Quote from JazzOn :

It is wrong to do it, but... he made it public, gives proper credit and he didn't totally screw it up. I wouldn't say it goes great together, but it kinda blends in.

How many J. edit skins massively and claim it as their own!? That's a shame!

On a side note, i find the name hilarious.. there are at least Absolute no skinning skills, if they have to adit public skins :P

JazzOn I know where you are coming from, I see your approach and of course it seems better to do it his way than the way of most skin stealers but the again, think it through!

For me it's a matter of conciousness.

The usual skin stealer is hardly aware of things like netiquette or copyright for an unimportant issue like game model skins. He is just not sensible for that geeky kind of justice, he doesn't care at all and just wants to impress with his skin.

Now what RAYfighter just did was to say "Hello guys, I absolutely know the rules as I'm a skinner myself but for unneccessary reasons I went ahead and broke them." He is aware the original creator does not want his skin to be edited (this has absolutely nothing to do whether it's a public or a private skin by the way). And on top of it he announces C40Z as if he would have had respect.

Quote from leonardo555 :

nah, i'm thinking in racing bolts not normal ones if you're talking about normal...

Then do so.

Quote from RAYfighter :

Guys from AS team picked C4OZ' public skin and asked me to turn it to their team skin. Never really reached C4OZ to get his OK, but since it's Design Dudes material and I was a member too, I took the risk and here it is, with full credits to our allmighty Design Dude, the one and only C4OZ!

It was not a risk to take, it was just something wrong to do.

:thumbsdow

Quote from leonardo555 :

yep, i noticed that, i was just going to modify :P
any idea to what to use at the center? ^^

How about bolts?

Quote from Silverracer :

I agree! A darn good looking edit. The flame kinda makes it cartoonish. Why'd you say sorry?

E: Aww crap, only TBO allowed

Quote from kiste :

So the Pic of tisty isn´t allowed

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Quote from dawguk :

LFS is terminally in beta. This philosophy is what happens with a vast number of beta releases.

If you can call it anything I'd guess LFS is a stable alpha. Content and features are not yet complete but most bugs are sorted out already.

Quote from JazzOn :

I was trying to be sarcastic, but it failed i guess. I mean whats the difference between an "LFS" skin/paint-job/livery and a real car that has been painted.

Or like 5tag said, using a 1024px skin, print it out and slap on a real car?

I was saying: If it resembles a computer game skin, it should have pixels.

Don't think anybody has done this so far but please for the sake of humour... take a 1024px skin.^^

Quote from ACCAkut :

been given to a typical german styla it would end up like this :
[IMG]
like all the Beemers and Hot hatches

Had quite a laugh at that.

Yeah, RWD would have been nice but it's my first car so I did not want it to be too old either so mostly FWD cars were an option. Would have loved a Sierra though.^^

Quote from Tomba(FIN) :

Yeh I know.. plenty of them in here. I find it very sad.

I'm not particulary against BMW, for the same reason I gave above I wouldn't want to drive a Golf, Polo, Astra, Corsa, Fiesta or any other typical youngsters car.

Quote from Tomba(FIN) :

Ah yea true :/

You know... these kinda cars and their owners..

Quote from ACCAkut :

you got it. I'm more after young timer Fords atm

I'm all for young timers too, my car just had to be older than me. ^^
I was looking for any kind of mid class limousine, also bothered E21 but in theend I bought a Santana.

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=1411855#post1411855

Quote from Tomba(FIN) :

Why not a BMW?

Because most BMW from mid eighties or later are driven by pretenders now.

Quote from kiste :

Any example what "street racing" is meaning? Not really sure about it.

:riceboy:?

I just voted.

Quote from Electrik Kar :

From what I know firstly Birds of Prey/Wings of Prey has nothing to do with Storm of War or IL-2. Secondly Oleg and the team of Maddox games were not involved in developing these arcade titles. Also SoW: BoB has been announced since 2005 or so.

Quote from Electrik Kar :

Hey, it simulates air combat What else can I say?

Surely it must be doing a better job at simulation than this...


Loving the new sub btw

Since you are an LFS player you should know the bit of a difference between a normal game and a simulation. Don't get me wrong, I love the graphics and all but that game neither really is nor is intended to represent a simulation.

I'm still waiting for SoW:BoB. :bowdown:

Quote from Electrik Kar :

Wings of Prey - WWII air combat simulator

Quote from ajcham :

I'm currently working on this exact problem as I'm looking to create some new skin templates and want good quality wireframes for them. The solution I have come up with is to import the car models into Blender (which fortunately has already been done with Bogey Jammer's Ready to Render kits). The next step is to convert the wireframe mesh to bezier curves and then to use this Blender plugin to export the curves to SVG format. It's slow going at the moment as I get to grips with Blender, but I hope this will produce good results eventually. Another caveat is that the Blender file is about 2 years old - I'm not sure if or how any car models may have changed since then, so I may have to consider learning how to import the car models into Blender myself to ensure I am using the latest models.

As far as I know the XR and XF models have changed with patch Z (enough to effect skinning at least a bit).

Quote from maxiim :

what you mean? ;p

Probably that you are the first to try something different than "just a picture".

Quote from Test Driver :

Download and run 3D-Analyze
Click on SELECT and select VIEWER_S2.exe
Check "force wireframe mode"
Click on RUN

You can now create screenshots of the wireframe models.

If creating screenshots really means what it is it won't be of much help.
Unless he's got a monitor width of 3000 pixels the outcome will not be of better quality than the MSz wireframes or as another option he will have to take hundreds of screenshots.

You would need to render each part of the wireframe from the exact side, front, back or top (zero degrees field of view). You would then use the map info files (to be found in the CMX Viewer files) to resize and position the rendered frames. Of course for rendering the front you would have to leave out everything that does not belong to the front.

I'm not familiar with 3D editing or rendering, only skinning but I think that alone finding out which polygon of a bumper is mapped from the front and which from the side unless you want to use the MSz kits as a reference.

I don't know if you can render a scene with a transparent background so you'd get a transparent .png or whatever format to work with. If that is not possible render it on a black background, then in your image editing program choose the layer option "multiply negative".


I don't really know why you would want to do this or how much you know about the programs you would have to use so I'm not sure if this post is of any help.

You could have posted that in the finished skins section though. Also people will appreciate a preview picture.

Is there any uncommented stream possibly? Love the sounds, hate the talking.

Quote from Nathan_French_14 :

And yes, I'm up for ending this discussion. :

:sadbanana

Please, dude! Don't constantly bump or even copy your thread to get attention. If you want somebody to pick up your request have some patience.

Doing a skin for you will most probably be a free yet time consuming service. Keep in mind that many request get lost in eternity eventually never getting done.