hold on, you left off realistic ai with pitstops, dynamic weather and pneumatic pit babes. Maybe thats for patch Y.

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Even if it's a team skin, isn't it just flattering that someone wants to use a nice skin made by you.

+1 it's a compliment to a good design.
I get irritated by people posting up their skins then announcing it's private and no-one can use it. If you don't want people to use it, and you're posting it to enjoy some feedback why not post up a render, cmx or in-game screenshot?

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Shouldn't there be "none" option as well + nascar?

Silly me, forgot the nascar series. Poll options edited.

Interested to see what else the LFS community takes for a drive....

I still reckon it would look better with a proper (and smaller) carbon fibre texture

I untick the 'read-only' box, run the game, exit midway through an ai race then go back and check. The box has reactivated itself.
I guess this is not allowing my ai to learn at all?!

That's the first thing I thought of so I went in and unchecked the read-only on the lfs/data folder.
Trouble is I'm stuck with vista now and it probably won't let me do this for my own safety or something, I'm a child of Bill's nanny state. Who knows what I am now allowed to do on my own pc?!

...which is useful in helping to start a car...

New pc install, I'm getitng this message if I exit an offline race with ai
"could not save drv".
I can't remember having seen this before. What does it mean?

The ATI catalyst control centre has software rotation functions for any lcd monitor plugged in.

The really great thing about the widescreen in lfs is that for the first time i can race in '1st person' mode giving a far more realistic view with mirrors and wheel. With normal monitor i just hated the reduced FOV it gave and you ended up having to distort the view zoom.

This is an in-car 1680 x 1050 view

Oooh, deja vu
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=375134#post375134

Great, this could be the first ever BF1 team who race only in the cmx league

maybe not the best to judge this as i can only compare against my old samsung 17" which was a real cheap one 4 years ago. It's running at 1680 x 1050 res, very tidy sharp fonts, same size as 1024 res on my old monitor but sharper. Colours are very vivid, styling is minimalist black. In all I can't fault it. It's the Dell E228WFP - which invites all the geeks to sling mud at my bad judgement! For photoshop it's phenomenal, huge area for drawing and keeping tool boxes open and nicely visible.
LFS rocks big time in 22" widescreen, really immersive, and IL2 looks fab as well although some of the cockpit dials on the interior views look a bit stretched. You know when you start out with a crappy likke 14" crt, then upgrade to a good 17", how you can never imagine if you had to cope again with the 14"? Well its like that now with this and my old 17".
Vista's very pretty too but its a bit 'nanny state' when you copy/paste/rename files in c: drive. Gets on my nerves till i manage to find the button for 'calssic folder view' again .

older games are choosy about going to widescreen, for most theres a small hack if you look round widescreen games forum.
But for truly great immersive graphics the widescreen is the dogs danglies.
(ok so I buy an upgraded graphics card in a few months...)

it runs a lot better than my old system
If the wallet is bottomless, then specs are easy, but mine ain't so you have to compromise somewhere.

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How much did it cost, and where was it bought?

I went for a Dell on-line system,
22 inch monitor, 2 gig of ram
6400 dual core intel processor 2.18Gh
360 gig hd
X1300pro ati graphics card
vista home premium
on-board sound chip
£717.00
Delivery 6 days after paying for order.
Good service. Follow up phone calls to make sure delivery time was ok.
Works straight out of the box. Not the most cutting edge but better than any high street spec/price I could find.

Got my new system this lunchtime, just been running lfs on it for the first time. I must say this is the most awesome thing - 22 inch widescreen monitor and dual core 6400 processor, it looks superb, the monitor makes it feel like a professional sim experience, marvellous and it all runs like silk.

1) open a default skin, save as a different name but keep first 3 letters the same
2) open a decal, copy it then paste it onto the skin
3) resize it, rotate it, position it where you want.
4) save the skin.

that's it.

is it not just the same as increasing contrast and saturation?
The lfs textures have a slightly toned-down hue to make them look a little more weathered and realistic, turning up the volume, treble and bass on the colour just negates all the hard work done getting the graphics to look 'right'. Oh well, i guess its all down to personal preferences.

OMG i see what you mean about the music! Pity, some nice driving.

Grunt, chill out pls, you post something up here inviting comment then go off into a major 'spit-your-dummy-out' rant as soon as anyone fails to say its the finest bit of work since Stanley Kubrick.
If you can't take the negatives constructively as well as the positives I'd suggest you don't post anything else up for people to comment on.

Good work, big LOL for the UF1 skins

so what exactly is the difference between these 5 skins? They look identical to me...[edit] oh, just the name on the back...

Welcome to the community, great to hear intelligent and constructive comments from a fresh pair of eyes. Where have you been for the past 4 years?

Why not a thumbnail closeup in-game shot of your favourite LFS car/skin?