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So I'm still slowly working on a custom paint for a DW12. I have no idea how you guys do it, this is taking goddamn forever (not the mechanics of it, just trying to figure out the pattern and such). And I can't decide what to do with all the empty space I'm going to end up with. This is all assuming that I'm even going to want to drive the stupid thing too, dammit.
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I like watching Empty Box too, even though he's a bit of a pedant. Nonetheless he is methodical as motherfucker. He never loving qualifies for races and I think that's intentional so that he can challenge the entire pack. It is entertaining to watch him eat up scrubs. He also has a rig that, purely from the sound of the tight mechanical click of the shifter and the whisper quiet wheel, makes me think it costs more than I make in a quarter.
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Sep 23, 2014 23:28
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He has a Fanatec CSW base with the Formula rim. He said that in one of his videos.
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Sep 24, 2014 00:44
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Lord Crapulus posted:So I'm still slowly working on a custom paint for a DW12. I have no idea how you guys do it, this is taking goddamn forever (not the mechanics of it, just trying to figure out the pattern and such). And I can't decide what to do with all the empty space I'm going to end up with. This is all assuming that I'm even going to want to drive the stupid thing too, dammit.   
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Sep 24, 2014 01:11
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i was looking around for Lime Rock Chicane YT videos to check my lines on Turn 2 and in the Chicane and I came across this really cool video of some dude tearing up Lime Rock on a configuration I don't think iRacing does in a real life Skippy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkv-in9IxjI
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Sep 24, 2014 01:43
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Bentai posted:These should probably help: Yeah, I'm using those already, and I watched a bunch of Youtube GIMP tutorials. It's more a question of trying to figure out what I like, since I'm not basing it on anything. I suppose it'll be a problem too when I have to have colors match up across different parts, but I haven't run into those yet. It's just amazing how some guys can just slap together good looking paints so quickly; I've been working on-and-off on mine for a few weeks now.
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Sep 24, 2014 02:00
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There's a lot of alt-tab to Gimp, ctrl-E, alt-tab to iRacing, ctrl-R, when getting colors to line up. I have specific controls and settings files for when I'm doing paint work that puts iRacing in a window and lets me move the car around without having to plug my wheel in.
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Sep 24, 2014 02:13
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Overwined posted:i was looking around for Lime Rock Chicane YT videos to check my lines on Turn 2 and in the Chicane and I came across this really cool video of some dude tearing up Lime Rock on a configuration I don't think iRacing does in a real life Skippy: They added that chicane during the repave I think. The iRacing track was scanned before the repave.
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Sep 24, 2014 04:17
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Nice racing tonight, L_Harrison. You had an IRC sweating crew. I love how the post race interview went from "Congrats on the finish" immediately to "How does it feel to be out of this series next season?" Dicks. On an unrelated note, something weird happened during a practice, which means I made another stupid 15 second video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0sHKa8lYmQ
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Sep 24, 2014 09:27
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The best RutgersKev video is the one where he's racing at Kansas I think and explains how he was clerking for the judge that decided a case that resulted in there being two NASCAR races or something and it's actually indirectly his fault.
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Sep 24, 2014 11:26
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Lord Crapulus posted:So I'm still slowly working on a custom paint for a DW12. I have no idea how you guys do it, this is taking goddamn forever (not the mechanics of it, just trying to figure out the pattern and such). And I can't decide what to do with all the empty space I'm going to end up with. This is all assuming that I'm even going to want to drive the stupid thing too, dammit. Doing my Pink GoDaddy took me almost 3 hours, and that was still fast because someone already painted the regular GoDaddy scheme and sent me the PSD file of it. These things take a long rear end time to do, but once you do it well it'll be well worth it.
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Sep 24, 2014 13:57
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Lord Crapulus posted:So I'm still slowly working on a custom paint for a DW12. I have no idea how you guys do it, this is taking goddamn forever (not the mechanics of it, just trying to figure out the pattern and such). And I can't decide what to do with all the empty space I'm going to end up with. This is all assuming that I'm even going to want to drive the stupid thing too, dammit. I'm pretty good at paints and it takes me at least 2-3 hours to do one.  You don't need to fill every bit of empty space http://www.tradingpaints.com/showroom/view/4010/Miller-Lite-Porsche
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Sep 24, 2014 14:48
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G27 news: Wow the default settings for this wheel suck in every game. After some tweaks iRacing feels pretty good. I ended up crashing everything on the list until I bought the Skippy- if I use auto-blip I can race the Skippy more easily than anything else. The car just makes sense to me, note that I did participate in karts as a kid so I have a giant chip on my shoulder here. Time to fix up my rig and get serious. Rubberband mod the G27 shifter for sequential action.Overwined posted:I like watching Empty Box too, even though he's a bit of a pedant. Nonetheless he is methodical as motherfucker. He never loving qualifies for races and I think that's intentional so that he can challenge the entire pack. It is entertaining to watch him eat up scrubs. I would like to see EB in here so questions could get answered, but word from his channel seems like he spends plenty of time reaping butthurt from the iRacing forums. As EB often says, it's not that he's particularly fast, he's consistent. Consistency is often better than speed- except when you're clashing with butthurt internet people who spend several laps screwing up then as EB tries to pass them all of a sudden they realize they're actually Lewis Hamilton and they can totally divebomb every turn and it'll stick. Whaddya mean it was my fault?
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ManicJason posted:Not that I know of. Hm, might have confused him with you. 
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Sep 24, 2014 15:10
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ManicJason posted:Nice racing tonight, L_Harrison. You had an IRC sweating crew. Ah well. I had to go through the Pro Series last season and made it out fine (even led the points for a race) so I'll probably be back in DWC regardless in 2015. But that was pretty cool to get my first top 5 at Darlington. I think my best finish before that was 9th or something.
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Sep 24, 2014 17:53
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I just had a revelation - I got clubsport v2 pedals a few weeks ago, and had not adjusted the brake force curve factor setting at all in iracing. I happened to read about it on the forums, and I guess with a load cell you want to set that to zero. Holy poo poo it's like night and day, I almost never lock up the brakes in the star mazda anymore. I was having problems with that at Montreal this week, notably going into the hairpin and the chicane after the bridge. If anyone has yet to change that setting after getting load cell pedals - you're missing out!
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thehacker0 posted:I just had a revelation - I got clubsport v2 pedals a few weeks ago, and had not adjusted the brake force curve factor setting at all in iracing. I happened to read about it on the forums, and I guess with a load cell you want to set that to zero. Holy poo poo it's like night and day, I almost never lock up the brakes in the star mazda anymore. I was having problems with that at Montreal this week, notably going into the hairpin and the chicane after the bridge. If anyone has yet to change that setting after getting load cell pedals - you're missing out! I am an iRacing amateur so I just have the basic Xbox 360 racing wheel which has been working out ok for me so far. The only thing that I still sometimes struggle with are the pedals, especially the brake pedal. I tried the DIY method of stuffing a piece of sponge behind the pedal, and while it improved the feel, it is inconsistent as the input amount depends on how much the sponge has been smooshed down at the time when I calibrate and when hit the pedal. Do any of you have any suggestions on any in-game tuning settings that would help with pedal set-up? I don't really know what brake force curve factor means or what changing it does. All I know is when I don't have anything down behind my brake I lock up the brakes all the time when I apply them.
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I finally broke down and ordered a G27 with fancy mods. So much for having money. Anyway, I think I'm far enough along on my paint after putting a good chunk of time into it today and yesterday that I'll put it out there for ridicule and comments (mainly ridicule). In my preemptive defense, it's the first time I've tried making a custom paint. The speedway version is closer to being done than the road version, I'm still having trouble figuring out what to do with the rear pods and the road front wing: https://www.dropbox.com/s/sjxlhz568iytah1/DW12%20WIP.tga?dl=0
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Sep 25, 2014 03:25
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Design is looking good, the font is hard to read though because the text is dark and its on dark purple background and the outline is too fine to read at a distance. You could invert the colors of the text and it could make the text pop more, or else you would have to experiment with a bolder font.
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Sep 25, 2014 03:49
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drat, I was hoping that it was just my roommate that was going to have trouble reading the text. I thought it was okay except for the driver name bit, but I didn't really care how legible that was from a distance. I'm borrowing the color scheme and the black on white text from an old hockey jersey that I love, but I guess I'll have to play around with that.
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Sep 25, 2014 04:41
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At a minimum I think you could go over the outline with a 3 point white paintbrush and thicken it up, and make the logo a little bigger. You can see where I worked the outline. Then go back with like a 2 point brush and make sure there's a discernible gap inside the black part where the letters get narrow Doom Sleigher fucked around with this message at 05:22 on Sep 25, 2014 |
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Sep 25, 2014 05:06
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That's honestly just not a great font for the side of a race car. I would go with something a little less ornate.
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Sep 25, 2014 14:46
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You should've seen my first choice, it was even worse! Hopefully I'll get a chance to play around with that again today.
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Lord Crapulus posted:You should've seen my first choice, it was even worse! Hopefully I'll get a chance to play around with that again today. 
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Haha okay maybe not quite that bad. So since everything I've done so far has not required the use of fancy tools like "paintbrush", I figured I'd try making it easier to read with the tools I've been using before I try to learn something new or start on a new font search. This is with the font on bold and with a much larger outline (only on the sidepod, ignore the rear wing). I did it with white letters and a black outline too, but I think with the bold and large outline it didn't make much of a difference. 
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Lord Crapulus posted:Haha okay maybe not quite that bad. I like that a lot more. Easier to read but it still keeps the 'character' of the font - really like how the font reflects the name and the logo
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Lord Crapulus posted:Haha okay maybe not quite that bad. Yeah this looks way better.
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Lord Crapulus posted:Haha okay maybe not quite that bad. Changing the font size between the lines might help too. Nighthawk is already the narrower word so if you either bump that up a couple sizes or bump the Motorsports size down it might give it a little better look. Your eyes will also recognize the general shape of the word 'motorsport' anyway so you can afford to make it a bit smaller to make your name more readable. e: Also the way to use difficult templates (like the open wheel cars) is to cheat. My old paint scheme was just a 1024x1024 canvas covered in different colored overlapping shapes with some low-alpha tear texture over it, I just copied it onto the Indycar template and slapped a couple logos on it. The other thing I learned is you can copy the mask layer (that iRacing provides), and if you put a sizeable enough stroke on the layer it will give you nice thick edging wherever the seams meet so you don't have to worry as much about lining things up as exactly. Dynamite Dog fucked around with this message at 22:49 on Sep 25, 2014 |
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So Townsend Bell turned your car inside out for the 500, eh?
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the star mazda at montreal this week has been utterly horrible. I don't really understand it. It's a hard track, but i don't think it warrants nearly as many wrecks as it creates. I really need to start qualifying - it seems that starting from the back/pits isn't really feasible in road racing compared to oval, or at least on narrow tracks like gilles. I've been taken out in a ridiculous fashion in 4/5 races this week, mostly people spinning right ahead of me or not using the brakes going into the chicanes/hairpins and crashing straight into the back of my car. It's without a doubt the worst experience I have had in my short road racing career in terms of getting taken out in situations where I'm driving cautiously.
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I had a guy whos controller died yesterday racing at Charlotte. Hit the wall, went down the bank at turn 3 and went back up to the wall between 3 and 4. Got got a few people with that move, including me. It was the 3rd lap.
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Sep 25, 2014 23:14
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thehacker0 posted:the star mazda at montreal this week has been utterly horrible. 
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Helicon One posted:You should(n't) try Skip Barbers at COTA COTA is a garbage track so problem solved.
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Why would you want to drive the Skippy at a track with such long straights anyway? What is that, like a 3 minute lap with the pack in draft lock? I remember back when I was doing Skippys following the scheduling thread in the forums, and I was amazed that everyone wanted to just drive all the GP tracks instead of the shorter club configurations that seem like they'd work really well with that car.
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Gotta drive what I see on TV, man.
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thehacker0 posted:the star mazda at montreal this week has been utterly horrible. I suck and I think Montreal is a pretty easy track  About 90% of the corners on the track are pretty slow speed corners, so you'll benefit from low downforce setups. The key to Montreal is gearing Without doing any testing, this is what I would recommend: I assume no liability for damage to anyone's SR/IR  Lord Crapulus posted:Why would you want to drive the Skippy at a track with such long straights anyway? What is that, like a 3 minute lap with the pack in draft lock? I remember back when I was doing Skippys following the scheduling thread in the forums, and I was amazed that everyone wanted to just drive all the GP tracks instead of the shorter club configurations that seem like they'd work really well with that car. The Skippy isn't designed for full GP circuits, same thing with most ovals > 1mi in length.
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I've been taking the week off of the skippy. Cota is a cool circuit, but its difficult and not particularly rewarding in that car. I figure I'll spend the week racing all the series that I largely neglect due to how much I enjoy the skippy (ie. star mazda, advanced mx-5 and GT3)
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KingShibby posted:The Skippy isn't designed for full GP circuits, same thing with most ovals > 1mi in length. The Skippy is amazing in a big pack at Pocono though.
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According to the guy responsible for the skippy schedule each season, here is the shortened six week season 4 schedule: Week 1 - Mosport Week 2 - Lime Rock Park Week 3 - Donington National Week 4 - Road America Week 5 - Barber Full Week 6 - Zandvoort GP He is still working out the laps for each track, but I think it's pretty much finalized. I think it looks pretty good, considering the shortened season. Excited to race at Mosport, lime rock and road america next season.
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