Dead Men Walking

I've started this thread for any general chat that doesn't fit under the topic of any existing thread for two reasons:

1) It means people don't need to start lots of new threads for smaller topics.
2) It keeps other threads 'on' topic, at the moment there seems to be a lot of OT chat in other threads.

I did this because I wanted to post a link to a video I've put on youtube but it didn't relate to any other thread and I didn't think it was worth starting a thread just for that video alone.

If the Admins/Moderators agree with the above then perhaps someone could 'sticky' this and we can all use it?
Alternatively if you disagree, feel free to delete this thread.

Anyway here's the link to the video which is just a few views of a huge slide round Pouhon at Spa whilst being chased by Deetz.

EDIT: embeded the link
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Hopefully I plan to do some more videos of excerpts from the one hour races (kilomegabots permitting) as I get the hang of Fraps and Sony Vegas etc. :)

Quote from: XLR8;266618I've started this thread for any general chat that doesn't fit under the topic of any existing thread for two reasons:

1) It means people don't need to start lots of new threads for smaller topics.
2) It keeps other threads 'on' topic, at the moment there seems to be a lot of OT chat in other threads.

I did this because I wanted to post a link to a video I've put on youtube but it didn't relate to any other thread and I didn't think it was worth starting a thread just for that video alone.

If the Admins/Moderators agree with the above then perhaps someone could 'sticky' this and we can all use it?
Alternatively if you disagree, feel free to delete this thread.

Anyway here's the link to the video which is just a few views of a huge slide round Pouhon at Spa whilst being chased by Deetz.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDtYPz-FEqY

Hopefully I plan to do some more videos of excerpts from the one hour races (kilomegabots permitting) as I get the hang of Fraps and Sony Vegas etc. :)

Good stuff, keep 'em coming. One with me in it wouldn't go amiss. :D

LOL at the hidden soliciting txt :)

I'll see what I can find.

Nice, a good save.

Oh and I also liked the Aviano Vid. Keep up the good work :thumbup:

Just found out how to embed vids, I thought if .pixr can manage it then so can I :D

My latest youtube addition -

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What no music? :crying: I've got to do that in two races tonight! OMG! :lmfao:

Well good luck! Just keep it steady and wait for everyone else to collect the armco :)

Quote from: XLR8;267089Well good luck! Just keep it steady and wait for everyone else to collect the armco :)

That is my cunning plan. :norty:

Quote from: XLR8;267044Just found out how to embed vids, I thought if .pixr can manage it then so can I :D

Hehé :roflmao: it's really not that hard :P

By the way i was just checking out the GPC (F1600 comp.) site and I was clicking on some familiar names :rolleyes: and something caught my eye (d.o.b. to be exact) :blink:

When racing in the One Hour events i noticed that you where all so laid back and relaxed, that's not what I usually encounter in online gaming... so now i know why :D

ps. I'm 27 years old myself and race under the name of Katsushika Matsumoto in nK PRO:)

Don't now what to expect but someone working on nKP is always a good thing. ;)
http://www.virtualr.net/culmone67-netkar-textures-preview/

Here's a link to what I thought was a good article on the R2P site about the nature and psychology of 'aggressive' (online) driving, see what you think?

http://www.race2play.com/homepage/show_posts/10875#

He's a man after my own heart. Terrific post. Another thing I like is their interpretation of 'track or racing surface' (http://race2play.com/forum/list_posts/401)  I've whinged about this for as long as I remember (Not long then? Yeah, all right, very funny) and always got flak over it!


 (http://race2play.com/forum/list_posts/401)

I've put the F1800 on at Montreal just for a change. Very interesting little car is the F1800 :norty:

QuoteNo problem Didine. I was a bit p'i'ssed at the first tap, I felt that one was unfair. The second one wasn't so bad..as you said after the race, it was a "hard pass".
I'm so used to the ultra clean racing in netKar pro ( where any contact will wreck your car) that I wasn't too happy.

Lifted from the post race comments on R2P. You've put you're finger right on it I think.

Made a new forum account so that i will be easier for some people to know whom their racing and talking to. :rolleyes:

I will stop using my (.pixr) account from now on. :crying:

On a side note i will be racing under this name in other sims, so just say hi when you see me on line.

Quote from: Katsushika Matsumoto;270259Made a new forum account so that i will be easier for some people to know whom their racing and talking to. :rolleyes:

I will stop using my (.pixr) account from now on. :crying:

On a side note i will be racing under this name in other sims, so just say hi when you see me on line.

We'll see what we can do to merge your posts.

Quote from: Doorman;270263We'll see what we can do to merge your posts.

I can delete the new one and rename the old to the new if you'd like.

Quote from: OldBloke;270266I can delete the new one and rename the old to the new if you'd like.

If that's not to much trouble.. sure :)
haven't made any post with my new account except the one above (or below depending on you're settings)

@Doorman ; Thanks for the help :)

Quote from: OldBloke;270266I can delete the new one and rename the old to the new if you'd like.

That's nice. :) I PMed Penfold but he's not about atm so if you wouldn't mind. :D

Quote from: Doorman;270251Lifted from the post race comments on R2P. You've put you're finger right on it I think.

 Hehe, I'm just not used to tintop racing. Well out of practice.  You have to expect a bit of paintwork swapping, but what he did was a desperate (and unfair imo) attempt to grab the win at the last after I'd frustrated him for 6 laps.  It worked. :P

 Still, you get used to the netKar "no contact at all" style of racing ,then stupidly expect all other races to be the same :D

Quote from: Katsushika Matsumoto;270268If that's not to much trouble.. sure :)
haven't made any post with my new account except the one above (or below depending on you're settings)

@Doorman ; Thanks for the help :)

Done. I'll PM Pen so he doesn't reverse it :D

Quote from: OldBloke;270285Done. I'll PM Pen so he doesn't reverse it :D

Thanks a million... :yahoo:

I was offline yesterday so didn't see this until today  - thanks Oldie!

Another vid

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A quick lap of Prato Short in a FF1600 (1-24-73) during practice, didn't nail T3 as well as other laps but it's still one of my better times :)
The lap is shown from inside then outside the car.

I meant to try and get this up before the races last Wednesday as I thought it might help act as a guide to the racing lines, but I didn't get time.

I'm using Sony Vegas to edit the videos but a lot of quality seems to be lost when uploaded to youtube, if anyone has any tips on the best Rendering options to use please let me know, thx.

Nice and tidy. I love these videos, they allow me to see why I'm so crap! :D

A nice lap Mark. As Ron says its always nice to see how other people drive a lap. Thought my lines, and times are similar, yours is a different driving style to mine.

Keep up the good work. :thumb:

PS. Damn and blast, I'm going to be busy again this Wed, so I wont be able to make the race.....:sad:

I hope it goes well.

Thanks guys, I'll keep posting more vids if people find them helpful.
I think it's always nice to see how other people tackle a track and maybe find new lines or braking points, or even what not to do.

BTW W Smoker is now also using the alias Peter Price, he was online again tonight d!cking about.

I wish there was some way of nailing that bastender! One of the downfalls of nKP that there is no way of banning him or indeed, even finding out who he is. One day. :sideways:

Here's another vid from Prato Short of a high speed chase between me and Paolo Sala racing last night. You can see the different lines we take even though the lap times were almost identical. The two flying lap times were in the high 1-24s which is top ten stuff on nkrank, not bad considering we were racing for position. However I know where I can make up some tenths now after watching his lines in Sector 1 :)

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This looks like much better quality (if you hit the HQ button) after I googled the rendering options for Vegas and am using the WMV9 format now.

Superb! You made him work. You should be part of the dMr team GPOC league. It's not too late. :)

Thanks Ron, I did consider joining GPC but they race on a Friday night and I'm always going to be down the pub then :D
That's why I like our Wednesday meets.

Looking at the GPC supported tracks page - http://gpchampionship.com/gpcos/championship.php?type=tracks&menu=home
they appear to have loads of tracks for nk that I wasn't aware were out. Such as Donnington, Brands, Zandvoort and Dijon.
Is this right? If so how do we get hold of these tracks, anyone know what the score is here????

Quote from: XLR8;270860Looking at the GPC supported tracks page - http://gpchampionship.com/gpcos/championship.php?type=tracks&menu=home
they appear to have loads of tracks for nk that I wasn't aware were out. Such as Donnington, Brands, Zandvoort and Dijon.
Is this right? If so how do we get hold of these tracks, anyone know what the score is here????

Cue Stuart. :)

Quote from: XLR8;270850Here's another vid from Prato Short of a high speed chase between me and Paolo Sala racing last night. You can see the different lines we take even though the lap times were almost identical. The two flying lap times were in the high 1-24s which is top ten stuff on nkrank, not bad considering we were racing for position. However I know where I can make up some tenths now after watching his lines in Sector 1 :)

This looks like much better quality (if you hit the HQ button) after I googled the rendering options for Vegas and am using the WMV9 format now.

I take about the same racing line as sala, but what i noticed is that you (in you're previous video) brake way later then me. Could you make a video with the gas/brake/force feedback clipping graph on (i think you have to push F7 when racing) it looks like you're trail braking very well... something i haven't mastered obviously :rolleyes:

ps. i really like your video's :yahoo: and i also had quite some problems with uploading good quality to youtube and haven't found a good solution for it :(

Thanks Katsu, I'll try and do something including the feedback graphs, but it won't be this week. With this good weather we're having I'm going to be out mountain biking as much as possible. Then it's my birthday at the weekend and I'll be very drunk, then very ill :dribble:

As for trail braking, I used to use it in GTR but not so much in nK. The engines in the FF's produce quite a bit of braking force as you change down, so I have the brake bias heavily towards the front so as not to lock the rear. It seems to work for me.

Re: the videos formats, I googled it and the advice I found was to use the WMV9 format. The last video above (3 laps) was done using that format so if you like it try that?

Quote from: XLR8;270919As for trail braking, I used to use it in GTR but not so much in nK. The engines in the FF's produce quite a bit of braking force as you change down, so I have the brake bias heavily towards the front so as not to lock the rear. It seems to work for me.

Thanks for the tips, I will try to fiddle around with the brake bias... who knows maybe it gonna help a little bit :)

Quote from: XLR8;270919As for trail braking, I used to use it in GTR but not so much in nK. The engines in the FF's produce quite a bit of braking force as you change down, so I have the brake bias heavily towards the front so as not to lock the rear. It seems to work for me.

 Interesting.  What do you call heavily towards the front?

 In the F2000 last night i was using 55% Front(much further back than i used to..i always had 62-65 % front in the old days) combined with 70% brake multiplier.  I trail brake all the time.  It's a habit i cant get out of :)

Hmm maybe not that different then. I had 58% bias and 90% multiplier.

Ron putting the squeeze on me as I try and pass him at 230kph at Montreal during practice with the F1800s!

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Quote from: XLR8;272469at Montreal during practice with the F1800s

Where you guys drive with F1800? Just "own" practise or in some league/special event, etc.? I maybe would like to participate someday too..

We ran F1800s one week on our server. How come you missed that? :)

Mark, so that's what I look like without my frock on! And nothing wrong with collision detection there eh?

Quote from: Doorman;272485And nothing wrong with collision detection there eh?

That's true :)

I liked racing the 1800's we should try them some more, maybe good at the longer ccts like Spa etc?

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Drunk Man Racing :D

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Using all the road

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Celebrations

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Nice to see the 500 abarth does exist in nKP :g:
 
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I agree with everything the guy said.....:roflmao:

That looks great! I might actually consider buying nKP if they release the Abarth. Although it probably wouldn't be for the first couple of months, as I can hardly seem to find time to race LFS anymore :sad:

I had a normal Fiat 500 for a couple of months (company car) and I absolutely friggin' loved it. It's an awesome little car. If I had the money and didn't have to worry about practicality (I'm a dad now, didn't you know!) I'd definitely consider buying one.

Quote from: obsolum;272850I had a normal Fiat 500 for a couple of months (company car) and I absolutely friggin' loved it. It's an awesome little car. If I had the money and didn't have to worry about practicality (I'm a dad now, didn't you know!) I'd definitely consider buying one.

Congratulations! :yahoo::yahoo::yahoo::yahoo::yahoo::yahoo: Well, you kept that quiet! What colour was it? Do you still get to see it? Will you be getting another one?


What? :blink: No, the CAR! :rolleyes: What did you think I meant?

Seriously, Congratulations. It a hard experience for a bloke to become a father. All that pushing and shoving and panting and sweating! :norty: Then you have to wait 9 months to see if it worked. :lmfao:

Quote from: Doorman;272862Seriously, Congratulations. It a hard experience for a bloke to become a father. All that pushing and shoving and panting and sweating! :norty: Then you have to wait 9 months to see if it worked. :lmfao:

:roflmao: :roflmao:

It was red, and pretty small.


The car, that is :norty:


As for the baby, it's a little healthy boy :)

Don't know what just happened Ron but I got disco'd just after GW left the race. Then I couldn't see the DMR server at all in the list???
Are the disco's related to people leaving mid race?

Quote from: XLR8;273383Don't know what just happened Ron but I got disco'd just after GW left the race. Then I couldn't see the DMR server at all in the list???
Are the disco's related to people leaving mid race?

:D I thought it was something I said. Who knows? Could be. I left and couldn't see it in the list so I restarted the server. It shows now.

Shhh, but we'll be testing the new patch soon. Let's hope it clears some stuff up.

Quote from: Doorman;273384Shhh, but we'll be testing the new patch soon. Let's hope it clears some stuff up.

Amen to that! :help2::please:

To bad I had to return the TV to the living room later that evening... :ranting2: :D
PS. That isn't me driving, in case you're wondering...

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Terrific! If only I could get away with that. :D

I see you are still doing "wednesday night racing". And i see Race2Play reports? So lots of racing around here :) Do these wednesday events need some allocation, or is it just "be there and drive"?

Turn up mate, we'll be pleased to see you. We tried to organise something more formal events but the response was less than enthusiastic so what we now do is have a race on the combo that is on R2P.
Wednesday is a definite though.

Does anyone want to share their setup for f2000@prato short :rolleyes:

Just noticed their is someone on the waiting list for upcoming Wednesdays R2P event. Is nkp getting populair... :flirty: :)

Here you go Katsu - http://www.wagenvoort.net/rank/setups.php?trackid=20&carid=&driverid=

Not saying this is good or anything but it seems to work for me. Hope it helps :)

Quote from: XLR8;274047Here you go Katsu - http://www.wagenvoort.net/rank/setups.php?trackid=20&carid=&driverid=

Not saying this is good or anything but it seems to work for me. Hope it helps :)

Thanks :D I did a personal best with it (still not fast enough though :ranting2:)

F1600's sitting on the grid, and one driver isn't even in his car :)

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QuoteIt's ok Stuart.
  About starting a car, "Backspace" is a shortcut to start it after you've stalled. It's in the manual, p.27.

Ouch! :lmfao:

I was wondering, is it technicly possible to race at Crema? I know that there is 2 different way, so in race all would choose the faster one for sure, but is there any other "problem"? It seems they haven't race at Crema on GPC.

I have found Crema one of the best nkPro tracks. Texture quality and pits are unbelievable plus track layout is great. I like it particularly with FF1800.

EDIT: One problem might be the pits. There isn't than pitbox for two cars. What a pitty.

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And that IS the problem. A simple enough one to put right you'd have thought, but not in the wacky world of planet Kunos! :flirty:

Yes, you can race at Crema.  I have the file needed (it places pit positions along side the main straight)

 I'll email the file to Ron.  He could then attach it to a post in this thread maybe.

There ya go. :)

^^ Great! Thank you guys..

I will test it tonight

Today I registered to DrivingItalia forum and browsed 120 pages nkPro topics (I don't understand any Italian) :D But I understood it is like a "official" nkPro forum. Kunos and Jaap, etc. are registered there. Some interesting stories but quite quiet lately..

Cool, now we just need the link to Donnington please :D

It's nowhere near as nice as the HistoriX Donington. :norty:

Question about Crema online.rar . Is it enough if this file is installed to computer which works as server or does this file need to be installed by everyone who tries to join to Crema Race server?

Quote from: Jape;276935Question about Crema online.rar . Is it enough if this file is installed to computer which works as server or does this file need to be installed by everyone who tries to join to Crema Race server?

Everyone needs it.

Posted in error, ignore.

It took me a while to make, but I'm happy with the result.
I made a multiview movie showing a F1600 doing a couple of laps around Crema test track.

The movie has two picture in picture views, one focusing on the pedals, and one on the shifter. Tell me what you think :D

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Now that's the way to do it! Top job Koert. :thumbsup2:

Absolutely awesome. Your game btw looks better in details than mine!

Great! :D How many video cameras do you have in the house? :lmfao:

Hmm, maybe I should start using LFB a bit in the corners that don't require h&t.. seems like a good idea, but I never did that before. I use LFB all the time in the F2000, but in all the others I only use RFB. I never use both techniques with the same car, but I can see why it makes sense!

I'd be up for some racing on this combo some day !

Hat's off. Superb job.:thumbsupsmileyanim:

Quote from: Doorman;291750Now that's the way to do it! Top job Koert. :thumbsup2:

Thanks :D

Quote from: delanvital;291751Absolutely awesome. Your game btw looks better in details than mine!

I'm running everything at max. with 4XAA, 8XAF @ 1600x1200 85hz (I think, not at my gaming rig right now) :)
Edit : Just remembered that for this movie it adjusted the resolution to 1280x720 to get a better aspect ratio for YouTube.

Quote from: Gnomie;291756Great! :D How many video cameras do you have in the house? :lmfao:

Hmm, maybe I should start using LFB a bit in the corners that don't require h&t.. seems like a good idea, but I never did that before. I use LFB all the time in the F2000, but in all the others I only use RFB. I never use both techniques with the same car, but I can see why it makes sense!

I'd be up for some racing on this combo some day !

I have some more :lmfao:
Well I thought about using an extra cam to film the G25 steering wheel, but I think that would take up to much space in final movie, so I cancelled that idea.

Actually I never thought about the combination of LFB with heel & toe, It's just something I do automatically :norty: I'm a natural :roflmao:
In the sequential shifted cars I solely use LFB, I'm way faster that way. The only time my foot is touching the clutch is at the start :lmfao:

To bad you missed last weeks event at Radiator Springs Racing. It consisted of two races in the F1600 at Crema :)

Quote from: OldBloke;291759Hat's off. Superb job.:thumbsupsmileyanim:

Thanks :)

Superb video, Katsu :thumbsup: The game does indeed look fantastic. I love the new engine and tyre sounds by the way. I'll definitely have to get the new beta once I get back into the driver's seat. And I'll have to make work of getting used to using headtracking as well. It looks so much better and more natural.

Quote from: Katsushika Matsumoto;291811To bad you missed last weeks event at Radiator Springs Racing. It consisted of two races in the F1600 at Crema :)

Last week was just way too busy for me unfortunately. :sad: Wish I could have been there.

I had a look at the Radiator Springs calendar now, but there doesn't seem to be any scheduled races the coming weeks..? What's up with that?

What do you think about the attendance and quality of racing in Radiator Springs so far?

Quote from: Gnomie;291817Last week was just way too busy for me unfortunately. :sad: Wish I could have been there.

I had a look at the Radiator Springs calendar now, but there doesn't seem to be any scheduled races the coming weeks..? What's up with that?

What do you think about the attendance and quality of racing in Radiator Springs so far?

Quality of racing has been pretty good, but the organization leaves something to be desired. First you have to connect to the chatwindow to hear on which server you have been allocated. That takes some time, especially when the decide to wait if any other guys join. Last time I connected to the chat at 20:50 and I was still there at 21:20 :sideways:

(they ask everybody to be there at 21:00)

To make things worse when you connect to the server you have to remain in the pits for another 5 or 6 minutes, which is really started to irritate me after waiting more then 20 minutes in the chat.

I think I'm gonna drop Andrea (sort of admin over there) an email tomorrow asking him if there's way of sorting these things out.

Oh and they run it in Fullmode so look out :lmfao:

According to graphic overload :D there's should be a race this Wednesday.

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Thanks for the info!

Ron, you weren't joking when you warned me earlier that their website being messy.. :doh: When they have a calendar feature I expect them to announce the upcoming races there..! Their forums are a bit confusing too, with most of the stuff being in Italian.

That said, I can tolerate a good deal of hassle if the racing is good!

A1 Ring, Philip Island? Haven't been on nkPro forums for a while, but it seems that there has been nice progress by track builders. Hopefully I find some free time for nkPro & Finnglish Racing before xmas :sad:

Quote from: Jape;291853A1 Ring, Philip Island? Haven't been on nkPro forums for a while, but it seems that there has been nice progress by track builders. Hopefully I find some free time for nkPro & Finnglish Racing before xmas :sad:

Those are very old 0.99 namie tracks but there's a few to add. Laguna Seca, Adelaide, Donington and of course Aosta in 1.1
Hurry back Jape. :)