insaneone

I got no idea what you just said but you got nice pics and that's all I need to see. :)

It's funny reading some of these requests as I've been asking people for feedback and offering up these exact opportunities over the years. :oook:
 
The things this place half-assed by my own admission were: :p
 
Gallery - members do like to share their stuff but when it's pretty static in regards to getting comments and feedback then they lose interest
Downloads - like was said above, the legalities was what turned me away from this but there are other sites doing it so it must be one of those grey areas that doesn't get attention unless it's causing a financial impact

Hey all, I have been taking time out to explore new avenues and also enjoying the recent bout of decent weather that's been here the last few days. And I, like many of you, was surprised to hear that the :duck: again has a new owner. However, I don't think it has been in better hands! From what @Diablo has told me and the direct approach to the members of the community itself through this topic, I feel like, even though it's cliché to say, that the duck can really fly under their direction. Hearing that they themselves have a community that has been going on a while and also that they have proper development credentials really does bode well in many areas. As let's face it, that was an area I always scraped by in. The site and forum did use to play nice together, with a working SSO between the previous board software and WordPress but again it was my lack of writing worth that made that start to fall by the wayside. We did have good people who contributed a piece here and there but again the drive in them was lost and was left to me, and I hate that I couldn't do it, in fact, I found it a real struggle. And it was this that led me to upgrading to Xenforo as the benefits to the community of that outweighed the negatives for me. Even though I had to mad scientist together something that made WordPress recognise the visitor as a member and at what level. I really live by trial and error! :lol: A chatbox is a cool thing to have on a community but when people start to take it for granted and use it in ways it isn't meant to be then it becomes troublesome. Part of the reason for passing on turboduck for me was for someone to come in with no sense of loyalty or emotional attachment, and turn things around in this area. I really like the changes and improvements that are planned and hope that I can, in time, get involved more too.

Hey all, I have been taking time out to explore new avenues and also enjoying the recent bout of decent weather that's been here the last few days. And I, like many of you, was surprised to hear that the :duck: again has a new owner. However, I don't think it has been in better hands! From what @Diablo has told me and the direct approach to the members of the community itself through this topic, I feel like, even though it's cliché to say, that the duck can really fly under their direction. Hearing that they themselves have a community that has been going on a while and also that they have proper development credentials really does bode well in many areas. As let's face it, that was an area I always scraped by in. The site and forum did use to play nice together, with a working SSO between the previous board software and WordPress but again it was my lack of writing worth that made that start to fall by the wayside. We did have good people who contributed a piece here and there but again the drive in them was lost and was left to me, and I hate that I couldn't do it, in fact, I found it a real struggle. And it was this that led me to upgrading to Xenforo as the benefits to the community of that outweighed the negatives for me. Even though I had to mad scientist together something that made WordPress recognise the visitor as a member and at what level. I really live by trial and error! :lol: A chatbox is a cool thing to have on a community but when people start to take it for granted and use it in ways it isn't meant to be then it becomes troublesome. Part of the reason for passing on turboduck for me was for someone to come in with no sense of loyalty or emotional attachment, and turn things around in this area. I really like the changes and improvements that are planned and hope that I can, in time, get involved more too.

Hey all, I have been taking time out to explore new avenues and also enjoying the recent bout of decent weather that's been here the last few days. And I, like many of you, was surprised to hear that the :duck: again has a new owner. However, I don't think it has been in better hands! From what @Diablo has told me and the direct approach to the members of the community itself through this topic, I feel like, even though it's cliché to say, that the duck can really fly under their direction. Hearing that they themselves have a community that has been going on a while and also that they have proper development credentials really does bode well in many areas. As let's face it, that was an area I always scraped by in. The site and forum did use to play nice together, with a working SSO between the previous board software and WordPress but again it was my lack of writing worth that made that start to fall by the wayside. We did have good people who contributed a piece here and there but again the drive in them was lost and was left to me, and I hate that I couldn't do it, in fact, I found it a real struggle. And it was this that led me to upgrading to Xenforo as the benefits to the community of that outweighed the negatives for me. Even though I had to mad scientist together something that made WordPress recognise the visitor as a member and at what level. I really live by trial and error! :lol: A chatbox is a cool thing to have on a community but when people start to take it for granted and use it in ways it isn't meant to be then it becomes troublesome. Part of the reason for passing on turboduck for me was for someone to come in with no sense of loyalty or emotional attachment, and turn things around in this area. I really like the changes and improvements that are planned and hope that I can, in time, get involved more too.

So now you're Diablo, the 3rd? A.k.a. Aventador? :hmmm:
 
My only concern is replyed, which was if the forum would be dead or not. You're saying you don't plan to do so, and that is enough for me. As the other changes, i don't really know/understand enough to give a valid opinion, but the ability to upload files here directly is somewhat interesting. I mean, must see how big the file can be, because my TDU project will be large... :lol:

Note:
Prior to this announcement, I have already been in contact with the mod team and the original Diablo,
what I found out was they were somewhat concerned about future of this community because the previous buyer wasn't being transparent.
 
Here is what happened:
the buyer auctioned this site after owning it for a month (maybe that's his business model, maybe he doesn't have time...)
which I purchased and I am here to assure you this community won't show up on auction again.
 
About myself:
My internet name is Eudemon, changed the avatar just so you can differentiate, I am an Anime fan + casual gamer (used to game a lot),
I have offered this account back to original Diablo but he wants to remain as insaneone due to change of life style.
I am a software engineer lives in United States who specializes in web application development,
I own a community myself for over 8 years, so I have a lot of respect for insaneone for keeping it alive 11 years,
I am not interested in making money off this site, I want to help the royal members like you by developing a better system.
 
Here is what I am going to do (in no particular order):

Removed invasive ads, removed donation
 
Migrate forum system from xenforo to invision power board
This will speed to deployment time of features because my other community also runs on it, effectively avoids keeping two different versions of system,
I know this community already went through the transition from vbulletin, I will test the move in my local environment to make sure seamless migration.
In addition, it comes with other features including, but not limited to:
Download section, which will allow direct mod upload to the site
Gallery section, for creating personal albums show case screenshots
Personal Blog, Club etc
Direct integrate Wordpress (news site) with the forum, allow single login across both area, and sharing session time
Redesign of entire site, which will be more visually integrated across news and forum.
Migrate to my custom private cloud server, this will ensure both performance and uptime
SEO changes, fixing broken links, layouts, SMTP emails etc
Custom scripts will be written for things like calculating in-game mechanic
 
Wiki, News contributor program, expand in other area, collaborate with my other community if we have enough anime lovers, building social media presents and more

by no mean that any of above is decided so please let me know what you think, if you feel uncomfortable saying certain thing, feel free to shoot me an PM.
Please continue to support the community by regularly visiting and posting news updates, as a new member to the community I look forward to learn from you guys.

At the moment I am learning physics, still. At the current state the physics is "driveable", but far from really "enjoyable" in the long term. I mean, I had fun driving around some minutes with the M3, but I am pretty sure it's due to my statisfaction of the progress, and that it's "working". I think the physics is yet far away from being "addictable". I am learning physics from a tutorial of a russian dude on Youtube, although he decied to sell his system on the marketplace, and that means sooner or later I will invest money into bying those. Spending money on the marketplace as a single developer is unavoidable for such a huge project like mine. So, yeah, the goal is to achive at least the physics level of TDU1, if not better. It won't be Assetto Corsa or Forza tho, please remember that.
 

 
That's the gameplan.
 

 
Depending on how it will fit to the rest of the looks of the game. Actually not needed, as the bloom post process effect will create lens flares and a glow around the headlights by itself.
 

 
working on it, will be there.
 

 
Yes, that's possible. You can either read up my current state some posts before or watch the video. It's there already.
 

 
Unavoidable. Will be there.
 

 
Terms of details, will >hopefully< be there aswell. I just remember GTA4 and GTA5. I'm not on this development level yet, though. Environment will be taken on later.
 

 
Also had this idea, although I have no idea how to make reflectors properly. Eg. Forza H3 has those effects on signs and stuff. Need to figure it out, but it was planed to feature it aswell.
 

 
Same as above.
 

 
Sounddesign isn't my cup of tea, I would love to have cool engine sounds too. At the moment I use sounds straight from Forza 4. M3 uses TDU's Wiesmann sound - it's the same engine. G65 uses a Bentley W12 sound which sounds "Okay" but nowhere near "cool". I am not a sound designer, I will give my best, though.
 

 
Reflections is a tricky thing in games. I mean, I have screen space reflections in the game, although Unreal's reflections are meh. It reflects in a short distance, the more distance it have to reflect, the more GPU it uses. There are ways to improve it (same as dynamic AO), but this is very expensive. I am trying to keep the game as cheap as possible for the CPU/GPU. If you have a clue how to achive those results (without massive framedrops), please let me know, I appreciate any kind of help in this matter.
 

 
I am not a game dev by profession, I started with the project in autumn without any programming knowledge whatsoever. I am also learning. :)
 

 
As mentioned before - that's the gameplan.
 

 
The island is very dated IMO. Also, I like new environments in games. I would never buy Assassins Creed ever again if the world would be still played by Altaïr in the holy land since 2007 without any changes.
 

 
Yep, TDU2 also didn't catch me.
 

 
Well, you record those sounds for every of the (yet) 30 cars I planed,including EB110, F50 and Porsche GT1, I will proudly work on this system :) Unfortunately some things I would also love to have are just impossible to achive, especially when you are working alone with a budged of +-0. :)

Oh crap you're right. I guess making India would be the easier AI solution :lol:
 
Funny thing is, it's easier to make the AI floor it than to make it control their speed. So be ready for smarts on v-max on autobahn! (140 km/h.. :D )

I just have a mental image of you taking pics of these things while a supercar and such drives by. :lol:
 
Good to see progress is still being made on this mate and I wonder if these traffic Smarts will be what the title becomes known for when it eventually arrives. :p

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Hi! Another minor update. It's less engine-dependent though.
 
I am not really in the mood of programming at the moment, so I decied to take care of the modeling process a bit. Eventhough the Forza models are very good for player cars (same as various other games like CSR2, real racing and stuff), some cars - in particular the traffic cars - require a different treatment. Same as TDU, the traffic cars need to be very lowpoly (approximately TDU's player cars size) so they can spawn many times on the screen without making the game lag extremely. And also, the cars I am planing to put as traffic, mostly don't exist in other games, as those are mainly European market low-priced cars. Especially Berlin cars are quite unique sometimes. I already modeled my Mercedes O503 Citaro traffic bus aswell as the Opel Zafira C Tourer police car, and remodeled Forza's LOD2 Mercedes E63 AMG to be a E220cdi taxi. Now I wanted to take care of something I literally see every day I go outside my house.
 


 
Yes, this is a 2016 Smart car. And thanks to the car sharing company "Car2Go" those are literally everywhere here. And as I want to come close to the "real" Berlin traffic as much as possible, I couldn't miss those.
 

 
Also the decision of modeling the whole car by myself came also by the fact, that I could not find a single 3D model of the 2016 Smart. I mean sure, I could have used the "old" Smart car facelift model from Forza, but as Car2Go took them from the road in 2016, I think this was the better decision. And as it will be just a low poly asset, there is not much detailing needed on it. For instance, for the Opel Zafira police car I needed approximately two weeks from start to finish, I think with the size of the Smart it will take even less. So it's not a big deal of a work for something that "significant" like the picture of the real life traffic cars later. :)
 
I am just at day #2 of modeling, and already at the second detailing step. I work in 3 steps FYI - rough shape, overworked shape, detailed shape. The orange parts are step 2, whilest the blue ones are still step 1. Just 1-2 days left till step 3, so it basically is already almost done :D

Hmm I made too many shots, here's the final 2 :)
 
 
 
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@Diablo oh hell I would like to see that @F12Berlinetta merci beaucoup :) Got a new set of pics, it's quite the dump so prepare ;) [ATTACH=full]31238[/ATTACH] Audi Vision GT in a museum. Experimenting with lighting and shadows. [ATTACH=full]31239[/ATTACH] But it also drives, as seen here on the 'Ring... [ATTACH=full]31240[/ATTACH] ...or Bathurst. Gotta love the brake lights in the rims. [ATTACH=full]31242[/ATTACH] Chasin' the Supra GR Concept and 911 RSR. [ATTACH=full]31243[/ATTACH] Some more experimenting on the 'Ring with this BMW M6. [ATTACH=full]31244[/ATTACH] Liking this random shot of a Civic. [ATTACH=full]31245[/ATTACH] Some more Bathurst, in the 650S which I borrowed for career races. [ATTACH=full]31246[/ATTACH] Hence why they call it Mount Panorama... [ATTACH=full]31247[/ATTACH] This came out nicely. [ATTACH=full]31248[/ATTACH] Nice lighting in the Merc museum. [ATTACH=full]31249[/ATTACH] Porsches looking nice in front of a hotel in Macau. [ATTACH=full]31250[/ATTACH] Loving the RSR... [ATTACH=full]31252[/ATTACH] Also in Manhattan... [ATTACH=full]31251[/ATTACH] And especially in this museum in Tokyo. [ATTACH=full]31253[/ATTACH] Oddly satisfying color similarities between the RSR and the Toyota Supra GR Concept. [ATTACH=full]31254[/ATTACH] On the track. [ATTACH=full]31255[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]31256[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]31257[/ATTACH] Controversy about whether it's a deserved successor to the Supra aside, I like it. [ATTACH=full]31258[/ATTACH] Some more stationairy shots

Is this poolside enough? :lol:
 
 
 

Not so sure about that one. After all, it does say it is 'Happy To Ride Hard'. :lol:

I've done the flash drive thing myself but mine was trying to plug it into the power point. :fp:
 
That's quite impressive that this thread bump is older than you Mills, I think I had a more recent thread for stuff like this but it never showed up in a search.

This bump is bigger than me. May 2008, i wasn't around here back then. :lol:
 
I do a lot of embarassing/stupid things... but there are 2 cases that i went beyond limits.
 
Once, i tried to use my pen drive, and it wasn't working. I got so mad and angry at the pen drive and the computer, tried for a couple of times and nothing. Untill i realize i wasn't plugging it in a USB port, but the network cable port. :lol:
 
And the other case is me, inside the car, as a passenger, in a trip with my family, when i tried to see something outside and blam! Window was closed and i hit it with my head. I mean, i didn't notice that there were no wind? No, i didn't. :lol: Of course, who noticed had a great laugh. :lol:

Right... okay then. Sounds like you would be a fan of this one then. :D
 

Back to Trance!
 

My heart's broken to read this, but I completely understand and respect your decision. Thank you for your years of service to the duck, it's been a great ride. This place has been like my digital home, I grew up here from a PITA 14yo to a (PITA) grown-ass 23yo, along the way making friends and memories that I cherish. Jumping on XBL with you crazy lot is still one of my best times from my teenage years.
 
Don't disappear on us now, D.. or should it be Andy now? lol
 
PS, who the hell owns the duck now? :p

Remember what? If people start to only say what you did, without evidence, it's a lie. :lol:
 

 
Easy-peasy. :lol:

Sometimes, not often, but sometimes, an original can be improved upon.
 
Now I got this beauty blasting my speakers and making the room shake. (probably posted this before actually, I haven't)
 

Now I'm picturing you like a quick change artist. Turn around because you hear something, face front again and your shirt has changed. :mhmm: