Quote from Hahmo :

Looking awesome Lynce Keep up the fantastic work.

Quote from TFalke55 :

Great work, awsome stuff! Keep it up

As always, thanks!!

Quote from speeddemon6 :

Awesome stuff, mate! It'll be beautiful to see in action, once it's done! I've currently got a bloom effect on right now (found here on LFSForums), and it makes the game look and feel so much better! If you want, I can link it here for people (with the correct credentials, of course).

Nice idea, thanks!!





On the pics there are the same illumination and Skin.



Of course, all the information and bigger shots on the Rp's Blog.

[...This reaction causes the texture to make the accuracy ...]


Cheers.

Last edited by Lynce, Sun 11 Mar 2012, 10:45.

Quote from The Very End :

Great!
And yes, I agree, the first gravvel picture looks best, alltho the 2th looks great too

Thank you as aways.

I will post more comparative shots very soon.

I try to make this work as real as be posible. I was thinking seriously on one third addon for this track. I remember to the people the second addon will be a car.

Now I'm working, probably, on my best texturization work because the 60% of the development time is dedicated to the exhaustive documentation.

Cheers.

Bigger on the RP's Blog.

Quote from PioneerLv :

Looks amazing! Don't we need grip line on termac?

PLEASE, brother. I am interested to understand your question.

Quote from PioneerLv :

ME GUSTA! This is some really proper gravel, finally! You are on a good path, keep it going. So awesome to see again some LFS stuff activity. Lynce gives it new breath.

Thanks for your encouragement.

Quote from The Very End :

I think he refering to C.A.R.S , the simulator game beeing developed by the NFS team

And thanks for the info, I'll just wait patient then, while looking on the turd-gravvel on BL

Hahahaha. I didn't knowledgement over this game.

Yes, be patient. Hahaha. If Fern Bay is extremelly hard, I understand Blackwodd goes in the same line. Hahahaha.

Quote from Franky.S :

yes project c.a.r.s, looks godamn realistic

At this point I prefer the first one. I made a third attempt with another texture but I failed.

I will work with the first attempt changing colours, balance, colour correction and try to improve the "road marks" on the sand because are big.



EDIT: Yes, I have learned english this days. But I am still a weapon of mass destruction of the ortography of the english lenguage.

Quote from Franky.S :

does this reduce fps atall ?

Well... as Martin says, this situation is possible. Perhaps 5 or 10 frames can be down.

Quote from Flame CZE :

Oh that's a lovely shot there, looks promising so far

In my opinion, high-res textures (max 4096x4096 I assume, I may be mistaken though) do not affect FPS much, unless you have an extra old gamig rig with poor graphics card.

PS: It is really a pity that there hasn't been a chance for you, Lynce, to be an official LFS graphics artist, I'm sure it would bring a lot of fresh air into LFS and those gorgeous textures would be there by default. Well, I wish...

Thanks.

I have a very poor specs on my PC.

1gb RAM. Intel Core 2CPU 6320 @ and 1,86 GHZ x 2.

Ati Radeon Sapphire x1550

Photoshop 7.0 from 2002.


These are my working tools.

By this reason I can't work with 4096 x 4096 dds files. My limit is 2048 x 2048.
I only can talk about my passion for this work to my favour.

Quote from The Very End :

Looks amazing!
When releasing this, please make an option where you can get the BL gravvel to look that great too, if that is not too hard to do?

Hahahahaha.
Hard?

Yeah, very hard because it needs to work from scratch again to make a good compatibility with Blackwood. Hehehehehe. Don't worry. Maybe Blackwood is the next for the next RP. I do not mean about 2nd addon. The 2nd addon will be a car.

Noted.

Quote from Franky.S :

ok flame

with lynce than lfs will look like c.a.r.s

Thanks to you for your interest and comment.

C.A.R.S. Pixar's movie?

Cheers.


I have published the last pic with more size on the RP's Blog with new comments.

Quote from Flame CZE :

Okay, I know that it is often hard to make a good texture because of a bad modelling (no offence to Eric). Fern Bay is one of the older tracks he made.

It is very hard to work on this track. Believe me. I mean about textures improvement.


Very early tests. I don't like the result of the sand. I will try with another style for Fern Bay:

Last edited by Lynce, Sun 11 Mar 2012, 10:45.

Quote from Flame CZE :

It looks stunning, but I've noticed one little bad thing, in that sunset pic on the right side. The transition between two textures is not good there. http://i.imgur.com/NDGTO.png

Hi, Martin.

I saw with attention all curbs on the track.

LFS system. No solution.

Thanks you for your coment.

Quote from wody21 :

Wow! Awesome details!

Quote from FireMike15 :

The Curbs looks amazing.

Quote from ImudilaSkyline :

Just loving these textures, can't wait for the release.

Thanks!!

Quote from The Very End :

How do you manage to get a 3d-feel out of a picture / DDS file?
Either way, looks amazing!

The secret is to know about optical effects (I'm not an expert, obviusly) and made testing. A lot of tests. Even the correct use of the light and shadows.

To see this in motion is impressive, of course.

I really didn't think increase the quality this way. I think LFS is impressive in this aspect. You can improve everything.

Thanks, anyway, TVE.




Finally I published the pics on the Blog. So if you want to see the images with more size, just click in the pics on the Blog.

Cheers.

EDIT:

Q & A, comments, suggestions, criticisms and flames are welcome.

Even Flame_CZEs Hehehehe.

Last edited by Lynce, Wed 29 Feb 2012, 13:51.

Quote from dynofiend :

The attention to detail is stunning, great work and thanks for the updates!

Thank you very much.

I put a lot of effort on each texture that I did and I make a documentation to make it as real as posible. A lot of tests always thinking "it is possible to improve this improvement?" Of course I put attention at the detail because sure LFS looks much better if I put all the passion on it.


Next new. Will not update on the blog because I want to work on the grass to make the total comparison from original to RP 2012. This is just a gift for the community:



Added 3d effect and photorealism:


Cheers.

Quote from skiper :

http://megaimg.ru/4410/47172/

Fantastic shot. Very realistic.

I love your style.

Quote from MonTziK95 :

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/ ... 29879135_5201406cee_b.jpg

Whenever you improve on each pic. Looks fantastic.

Quote from andRo. :

Another one for the team:

Astonishing, brother.

I think is your best edit ever made.

Quote from juliao :

lynce creo que tu deverias a fazer la parte del team com victor, scawen,eric
para criares las texturas para lfs tu eres mucho boeno con las dds

Obrigadinho. Percebo muito bein o Portugues. Voce pode falar portugues comigo.

Quote from PioneerLv :

Looks amazing! Don't we need grip line on termac?

Thank you brother. I love the suggestions.

In this case, I don't know, but I don't understand your point of view. I need to understand it better.


There are news on the Blog to explain some reasons to make that kind of asphalt.

"I’m very interested on suggestions and criticisms. Really is interesting to see another point of view.

Asphalt, for Fern Bay, is old. The new asphalt,..." and continues.

Cheers.

Quote from The Very End :

Great road textures!
Looking forward to see what you can do with the gravvel

I hope I can be something interesting. Thanks for your effort.

Quote from Bose321 :

Did someone say to get rid of the lazy Eric and let Lynce make the textures?

I think Eric did an amazing job for LFS. The planning for the track and some models are really fantastic and very original.


Atention to low connections. Almost finished.



Cheers.

Quote from ImudilaSkyline :

Really nice.

Quote from Flame CZE :

Oh that is awesome. Stunning job thre Lynce. I was also thinking of making some Fern Bay textures myself, but now I give up

Much encouragement. Hehehe.

Amazing comment from amazing person.



Okey, next shot:

Original and Re-texturized on the same pic.

Quote from The Very End :

Looks stunning!

Thanks !!

Very, very, very hard to work on it. Believe me. Hehehehe.

Quote from FireMike15 :

Lovely detail.

I'm glad you like it. Thanks.


Next news:



1 º texture: The color scale has been edited to remove the light and dark areas. This achieves the effect of a single tone.

2 º texture: selective color correction to match the asphalt. 3D effect for the white line.

3 º texture. Optical effect. Color balanced to eliminate dark areas.

Early tests, Susceptible to change everything.

Related to this work. Really is hard to work on the asphalt/tarmac because it needs a lot of time. There are some consecuences if I work wrong. The tests is under the TV camera, 1st person camera and compatibility with other textures(grass, sand, edge of the track etc).


Another interesting comment. I know my english is a perfect massive weapon of the ortography, so I really sorry for this. I promise to learn english to improve.

EDIT:

Another point of view and ilumination:



The gauges is the proof of the uneditable pic.

Last edited by Lynce, Thu 23 Feb 2012, 13:39.

In testing.

Quote from luchian :

Greetings,

Just had a look on your RP Blog, your flickr photos, your youtube videos..
The amount of work, and more importantly its quality are simply outstanding. This community is truly lucky to have a member like you; even though I think that Eric, Victor and Scawen would benefit from having you inside the team .

Thank you very much and hope you will keep doing the awsome work you do .

Thank you very much. I'm glad you like my artwork.


Next news:





More information and pics on RP's blog.

Cheers.

Quote from edge3147 :

Looking great!! Can't wait!

Thanks.



I was thinking seriously to make a second addon as a complement for this track.

High resolution textures for a Car. The related work is The Revolution Pack August 28th. I mean this kind of work.

Cheers.

Quote from dynofiend :

Seeing Lynce working on a new Revolution Pack is the most exciting news this community has had since June 2010!

Thank you very much.

Quote from The Very End :

Fern Bay getting some much deserved love (since Eric is too busy at the rallypack (wishthinking) ).
Going to keep an close eye on this

Well... Fern Bay is something different, hehehehe. Really hard to work on it.

The documentation about this work is usual to make everything as real as be posible. Thinking if Fern Bay exist in real life. Such a reference is in my head constantly.


News:





All information on Rp's Blog. Biggest pics.

Quote from XR liqd :

Quick question , If we upgrade is this for Cruise and Mod mode?, or can this brilliant work be utilized in the online racing also.... Thank you and very nice job btw Lynce

Dear Xr Liqd:

You can use this work as you want. Online, cruise, drift, rally.

This is an improvement of the default textures from LFS based on real life testing with the LFS limits.

I hope this can help you to resolve your question.

Thanks for your interest and words.

Cheers.

Quote from FireMike15 :

You're doing an amazing job again, Lynce. Looking forward to the new FernBay textures and the magazine, too. This quality job makes me stunning again.
If you need some information of me for your project mate, feel free to contact me anytime.

Thank you, bro!!

No doubt, I will need your help for the LFS Magazine number 2, of course, hehehehe.


Okey, next news:





Probably very bad news on trees. I need to make more tests.

More information RP's Blog, for example the new status of the work. Now I work with a percentage instead a date. Indeed, the percentage is accurate.

I'm not sure but I was thinking on a second addon. A car perhaps? I don't know.

Cheers.

More information on RP's Blog:

Quote from andRo. :

Cool, can't wait for the FE textures and the new magazine. Keep us updated and ask if you need help. I was actually looking at your previous magazine not very long time ago since I wanted to make one LFS related magazine also, but I didn't get far. Only did the front page and still didn't entirely finish even that, anyway, that idea won't be continued for some particular reasons, but maybe I'll make some magazine in the future also or something else then.

Nice to see you back anyway.

The blog has been updated.

Yeah, my friend. I will need help, for sure!! Hahahaha.

English interviews to you and to Firemike. Now, one of the best movie-makers in this forums. I think it can be interesting to know the people with relevance on forums. Of course I'm open for suggestions. Time to time.

Now the effort is in the next RP.

One of the best threads in this forums.

Quote from kiste :

super skin !

Yep, and super shot.

Amazing, andRo.