mine has a sort of carbon fibre type texture on it, it looks fine. Maybe a dds edit involved, can't be sure any longer.

oh boy, just what i need after my HD mutiny

Remember GPL? They kept hotlapping and WR's alive by having a site where your best laptimes for the different tracks were compared, for each of the 7 car types, against what was considered the 'pro-standard'. The aim was to get within about 7% of the pro-time on each car for each circuit. Your score was a combination of your accumulated laptimes for each car and track. This was then put into a table with a load of other players who participated in the handicap system. The goal was to get down to zero or negative overall, which was, for me, very tough. GPL was never so easy and active as LFS for online racing so this offline league played more of a strong role in the community and it worked well. You could download benchmark laps and WR laps to see how the aliens did it. Someone devised a clever spreadsheet where you entered your best laptimes for each track and car then it would show you which car you needed to 'learn' better and which track you were slowest on overall to have the best chance of improving your overall handicap.
For me, it was a great idea, personal targets to try to get within 7% of the pros, then 5% and 3%, at least on a couple of my preferred car types.
Maybe the LFS community has the space for a similar system, we should get the devs to lay down their laptime benchmarks for all the tracks and car combinations and complement the online race leagues with a bit of offline skill development.

I always have names on for the first couple of races, then I turn them off once I know who is in the field and what skins they are using.

Have you got any of those biscuits left, Bob? This may be a long night...

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Welcome back the massive thread from 2 years ago that developed into a raging argument about whether racing would be more fun/realistic with a nos button.

erm, what has that got to do with anything here? This thread is for UF skins, not your personal insights into other people's skins for other cars.

Happier now?

I recently returned from a business trip to india, 4 hour journey from Mumbai airport right through the city and up about 150km into Gujarat.
I can clearly say that driving through Mumbai is the most harrowing time I have ever spent in a car, and I thought 5 years of saudi drivers was stressful. At least speed is not an issue in India, most cars seem to pootle around at 10 mph, so if you do hit something it doesn't hurt much. Every now and then you come across a dead cow or a still smouldering wreck of an overturned lorry.

Beautiful work, Heizer, truly a masterSo many great skins from you, this one is another classic.

excellent carnage. Let them run a few 20 lap races round there and see how much they improve.

mediamonkey seems to work fine on all levels. Itunes still tries to boot up when i plug in my ipod, but all the songs from 2 ipods plus my philips hdd have been dragged off them and onto my PC's HD, from where I can decide which get copied back onto the different machines.

have you followed this?:
http://www.lfs-gear.com/TUTORIALS/TuT_UseSkin.html

Got an email the other day at work about things only the bravest men say. The only one I can remember is the one where he comes in to the bedroom very late at night smelling of whiskey and someone else's perfume, with someone else's lipstick on his collar. Wife looks up from bed reproachfully. Before she opens her mouth he slaps her on the rump and says "You're next, fatty."

Anyway, back onto the topic, maybe we should ask the devs, do they feel sore or cheated when a small minority of the community (next potential customers) get fun from the demo? When the small minority continue to have fun at their own level with the limited content? Live and let live. If they ask for more content the devs will say "No, buy the full game if you want more". Fair enough, argument ended. Why oh why are S2 players so resentful of the small slice of demo users that are happy to dip in and out of the game racing XFG's round BL1 all day? What difference can it possibly make to the full S2 users own enjoyment of the game?
I get really tired of this continual bickering. It will continue for another few posts then someone will step over the mark and the thread will be locked and binned, then another one will pop up in 3 days time

Thanks for the constructive advice.
Mediamonkey works well, it allows me to take the files back off the ipod, store and play them on the pc and transfer to the second ipod, mix them with mp3 tracks from my 20gig philips hdd player, back up all the stuff on all three and wake me up with a cup of tea and warm bagel in the morning too. Great value for money. It's free.
Total Konfusion wins todays' award for his advice. Theres a Czech in the post. Thanks!

thread moved to o/t since it had nothing really to do with lfs

Have you worked carefully through this excellent and easy guide?
http://www.lfs-gear.com/TUTORIALS/TuT_UseSkin.html

But have you used it successfully to transfer song files from the ipod to a new computer?

I had a quick look at the Floola site, it claims you can copy back off ipod onto pc, be good to hear if anyone has actually tested this though. Maybe I'll try it out tonight.
Not a huge fan of the ipods although they look cool, I got a 4gig one free on Lufthansa air miles and won a 1gig one last Xmas at a school raffle

right on the button sir. Sad but true. Theres minority activists in every walk of life that get a bizz out of spoiling stuff for other people. that's as true for S2 users as it is for demo users. Luckily they remain a minority and LFS has a very strong and loyal following, for the most part it remains self-policing but occasionally a bit of mob-rule takes over and we have to get the water cannon out

This part of the forum is sort of supposed to be for screenshots of lfs, you know, race cars, action, exciting duals, crashes in silly places, not pets corner really.

load them up into a paint program like photoshop, then click Image>resize>1024>ok

Anyone know about ipod & itunes? Since having a total HD failure and reinstall of windows, everything erased from my HD's I want to rinstate my Ipod music back onto the HD.
The ipod does not seem to want to do it even though the new pc (as it seems to the ipod) has been 'authorised'.
I'm not very au fait with the ipod software so any help is greatly appreciated, but please laymens terms and slow obvious steps are needed!