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Both Championships updated from Round 5. CoRe have already won the teams championship by a country mile

Last edited by JO53PHS, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 20:56.

I found a fun game

Quote from nightojnr :

Old hard drive is goooonnneeeeee. Ok then cool, also my other problem is in lfs/data/skins theres no files... it's just a skins_readme file...??? any ideas? Thanks

Skin files are no different from any other JPEG image

If you didn't back them up elsewhere, you're not gonna get it back

You will have skins saved at LFS World, but these will only be 1024*1024 resolution, which doesn't look that good.

The server was set to the right combo when I left TBOC Round 5... Somebody must have changed it since..

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The picture can show the FZ5 on its own, or the FZR and FZ5 together. Your picture cannot have only the FZR.

Is this clearer now?

Quote from lukelfs :

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Your preview is b0rked, btw.

The usual rules have been clarified / changed slightly, so please read them

This weeks theme is... "Car Showcase: FZ5"



Rules: (made by Silverracer, these will not be changed)

"I got the idea while searching for stuff from the Mercedes SLS AMG. Thought it would be fun to do something like that for the FZ5."

Edit a picture that showcases the FZ5. The screenshot should be edited to bring out the best in the FZ5.

The picture can show the FZ5 on its own, or the FZR and FZ5 together. Your picture cannot have only the FZR.

Examples/Inspiration:

http://www.automotorblog.com/mercedes-benz-sls-amg-prices/
Image

http://www.carblog.co.za/2009/09/10/mercedes-sls-amg/
Image

http://carsroute.com/mercedes-sls-amg-desert-gold/
Image

Cars: FZ5 (+ FZR)
Tracks: All Tracks

• When you have finished your picture and want to enter it into the competition, please write 'Final Entry' in the relevant post.

• You must provide a preview picture (no bigger than 400 x 400 pixels) as well as the High Resolution copy.
  

• The preview picture does not have to be exactly 400 x 400 pixels - it can be smaller to maintain the correct aspect ratio (for example, 400 x 300 pixels)
  
  

Any entries with preview pictures bigger than 400 x 400 px will not be accepted

• No renders or old images to be used and NO VOB MODS
  

• You may incorporate external non-LFS images into your work, but you MUST give a link to any images used.
  

• You MUST NOT use any LFS screenshot material that does not belong to you.
  

Competition Closes FRIDAY 23rd APRIL at 22:00 GMT

Last edited by JO53PHS, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 14:54.

Orange wheels look good with the appropriate paintwork

Talking of smoke, I find the best way to do it is to use a 'splatter' brush (e.g. bottom right hand corner in picture below), to form the edges of the smoke, and then use the softer brushes to fill in the main body of the smoke and to create the thinner haze of smoke around the main cloud.

Like I did here. I was making the smoke really thick there, Ken Block style, but it would also work for thinner smoke.

Quote from TuomasH :

meh, was bored

Be careful not to loose the shadow when doing motion blur, which is what has kinda happened in your second picture

Typing whilst driving is easy... Just steer with your chin

Quote from Silverracer :

PS: People have voted for themselves here. Is there anything that'll restrict them from doing the same in google?

The identity thing is a problem with google or any external form, because there is no way of knowing if the username entered is actually theirs.

If we continue with LFS forum polls, I will ignore self votes.

Quote from 5tag :

By the way I would love to see a system that'd let every user choose 0-10 points for every entry.

I might look into this, it might be possible with some external poll website

Each entry could be rated with maybe a star rating... it would make it easier in rounds where it is hard to decide on one best picture

EDIT: Google form, with 1 - 5 as radio buttons for each entry.. and then have a formula that calculates an average in the back end. The advantage with this would also be that other peoples' choices do not influence your vote.

Last edited by JO53PHS, Sat 10 Apr 2010, 14:56.

This weeks theme was... "Rally in Motion".

The entrants were:

moskvich3v1

High Res

reinis94

High Res

shaun463

High Res

nikopdr

High Res

hazaky

High Res

e2mustang

High Res

JazzOn

High Res

brandons48

High Res

Taavi(EST)

High Res

Silverracer

High Res

Furiously-Fast

High Res

TuomasH

High Res

skiper

High Res

DK_USA

High Res

BOSCHO

High Res

JO53PHS

High Res

macsy

High Res

Yes yes yes.. slow down

Official Results now published

I am aware of the following mistake, which will be corrected in the morning because I am too tired now.

Last edited by JO53PHS, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 23:24.

Someone bump this at 9am tommorrow so that I remember to do the voting. I'm too tired tonight

Quote from morpha :

While nice, it still doesn't match the theme.

Well the cars must have broken suspension if they are leaning like that when standing still

Quote from 5tag :

so does all that really matter?

Not really, just wanted some opinions

I think posting the image source of any images you may have used is fine, and I'm, pleased to see some people are already doing this

I'm gonna adjust the rules anyway to clarify them next round, because I keep getting asked various questions about other things that aren't very clear in the rules.

After noticing the great amount of 'dump an LFS car in a real picture' type edits (I have no criticism of them - when done well they look really good), I wanted to open a discussion about this:

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No renders or old images to be used. Use only your own work. NO VOB MODS

Since I started running photomode, use of others' material (e.g. from Google images) has been allowed, so long as you do not submit someone else's LFS edit and claim it as your own. I've never made it categorically clear what exactly the above rule means, and have perhaps not enforced this rule as it was intended.

LYNCE: What was intended by this rule?

But I'm wondering where I should draw the line at with regard to this rule. Where does your own work stop and others' work begin? Can you use other people's photographs to make up part of your picture?

Some great edits have been produced by including real life in LFS, or LFS in real life, so I would be reluctant to close that door. Of course, not many people will have the time, opportunity or availability of resources to take their own photographs to include in their edits (although I did one round ).

Discuss

I'm not going to change any rules for at least a few rounds, and all current edits posted in the competition thread are still 100% allowed. I just wanted some opinions on the matter, because it's always been something that i've considered but never really talked about.

Last edited by JO53PHS, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 22:42.

Just posting this before I forget to (it has happened before :doh

FINAL ENTRY

I won't accept posts edited AFTER the competition close date. If your post is edited within the competition period, it doesn't really matter.

If you want to read the whole blog, it's actually a hidden scroll window/frame, which is too small for the text in it. If you start highlighting from the left, and drag all the way to the right, you should see the cut off bits.

Oh right.. I fail then. But I don't really get how it works because I usually only watch to see how bad the UK entry is, before quickly switching it off