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Took about 2-3 weeks. It ain't perfect by far. I'm not into scratch building or super realism or anything like that, I just like to glue, stick and paint 'em. (It's why I hid it under all that shakey camera work...) I did some research into the car, but really only the dashboard and the main body of it, not the engine etc.
Video took about an hour to make. Pinnacle Studio is too difficult to use.
Worst thing is, I looked around the room after I had finished the model and everything was covered in a fine layer of spray paint dust. I'm now banned from spraying in the house. (I did all the spraying in a box, I quickly cover the box when I had finished to trap as much as possible. It didn't work. All can spray, can't afford an airbrush).
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I got bored and bought a few new models. Here's the latest one in shiney all new, kicking and screaming, singing and dancing video format http://www.magnumkp.com/knightrider.wmv Right click and save target as.
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You saved the fla file right? Use that.
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There is no need at all for you to set no compression, however prissy you are about getting the stuff to look perfect. You can drop it down to about 50-60% quality and it will stick look fine (and you'll easily dip under the 50k sig limit). The background is going to look pixelated because it is an image rather than vector artwork (the text is vecor so that should look fine). Check you haven't got quality = low in the right click options.
And drop the designed by bit, looks a bit poor compared to the rest.
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Never mind commas, it's apostrophes that mess me up. (Although not as bad as grocers).
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It's just a while since I've seen such a hotly debated topic on the web, this must surely be the most debated web topic around right now.
I thought it was who's hotter, Christina or Britney. Well it is on most normal forums...
Link to the privacy policy: http://www.google.com/gmail/help/privacy.html
Some isps do read mail, how else are spam servers supposed to work? They are looking for key words that designate it as spam. Google, as well as scanning for spam are also providing targetted advertising, which you get when you search on Google anyway. They can read my email if they like, if I want to send something private I'll speak to them face to face. Email is not the most secure messages in the world. No more securer than using the royal mail.
I just think Rocky's jealous he hasn't been sent an invite yet
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No opt out as far as I know. It's not that good anyway apart from the file capactity and the geek value.
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Nothing annoys me more than a txt style written email. I got one the other day from a big client (1 3/4 million quid turnover). Makes you wonder how they got that big when their staff can't write the Queen's.
Not as bad as the one I received last week all in capitals... (which I had to retype before I could use it).
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I know they offer targetted ads, but hey who really cares? Amazon runs "spyware" to show you what you might also like. It's not like I'm going to be planning anything exciting through my email anyway. I can take it you don't want one of my invites then Rocky?
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I was talking about your 123k swf sig.
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Hey Chems, you got your warning yet of your oversized sig? Surely it is about time WK removed it?
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Tis true SN, but I like to think it was because I'm a very special person.
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C'mon rocky you 30 y/o virgin American (with 2 kids living in Scotland...) why you make my GR crash?
What's the betting he/she/it doesn't have DS/IT patched to 1.4
Are re the email address it would be pretty unlikely that is real, fdg are all next to each other on the keyboard directly where your left hand sits. Plus I haven't seen a real 3 letter hotmail address for years. (Although this new gmail stuff has made getting 3 letter ones a bit easier, if you were in early enough).
What's the point of writing a message and then leaving no way to reply? I guess the hiding behind a monitor and keyboard makes people a lot tougher than they really are. You go around shouting like that in public and you're going to get a kicking and no mistake.
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You didn't get the five letter registration off the side did you G-**** or similar. I could find out from that what it was.
Could have just have been a guy out for a jolly.
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^^Bestest name on GR.net.^^
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I'm just interested as to what type of chopper it is and while it's cirlcing above (quite low). It's pretty close and I can see its just all red. Any ideas?
A picture would help, but if it isn't military I'd go for a Bell Jetranger/Longranger or a Sikorski as most likely.
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It was either the Bell 206 or pay 50p for a ride round the field on a horse.
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On Sunday I took a trip to the moon. Well, as close as you can get to the moon, I took a trip in a helicopter (pictured below).
I went to a nearby fair/festival thingy and they were doing helicopter trips, so I thought I'd pay me money and head out to the wide blue sky.
I'd seen the helicopter go up and round a few times as I queued, watched it hover a few feet off the ground as it circled the field and then ascend (pictured below).
The 2 guys (also helicopter pilots) who were telling people what side of the craft to go and giving the safety instructions, asked the young girl queuing next to me if she would like to go in the front. At this point (being the cad that I am) I was slightly disappointed. I'd waited 21 years for a ride in the helicopter and all I'd get to do was look out of the small back window. Thankfully my silent selfish prayers were answered as her mother said no, she'd better ride in the back. This left the front seat available for me.
Anyway, the helicopter came down and then it was my turn. One of the pilots ordered us forward, so we walked quickly forward (and having watched Airwolf) I ducked at the downdraft created from the still turning rotors. (The downdraft was less than I thought it would be). I took my position in the front seat. Those of you even partially familiar with helicopters will know that both the "drivers" side and the "passenger" side usually have control sticks (technical term: the cyclic). The one on the passenger side has been removed, but the 2 pedals remained and I had been warned to not touch them. (So I didn't, I didn't fancy getting kicked out while on my trip to the sky).
I attempted to do up my seat belt, thinking it would be like the old 4 point harness on a baby seat. It wasn't so the safety guy had to untie me and reconnect me up properly. Because there was only 3 passengers in the helicopter, one of the pilots also hopped in the back. There would have been room for 3 more people, but the group behind us was 4 people and they didn't want to be split up.
Then I slowly felt the rotor speed increase and noticed the pilot pull the collective (the stick that makes you go up and down, similar in position to a handbrake) upwards. We had lift off. The footwell at the front is glass, and I could see we were only a few feet off the ground (as the photograph above shows). We gently hovered to the other side of the field. The pilot was constantly adjusting the pressure the collective, cyclic and the pedals to keep us on the straight and narrow. She did the same throughout the site.
We then spun a quick 90 degrees to our right and we started to move pretty quickly upwards and forwards. It wasn't a sharp ascent, there was no great jolt, it was smooth and controlled and we eventually leveled off. At this point I was concentrating on the view. Lucky for me I lived about 5 miles away and I could see quite a few of the local landmarks, including a power station and a port (which I worked out later was over 20 miles away). However, I didn't notice my own home town for reasons I am at a loss to explain.
We then take a sharp right bank, as you can see in the photo above, and make a slow 180 degree arc back the way we came. It was pretty amazing feeling, looking out over the countryside, a miss mass of greens and yellows stretching away in every direction. The rotors weren't loud, but loud enough that I couldn't hear what the people were saying in the back. The pilot obviously had her headset on, so conversation with her would have been out of the question, and I was a bit more concerned with her concentrating on flying. Her eyes constantly scanned the skies to the left and right, each time making slight adjustments on controls to keep us heading in the correct direction. Later on another helicopter was seen in close airspace and I believe landed at the same festival, so even for a "quiet" area as what we were flying in, vigilance was the key word.
When then head back and slowly make our descent into the (what now seems incredibly small) field to land. But we make it down, and the sudden realisation that I've just been in a helicopter AND it was all over...
It wasn't until I got these photos back today that I found out that we had been to 1000 feet. Not high for this Bell BELL 206L-1 helicopter, but it was absolutely brilliant.
And anyone thinking about making jokes about the female pilot, don't bother, I've heard them all from my dad.
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- Putting sounds in. When you hover the mouse over a button, it makes a noise. When you click the button, it makes another noise. So I need HTML codes for the OnMouseOver and OnClick.
- Refresh button
- Stop button (I will be putting a few new audio samples from our mods on the site for you all to listen to.....press stop button to stop the audio sample playing)
If you are referring to Flash, (this tut in MX) click on the button you want to edit, right click and select Edit. On that page select the Over state (you don't want it to play a sound on the Down state because if it is a long sound you won't here it all). "Import to library" the sound file, and on the Down state select the Sound drop down and select your sound file.
This link is for flash 5 which is a bit different http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash5/buttonsound.htm
or this one covers pretty much everything http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/
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It was a (poorly constructed and hastily written) joke.
Is the frame all the way round the edge or just at the top and bottom (like widescreen). I know there are different ratios for tv shows but I'm not sure what they are and why Euro 2004 is different. I haven't noticed any difference on my tv at home.
Major Talks A Little About Something.
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magnum says a little something you all should hear:
Not everyone has the tools or ability to make something super great. Blending is nigh on impossible in paint. If someone has made a sig and wants it as their sig, let them. (As long as the file sizes aren't huge, else I'll find that six pack of whoooopppp ass I laid all about here somewhere y'all.) So stop with all the pretty pretty nonsense Major and let people do what the heck they want.