Aw man, that sucks. Neck injuries are a bitch. Still I suppose it's something to be thankful for that nobody was hurt any worse than that.

Hope she feels better soon.

Cheers Mate... so do I.

I forgot to bring the photo's with me to work for upload yesterday, and again today (I was in a bit of a rush to get here) so I will try to get them done tonight... which reminds me I have some links to M to SuperV as well lol...

Must remember these things!

Yeah got some pics now... gonna take them to work with me today and resize+upload them... kinda busy today though so might upload tonight after work acctually.

Also, wife kinda got whiplash as well... took a day to set in with the muscle pain etc... She's going to the doctor today to get checked out, but still overall pretty good considering.

I.......... am stunned...... what the fooking hell..... that kind of takes the cake and the rest of the bakery with it. O.o

Wow very nice idea!

I was wondering the same thing about having more 3d shapes... such as a "brush" tool that you can use to freehand or point-plot any type of shape you like, such as a star, cross, or other funky shape.

Good work with the idea of using the buildings in the background in a platform style game! I thought they would only be useful for above view games but I wasn't thinking along the same tangent as you!

This is like the DX10 equivalent of what I payed $200 for a couple years ago. I'm pretty pissed that it's so cheap. $65, wtf! But awesome.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814150229

Hehehe yeah it's not a bad card either if you have PCI-E. If you are stuck on AGP then look at a 7600GT or something similar...

Good to hear everyone's okay, especially after a head-on. That's some scary stuff.

Reminds me of last summer, there was a crazy accident in front of my apartment building where by some miracle nobody was hurt. Some chick drove her SUV through the front window of the apartment on the other side of my building. The front right bumper went through the living room wall and into the bedroom like two feet away from my neighbor's head. He was just sitting in his room playing GTA (of all things). I have some crazy pictures of it around here somewhere.

OMGWTFBBQ

Upload?

Just don't go for the same idea with the cars ... don't want to actually damage any buildings

You take all my fun away! D:<

*EDIT*

Here's what one of the models look like anyway:

<img src="http://www.maisto.com/%5Cprodimages%5Cpicture%5C31089-00000002.gif">

And the other:

<img src="http://www.maisto.com/%5Cprodimages%5Cpicture%5C31090-00000022.gif">

Haha, yeah ... more fun that way

Look online for some free images of just grunge - anything really. Sticks, cracked walls, etc. Then (in photoshop or similar) make a new layer, grayscale it and use overlay, erasing the details you don't need.

Best to mix photo textures with more photo textures IMO.

I'm not to shabby and "grunging" up textures with scum and ooze and cracks etc... The only thing I can see problems with is going to be the building faces. I will probably end up going around the city taking photos of various buildings and using those as a basis... I have to make them look "post apocalyptic" so it may take more work than I am bargaining on... but time will tell in the end.

How about both? Take the photos and then rework your own cars from the "textures."

More work, but then you can recolor or add designs that are more unique to you.

My thoughts exactly... in fact I just went over to Kmart across the way there and started looking at Hotwheels cars for like $1.60 each... then I got carried away after about 30 minutes of looking at toy cars and ended up going from $1.60, to $5.80, to $11.99, to $19.95 for these two 1/24 scale Chevys. I got a 1968 Camaro SS, and a Nova SS Coupe from the Maisto toys range... they look damn sweet.

I'll go get my friends camera tomorrow and try to take some snaps this weekend with the macro function. Ill also comendere my mates old record player so I can do a short video of the car spinning around so I can chop it out with FXhome and use it for a groovy car selection menu thing. Hopefully this will work out the way I want it to, otherwise my daughter now has two expensive toys to play with lol.

*EDIT*

For the damage model... do I take a hammer to the cars after I have all the photos I need of it "not smashed"?? Or should I just Photoshop the damage? I think a hammer would be more fun!

I see. Well bonus money or not, that's still awful

Agreed... it's not the most fun thing I can think of for killing time... however because everyone is OK, including the guy that caused the accident, then I suppose we look at the bright side of things. At lesat we can go get another car now with the money the insurance is going to pay out.

Sorry to hear that

I'm surprised you didn't get more of the value of the vehicle if it was beyond repair!

Best wishes!

Yeah it was only a 1986 Mazda 929 Execuative... not really worth very much... in fact we got a little more money back than what we have spent on the car since owning it... we only bought it for $600 lol, but just recently spent nearly $3000 on a new engine. Oh well... at least we came out on top!

I was playing around with my daughters Matchbox cars the other day, and it suddenly gave me an idea... Since I am working on an overhead view car game in Construct, I thought it would be cool to use some Matchbox cars, and take photo's of them from direct overhead view using my friends 9mpx Digital SLI Macro camera... I could also take "texture" samples from things like grass, dirt, and the road etc to make the rest of my graphics...

What do you think? Or should I just draw some cars like everyone else?