So there is my final entry

External image used:
Asphalt Texture HD

First one is preview, second one is "hi-res" If someone want i could upload that edited screennshot (without paper & asphalt... )

Quote from Nicce :

anny1 wanna give it a go ??
free options. sry for png but bmp dosent wanna upload.

It's not so much nice composition... especially when you got burst tires

Quote from VirginTrains :

After 6 hours of making this skins I finally can public my skins here some..

I like the green one

Quote from brandons48 :

It was really good for you first entry, give it a bit of work and you'll be top in no time.


Unless I enter. Hehe :P

hehe thanx

Quote from pik_d :

What does that make me?

I think that it has something to do with this

Oh 3rd Thanks

I needed quickly my own skin for screenshot competetion this week so i made this R32 like skin Its complete but i want to create special drift version and made them both available for public (if anyone interested ) together

That white one is same with my drift livery on it

Quote from Sciron :

Was bored so I made just for fun.

I dont like pink but this one is really good, i like overall look of that skin

Quote from djfatrod :

I thought I would post my experience with LFS since I have not had it that long. This might be a good insight for everyone.

I bought S2 about 12 months ago. I had a G25 and was looking for games that had realistic clutch implementation. After much searching and forum reading I got pointed towards Live For Speed and downloaded the demo. After only a few laps around Blackwood I was amazed at how realistic it felt compared to games like GTR2.

I bought it more or lease straight away and have found it one of the most rewarding and entertaining SIMs I have ever played. I have a pretty good setup with a room dedicated to it, 27" LCD and a pair of 8" Studio Monitors for sound.

I have made a habit of getting friends and family to take the 'Blackwood Challenge' - 10 laps around Blackwood in the FBM and we record their best time on the wall. Much like the Top Gear Hotlap. This has been a hilarious and addictive experience for all involved. Some of my mates' wives and girlfriends are surprisingly fast!

As for my own online racing experience, admittedly there are not as many active drivers as I would like. Perhaps it is just because I am in the Australian Time Zone but I find it almost impossible to find an open wheel server apart from FBM/Blackwood GP. As a big Formula 1 fan I am amazed that there are no F1 servers, full to the brim. Maybe its because the cars are just too hard to drive. Fox Junkies seemed popular when I joined but I rarely see any cars in there now.

I believe the league racing experience is different but I am yet to sign up with any. They seem like quite closed communities so it is a little intimidating to just walk in.

That said though I am still really impressed with the game and have fun racing online fairly regularly. I see people complaining about the lack of new content but I really don't see what that has to do with anything. The game is about realistic racing with real people so it doesn't matter what cars you drive or what tracks you drive on. How does a new track or car affect your ability yo have a good, close race with someone of equal ability? Do you think F1 drivers complain about the lack of new tracks?

There is a very broad range of cars as well. They already have most types covered eg, fwd 4s, awd 4s, rwd 6s, rwd 8s, open wheelers etc. What is the sirocco supposed to add apart from eye candy?

If LFS has a weakness I would say it is a lack of marketing effort. This is an incredible simulator, with a realistic F1 car no less, and I only found out about it after a long time searching and reading on forums. For me as a professional marketer and sales person I think Scawen could do a lot more in this regard.

I believe there is a video of Nick Heifeld training with it on YouTube isn't there? Why isn't that plastered all over the site? And the tyre and suspension physics are said to be the best there is. Why aren't they promoting the strengths of this great product rather than letting people find out for themselves...

Anyway those are just my thoughts. The game certainly isn't dead because people like me are still buying it. 3 or 4 of my mates are going to buy it now after going through the hotlap experience. I think the developers just need someone dedicated to promoting the game.

I agree with you, i also invited some of my firends on IRC to play with me demo when i was demo driver too They were amazed. I played LFS since S1 0.3A (i was 12yo ) but i still played it until now, when i bought myself S1 licence and im happy enough with it now, enough to enjoy it for a long time until buying S2.

If some people will be active, they can spread adverstiment all over the world, as we are from all over the world How many of LFS users have their own websites/blogs/facebook? If they spread at least one sentence about LFS can you imagine how much new people will come to see how is it about LFS in fact?

But developers could leave us at least message about what is incoming or not.

Quote from master_lfs.5101 :

One thing that is for sure, we are all due for a big patch. Just keep your hopes up, don't delete lfs, keep it on the side, because Im sure that LFS will become the ultimate racing simulator.

I agree. It's like long quiet before big storm coming.

It could, S2 have Z patch and there is no character left in alphabet so i think that they are working directly on S3

But it could be done faster if they let other players on this forum to help with development... there are hundreds of guys which can do awesome things with 3D or C++ and other else

Quote from Mp3 Astra :

LFS featured on Collegehumor. It has 175 likes which is quite a lot for a non-original video! Here

Same video as NSX Freedom.

Commentary is in Czech "Kolik tam ma?... Asi 300.... 325"

Few moments ago I run over my whole place, jump in the door and fly over some furniture to get to my PC, furiously assigned some points but not to myself and finally i used power push attack on last button which mean.... i voted.

Quote from Pilstukasss :

Hi all, there is my first try to enter in lfsforum photomode
XRT racing on rainy day :P

It does not seems much like street racing Background is ok for me but that skin looks more like Sun Day Cup racing car

Quote from AMB :

Very nice, but too much smoke on the last car

So then lets say that it is water

This is edited screenshot i made few days ago... The second car back there is guy called Lauki, i dont know him but we cut some nice corners together

At first i did'nt planed to do a wet drift image but it turns and there is outcome, hope u like it

Final entry

Hi there,

before skins description I want to explain you why i, as a demo user, made skins for car i can't drive: Im going to buy my license this weekend so it's for my upcoming near future. Second thing is that this car looks perfect for this. It's not like all these original BTCC cars but it looks awesome.

I used some audi lights, i saw them a long time ago on lfs-database and i downloaded them. I thought that one time they will become handy

I really want to say thanx to master skinnerz for they pro skin with wireframe etc.

These skins are NOT exact copies of original liveries of '98 BTCC! If i could say, they are "inspired by" I hope you undrestand it... There are a few things on cars (sponsors, fonts, number sticker...) which doesn't corespond with originals.

I also left you a free white space on number stickers so you can type here your favourite ones.*

I spend my whole weekend for these 8 skins, so my girlfriend is not much happy right now but i really love this series

This pack is containing the 8 skins, 7 from original BTCC and one bonus, Alfa Romeo 156 from the ToCA WTCC. I also changed name of the event on the number stickers to WTC - World Touring Cars... nw i have no idea why, maybe it just sounds good

* Ford Mondeo has a clean roof, this is because there is a red car number in 45° angle, you can put there your own

Car skins previews:

Alfa Romeo 156 WTCC:


Audi A4 BTCC:


Honda Accord BTCC:


Vauxhall Vectra BTCC:


Volvo S40 BTCC:


Nissan Primera BTCC:


Peugeot 406 BTCC:


Renault Laguna BTCC:


Ford Mondeo BTCC:


There is a complete pack only with .JPG versions (2048x2048 each) [27.8 MB]: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HM08H0DF(OUTDATED)

EDIT:
Because MegaUpload went down, i had to reupload this, new link:

DOWNLOAD from personal DropBox folder [27.8 MB]

Last edited by Raito, Mon 13 Feb 2012, 09:07. Reason : New link

successfully voted

Quote from Inouva :

Here mine, any guru here?

Here is my edit, hope you like it

There is my 3D screenshot for those who has Red & Cyan 3D glasses

At first, it was with original colours but they were distracting anaglyph channels so i made it grayscale first. Although it doesn't look much like anaglyph 3D if you look at it without glasses, the car really "goes out of your screen" if you have put them on Image is in 720p, originaly in 1366x768 resolution croped down Made in PhotoShop by tutorial btw.

Thanx for the info article... i really needed to know this about suspension damage

Hi, there is my XRT drift skin

and no, i can't use it in LFS but i use it on my XRG... but i made screenshots of version fort XRT, it suits it better than XRG. I'm going to buy myself S1 licence this week, i can't wait for the XRT ^^,

It's based on Ectype Pro2
http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/3497/coderdrift.jpg

(contrast improved a little :P)

Last edited by Raito, Mon 17 May 2010, 18:26.

Hi there

This is my first Blender render (thanks to Bogey Jammer) I'm not working with 3D so i was playing a little with render settings like noob but the final render looks nice

http://upload.play-zone.cz/gallery/render_fzr.jpg

This car is so hot, i cant wait till i bought my S2 licence (hope about end of the year) and drive it

Last edited by Raito, Sun 29 Nov 2009, 14:00.