The coolest video you'll see this year
Sorry, but there's just no way we can't post this one because this video certainly deserves all the attention it can get. Set to Moby's Flower, 1K Project II is the result of 1,000 cars combined together in Trackmania. We're sure you'll end up watching this thing a few times just to soak it all in. Kudos to whoever put this together.












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What video did you watch?
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If anything, I think that'd make a pretty cool screensaver (maybe, minus the music).
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It would be better if there was collision detection. Cars just flying through other cars with no effect is dumb.
Plus the music sucks.
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Thats actually been done before, a hella long time ago...now see if I can remember what car it was, ehhe. I do recall seeing a commercial exactly as you describe, though...was maybe 25 or so cars, doing a big fancy drive around, skillfully manouvered so as not to touch each other, then suddenly BAM right at the end they all come to s screeching, drifting stop, all in the same place. Gotta love those ads that stick in your mind for years, but you can't ever remember what they were selling...
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The game has no collision between cars.
This was made by combining replays together, imagine playing the same map 1000 times a little bit differently each time then combining all of the replays.
This game is awesome, you should all try a demo (even if it doesn't do it justice).
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Anyways, what exactly is this? I've never played Trackmania, but I'm assuming this is machinma. Did they do a bunch race recordings and play back all the recordings at once (a la' your typical "ghost" racers)? Can't really think of any other way you could make this, but I don't know what you can do in Trackmania. Must have beena lot of work to get all the recordings with proper variation if so, especially how everything fans out at the start.
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That comercial was the Isuzu Gemini wasn't it?
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Seriously, you're all very self-important, and it's disheartening.
Stop being a bunch of jerks, and like something.
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"This was made by combining replays together, imagine playing the same map 1000 times a little bit differently each time then combining all of the replays."
Wow, that must have tooken a lot of time and effort.All in all, I thought the video was pretty cool. You really don't see much videos like this one at all. Plus, the music was pretty good to.
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its "beautiful."
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The read link is not present for me.....
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Oh, and I liked Trackmania before it was cool. 8)
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If there were collision detection the scene would look like a giant parking lot. You would achieve complete gridlock with a tenth of the cars used in the video.
I thought it was pretty damn cool. It almost looks like a study in fluid dynamics.
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Oh, and to all those that are whining about the cars not hitting each other....are you fucking retarded? They're not supposed to. This isn't about crashing, it's about being in awe of the flow that is created and the beauty that comes from controlled chaos. I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but really, some of you really missed the fucking point.
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=lSKdYKhjtSc
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Not coolest vid this year :S
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"Lame physics". Really, what's wrong with you guys?
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Still not that great though.
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many of you are way to critical. people put a lot of work in to this. Putting a lot of work into something doesn't have to make it great but at least appreciate it a little, rather then being critical little kids that only good at criticizing and being little snots...
thats what the internet is, tons of people putting together their hard work. I am happy that i don't have to pay for stuff like Firefox, joystiq, and kick ass videos that people spend hours and hours of their lives for just to try and entertain some people for 60 seconds.
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If you didnt like the video then dont bother posting that you didnt like the video, just ignore it and move on!
After visiting more niche sites where the comments are always of a very positive nature its a shame that visitors to the more mainstream VG blogs are such a bunch of whining little children (although i wouldnt be surprised if the demographic wasnt far off). Please guys, lets have a little bit more maturity!
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Really, more people should use NoScript with firefox, if only so webmasters learn not to use so much unnecessary but still required js.
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I must be the only one who was ok with the soundtrack. Not a moby fan by any means and I've never heard the song before but I liked it. It was mellow.
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If you don't like it, stop watching it and close the tab, don't complain about it like you are forced to watch it.
Of course you can say what they might've done better, but be constructive...
I personally thin kthat it'd be even better if it wasn't Coast, but Islannd (if I don't get that wrong ;), b ut maybe that's just because I loe the insanely fast tracks :D
Argh watching that video made me regret my switch to Mac OS (for a second ;)), I wanna play some Trackmania!! Just a little :/
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