on Masterskinnerz yeah.. but here aswell?!

Quote from xWolFx :

The white lines a very pixelized, maybe you are doing it for the effect but the final product might look worse then expected, clean edges are always favoured over jagged ones.

Wolf.

Exactly... my point.
Thats why i didnt render those yet... If u guyz still dont get what we mean by propper quality and sharp edges, look at the FinalGear skins by Mischief...
And get your skins to look like that, just as crisp. Its not hard, just use same DPi or pixel size of all the logos u use in your skin. And when u make it convert it to 300dpi and up the size to 2048x2048 (or for stretching compensation chek MasterSkinners for more help). And when your done resize it down for the game, that way u alwayz have nice HQ skins.

If i get myself as far as making a skin i usually use Illustrator rather then photoshop, at start. As illustrator uses vectors instead of pixels. Diffeence being for noobs that still dont know is that vector lines will alwayz be super sharp, no metter how far u zoom in and pixels grow in size as further u zoom in so u loose quality. And the vector files are usually smaller then psd's.

Good look u guyz mith making those HQ skins.
We should make a poll or something for best skins...

Quote from --PoDo-- :

our servicecar.....just still in progress

Cool monster...Podo,

got anymore?!!
Maybe we should make another thread for modz for LFS cars.
I dont know if the lads mind if we would post some "non" LFS modz here...
i wanna share some 2 maybe...

Quote from Juihi :

Will anyone do these? or is there something I have to do?

Yeah make nice skins...
and save them either as jpeg or tiff(rather jpeg)
and have 2 different quality versions 1024 and 2048 (2048 for renders)

ye xactly.. a whole shit loads of work...

i starting rebuilding XRR and man its gotten complex.. but hey when its done its all smooth and nice and ready for real render work

Quote from xWolFx :

BTW Love the FedEx skin, what tool did you use to get that splatter thing?

Just choose a right brush in photoshop ( or make one to ur needs )

Quote from Dygear :

I don't know if anyone has seen this, but me and filur have been playing around with it. It allows you to render 3ds files with PHP and it works quite well. I've yet to get my hands on a LFS car to render with it. But I think it would be pheasable. The files can be found here :

http://pear.php.net/package/Image_3D

Keep in mind that PHP5 is a requirement and this is not ment to be run on your web server. (As it would probably kill it.)

what is it PHP?! and is there a purpose to use it rather then max?

cant't wait for the finished work

thought ill post a comparison of 2 different lighting setups and render engines.



And the next ones are done with one direct light for the sun and vray lights
at every window (for intirior lighting)



all these renders are pretty low quality and are mainly to see how the lighting works with different settings. Thought it could be of some help. The best way to see how ur lighting works in ur scene is replace ur object with a simple box or sphere etc. that halfs ur render time but u still can sdjust the lighting to ur needs. Good luck

BIg render plugin he... and i found a cracked one...
only for max 7 tho. searrch on torrents...

I must be honest.. i can render pretty well for a beginner, but im not going to render every single skin. Im only here to pick the good ones out. The ones with good designs and good finish and they gotta be HQ like 2048x...
Those are the ones gonna get renderd by me. Other people might wanna do all but i enjoy to do quality renders.

Quote from Mischief007 :

I was thinking of a track as well if it can be done of course. Theses cars don't need to be racing, just posing would be great. I do like your idea. I love Top Gear....

Here are the rest of them. I really appreciate it .

Build the whole track he... i was thinkin bout it so got some googleearth shots of the track. From the top i can trace it no problem. But getting all the details look right thats gonna be pretty hard. Pm me with some helpfull photos, if u can make any from tg episodes etc. U can also ask some FG crew guyz if they got any helpfull material.. I mean thats why i do it, cause ive been a FG member for a while aswell.

Last edited by DoriKiN, Sat, 23 Sep 2006 16:47.

Quote from XCNuse :

@dorik, which edges dont look correct?

I cant believe of the work i did to explain my thoughts to you. But i wanted to be shure.



btw. its a TTs in the pics, so minor difference could've been made i dunno...

Well it was supposed to be overexposed....
i know but to final tune my renders takes hours if not days with my render times so i thought "**** t" . Its not worth my time to be honest.
The great ideas i have to finish, as my personal projects for this game take way more priority's.

But i cheked ur render again and im sorry but its still wrong. Duh bout the background , fcourse its a scene thats what i called it cause its a wall on ur background but beacuase its dark it doesnt reflect the light as good as white colors. With colors u always gotta adjust the lighting. And another place where u see it gone wrong is the hood and the roof. Dont tell me i actually need to highlight the exact places.... its just not reflecting right. With such a kick ass system with 2gigz idd think u would have photorealistic renders But dont take it personal its buisness.

Quote from Mischief007 :

If these two can be done, that would be great. No rush since I'm planning on the whole lineup of all the cars I'll use this season .

Oooh Mischief, ill do those but i want to make a scene.
I was thinkin bout some picture with stig and the whole tg clan (clarkson, may etc.) on the TG track. Cant think of any "HQ" episode i could get a pic from. It needs to be pretty big 2, so i can get the scale right..

Hope u got some ideas...

Quote from drift_apprentice :

well, thanks any way. I was hoping to see a 1280 X 1024 render, so I can use it for my windows b'ground. A render with two FZ5s in it, both on 45 degrees or somthing, so u can see the front, the side and the rear of the skin, if you know what I mean....thanx any way.

Like the docter ordered...
Raw render, ready for photoshop work.
But damn i hate my computer. Its too old for this kind of things



EVT: 01h:09m:03.7s for bucket rendering
EVT:
EVT: 274279048 total ray casts
EVT: 4972879 view rays
EVT: 28348084 reflected rays
EVT: 3315066 refracted rays
EVT: 237643019 primary GI rays
SYS: system idle

Quote from EsCoRt RaLLy :

Maybe this one is better?

And for Escorts render, its nice too but whats wrong with the lighting?!
Its cause u use a dark background u gotta adjust it abit, u can tell by the rear light colors...

Yep nice modeling.
Not gonna go into rendering flaws but how bout those edges?!

Is this gonna be a realistic rendering? If so u prolly need to work on some of those edges a bit more. But i like it no doubt.
And jzs what kind of system u got with those render times?

Sure thing...

As my first post here

I only did it cause i like that its high quality but i dont like that anime figure very much...
just so u know





Edit:
Yeah, and the resolution is 512x384 pixels. Thats maximum that my BrazilRio can support it says. I just used Ian's scenes. Does anone know anythin bout that?! (or u prolly gotta register to get more or somethin..)

Last edited by DoriKiN, Thu, 21 Sep 2006 02:10.