Its difficult to explain what Ive done with showing screenies, but here u go.
note: I have NOT made photoshop polishing of the screenies.
- they are raw. - just cropd.

If you dl the pack, then first thing to do is watch a replay from wheels view, in South City. Looks faaaaaab....

Last edited by bo-kristiansen, Wed, 24 May 2006 12:29.

Im finally finnished with unsharpen mask/sharpen all the dds files.
... and I must say.. it looks feee.. amazing.
- everything stands out so clearly and I discover trackdetails
I never noticed before.

Me looouuvee it.

- the pack includes my IRL texturepack, interior edits, suits and marshall.

http://www.badongo.com/file/723087

Quote from Tweaker :

I don't notice quality difference either. I'd much rather see BETTER textures, rather than just a resolution change to be honest. Besides, the resolution change looks to be upscaling a bitmap, so you really have no quality change AT ALL. If you had a higher resolution texture, it needs to be 'higher resolution' with finer details and less blurring.

agree.
- you dont get better quality just by making resolution changes or by
upscaling.

...its like burning your old videotapes onto dvd and expecting dvd quality.

I discovered a mistake in my stand texture. no matter how I save its still black. hmm... help...

- please be carefull and dont change dds files with alpha channels (trees, steelframes etc),
because u can end up with screwed mapping and black parts in texture ingame.

u have to try diff settings for diff textures,
because too much unsharp mask brightens up the texture or parts of it.

but I mostly use around:

amount 30%
radius 3.2 pixels
threshold 3 levels

looong way... I reach file H

Quote from felplacerad :

i think it looks good bo, maybe you should work on it further?

Ive been testing variuos sharp and unsharp edits on all A and B files so far,
and it looks so great. walls etc really looks great with some gentle sharpen.
- only one thing... DONT do it on the tree dds files.
u will mess up the alpha/mapping thingie.
..or maybe its just me who have wrong "save dds" settings.

I did some test in photoshop with unsharp mask on a roadtexture, just to see what happent.

unsharp mask:
amount 50%
radius 3.2 pixels
threshold 0 levels

what u think?


edit... maybe I overdid it
I notice that theres a slightly purple tone in the original texturefile.

Last edited by bo-kristiansen, Tue, 23 May 2006 11:04.

Quote from XCNuse :

its still green... i promise you, i've done it before

I DID say "most" didnt I.

just darken the original texture.
- most of the green tint will go away then.

I also have seen that message from time to time online.
-and normaly its a pb thats impossible to drive on what given track im online at.

mewantavatarsback

-butnothxtosignpicsitstooconfusing :thumbsdow

Last edited by bo-kristiansen, Mon, 22 May 2006 19:53.

By the way, nice to see the use of wind/daytime feature in a cup.



- cant wait to read the weather forecast.

hereismy2minutedit

Last edited by bo-kristiansen, Mon, 22 May 2006 14:19.

I really like that texture DEVIL 007

Quote from BlueSkunk :

Aston Club race - 16. may

great race it was until i lost connection to server in lap 20 or so. very tight pack as well, the whole grid being within 1,5 seconds. heavy stuff

bad luck you disconnected

Me:static:teh:static:win:static: :bannana_p

That was great.
Managed to stay out of trouble and didnt make any serious mistakes.
-my 2th pistop was nervewreching because the cars behind me was
closing in pretty fast, while I was going 80km/h towards the pitexit.

Quote from Vain :

Will it be allowed to ignore all chat messages during the race?
If not, will chatting during the race be penalized? Actually if we can't ignore messages, everything should be penalized that causes a message. Chatting, pitting, setting a pb, setting a fastest lap, disconnecting, etc.

Vain

Well... some of it are actually usefull information..
...like if the car in front of you - a half lap ahead - goes into pit,
then you can floor it and maybe overtake while hes in da pits.

Good tip for you if you are annoyed with "pooong" and "schhhh" sounds:
- delete sys and message files in snd folder.

Last edited by bo-kristiansen, Tue, 16 May 2006 12:26.

penalized because of a message when disconnecting

RAC

Chase view 80°

me too. -keep my eyes open for a FXR / AsClub server this evening.

Quote from sgt.flippy :

Why do you guys keep moaning about the buttons? And having to search for them. When you assigned all of the buttons to your wheel, you had to memorize them too. Now you just have to memorize the buttons again in an other position. When I'm turning, I'm not pressing any button on my wheel... So I don't need my two hands on the wheel, so when I need to press a button, I can easily put my hand on the shifter, and I know what button I need to press, blindely. It'll just need some practice, getting used to.

...I just label my buttons untill I memorized what they do,
and after some time I dont need to look on the wheel when using buttons.


...and the G25's missing buttons is the ONLY reason why I might not buy it...

Last edited by bo-kristiansen, Sun, 14 May 2006 11:14.

You CAN open every track DDS file and do some gentle unsharp mask in Photoshop.


...but dont know if the difference is that noticable.
-havent tryed it.

Last edited by bo-kristiansen, Sun, 14 May 2006 11:02.

wuouw.. I havent seen this thread before now.

cool tip
-It actually feels like being watched now when racing in SO


by the way the files is called "1A" ..not "A1"

Last edited by bo-kristiansen, Sat, 13 May 2006 20:48.