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

Last edited by Smax, Sat, 29 Jul 2006 16:48.

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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Logitech BF1,commissioned for Ear Collector so please ask him for permission before you use it.

I'll get 'round to a MRT and a helmet over the weekend and then that will have to be all from me since I have the uPGaming team breathing down my neck for the 3/4 of the cars that I haven't skinned for them yet, as well as everything else I have to do in that intrusion called "real life"

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Quote from Vykos69 :

Because football was found in the UK, so they got the rights to deliver a scots, wales, english etc. team. The other countries are just the normal countries then
I think, england wont survive very long, maybe quarterfinals.

Technically speaking England, Scotland, Wales and N.Ireland are the seperate countries which form the U.K....sure they're governed from Westminster but in many different sports they compete seperately since we're not allowed to fight with each other anymore.

World Cup? Brazil to win... boring I know but they're just too good.

We'll all sing the 3 lions, drink our Carlsberg and wave our little St George's crosses [without being called racist for a change]. Sadly it will make no difference and one of our defenders will still miss a penalty somewhere down the line. The papers will be full of glorious England and how next time might, just might be our time. Gazza will cry, Wrighty will leap about all excited and Hansen will say something disparaging, whilst Lineker looks on bemused as usual.

Then we will all return to normal until the next time we end up in a penalty shoot out.

Quote from tristancliffe :

Not sure about a team of old farts, but there will be old farts there (unless they've lied about their ages), so don't fret. As long as you still have the strength to press the pedals in your weary legs then you'll be fine.

Also, can you handle your drink afterwards?

I'm 35 but since I stand 6 feet 7 and weigh 17 1/2 stone me and these little toy kart things don't mix so I'm gonna hold a camera for the day.....however I can handle my beer

Turn up...the more of us "old farts" there are around to show the kids the way the better illepall

www.brandsoftheworld.com

Is the best searchable source for high quality decals

BUT the files are in a format called .eps which means you will need either photshop the gimp or paintshop pro to read them.

Premiere edits After Effects does not.

After Effects is effectively photoshop for motion graphics. It allows you to stack up layers like you would with a .psd file and apply affects to them and turn them on and off. Premiere can acheive this to a certain extent, but After Effects is capable of using the photshop blend modes [colour dodge etc etc] and applying animated effects to layers, and many other things which Premiere cannot do.

Essentially the two are designed to work together, Premiere first to do the editing then After Effects [hence the word "after"] to do the clever stuff.
Premiere renders at a higher quality than After Effects and After Effects is not designed to deal with hours of footage, it wants you to give it small segments to play with... it will deal with however much footage you throw at it, but you'd better have a fast machine if you import 30 mins into it.

It's not commonly used professionally for films,because truth be told it's a bit clunky, however it is more widely used in making commercials. The only film I know of which was post processed by After Effects is "Sky Captain and the World of Tommorrow" starring Jude Law, Gwynet Paltrow and Angelina Jolie.

Quote from maxwolfie! :

Bah, your kidding? Well, it was a link to all of faster111's posts.

<public humiliation of tristan failed>

<public humiliation of greg succeeded>

<needs sleep>

</coat>

Quote from danowat :

You can pick up Canon 300D's for about £250 on the 2nd hand market.

Dan,

I own a 350D and three of the lads on my degree course own 300D's. The 350D shoots more shots per second in sports mode, can write to the card faster, boots up eleventy million times quicker and has several custom features like 2nd curtain flash sync that the 300D does not. The 300D is far from a bad camera but the 350D is a million times better, and having used the two side by side I'm glad I bought mine new and paid the extra.

From my point of view the trouble with F1 these days is that it appears to be somewhat sanitised, a pale imitation of its former self if you like. Yes it's still the pinnacle of modern motorsports but if you sit and watch the footage of Gilles Villneuve in the turbo Renault and I forget who in the Ferrari going around Dijon Prenois in about 1980, it's much more exciting. They swap places about 4 times in one lap, lock the wheels going into corners and atually touch tyres going down the straight at god knows what miles an hour. Add to that the fact that Dijon Prenois is a fantastic swoopy circuit in the same vein as Brands Hatch or a shorter Spa and you get the picture.

To be quite honest these days I find Formula 1 with its computer assisted cars and flat tracks rather boring. Yes you still need to be a God amongst men to drive one quickly but the days of proper big balls racing are gone.[With the exception of Monaco where you need to have a lobotomy before stepping into the car]

I find myself happier in front of the WRC [even that's taken a serious dive] or the Aussie V8s especially the Bathurst , cos certainly in the case of the Aussie stuff it's much more exciting. 500+bhp and rubbing doors in a car about the size of a Vauxhall Carlton, now that's what I call racing...

Last edited by Smax, Wed, 17 May 2006 04:23.

That's really what Adobe After Effects is for.

you could try the link below, I'll confess I use After Effects, and my Premiere installation is as standard, so I couldn't tell you if any of these are any good.

http://thepluginsite.com/resources/freepm.htm

In that case I apologise for seeming to get hot under the collar

I thought that the design concept suited the product range, or at least my preconceptions of it :P.

I think you should establish one visual convention for links and stick to it. The text in the topbar navigation goes white on mouseover and I expected everything else to do the same but it doesn't. Personally I find that a little confusing, I like sites with established design conventions 'cos it makes it easier for me to guess what something does.

As Kev said Alt tagging your imagery and using .jpgs not .gifs would definitely be and improvement.

The shop page has one line of text in times new roman [I suspect there's a default font tag in there that you've missed]

Arial/Verdana/Helvetica may well be the world's most boring fonts but they are the web standard. I don't like Comic Sans either but then that is a matter of taste as much as anything else.

Having the heading "giftware categories page" instead of "giftware contents page" would stop it looking like there are only 4 items in the shop.

Oh yeah and on the new additions page the "bathtime" heart graphic isn't aligned with the rest.

Errr that's about all I can think of mate, hope it helps.

Quote from manintightpants :

Erm, bit of a wierd one this...

Just wondered what it would look like if i skinned the fox as wipeout cars...Dunno what you guys are gonna make of this!

Sweet....I've never played any of the wipeout games, tbh I don't even think the shape of the wipeout cars and their paint jobs translates to the Fox very well BUT I do like those simple classy skins, nice one!

Quote from Tweaker :

You really think somebody wouldn't use that in public? Dunno why you'd post it in public if that was the case Might email or send it to EC privately honestly... It is private and specific to him really

We've been over all of this before... essentially it's impossible to prevent people from having/using a low quality version of it, since it's gonna end up in the skins X folder... So I write "not for public use" on it as a "pointer" and leave the rest to the good manners and respect of this community.

As for the 2048, well hey you can only use that offline, i.e in a place where nobody else knows you have it....and what I don't know about I'm not going to waste time worrying about.

Logitech FZR NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

Same deal as before, the 2048 is for screenshots and the 1024 is for you to upload to play with online.

Could I prompt you to send that e-mail I mentioned on Tuesday please? Any later will be too late

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Please check your private message panel E.C

Here's your Logitech F08. the FZR is going to have to wait until later in the week...Thursday maybe. Wednesday is both my birthday and the day I finish university for good, so I may be slightly the worse for wear come Thursday we'll see...

Anyways hope this'll do ya, if you want to screenshot it then use the 2048 version and turn off the skin compression feature in the game options panel & upload the 1024 to LFS world for online use.

Last edited by Smax, Sat, 29 Jul 2006 16:49.