So, it’s been a while since my last post.
Been pretty busy with a lot of stuff, including a girlfriend.
Unfortunaly that didn’t work out as well as i hoped it to be, and she broke up with me.

On a brighter note, Outline was a real blast, and we released a nice 64k, and this one was actually pretty much finished, considering the time we had to spend on it.
You can download the 64k at pouet.net.
At the moment i’m busy with the purchase of a house, let’s hope that turns out well.

Outline was a blast, i had to cancel my animation due to the big rendertimes, so i decided to create a little rushed animation instead.

Our 64k with the catchy name Wrecked Angle was nice, not outstanding, due to rushing things as usual. Pandora however is working great, a bit buggy, but a lot of potential.

Looking forward to expand and tweak that one.

We received a letter that we got through the preselection of the intel demo competition, wich was kind of a surprise to us, looking at the high level of entry’s of past years.It will be our first full demo, so a lot of work has to be done on the Nerve engine to make it usable for a full blown demo.

Also Evoke is knocking at the door, where we wil release a nice (hopefully finished) 64k, and i’m planning to enter the animation competition with the cube animation.

And a large animation called ‘The Dutch Groove Experience’ is planned for breakpoint 2009, so enough stuff to keep me of the street for half a year.

Currently, we (glow and i) are working hard to get our stuff ready for outline 2008, wich will be held 1-4 of may.

Glow is busy coding our new own softsynth called Pandora and the rest of the coding on our 64 kilobyte entry.

Meanwhile i’m busy working on a little animation i want to enter for the wild competition.

Idea of making this started at Breakpoint after seeing a lot of cool entry’s in the 4k/64k and demo competitions.

That, combined with the nice demoscene vibe, caused me to start working on this animation.

It features 10.000 polygon cubes, doing their thing..

I hope we will get everything done, outline was a lot earlier than we initially anticipated.

Seems our 64k will be a rushed partyhack once again, but finally without the v2 synth engine, and with our own rocking, semifinished synthengine.

Rendertimes of the animation are giving me the creeps, still need to do some optimizing, currently the estimate is it will take another 75 days of rendering.

Outline is only 10 days away though.. so.. that’s a bitch..

And 2 little teaser screenshots.

First ring trip of the year, previous one was canceled due to a nasty fluenza.
Like the previous time when we arived the track was humid, and slowly drying up.
So the first lap i took it easy, and fortunatly i was practicaly alone on the track, so i could focus on my own driving.
During the day i drove 3 more laps, and during these laps i started to get the rhythm of the car in combination with the track.
Unfortunaly the blowoff valve froze in the open position during the last lap, so the 265 hp were reduced to a mere 50hp.
Thankfully, the bov was easily repaired when i got home. doing a 100 on the autobahn is no fun

The car and me having a blast.

This friday was a special day.

First time racing with the Scooby on a purpose build racetrack, and my first time on the Zolder circuit in Belgium.

Also a first was the amount of tracktime scheduled for this day, a whopping 5 hours.

The day was organized by bmw enthousiasts, but there was room for additional cars, so i was allowed to tag along.

I really had a blast on the track, and gradually getting to know the car.

I expected some defects to show up, since the car has never been seriously driven in it’s short life.

But the racing pedegree of the car became apperant during the day, everything kept doing its job, and kept doing it well.

The other cars were all dedicated circuit tools, with semislicks or even slicks installed.

So i was quite happy to notice that in the course of the day, i was able to keep up with most of them, although i only had street tyres.

All the drivers were very good, and everyone was racing clean, very enjoyable, and i like to do this again in the near future.

I’m having a blast!

Photo’s were taken by Patrick van Wijngen, who tagged along, big thanks for those.

Taking the new car for a spin on the nurburgring.

Sure felt like the car enjoyed it just as much as i did.

Attended yet another edition of the Zandvoort clubspecials.

A bit crowded on the track, but big fun anyway.

And the pictures can be found here as usual.

This time, i went to see the A1GP, first time they were coming to Zandvoort, so i dragged my sister and her boyfriend along for the ride.

Weather was good, with some occasional showers, they sure made the races intresting.

We really had a good time, sound of those v8’s is just amazing, the backfire of those things.. damn

Taking pictures was harder than usual, the track really filled up with people along the day.
jeroen Bleekemolen did a terrific job on his first raceday ending up at 4th place for Team Netherlands. Keep it up!

Anyway, here you can find my pictures as usual.

Went to the nurburgring circuit this weekend together with Patrick.
At last i went on the track with the new engine and suspension setup.
And my, what a difference! No need to go flatout this time, the car is really fast and forgiving around the track, and i loved it.

Too bad a wheel bearing decided to break down on me on the second lap, but i sure had a blast.

Thanks to Patrick for shooting me in action.

And my pictures can be found here.

Went to the Bavaria City Racing Festival last weekend.

Unfortunaly again lots of rain, and a big crowd resulting in some acrobatics to get at least some nice pictures.

But overall i had a very good time, the speed and sound of all the cars was amazing, goosebumps all over

The rest of the photo’s can be found here.