These are fantastic - r4ptor, you are a genius! It looks like it was a lot of hard work, and for that you have my undying gratitude!

Edit: thanks alireza, for the bump. I would probably have missed this otherwise

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I have the Rift DK2, and I have to say, it's a game-changer. The higher resolution means that all of your dials and such are readable, there is almost no image latency now, and I may be a freak, but I can wear one for hours without any ill effects.

Scawen has done an amazing job of getting everything to work seamlessly in VR - it's quite simply the best game conversion available so far. No fiddling with settings and screen configs, no having to use a screen for menus and then back to the rift to race... You set it up once, and it works every time after that. Simply brilliant!

The only problem with it is that while you are completely immersed in the game, you are unable to see your keyboard or other peripherals, which makes it a little hard to communicate with others. I'm slowly finding ways of working around this...

After I had been using it for a few weeks, I decided to play on a screen so that I could be a little more social. I had no idea how difficult it would be - I almost had to re-learn how to drive! I don't think I'll ever go back to playing LFS on a normal screen if I can help it.

Have you clicked on 'New colours' under the skinfile list , and then selected the new skin from that list?

Fixed the problem. All it took was a bit of lateral thinking...

I moved house.

I switched the fire wall off completely - nothing changed.
Everything else is working, internet-wise. I can even use LFS Remote to view the servers I want to join.

I should add that it was working fine the night before, and I hadn't changed anything at all since then.

I'm stumped.

OK?

Why is there never a WHY? button?

Connects to the Master Server fine. Lists the servers, fine. Click on a server to join... It gets through getting the all of the host info, then hangs on 'Waiting for guest info'.

I can't join servers, empty or otherwise, high or low ping, doesn't matter.

Am i missing or got a corrupt file somewhere?

This is bumming me out, man.

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Are you doing helments too?

Nah, just cars for now. As soon as I get my hands on an .obj file I'll be all over it, but for now it's all about the cars...

No probs Rage, I'm sure JazzOn will produce the bizniss

Thanks to everyone for the compliments nice to know people have noticed.

Makhe: here's an update on the WIP. There's a little bit of photoshop enhancement there, which actually gave me an idea for something that could make this skin that much better...

anyway, hope you like...

Ok Chriship, your skin has arrived! hope you like it.
I'd never done an RB4 skin before, so it took a little longer than I thought as I had to start from scratch on all the stretching templates and stuff... I'm pretty happy with it though.

Makhe, I'm onto yours and Narkoman's now.

KiRmelius and illstyles - you guys are next in line.

Thanks JazzOn; looks great! Sorry nmmz. I got caught up in Chriship's skin.

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XRT Purple Haze please. You have some time, right?

I'll get to it as soon as I can. A Jimmi tribute, or something purple and hazy... Or a bit of both?

Makhe: on it.

Narkoman: XRR, no problem.
Makhe: you sure of the spelling? 'Makee'? - what sort of vines? Like brambles, or more like ivy?

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Do you wanna make FXO skin after Chriship's skin?

Sure thing. Take a number...

So Makhe next, then Narkoman. Makhe, take some time to think outside the box about the concept.

Narkoman, there are only a few cars I can do complex skin wraps on, and single seaters aren't on that list. I can do a Fox more or less covered in bubbles...? GTs and Sedans are pretty much it as far as the 3D models go. Have a think on it and get back to me.

Here's a preview of the teamskins I made for The GentleGiant's drift team out of the beater skin in the previous post.

I would have edited my previous post to save space, but you can't attach files while editing...

...and here's the teamskins.

preview here.

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Have a look here for my latest XRT skin.

It says 98% there, but tbh it's about as done as it'll ever be.

Have a look here.

Not a problem - go for it

Looks easy enough - I'll give it a go

Here's the finished product

I did my best to align all the leaves along the edges, but time constraints limited how close i could get them. So they're within a bull's roar, and when the car's zooming around you don't notice the imperfections anyway...

Hope you like it rockclan

Right - who's next? Chriship - you want an icecube car? ooookay. Gimme a coupla weeks...

Here it is - it's about 98% there...

There's lines along the seams on the mud layer that i need to address properly, but it's ready to race, so to speak.

I might revisit those seam-lines in the future, but not right now. If anyone else wants to have a go at them, feel free.

TypeRacing, those are DOPE!

Here's a progress report:

so far, I've found a bunch of textures I like for the panels. The yellow areas are yet to have details added; I've decided on a fibreglass look for these, with cracks and dents showing the fibre sheets in places; and the whole thing will have a layer of weathering added to it.

Just so's you know - i've cheated the screenshot a bit, and comped together shiny and non-shiny versions of the same pic, which gives the rust a matte look.

Hope you like so far.