Merry Christmas Boys!

The snow and cold is in the mail Struan you bugger
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Date: 9:00 AM CST Thursday 25 December 2008

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Quote from zeugnimod :

I lol'd.

Don't laugh to loud
http://www.elmerfudd.us/elmer01.wav

Quote from spankmeyer :

Easy there, kiddo. Sit down and take a breath before you run out of tough boy air.

The discussion was not about gamuts or who's a pro and who's not. The OP asked a question and you gave him a very generalized and a simply wrong solution disguised as a 'pro' advice.

In other words, both of your posts were bullcrap.

You keep saying my responses are wrong with no evidence to prove it. I know you are a photographer and I also know there are 2 very different view points on colour spaces. You are obviously on the opposite side to me
This guy is on my side and he used to do it for a living.

Last edited by Toddshooter, Thu, 25 Dec 2008 12:40.

Quote from AMB :

Well it must of been someone from LFS, and they knew taking your website would effect the community, or maybe they have a grudge against you? :S

Hmmmm..... I wonder who would do such a thing? Would have to be a very immature little twa$.
Make sure to let us know if you have any ideas about who it could have been.

Thanks

Quote from AMB :

Sorry for the off topic, but what I don't get is how someone can just hack your website... :S

Some little scipt kitty with nothin to do. Likes to waste everyones time and screw with people because they have an empty life and everyone thinks he or she is a loser!!

Quote from Töki (HUN) :

Mostly the fastest drivers are there. And mostly, fast drivers are fair as well.

Really? I find lots of the fastest are the least clean. They expect you to give way and not occupy their piece of the track.
The middle of the road guys are the ones I find the most clean usually.

Quote from PioneerLv :

Woh!

That means i need to use SRGB color profile on all my system?

Sorry guys for questions, but it is hard to understand in first time.

Yes.
It is the standard of the web and almost everything else. Unless you are a profesional Photographer or Graphics designer, don't let anyone talk you into getting colour profile software or or hardware. It is not needed for great results.

Quote from spankmeyer :

Ah, the glory days of trippin' on LSD and postin' misinformation on teh interwebz.

misinformation? How?

PS: I know all about colour profiling my monitor and all the bullshi% that goes with it. I have tried colour both ways. The easy way and the hard way, unless you are a pro selling huge commercial prints, SRGB is all anyone needs. The only people that could tell the difference are pixel detectives that troll photo forums looking for mistakes.
I challenge you to post a duplicate picture...one with SRGB and one with Adobe98 and see if anyone can tell the difference.

Last edited by Toddshooter, Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:43.

I like this one.
Don't know how big the Peanuts are on the other side of the pond. But over here they are a staple of the holidays.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnxSEg8pQlw

Quote from mrodgers :

Wheel broke, me broke. No wheel, no race.

Bummer!! Logitech DFP GT is cheap and an excellent wheel if you come by $100 at Christmas.

Quote from PioneerLv :

Thanks Toddshooter, you are my hope.


Colour settings in Photoshop:




How to synchronize Monitor, Photoshop, Printer colour profiles? They all should be the same - sRGB?

Yes!! They should all be the same. This is the standard colour space for the web as well. So if you order prints from an online dealer like Walmart or some other this is the colour space they will use.

You should be able to go into your Monitor settings and select SRGB. If your monitor doesn't have the SRGB profile already you will be able to download it off the web easy enough.
Then go into your Graphics card colour settings and change it to SRGB as well.
And finally change photoshop to SRGB as well.

You will find that everything looks dark and dull to begin with. This is normal!! Most monitors come from the factory over saturated and overly bright so when you colour balance them they look shi%. Don't worry you will get used to it.

edit: PS Try to post jpegs instead of png as attachments. png's are horribly big and clumsy.:-)

Last edited by Toddshooter, Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:19.

Use "S RGB" on all your hardware and software.
I am a photographer and I can't see any difference between S RGB and Adobe98 colour spaces.

Quote from mrodgers :

Love this one, even with the blur on the bike/rider. That's what makes the photo.


This one is very bad for a panning shot. None of the background is showing any motion blur at all!


Come on folks, this thread is the last remaining string that keeps me tied to LFS. I don't race, I don't smoke pot anymore so I can't use that thread. The camera thread is the only one keeping me coming to the LFS forum, hehe.

Why don't you race anymore?

Well Race-2 wasn't very busy but Race-3 was:-)
Had some really great races this weekend!

Thanks everyone

We have our crack news staff fixing the problem as we speak
Thanks for the heads up last night MistaTea.

And a lovely Christmas to whoever threw the wrench into the works

Quote from MijnWraak :

First off, you can get 100 fps in lfs for much less than $300. Now, this may be bottlenecked by your CPU at a certain fps, though.

305 watts cant handle a graphics card, so you oughta upgrade that first.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ ... aspx?Item=N82E16817256032

What are you talking about? I have a Dell 4600 with a 200watt and something power supply and it runs my:

-1gig of ram
-2 hard drives (internal)
-1 usb hard drive (external)
-and a 256 ati agp graphics card just fine.

Also something to think of is lots of older Dell comp. will not except a regular ATX power supply. You need special connctors and stuff. These Dell power supplies cost more as well.

Congrats Guys

Always fun to race against you all.

Nice HDR Sam!

Thank God you didn't make it look like a cartoon like most people.

Here's a few from a couple of years ago with my old Nikon D70.<<<Still love this camera.

This has happened to every guy at one point or another

http://channelbee.com/move/gags#1794

Quote from kaynd :

Have a look here and here.
My posts are only referring to the tire load sensitivity model.
You can find more opinions on that, just by serching the words "tire model" or "tire load sensitivity".

There is also a problem about the effective slip ratio where the tires generate sufficient grip. We have still perfect starts while full spinning the first gear. There is no reason to limit the tire’s excessive spin in order to get a good start.
This does not mean the slip ratio - grip model is all wrong, Still a locked tire generates significantly less grip. But it need’s to be way more refined.

Also I don't see why drifters can't drift with normal sets... even hard track setups can drift ok just by having a bit higher locking factor at the diffs.

Thanks swishhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh<<<<<Thats what you guys are talking about going right over my head
I'll just enjoy the game and drive what is given to me.

Quote from AlienT. :

Don't worry Todd I won't spank you too hard TBO's now yer talking!

Woot! You back for the Holidays M8?

I'll try to be there. Hopefully I don't get spanked to hard by all the Aliens

Quote :

issues masked by limited setups now than wait another year or two (optimistic guess) for the tyres to be finally fixed.

I'm curious what is wrong with the tires?
I keep seeing this brought up but never explained. I see a glaring problem with the collision detection but the tires feel fine.
If someone could explain I would appreciate it.

I like it the way it is. If you change it to multi class it will only have the effect of moving the people that race the TBO's to race 3.
Race 1 is there for a reason. To learn enough race craft to move up with others of your level.
This is why Race3 works so well. Silver and above have learned enough about how to drive in a crowd without crashing to race multi class.
Most on Race1 have not learned this yet.

I don't know about the short tracks being bad for GT's! We have had some awsome battles at SO3 and other short tracks. Race 3 with its multi class racing is the best on short tracks where you have to lap slower cars and get lapped.
This is where the real racers are separated from the Hotlappers. If you can't be patient and wait for an opportunity to get around you end up in the wall or making a brilliant pass on the outside.
Also a long race on a short track is the best for you to work on tire preservation and saving the car until others are dropping out because they crash or their tires are shot.
So bring on the short tracks and more of them!!