These "side panels" [for want of a better word] were created by the Master Skinnerz admin Bunta. They include the brands created by the development team for the LFS universe. Hopefully they'll get you started.

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Carbon fibre texture courtesy of Master Skinnerz admin Bunta.

N.B stretch compensated to 2048 sq

.rar'd since the jpg is too big to attach.

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Quote from Mazz4200 :

I really don't mean to be critical (coz it's about 15 trillion times better than anything i could do), but, i do have a question about the overall colour, it seems a bit washed out?

A little bit of photoshop fairy dust helps

I'd would have replaced the wheels [which really needs doing] but I have to go out boozing. It's a tough decision I know... sit in front of the pc or go to the pub...

Anyway I'll photoshop some other wheels into it another day if I get a chance...

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http://skinnerz.proboards26.co ... lay&thread=1120022687

Link to Master Skinnerz thread containing download links for the 2048 templates and an explanation of how to use them.

http://skinnerz.proboards26.com/index.cgi?board=FAQ

Link to Master Skinnerz forum section with usueful tips and tutorials for anyone who's never made a skin before.

www.brandsoftheworld.com THE place to pick up brand logos for using as decals.

If you really struggle then get registered at Master Skinnerz

http://skinnerz.proboards26.com/index.cgi?

As long as your question is clear and concsise and doesn't read as "please do this for me" you'll quickly get an answer

Alternatively P.M me I'll see if I can answer your question.

Sounds to me like everyone else is right and you are running LFS from inside the packaged zip archive, which means windows has to unpack it everytime you want to play [which accounts for the window and the progress bar] and since a packaged zip archive is compressed and not like the other files on your hard disk windows can't put anything else into it without unpacking it permanantly first, and then re-packing it.

What that last sentence means is that at the moment you are making a temporary version of LFS everytime you run it. Until you unpack it permenantly onto your hard disk that temporary version basically vanishes when you stop using the program [that's not actually quite accurate but it is a simple way to understand it] Thus you're left with a compressed package which windows does not understand as seperate files and folders... it think's you've got one file. Therefore when you download a skin,setup, hotlap etc etc it's only going to work until you close the game, because at that point windows reverts to the compressed archive and can't add your recently aquired extras to it, since until you make your permanent unpacked version it doesn't understand where within the packaged version they should go. [Again that's not actually quite accurate but it's a much easier notion to grasp than having me chatter to you in binary language]

heh... just realised I basically repeated what Bal00 said... that'll teach me to only read half a topic before I hit reply... oh well

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I'd only add that my definition of a public server is any server running without a password, regardless of who owns it. I realise that is a different definition, than is the case with many other games, but since for LFS there are not "official" servers, and anything not password protected is advertising itself as a place to play:- thus it is public.

However the development team are not those who I was referring to as "elitist"

I'd agree that you have the right to play with the S2 content, and would add that you have the right to at least connect to any public server. Whether or not you are granted the right to remain there by whoever administrates it is up to whether or not you can behave reasonably and play fairly.

Quote from ]_[SS WIZZARD :

was just wondering if theres anny good serevr where you can practice on cause im really slow at the moment and make alot of mistakes and i dont want to wreck other better players there experience

Ignore all the elitist CRAP that is being written by people who should know better at the moment. You've paid for this game and you therefore have the right to play on ANY public server. If you make a mistake and cause an accident then apologise, it's very rare that anyone will bear a grudge against you. If you find yourself seriously out of your depth the maybe you might consider playing somewhere else but that's up to you not somebody else.

Bottom line is just go and play and have fun.... The day the new racers feel they can't play online unless they were born with the ability to set the car up perfectly and race at the same speed as the top drivers is the day there are no more new drivers. The day after that is the day that LFS starts to fade away.

Here's your XFG and helmet, a day late I know... sorry....

The Helmet's not particularly good I'm afraid, it's the first one I've done and it took me a while to figure out how all the bits line up illepall

The stretching isn't consistent across the model and so the stars across the crown have an inconsistent distortion and spacing, unfortunately I don't have the time to fix this by altering them individually.

Since I presume you're now an LFS addict I won't rule out coming back and tweaking some stuff for you in future, but for now I'm so far behind with the skins for the Portuguese uPGaming team that if I don't get them done soon they'll probably start looking into the price of a plane ticket to England :hide:

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I do Mr Logitech... I play LFS with one too...

My system did better than I thought it would, so I will stick one shot up, although it's obvious I can't get better than 4xAA

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It would seem you can't get that if you're not registered for the Danish language forum, stick it in a post on here will ya please?

I don't want to be too critical since you've answered my request and your screenshots are much better than my system is capable of, but would you grab a few nice skins? Since imho plain black cars are bit...well....plain

Nice concept.

You just need to be a bit more careful when you cut the car out and be a bit more precise to avoid the unblurred bits underneath the car.

As it is you could use the smudge tool to blend the sharp edges of your image into each other.

Anyone else with a monster vid card got a nice pic? I'd post something myself but I can only do 4xaa @ 1024x768 and it would look crap

Quote from sgt.flippy :

We don't need this thread, and as far as I know, the times I did this in the second pits of aston... I could just start driving and fling back on track, don't know if you can do that there too tho

I did the same thing yesterday quite by accident, then tried to drive out and sent the car on one of those mad spinning rocket mission to Mars and back down with a bump type flights so yeah I'd say you can.

Quote from squidhead :

Fetzo I dunno, maybe I'm a bit out of date, but for me Gran Turismo music still is
1) Cardigans - my favourite game
2) Rob Zombie - Dragula
3) Apollo 440 - cold rock the mic

at least theese are the first tracks that come in to my mind

Naaaaaahh....

Feeder "Just a day" Gran Turismo 3

Manic St Preachers remix [but I forget which track] Gran Tursimo 1

Premiere will do, it's designed to operate at the standard cinema frame rate of 24fps or 24.9something in Premiere's case. Unfortunately it thinks anything else is a silly idea, therefore you need to use something else to run your footage at 50 fps

Nice one Greboth... it's pretty tough to find decent quality genuine D1 series decals... good to have someone sort that out.

Since I appear to be one of those being insulted here I shall wade in and return the favour by suggesting that I've always considered the "openpractice.jpg" to be over rated since it is my opinion that the rain is too bright/white to "fit" into a night time image, and also that the lighting isn't quite right.

That said I do consider it to be a good edit by the standards of some of the things that have been posted, but it's not something to hold up as a shining example of perfection as you appeared to be doing.

As for what I posted on the previous page well it's a 20 min job if that, and certainly not something I'd go shouting about, I just did it for fun.

You are right about two things "art" is subjective, and there is a tendency for the edited screenshots which appear here to be quite similar, or "cliched". If you take the two statements toegether you should realise that whilst we might offer constructive criticism intended to help the "artist" improve, we shouldn't be telling people what to make and what not to.

Yeah so cop cars are 10 a penny but hey one more can't hurt right?

I'll include the "I am the law" door badge I made in case anyone wants it.

Updated to include D.A.R.E logo on front wing as per Tweaker's suggestion

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Oh yeah and E.C you might wanna click these links

Courtesy of Tristan Cliffe, Joen and Danwowat [thanks again fellas]


http://www.lfsforum.net/attach ... id=10090&d=1148123794

http://www.lfsforum.net/attach ... id=10089&d=1148123149

http://www.lfsforum.net/attach ... id=10054&d=1148068628


thread link is here if you wanna add a comment yourself.

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=131636#post131636

Any render is a good render when you're the guy who can't do them

THANK YOU to everyone who's spent time on my request, you rock [as always]

Top text says professional drift. the white shape is a "flame" type decal... it's a bit clearer in this pic.

http://www.speedoptions.com/articles/4863/pic01.jpg

Btw good fun on your server playing cops n robbers last night, although it did break down into chaos a bit once all those with admin powers had left.

You da boss....XFG it is

Fooled with the colours and added some D.O.F... the result is nowhere near right for a sunset so we'll call it "orange"

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This was made as a comission for a guy who works for Logitech... you may well have seen the thread in the skins section.

Anyways I'd kinda like to be able to offer him a nice new desktop image so if somebody would be so kind as to do the honours I'd be grateful.

Since I've gone and stuck a great big "cromo" decal on the side of the car then blank or cromo sidewalls would obviously be the way forward

Thanks folks

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