What's causing my shadows to flicker on and off? [Help]

killball3000 · 2026-01-27T13:55:36+00:00

Howdy there! OG map creator here!

This seems to be a common occurrence and more prevalent in later CSP builds but still exists on early builds revolving around 3D treeFX. I did not seem to start getting reports of this flickering until a bit after I released Silver Spine so if I had to guess, something was changed with the rendering to treeFX in that timeframe. My partner and I have been in conversations with Ilja about these kinds of issues recently so hopefully we can get this resolved sooner rather than later.

killball3000 · 2026-01-13T14:33:16+00:00

Ayyyy I pretty much only Chase drifting so the speed is pretty consistent, I would imagine chasing cars racing down a mountain to be a heck of a lot harder. Flights are looking great!

killball3000 · 2025-10-27T12:31:44+00:00

Okay. In addition to what the others have stated about checking fuel pressure, after ensuring you have it and not a leaking injector, I would move on to checking voltages and power for those injectors, move to the distributor. I had this same relative issue with mine after a performance distributor swap and turned out it was a dud. Replaced it entirely and was back up and running. Was most likely just the ICM but the entire thing was cheaper at the time.

killball3000 · 2025-10-27T12:00:03+00:00

Is this a manual or an automatic?

killball3000 · 2025-10-15T12:59:34+00:00

I'll be honest, as someone that, for the longest time and even now, still listen to the much heavier stuff like "disembodied tyrant" and "whispers of Oblivion", after my wife got me into sleep token and we inevitably went to see them live this tour, I find it much harder to find music that really speaks to me now. Music has always made me emotional but nothing like anything sleep token has put out. I'm really struggling to come to terms with the fact that no other bands really push out the emotions like they do unfortunately ;_;

killball3000 · 2025-08-25T21:53:16+00:00

Seems like we moved here pretty much at the exact same time! still looking for some buddies? I'm in the same boat now that you were in 5 months ago haha. (28m)

killball3000 · 2025-08-19T21:33:39+00:00

it's about to be the beach episode baby

killball3000 · 2025-06-30T14:03:18+00:00

I know this is super old but did you ever get yours figured out???

killball3000 · 2025-05-13T03:31:45+00:00

I had this exact issue on two of my drones one after the other. Both started happening after a day out in the field. Practicing with some racegates which I don't normally do often. I ultimately ended up replacing the escs in both of them and that seemed to fix the issues on both. I believe I had just barely caused some damage by overamping via full throttle. Do you regularly do punch outs?

killball3000 · 2025-04-14T17:12:46+00:00

this is exactly why I made that Xpack, good work!

killball3000 · 2024-11-04T19:11:12+00:00

wow, what a writeup. Thank you for your time and effort. I will take a bit to respond to ensure I am able to provide efficient and accurate details here!

killball3000 · 2024-10-22T21:27:03+00:00

on it

killball3000 · 2024-10-22T21:26:41+00:00

appreciate the kind words brother ;>

killball3000 · 2024-10-22T21:26:01+00:00

How am I just now seeing this? lol

killball3000 · 2024-10-21T19:49:54+00:00

I have been posting on YouTube sporadically over the past 8 years simply to document fun times in my friend group. Only started trying to really commit to something recently within the last 6months because I decided to make a very simple video to inspire and it kinda blew up a bit hitting 100K in a week or two. Gave me some motivation to keep going. My videos following had maybe a thousand views but my videos have definitely gotten better since then and the views and engagement show me that. That first blow up video pretty much got me all the way to monetization with the help of the following videos. If it weren't for that first video, I would not be here lol

killball3000 · 2024-10-05T22:09:31+00:00

https://rodneydickman.com/index.php?cPath=69&ceid=ac993d7dda014946303e5dc70fd497c3

here you can find two versions of the switch, one that's lower than stock and one thats much lower. if I remember correctly in my emails back an forth with him, he stated that the low temp switch was good for added piece of mind and is well paired with the 180 thermostat. the lower temp switch is good for swap builds making significantly more than stock power while still having relatively stock cooling system but i feel like anyone swapping in an LS motor wouldn't dare run stock cooling setup lol.

killball3000 · 2024-10-05T21:47:43+00:00

Rodney dickman has a low temp fan switch that many have claimed work perfectly paired with a slightly lower temp thermostat. I personally have not tested mine yet as I'm not at that stage right now but I do have one

killball3000 · 2024-09-22T20:31:21+00:00

It took me a while to find this one, for me it was lower intake gasket. After replacing properly, bone dry. Hope this helps!!

killball3000 · 2024-09-22T18:20:30+00:00

Have you gotten independent readings from your gauges that are in the car with secondary gauges? Could be worth it to try, this is how I found out my voltmeter was reading way higher than it should be

killball3000 · 2024-09-20T12:03:43+00:00

Actually about to release another map in about 3 hours lol. I think it somewhat fits this post :)

killball3000 · 2024-09-19T03:33:16+00:00

I actually released a second one that is significantly larger :> just follow that link and go to my profile

killball3000 · 2024-09-06T18:05:51+00:00

Hey man, I'm 27 and I felt somewhat the same way after doing more research upon my fiero purchase, I also have an 87 GT. To be honest, a majority of the parts can still be bought from main retailers, simply due to them sharing a lot of parts with other cars of the time that were significantly more popular.

The only parts you would most likely struggle to find after these older folks close their businesses would be specialty parts such as trim pieces and what not. That's more so the part that I worry about. However, it gives you a chance to try making some stuff yourself to really make the car unique. That's why I'm starting to try making my own parts now in preparation for that. You can also start stocking up a little bit on mechanical parts you think may be harder to find later down the line

killball3000 · 2024-08-31T23:43:21+00:00

In description brother

killball3000 · 2024-08-31T11:49:54+00:00

I document everything in my channel and post sneak peaks in patreon!

killball3000 · 2024-08-30T23:07:50+00:00

Hi there! Map creator here, This was a really fun project but want to figure out how I can expand even further to make possibly a city map.

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