I really liked the concept livery from when the 2017 911 RSR was officially unveiled. Could someone make an FZR skin out of that? I tried to do it myself but it turned out quite badly.

I see a problem, but it's only something you'd pick if you were familiar with branding and marketing.

You won't ever see Lucozade and Coca-cola sponsorship on the same car. Lucozade is a Pepsi associate (via Suntory Japan), and in a case where Lucozade was the prime sponsor (featured on the nosecone), Coke wouldn't go near it. Vice-versa, if Coke were the prime sponsor, Suntory (the owners of Lucozade) would not allow one of their brands to run the risk of being associated with one of their associates' competitors.

Additionally, cropping logos is only okay when the livery is primarily about that logo. Secondary positionings, such as the front wing, would not rotate, crop or otherwise compromise the integrity of the branding. If I were the branding manager for Coca-cola, I would not allow the logo to appear as you have it here. Best case scenario, they would make you redo the stickers. Worst case, they would withdraw their sponsorship...

I don't expect that anyone will care, and that this is all semantics, but it's something you might like to keep in mind for your next livery...

Welcome to the wonderful world of marketing and advertising

Pre-final Beta v1.2
Kevin Sull (11) DarkWand Mtp Ireland Livery







No post-edit version


Any final changes please specify!


Cheers!

Last edited by MicroSpecV, Wed 8 Feb 2017, 14:57.

K.Sull DarkWand livery - now Beta v1
*note, alignment issues will be fixed shortly.

Kevin, is it okay for you? Any changes mate?











Cheers!


⸗ The reward is in the passion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjvWFeXADgY
AA™| AOR Nova

Quote from MicroSpecV :

Sully, what sponsors do you want on the cars?
Would appreciate if you paired then to a position as well
Either that or I'll slap some on myself, if no other changes are needed to the livery?

Many thanks,
Cheers

Livery is perfect, quite like the Lucozade stuff you have on the nose cone!

maybe my user name? [IRL] Kevin Sull

also race number #11

Thanks again pal!

Sully, what sponsors do you want on the cars?
Would appreciate if you paired then to a position as well
Either that or I'll slap some on myself, if no other changes are needed to the livery?

Many thanks,
Cheers

@Mkydr bruh isn't that the 2000 Buzzin Hornets Jordan?

Made a replica of this Acura LMP concept,I pretty like the livery,hope you enjoy it

Last edited by kof9076, Fri 3 Feb 2017, 16:28.

Decided for 2017 I shall have a skin for myself.
My current is getting a tad old (2 years) so I thought, hm, you guys here seem pretty in the know about skins!

There aren't any limitations to your creativity for this one! Let your hand (and mouse) go wild, but here are the few "musts(?)" that I hope you'll put in.

- Skin should be professional looking. When I mean that, not just in the edit, but the design. Not those wild graffiti/random lines type of skin, more towards actual racing category type (An actual livery).
- Avoid any pink, please
- Certain logos should be on the skin (you can color them to blend into the skin, or edit them slightly in terms of design to fit your look of the livery), such as :
>https://i.gyazo.com/1cedfab05fa269b255a694db0af73ad7.png
>https://i.gyazo.com/2a60e0e0a18901bc75f08eff78568c51.png < are two seperate, not one. Most prominent on the car.
>A Michelin logo < lest prominent
>Racing number, 11, and my name, Nova <name should be on the driver cockpit restrain sides, if possible
Other sponsors/logos feel free to fill in just for looks, but be mindful I'll be selecting if the skin is fitting, so don't go and plaster some wonkey adultsite link or something on the side
>https://i.gyazo.com/41bdf15a7fdb83afdb4b0826f01a9da0.png


Alright, knock yourself out! Hope some good entries come in, haven't done this type of free-designing concept at all.
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Cheers!

⸗ The reward is in the passion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjvWFeXADgY
AA™| AOR Nova

Last edited by MicroSpecV, Mon 16 Jan 2017, 11:22.

Hi, as per DJDarksilver's request, i made last year's Manor MRT05 skin, it's not a 100 percent replica, but accurate enough i hope :]

Download using the .zip file under this post, there are 3 versions, one for each driver, each with slightly different sponsors:

- Haryanto with Silverstone livery
- Ocon with Sao Paulo livery
- Wehrlein with Monza livery

Note: the skins are NOT uploaded to LFSW

Some preview shots:






enjoy!

I like the livery. Simple yet new. Also, that nose is refreshing.

Quote from Marty_Deslions :

Dont "normal" games need licenses for representing real cars?

How is that with skins inspired of real cars?

I guess my take on any real racing org livery is..

In LFS only most cars are not the make , model or type the original design is on in real life, the BF1 etc are the exceptions and then it could be argued they now are not the current model or shape.

So if I put the design of a V8 Supercar (My local racing format) from a from Craig Lowndes Caltex sponsored car onto the FZR its going to be different due to the car shape no matter how faithfully I reproduce it.

Lawyers may try a "look and Feel" case but as you point out it's an inspired replica of a real life paint scheme and unless its on a Holden Commodore in LFS it isn't exact

Last edited by ShannonN, Mon 14 Mar 2016, 23:50.

If the skin is fan-made, and as long as it's not distributed as part of the game, there's no problem and nothing the original owner of the livery can do.

The only thing that would make it a problem would be if someone was to try selling that skin for profit, for example, including it in the game's installation, or starting a e-commerce website that sold custom skins. That's when the lawyers start to turn up...

I like the Redbull livery, i hope it stays for the whole season!

The Haas livery <3

The engine cover is a bit of a mess but overall I like their new livery.

A classic livery that never fails. Well done!

Already uploaded to LFSW... Ehmm... Or LFS forum... Hmm... No idea how to define it now,but it will be automatically downloaded online.

It has been quite a while since I've skinned (outside of team skins). However, here I am again. I was first making this as a request for a friend, but a public release is a no-brainer. I present the FIA Formula One World Championship winning 1999 McLaren-Mercedes MP4/4. Both driver editions - #1 Mika Häkkinen and #2 David Coulthard - are available for download!


Livery of the 1999 McLaren-Mercedes MP4/4, MH & DC editions.


By the way, the skins are already on LFS World, so you do not need to upload them.

This skin is free for public use, but please do not edit it, do not rename it, and stuffs.

All of the public livery designs were better than this. I hope this isn't the final version.

Do a search through the Finished Skins - BF1 thread - there's a 2014 livery on page 64.

Seen this on my FB any car skin designers out there - https://www.carthrottle.com/po ... -race-car-prize-giveaway/

The PRIZE for the winning design will be 2 x VIP Hospitality tickets with our team to Silverstone where your livery will make its debut, plus MAJOR kudos for you!

Is that a livery or dazzle camo?! Anyway, yeah, it's fairly easy to make the texture or textures separately and paste them onto the skin as you want. Just remember to paste them, rotate them first then adjust for stretching.

Hey!

I would love to have some tipps and tricks on how to ceate a livery in the likes of the Ferrari 488 GTE / GTLM test car:

http://www.dailysportscar.com/2015/08/29/new-ferrari-488-gte-spotted-testing.html

Well it is not a huge issue to me.
But for example this skin for Raceabout:


As .png it is 114 kb
As .jpg with 100% qualy it is 433 kb
The jpg is 3.7 times larger.
(Not a big problem: saved with 98% or 99% and it goes under the 400 kb limit.)

Quote from Victor :

I don't think LFS can make use of png files at the moment,

For previewing I always "trick" the Skinviewer by renaming the exported .png files (from Inkscape) to XFG_mySkin.png.jpp
Works for LFS.exe too.

It is just bit strange that I have to convert files to make them bigger.
Quality wise there is not much difference, not sure how much traffic or storage matter.
I noticed several times that my skins as png were smaller than the jpg versions.y


jpg and png compress different, so it depends on image content what is better.
This livery might work better as png:

-clear lines
-large areas with one shade of color

This livery might work better as jpg:

-no large areas of same color
-color gradients

Quote from TFalke55 :

The only place where I could immagine a practical advantage of png skins was, if the windows were skinable *cough* for example for something like this *cough*

That might be cool too. Skin templates have some empty areas that could be used.
But not sure how compability with jpg would work and many current skins paint into the "empty" areas. Main use would be flag/number/name which could be in driver profile, like license plate. But goes bit offtopic now..

Quote from k_badam :

do you want us to do this skin or the updated one they used for Silverstone?

Na I wasn't really a fan of the blue on the sides, didn't go with the colours.

The best livery is the one used before that and possibly with the TFI Friday sponsor on it too.