Looks nice, didn't try it yet, but I can see that you should have made it much bigger, especially because it's a high speed course in reallity.

Although I realize it'd be a bit hard, but maybe try dropping the "oval" part, and having a longer start area.

Good effort though, will give it a go when i have some time.

Evans, sometimes it's hard to be creative and unique. All the unique and outstanding works you are talking about have been done from beginin till the end by the same person. Which includes deciding where to take the picture, what car, how many cars, what skin to use to match the desired theme, what angle to use etc. That's when you get the unique result you are referring to.

However this thread is somewhat different. Here you are given a picture that you have to work with it. Sometimes you can't turn an old piece of rusty metal into gold. No matter how good you are as an artist, how creative you are, or how well you know PS.

Another thing is that we're trying to make a picture look nicer, while keeping it realistic. Sure, you could put an UFO in the background and go nuts with all kind of stuff, but that's not what most of us like here.

I agree that there should be more creativity. However if you look at the edits, you'll see quite some difference between them. And I mean look, not just have a glance, and go "ohhh blur again", this is the same as the rest. E.g. the edit I made may look pretty much the same, but in order to make something else, I decided to go for a sunset-ish, orange theme. Don's picture is distorted and tilted, while boxer's edit has rain, etc etc etc.

As cliche as this may seem, it does involve effort and some skills. You may deduct some points for the edits being "cliche", however you can't deny the fact that there is work involved in this, good work!

If you want more unique stuff, visit the Edits thread, there you'll find more diversity. However you can't expect to see magic here, since the base for all the works here is exactly the same.

I agree that you still can make edits that stand out, and are more unique than others, however if you bash other people's edits, rather than giving constructive criticism, you should show us "how it's done".

I made something different from the previous edits. Not that they are bad, on the contrary...

http://img377.imageshack.us/img377/9808/editmypicture0rf.jpg

I used my drift setup from fern bay gold reverse, which suits more or less but it's far from perfect, gear ratios too long etc. I don't have a specific setup for this layout.

Here's a new drift layout for AutoX. Hosted it few times online, people seemed to like it.

Attached are 4 screens, layout file, and spr file.

Furthermore, you will find 2 short videos, one outside car and one incar cam about this layout. Qaulity is crappy, and there's no sound, but they are for illustration purposes anyway.

Outside car cam:
http://www.xenonzone.net/teamf ... /New%20Drift%20Layout.avi

Incar: http://www.xenonzone.net/teamf ... %20Drift%20Layout%202.avi

(6-7mb/video)

Hope you like it. Comments and feedback is always appreciated.

PS: You can find all previous layouts on our site, in the layout section.
http://lfs.finalgear.com/viewpage.php?page_id=16

Goog idea, looks nice.

Nice as usual don, shame that the crappy tree is in the background, the quality of that ruins the picture a bit, but very good work as usual.

I can't select the car any better because of the original graphics. Even with full AA/AF a 64mb laptop ati doesn't produce good results. No smooth lines -> no clear selection -> crappy quality.

Quote from d6nn :

its good but i dont like the cutout edges,

You mean jaggies on the picture or the black top/bottom stripes?

+1 for that.

Good idea, though it would only really work with proper high quality shots, max AA/AF, min 1024x768 etc.

Holy shit that is awesome, very nice. Good graphics quality you have there.

However you've gotta fix the blur. Lower part of the cars look like less blurred, but in general I'd reduce the blur on the cars because of the rather big fov.

Very very cool picture, once you fix it, it's going into my top 10 all time favouirites.

PS: This referring to devil's edit.

http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/2783/so1r4ge.jpg
http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/8018/so1r20og.jpg

Nothing spectacular I guess, but oh well...

Lol @ d6nn's edit.

And something nice.

LFSTurkey, your shots are getting better and better.

Like Orion said, light could be a bit stronger, but still a very very nice edit.

A good setup, some practice, and it'll work out eventually.

Yes, there is a general problem with layouts after the new patch. The numbering of some objects has been changed, so e.g. what used to be a cone might be a barrier now etc. I'll fix it asap, when I have some free time.

Cropsy hard part is over, just do some gradient/fill/brush work and you'll be done.

Deggis gotta love your b&w works, always good stuff.

2 from me:
http://lfs.finalgear.com/images/wallpaper/wallpaper36.jpg
http://lfs.finalgear.com/images/wallpaper/wallpaper35.jpg

I like the 1st version regardless of the focus.

^ That's one nice shot, do you have a version without the thick black frame?

The only problem I see with the BF1, is that if you crash into another bf1, even at low speed the car from behind just goes below the front car like a snow plough.

Sorry if it's been mentioned before, can't keep up with so many threads and posts.

I've got the same problem, came after ISP change few weeks ago.

Anyway, that particualr video you can download from here as well:

http://www.xenonzone.net/teamfg/FinalGear-Season2.wmv

Taavi(EST) very nice edits. Frokki that's not bad either.

Keep up the good work guys!