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Skins are fun, making skins is even more fun. Great relax for me, no deadlines, almost anything even partially allright is more than great for people, etc.
If making the skin means the hard work for you, you should try something else.

Thank you for your comprehensive answer.

Quote from Gunn :

Dev tools? Lol.

So Eric is not a developer anymore? Or Photoshop templates for skins, like we know them from Master Skinnerz, are not something Eric simply must have and have been 1st man to create them? For 1st LFS car skins ever? I'm new to the community, so maybe I'm missing something. What always bothered me is why Eric never comes to forums (skinning topics for example, or textures edits), why all those "templates" are coming from the community and not from himself? I believe that he must be able to elegantly generate as perfect wires as anybody needs, while other guys have to spend their childhood in Corel Draw or similiar funny softwares to come with something decent for skinning purposes, for example...

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Quote from DEVIL 007 :

And also another one where you can buy some very hi-res textures and seamless.
Some up to 6000*6000 pixels.
http://www.turbosquid.com/Sear ... aType=3&istSearchKey=

LOL Devil, TurboSquid... I'm not sure how many visualization professionals are reading this but I already see them smiling.
By the way, have you noticed this crappy render:
http://files.turbosquid.com/Pr ... 7ed-90ec7416f890Large.jpg
Focus on the white center line at the distance.

Although I must admit that these Istockphoto and Turbosquid databases where anyone (literally) can offer their imagery for sale, are getting some drive lately. Some experts already predict that they will kill big names in the business, like Dosch or Marlin, for example. That's kinda sad to hear for me, who bought so many hires texture sets for quite some money, in the past.

Professional amateurs is the term, I think.

Back on topic though: I'm happy that you are trying to get Eric's work, instead of those funny attempts of "hi-quality" and "hi-res" texture packs all around this forum. It's well over 10 years in the business for me already, but I would never say anything like this about default LFS textures:

Quote from KiDCoDEa :

....the default crap was buggin me ever since rls.

It's not only the textures resolution which is creating an immersion in LFS. Eric still seems to be the best one for this job, to me.

Quote from Soper :

Hey Victor to get all what you are searching for:


Create an Account @ Master Skinnerz

>>> All you need in high quality! <<<

This was sweet
Player sending a link for dev tools to the developer. I wonder if Victor passes this to Eric.

Stunt Car Racer - Amiga and AtariST - I had Amiga and we played on splitscreen (2 joys = 2 players) while also connected with Atari for another 2 players => 4 players multiplayer. I remember we played whole night as kids, and few had serious trouble with parents, LOL.

NFS Porsche Unleashed - the best title from NFS series ever. Pay for a new car, pay an entry fee to race, win it, and find out that you pay more than you won on repairs because you raced like an idiot. I loved it!

Collin McRae Rally 2.0 - another best one from CMR series, I only own this one.

Richard Burns Rally - no comment

Live for Speed - the "rally" part is there, but once you tried RBR... simply put, this game made me love the road racing. Yeah LFS is really the best.

What they are trying to tell you Crazy Harry, is that you should seriously consider real girls! Or check the real world at least. It's really there, yeah I know they say that you will get arrested if you look out the window, but it's there, just try, you can do it!

LMAO Becky!

Quote from Kegetys :

Quite offtopic, but that plane isn't flown by a computer as the narrator says. It does have fly-by-wire but it is still flown by a pilot, and (officially) the crash was also a pilot error. Wikipedia knows more.

Aww you spoiled my fun!! I watched the video expecting some really dumb computer behavior, and I got it! Was laughing like an idiot here in the office.

Quote from spankmeyer :

And once again, this has shit to do with general discussion about Live for Speed. Either unofficial addons or off-topic please. Yeah I ain't no mod but wake up and smell the coffee, think a second before making threads like these please.

Thanks God! illepall

Bleh, they didn't say a thing! Bloody hiders.

Well, you said that CLC staff should approve your layout 1st? Then please allow me to start with my huge HELL YES. I love the layout. (working on another using different track, but now I'm not sure if we shouldn't start with this one)

Check your MSN to talk about details please.

Quote from Tweaker :

I don't mind at all. I encourage people to try it, I don't know how well it runs online.

And my name happens to come from my friends who got tired of me "tweaking" my car setup to beat them in Porsche Unleased.... rofl. Are you a hired assasin to kill anyone named Ray?

I didn't mean your nickname Please read my post again and excuse my crappy english. (ROFL hired assasin...."Sarah Connor?")

Quote from Tweaker :

This layout will probably be on the City Life server if approved. So stay tuned.

Hey Tweaker,
the layout looks great, should work. Could I use it for my server for example? Or is it not for public use? (eventhough you offered the file for download, i hate stealing others work without asking for permission)

However, I wonder what "City Life" server did you mean? We are working on something else, based on current "City Driving CnR" servers or how they are variously named today, which I decided to give a working name "CITYLIFE". I just know that you are not in our team (yet ) and would like to understand where your name comes from, so we probably change the name for our project when it's finished, to avoid confusion.
(i hope it didn't sound ironic or anything, i didn't mean it)

Quote from th84 :

sim dad here too my 2 yr old son(almost 3) likes to sit on my lap and honk the horn while i race!! it got to the point that i had to buy him his own wheel, formula force(the yellow one) and i attached it to the coffee table next to the computer desk!!! he has a blast!!!! this is the third momo ive gone through.. thanks, in part, to the sim baby!! it seems the pedals dont work to well after juicy juice has been spilled in them

OK so now I know what to expect! Gonna get some formula force (you said it's pretty juice-friendly, right?)!
2 years LFS racer here in October. Count me in Gunn.

Quote from sil3ntwar :

i disagree. McLaren used to have a camera from just behind the steering wheel looking at the driver and with a clear visor you could easily see the drivers face. Faces would be awesome as would setting the colour/tint of your visor.

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I absolutely support Speed Soro here. Black visors is a typical Scavier's elegant approach. I love it.
Clear visor and visible player's face only as a webcam live footage.

Very nice, detailed and precise work. But yeah, objects limit. I wonder about the finished version. Go ahead!

Quote from Vain :

Even DX8 allows for more eyecandy than we need.

Would be much more proper to write "than I need" Vain. Your generalized thoughts served as historicaly proven facts are starting to be cheap, sorry.

Quote from Taavi(EST) :

only place where i think LFS lacks graphical edge is shadows, everything else looks as good as perfect for me.

I wouldn't mind more visual poetry in any of my LFS world visits, such as sun glare at Blackwood backstraight at sunset, glowing sun reflection over the Aston chicane asphalt, or local light sources in the South City at night.
Doesn't your FZR look just great, when it is rolling pass the finish line with those cool MICHELIN letters? External camera for some TV moments for the winner, after the race, that's how I do it.

Quote from SparkyDave :

Great work with the patches I hope this is the right place to post.

Would be great if the "name" and "ping" ect filter buttons would reverse server order when clicked a 2nd time (ie a-z then 2nd clik z-a)

With that little neat arrow (triangle) by the "Name", indicating ascending or descending sort, right? Even without that I love the sort feature, well done!

Excellent Gentlefoot.

Quote from wheel4hummer :

Its not a hospital, its the University of Kent I believe!

Originally yes, of course, but since we wanted the Hospital somewhere in the "City", the University building came as the best one. No surprise, typology of the both leads to similiar exterior design, at least for an older buildings.

Quote from battery :

I Don't know what's wrong,but both of those signs don't work in my lfs

Should work, if you save those files into your LFS/data/dds folder and answer "Overwrite" when asked. Backup your original file 1st.

Quote from Dudles :

I have not done anything that deserves a ban, and there was no voteban for me in this server... never... someday i lost connection with the server... You have already played with me, you know i'm a fair player and wouldn't diserve a ban... and i stayed without understanding why i couldn't connect. If you can do anything for me, i would be thankfull.

EDIT : I see a lot of people complaining about bans because they crashed or so... i guess the same person that banned someone, shouldn't be allowed to play at the server with BF1 (or any other car not compatible with the purpose of the game ) Just because he is Admin and has the power to do whatever he wants in the server, you should respect more the racers over there... some are just seeking for some fun, like I am. And that BF1 thing is happening frequently in the CnR servers... don't know MaxH's server because as said before, i'm banned from there... don't know why, don't know how long. This is a message for all the admins... have some respect to other racers, so you'll be respected by them.

And the same sentence goes from admins to players. They mostly do have respect to admins, but that little boy kind of respect, we might pretty much call the fear of daddy's belt. What I want to point out here is the respect towards Police. In real life (in case you already have the driving licence) you would agree that if the Police car is even somewhere around, you immediately act like the rolemodel of all nice drivers of the world. You definetly won't burn your tyres when accelerating directly towards their car!
"We just wanna have some fun here" I hear you say. Maybe it's just me being older than most of you, but the most fun we ever had on the server was when 3-4 Cops were chasing 1 "robber", while all other civilians provided an excellent scene for this chase, driving within the speed limits in their right side of the road and even slow down and free the way whenever they seen police cars with screaming echoed sirens running around. (let's also mention that cops, even in the pursuit, tried hard to avoid any civilians casualties of course!). The chase lasted several long minutes, because cops didn't simply ram the robber, and rammed into the barrier themselves after that. And guess what? The chase ended with "Ok guys, I give up, nice chase!".
Now THIS was fun! Once everybody understood that they didn't want to scratch their paint because it's damn expensive thing IRL, that they definetly didn't want to injure themselves, for obvious reasons IRL, the huge tension and excitement from the car running just few centimeters from barriers at 150km/h came.
Another common wrong understaning of police chases is the moment, when about you are considered as "busted". 3 police cars surround your wreck and eventhough you can barely move, some guys still keep they gas floored in a desperate trying to break through. In real life you would be simply shot to your tyres, and then to your head perhaps. Our cops haven't got guns, so please admit you have lost, what more do you want to accept that those police folks have got you??
Also let's think about the "THIS IS POLICE, PULL OVER!" call. Most of the time you should stop, to avoid making it all even worse, right? If you already must run from the cop who just wanted to stop you for a routine papers check, but you are not sure if he didn't see your wrong way, you run because you believe that if you stopped, it would be pretty bad (long spectate time, in our case). But man, if they wanted to put you in spec for 1 minute, for a wrong way being the damn dangerous thing to do IRL, what do you expect when you run away (driving totally recklessly of course) and get busted? Those 4 minutes in spec are really nothing compared to what would happen in real life, yet still some guys refuse to accept such a funny punishment. Hey dude, you was brave to run, but you sucked and lost, now please leave the playground for few minutes, and watch the show!

Nevertheless, username Dudles is unbanned, and that admin is no longer the admin on MaxH City Driving server, since the owner, MaxHeadroom, really cares of the fairplay on his place. Looking forward for more heat of fair police pursuits guys!

Quote from Dudles :

everytime i try to connect to MaxH's Server ( and only to that server ) it appears "Host Refused Connection" What's Happening ?

That is ban my friend. Now let's hear what happened? (I am an admin on this server but don't know anything about it, yet)

Too many offtopic posts already, moving this to PM communication.