Hmmm kinda right & kinda wrong... plain layered bitmap based PSD files are usually backwards compatible so you're kinda wrong although the compression methods they use have changed over time so you're kinda right

Making a skin is only making a .jpg. If you want to view them on the car then obviously the answer is no, photoshop doesn't do that, the CMX viewer [main site other/other downloads] does.

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

Contains more helpful info on making skins than this forum does, you'll have to register but hey it's worth it.

Clean Racer's Club

A loose association of people/servers who put driving cleanly and being fair to allcomers above personal pride and triumph. There ought to be more of them about really...

Quote from Gobby :

The next one has arrived

This time its the brand new for this weekend Super Aguri. I think this car looks great compared to the last few races. Such a lovely flowing design.

I need some help to finalise the skin completely. Please could somebody help me find the 3 japanese symbols which are situated next to 'BORN IN JAPAN'. I've improvised until I get some better photos.

As always, Enjoy.

I have a set of kanji ttf fonts if they're any use... PM me and I'll mail em over.

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=167

I think everything in this topic would be a repost, but I might be wrong...anyways, give it a read and stick your links in there, we've got a bit of a collection going

You two are in two different cars, evidently some cars allow more adjustment of the seating position than others.

1991 & 1992 Bathurst races, RS500s, R33Skylines, Supras, Holdens and the like.

These files are over 600mb each and are 2 hours long.

Get em it's well worth it!!!

1991
http://www.ultra-vaux.net/pf-bathurst91divx.avi

1992
http://emergencyfork.net/bathurst92divx.avi

Except your's appears to have mutated into a little red cross

Yeah that's Derek Bell's "Tour of the Nordschleife" video from the ealy 80's [I think] there's another somewhere of him setting the lap record which again going from memory, is the record broken by the nutter in the radical.

Having the Nordschleife in LFS is something of a pipe dream, it's long, narrow and bumpy as hell, and in real life Formula one cars and their ilk are never tested there because their suspension would more than likely break inside one lap. It's heavily used for testing and public driving, has been modified many times since it was completed in 1927, and simply isn't suitable for racing in stiff fast cars.

The GTR cars of LFS could probably just about handle it but the new BMW F1 and the V8 almost certainly wouldn't have the ground clearance to get round an accurately modelled track. I think you'd be better off wishing for the Bathurst Track in Australia or the Spa GP circuit if you want a real driver's track.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordschleife

makes interesting reading if you like a little history.

It's a 1 pixel thick sheet which carries the carbon texture, which appears to be part of the DDS file, if you edit the dds and it still doesn't go away then it probably is a problem with the model...pointing it out now whilst the devs still have 3 days to fix it is a good idea

M3 Gtr.....nooo don't wanna drive that...

http://www.bmwtransact.com/microsite/Nurburgring/

Quote from Lucasinio :

Only problem i can see with the skinning, is the colour of the default white skin. Anyway of someone outlining the individual parts, would be appreciated

I'll eat my hat if Bunta of Master Skinnerz isn't working on a kit for the thing right now....

Quote from letdown427 :

Doesn't look like it, they've utterly forsaken us. They've even locked our update thread. :weeping:

Daily updates, everyone was nice and excited, then nothing. They've gone illepall


Still, I guess they're going to release the patch eventually, so

Easter weekend.... even LFS devs deserve high days and holidays

I was in the same session as both Avih and Becky Rose last night and do recall that avih although quick was not as quick as a coupla other drivers 1 or 2 of whom were well inside 1:16 at FE Gold in a Fox. However he was the only one I noticed who had a blue flag keybind.

I am one of those slower racers, I don't have the time or to be quite honest the inclination to spend hours and hours tweaking setups worrying about 0.1 percentage fuel loads and whether or not my line into a corner is 1m left or right of where it should have been for the perfect lap. However on occasion I like to have a game online, and why not? I've paid for my license just like everyone else. I can appreciate it's frustrating for you to be much faster than me, I do watch my mirrors [except for one occasion when I rejoined right in front of Becky and got tagged which I apologise for] I will get out of another's way if they're obviously much quicker than me. That said the racers who have a "get out my way noob" attitude with their horns and blue flag messages [note I'm not getting at anyone in particular here but just bashing that mentality] annoy and frustrate me, and tbh there are some servers and some combos I won't race on because I know I'm gonna spend all my time watching my mirrors and worrying about people coming up behind me. That makes me more likely to crash and even if I don't then it stops me having the fun that I clicked "multiplayer" to have.

My point is everyone online has a license :- it's cost them money to be there and they have just as much right to play as anyone else. If they're slower than you deal with it or start paying for a server yourself and only let fast people on it.

The interface is simple yet brilliant, the controller setup is the most "tunable" I've come across to date, you can get just about anything to work, and you can adjust the game's settings to work with whatever you've plugged in.

There's a huge variety of cars to drive, from slow stuff on road tyres to twitchy GTR racers and single seat open wheelers on slicks.
The game is challenging yet fun, and from the point of view of creativiity, you can alter so much with a copy of photoshop, literally everthing from trackside hoardings to brake discs and driver gloves. Not to mention quite how easy it is to make your own paintjobs for that personal look.

Oh and in case you hadn't figured it out yet, there's a patch due out this month, which appears to be about to provide a Formula 1 race car to drive, and certainly gives a couple of new track combos and better tyre physics.

If you ask me everyone's just rotated the picture the wrong way as Kid hinted earlier....flip the jpgs posted earlier through 180 degrees and it reads Nuno Maia, I suspect it's no more than a name credit for the render.

I've noticed that you've got an awful lot of unused/little used configs running.

I wonder if you might consider setting up SO Classic Fox part 2?, and then restricting the number of connections on both servers to a slightly smaller number, say 16 or so. That way you could support more players without having 23 cars fighting for space at the first 90 degree left.

I have to say the few occasions I've been on your server I've raced from the back since I don't play the game enough to be any good at it, and I've spent all of my time either keeping out of the way of the front runners or picking my way through the wreckage of those who've crashed. I've always felt 23 reasonably quick cars on that small track was too many, but hey that's just my unimportant opinion, anyway just thought I'd throw in that suggestion.

Personally I prefer FE Gold much more and might fancy a spin on that, which of your servers have you got that setup on?

Sorry I don't know where you could get a Castrol skin for an XRR [I think that's what's in the picture anyway]

However I do know where you could get one in black or white + a whole load of JGTC type "Toyota Supra" skins for the FZR, and that's here...

http://skinnerz.proboards26.co ... lay&thread=1131296130

Might well do... I'll look into it

[edit] it's looking likely but not definite me and a coupla mates will be there, depends on work, that's only about a fortnight before our hand in date...all our modules complete on the same day. [/edit]

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There is a demo version but it stamps the fraps logo onto every frame and doesn't have full functionality...or at least I think it doesn't it's been ages since I used it...


http://www.fraps.com/

www.good-tutorials.com 10,090 photshop tutorials

Oh yeah and P.S read these links too....

http://skinnerz.proboards26.co ... lay&thread=1135206789

http://skinnerz.proboards26.co ... lay&thread=1138509263

http://skinnerz.proboards26.co ... lay&thread=1135206271


Good luck, have fun and don't forget to go post the result in the skins section of this forum so we can all have a look

http://skinnerz.proboards26.co ... lay&thread=1139970414

This link leads to "a beginner's guide to skinmaking" a tutorial written by Bunta who runs a website called MasterSkinnerz. You'll probably need to register in order to read it, but do so...it's worth it Master Skinnerz contains more information and resources for LFS skinning than any other website I've been able to find.

Nasty stickered up NFSU reject mess,complete with bullet holes for extra "gangsta". Just the thing to be seen in this Easter weekend

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