 Mini does Flash...
TiJay
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So it's a really big iPod Touch without the portability?
TiJay
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I love the American approach to owning cars. People get so hung up on the "it should have done 10,000 miles per year" thing over here it's ridiculous. In the States, it seems to be "if it gets from A to B and it's mechanically sound, it's all good". Much better.
TiJay
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OT: Yussuf seems a pretty popular guy to quote, looking at the sigs in this topic...
TiJay
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Something like that, yeah. The Focus generations hang around for so long they end up having all kinds of different powerplants from what I can see. Beware the diesels of course, because they're mostly French PSA (Pretty Sh*t Automobiles) engines.
TiJay
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TiJay
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I generally won't buy anything with more than 70,000.

This is because I'll probably flog the car after a few years at most. So yeah, a car may be fine at 100,000+ but if it's already done 100,000, who says it won't break at 130,000?

I think there was a VW or Skoda turbo of some kind where the turbo broke at 125,000 miles...
TiJay
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The 1.6 in the Focus is from the Ford Puma/Fiesta Zetec S IIRC and will happily hit 60 in 10 seconds in those cars - the Focus isn't much heavier. In the Puma, it feels hugely responsive and will cruise and overtake effortlessly. I never managed to get more than 35mpg out of mine, but tbh that's plenty. The 1.8 is the older Zetec-E engine so may have different issues to the 1.6 (the 1.6 cambelt needs changing at 100,000 miles... again IIRC).

Also, the Focus Zetec models have a sportier setup than the Ghia or LX trims from what I remember.
TiJay
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Thanks for your comments Becky, I'll take a look at that forum and your old stuff!

Quote :I made the assumption that here was somebody drifting through further education and not putting the effort in, and from where I sit that cuts a little close to the bone.

Ouch! I worked my arse off so far to get on a B/2.1 average... But fair enough if that's the impression the work gave.

Quote :The other thing i'll do, is if you improve and if you have a passion for it, then keep me updated via PM's with the odd screenshot of your game related work and if and when I think you're ready i'll give you the chance to work with me on a 3D game project by producing some of the media assets and getting your name on a quality title to launch your career with

PM'd
TiJay
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Quote :Triangles and +5-sided polygons will cause "pinching" which may not be what you want... Also, google up some info on "face topology", your current mesh is unusable for any kind of animation.

We did topology with varying degrees of success and tried to use 4-sided polys only, because it was our first time doing faces and there was a tight time limit, we did the best we could. I know that my skills in those aspects need improving though.

Quote :clean and smooth lines are far more important than anything else, yours look like they were painted with a shaky mousehand. (paths are your friends, mkay?)

They were done with a graphics tablet and a thick brush, point taken though - I think I'll redo the faces.
TiJay
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Quote :You've been taught badly. That face isn't a game asset and you are trying to do with meshes what you should be doing in textures... Only 1 wireframe? Why aren't you burning the detail mesh onto the game asset texture... What techniques are they teaching you because this is beginner stuff.

Every artist I know who got into the industry spent their evenings making models. Where's the passion?

Sorry, I should have mentioned the face wasn't for a game but as game art is something I'd like to work in, thanks for the advice I did make some environments for a side project over the Xmas break which I'll be happy to send to you/upload for your opinion?

Quote :If I might give an advice...

That's actually really helpful and I appreciate it, thanks! You're right that I spent longer making sure the functions were incorporated than studying the shapes I've attached a pic showing three stages of the face model as I'm not sure if the unnecessary triangles/bad optimisation you pointed out were due to the TurboSmooth. Stage 1 is my model, Stage 2 is NURBS smoothed, Stage 3 is TurboSmoothed.
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TiJay
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You could if I had any programming talent. The project's just about making the environments and characters within a set poly/texture size limit. I'd love to play it too but no chance of that!
TiJay
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Quote :Lastly: if you do make qestionnaires, also spend more time on them.

Fixed the mistake, thanks

Quote :Still, the whole package looks very badly crafted, with no research whatsoever on how the parts actually look like in real life.

There's 10,000 words of research and images behind it but if that's the impression it gives, I won't criticise your opinion

Quote :Cheap textures, horrid UV mapping. Even if you go after a comic like look, don't rush these things. Also, don't use fine structures for bump mapping or on textures, because they make obvious how badly the textures are wrapped around the models. You see pixels being stretched verywhere.

I'll admit the realisation isn't as good as it could be, luckily the project is about the ideas and isn't being marked on technical merit.

Quote :that job you did looks either so desperately rushed, or you simply lack talent. As I am in a friendly mood today, I think it's the former.

Possibly a bit of both as nobody outside uni has offered feedback on my work and I'm on a B average there at the moment. I've attached my best bit of work so far, which got a high B, to this post. I'd be interested if you could tell me whether you think it's worth the grade as a bit of impartial feedback
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TiJay
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My view on ESP is it will save the chav who flies into a bend too fast the first time, but because he got away with it, he'll enter it even faster next time and crash even harder when the ESP can't save him.
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