New MX vs ATV Reflex Videos and Deformable Terrain!

I have been dreaming about making a Motocross game with deformable terrain for many years, I even pitched the idea to the 2xl games team I work with when we started working on our PS3 and XBOX360 racer "BAJA: Edge of Control". We weren't able to implement a good enough deformable terrain solution for reason I won't go into (gets me all worked up and mad...), and I was pretty bummed about it. Well it looks like the folks over at Rainbo Studios have been hard at work on their next Motocross racer, "MX vs ATV Reflex", because they managed to put deformable terrain everywhere in the game and up the graphics quality as well. The dirt surface on the outdoor and indoor tracks looks great and makes you feel like you're actually driving through dirt now, instead of the dull feeling of driving on a glass surface! Check out the videos below, and leave your comments at the bottom of the page. I wanna know what you think of this next installment in the MX vs ATV series and if you think the deformable terrain will be enough to make you buy the game.

Game looks great and the deformable terrain very promising, but I wonder, when will they get the sounds right??? The bikes still sound like lawnmowers close to their death...I'm also not sure the physics will be fun to play with, especially with the added difficulty of controlling both the bike and the rider! I could be wrong, and hope I am, as this new version looks very promising.

Lucas Oil Off-Road race at Lake Elsinore - Wear pants or go home!

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So I got a funny story about last weekend's trophy trucks race, which took place at the Lake Elsinore racetrack in California...I got kicked off the track for wearing shorts instead of pants!!! You see, they have certain "rules" in the Lucas Oil Off Road series, to be more specific, they pretty much tell you what you have to wear if you wanna be on the track, whether you are a photographer or a crew member! The rule is you can't wear shorts, you HAVE to wear pants...110 degrees outside and they MAKE you wear pants. More story and photos from the event...

HDR Photo Test

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HDR photography is still pretty new and not many people know about it, and even less do it right! I'd like to think that I am part of the small group of photographers that can produce nice HDR images without over-doing it, but sometimes I love to over-do it! Sometimes making an image look completely unreal by pushing the HDR settings all the way up is actually rewarding, depending on what you're trying to achieve of course.

While I was shooting the Colorado national race in Lakewood a few weeks back, I couldn't help but to snap a few HDR images of the amazing sky and hills around the track...the only problem was that I didn't have a tripod with me, so the images aren't perfectly aligned, but still worth processing. A few of them turned out pretty good, and I couldn't decide between the different versions I made, so I decided to show them all to you guys and girls and you can tell me which ones you like the best in the comments section at the end of the post! view all the photos...

Battle against addiction

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I received an e-mail recently from a 23 years old male that almost brought tears to my eyes, mostly because it brought back very bad memories for me, and secondly because I know how hard the road ahead for this young man is and I can't help but wonder if he's gonna make it or not...I know this sounds horrible, but I'm speaking from experience, because I almost didn't make it myself! I am so thankful today that I had great friends and family around me who loved me enough to stick around and help me the best they could during my journey through hell, and I pray that this person is as lucky as I was. Continue reading to find out what this person wrote me

Under Construction

I told you not to click that link, didn't I? But you had to do it anyways...and if you didn't come from ronronmx.com, then how did you get here anyways? Well then, welcome to my "unfinished" blog, and since you're here you might as well browse around and give me some feedback while you're at it! There isn't much on here for now (and we both know why, right?) but in time there will be tons of cool content to read, I just have to write it! This blog will replace the old Ronronmx.com site. I decided it was too much work to keep up with all the news and race results, drama and such especially since you can already visit great sites like racerxonline.com, vitalmx.com, motonews.com, transworldmx.com, and many others like these with all the latest racing news, product reviews, rider interviews and race results you can possibly want! So I said no more, let's do something new and refreshing...let's speak my mind! It might not always be pretty, but it'll be interesting.... Ronron
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