Isle Of Man

[doNico]

Oh boy, a road racing game would just be the awesomeness itself... Holy cow, imagine racing in photorealistic Dundrod, tandragee or even Czech Horice...  How amazing would that be.
Well,it allready feels good to think about it. You'll have my money

~doN

[Storris]

OK folks, it's here at last, in the immortal words of Murray Walker, "Go, Go, Go" - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1669324602/snaefell-mountain-course-3d-laser-scan

What I still can figure out is how can BigBen have and exclusive and Storris get a laser scan at the same time. Weird ...

Hi Hornet, the licence is only for, and can only be for the TT brand, which is IP belonging to the Isle of Man government.  There is no legal mechanism for anyone, government or otherwise, to restrict access to public domain information (the roads), via a licensing scheme or similar tool.  There is no legal basis for preventing me drawing a map, which is basically what this is.

Ok. So, to recap, not only Bigben got the exclusive license, but now the laser-scanned TT will be converted for all the racing games of the past, present and future?

Hi PiBoSo, with any luck, yes, that is exactly what will happen.  I think we covered this in an earlier post, but the only way this interferes with your plans is to bringing them one step closer.
You are going to face bigger, and at this time insurmountable obstacles with the licensing issues around the TT brand, but that's an entirely separate set of problems unrelated to the track scan.  I hope you can see the benefit to yourselves and ultimately to your customers & community, in having this small piece of the puzzle in place.

[Napalm Nick]

 Sounds like a great thing to do but I don't understand why our creator does not like the idea. So Good luck! (I think)

[RiccoChicco]

Nice Storris!

As a suggestion, adding any proof of the project (such as 3dlasermapping contract, or anything like this). If you didn't post anything on this forum, I'll think that's a scam (unfortunately there's a lot on Kickstarter ), so I presume a lot of people can think the same. That would help to attract bakers

[Storris]

The intention to do this exists, it's just tough trying to get the relevant 3 pdf pages into a readable jpeg.  This will have to wait for tomorrow, as I'm planning on doing some racing tonight. 

[Hawk]

The intention to do this exists, it's just tough trying to get the relevant 3 pdf pages into a readable jpeg.  This will have to wait for tomorrow, as I'm planning on doing some racing tonight. 

Why not just provide a download link for the 3 page PDF file.... No need to have it all showing in a JPEG picture surely? 

Hawk.

[Storris]

I think having the quote on the page would have a greater sheen of respectability than having to click through to my Onedrive account and downloading what is an easily forged document.  Having it on the page, along with the company's contact details leaves backers & KickStarter with an easily followed paper trail.

The trouble I'm having is that a pdf converted at 600dpi doesn't scale well when resizing using MSPaint to add the 3 pages to a single file (the text becomes a blur); 2400dpi doesn't leave me with enough system memory to open even a single page, and so far 1200dpi is coming back as an unsupported format!

Unless one of you guys know how to do this?  I'm using pages 1, 2 & 4.

[doubledragoncc]

I converted all pages to JPG on A4 size for you. Here is the link for the folder with 5 pages.

I did not post them directly on here as it is your baby and dont like to tread on toes.

IOM Quote: https://www.dropbox.com/s/sthh63al1q6jg4v/IOM%20Quate%20JPGs.rar?dl=0

DD

[Hawk]

I see your point there Storris. 

Hawk.

[HornetMaX]

Unless one of you guys know how to do this?  I'm using pages 1, 2 & 4.

In case you need it in the future: http://www.pdf2jpg.org/

[Storris]

Thanks dd, posted and published. Didn't turn out quite as I expected, so I've ended up linking through db anyway! Such a mission, thanks though gents, much appreciated.

[doubledragoncc]

Sorry mate

What was wrong with the jpg pics they looked perfect on my screen? I used CorelDraw x6 and it is business quality as I use it for that purpose. All 5 were only 5MB in size so where was the problem?

DD

[Storris]

The files themselves are great thank you, it's just the image displayed on Kickstarter isn't all that big.  - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1669324602/snaefell-mountain-course-3d-laser-scan/posts/1570793

[doubledragoncc]

Ah ok I see what you mean. I am setting up on Indigogo at the moment. So have to go through the same thing lol.

DD

[h106frp]

If someone wants a decent kickstarter project how about creating a royalty free sound sample database for bike engine/exhaust/intake noises.

...I hate sound editing..  .        Grumpy.........