Max Power's been running pictures of "photochopped" cars for at least two years and their forum even has a "post your virtuals here" section.

Generally speaking the results are unrealistic and bear more relation to the drawings that product designers make than photographs. I have yet to see one that I a)thought was at all tasteful/nice b)convinced me that it was a photo not a digitally manipulated image.

As you may have gathered I'm not a fan of this sort of "art" but then I also hate the clowns who think bolting a load of tupperware to their shopping trolley makes them God's gift to anything other than a Police radar car.

Quote from beefyman666 :

I tried the method you mentioned and tried another skin. I have to say it makes a hell of a difference.

This being my 3rd skin I think I'm getting the hang of it now.

Preview:
http://img376.imageshack.us/im ... 58/fxrcamelpreview3ed.jpg

Skin in 2048 resolution:
http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/5753/fxrcamel0gb.jpg

What do you all think?

From a technical point of view you've pretty much cracked it, I must admit that design doesn't appeal to my personal taste, but nevertheless it's "better" than your previous attempt

I see you've used the master skinnerz template so I presume you are registered for that forum.

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

I would suggest you read this link in which Bunta the master skinnerz admin explains how to compensate for the fact that when you make your skin, you make it a 1:1 aspect ratio, but the game displays it at something more like 4:3. This stretching is always most noticable in decals.

I like your design, very "cool" if you'll excuse the pun, sort out the stretching problem and it'll be even better.

1. What is your gender?
Male

2. What is your age (in years)?
34

3. What if any is your political affiliation?
[Other please specify :- Labour party]

4. What, if any, is your religious affiliation?
Anglican Christian

5. On a scale of 1 to 10, how religious do you think you are?
4

I
6. What is your level of education?
Graduate Degree

7. Do you believe the theory of intelligent design correct?
No

8. Do you believe Darwin’s theory of evolution and natural selection correct?
Yes, even though there are evidently things we have yet to discover.

9. Should both intelligent design and evolution should be taught in schools?
From a scientific point of view no. From a "faith" point of view, possibly, it depends on the religious perspective of the school in question.

10. Do you think that only intelligent design should be taught in schools?
No

11. Do you think that only evolution should be taught in schools?
Hmmm thought I'd answered that

10. Intelligent Design is creationism presented as science.
Not sure I agree that ID is much of anything presented as much of anything else.

11. Evolution is flawed, and cannot be used to explain the varied life forms on our planet.
No, our knowledge of evolution is much more likely to be incomplete than flawed.

12. Evolution only explains what happened after intelligent design took place, and as such the two can be taught together.
Disagree

13. What is your opinion on the scientific basis of intelligent design?
It's difficult to be scientific about anything that happened so long ago, particularly when people's belief structures may be at stake. In short I don't have a high opinion of the "theory" full stop.

14. What is your opinion on the scientific basis of evolution?
Our knowledge of evolution is incomplete, we are discovering new fossils all the time, with the passage of much time it is possible we may come to know more, but I doubt we will ever know it all. However since it presents us with real tangible hold it in your hand evidence, whether or not our notions about timelines are correct it is more credible than any of the alternatives.

Last edited by Smax, Wed 8 Mar 2006, 22:01.

Funnily enough you are the third person to suggest him, wonder if anyone has his e-mail...

Personally I think Bush has pretty good delivery, I just don't like some of the things he says maybe I should mail the President instead....

I'm looking for an adult American to record themselves reading the following passage from the Declaration of Independence.

I would like anyone who wishes to give this a go to upload the result in mp3 or wma somewhere for me. I intend to use the result in a short film I have to make for one of my final year university projects, and I need to have something which I am sure does not have copyright restrictions on it. Thus it goes without saying that should you want to do me this favour you are consenting to me using the recording of you as a piece of background audio in the film in question.

I would like you to give me your real name and the State in which you live, so that I can credit you in the titles.

Should anyone want to give this a go for me then I will obviously be more than grateful.

The words I would like to have recorded, [in a fairly serious tone of voice as though making a public speech of some importance which is a good enough defintition of the Declaration itself ] are:-



We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that
they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among
these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these
rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from
the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes
destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish
it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles
and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to
effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that
Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient
causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more
disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by
abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of
abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to
reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to
throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security

Skins are only jpgs, the problem is that the shape of some of the car models has changed since the S1 days. If the skin you want to use doesn't fit the shape of the car model as it appears in S2 then the skin won't "look right".

You'll need to edit the skin in order to make it fit properly onto the S2 version of the model. The best way to see what needs doing is to download the cmx viewer from the main site, drop your skin into the viewer S2/data/skins directory, fire up the app and see what changes need to be made. Then presuming you have permission to edit somebody else's skin you get down to it, failing that you make another.

You're getting far too good at that Tristan

Tristan Cliffe 3d LFS renders Ltd sounds far more fun than Tristan Cliffe engineering enterprises doesn't it?

No hard feelings on my part

I don't think the carbon is overdone, since what's on the outside is only viewable from the outside and what's on the inside is only viewable from the inside.

I have to admit I'm not fond of matte grey for the base coat, unless you stick some lovely great big vinyls on it in bright colours.

Underglow/neons is something you'll have to do with photoshop, LFS doesn't have them as a feature, [and thank the good Lord it's not about to get them]

Decals wise it depends on whether that's a race car or a tuner car as to whether you pick a coupla sponsor logos or a load of parts stickers, either way as long as you don't go crazy with it you're gonna end up with something pretty sweet.

Isn't it?..... actually it's not even old enough to be off this page....

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=4978

Next time find someone who isn't tired of answering the same question god knows how many times from people who can't be bothered to do a little searching..... good luck

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=5423


To be fair the last time this question was asked was in the beginners forum, but it can't have been more than a week ago. At the risk of being rude, do a least a little digging before you ask a fairly basic question please.

Flash should compress it for you. It can adjust the quality of video as it imports and either include or ignore sound.

I did....the Vodafone logo's there because the red they use is close enough to the red in the Carlsberg crown for me to have got away with it, and maintain the 3 main colours of the skin.

1024 skin is poor quality because the detailing is too fine for the compression, but the it is public, as is the 2048.

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=78128#post78128

get it there if you want it.

Sticking into flash would be your best bet imho

:d

Last edited by Smax, Sat 29 Jul 2006, 16:50.

Almost every car has had the General Lee treatment at some point, suitable or not.... it's always painful to watch, and usually the work of 'tards.

I'll make an obvious exception in Tristan's case since he was acting on a request, but it appears he treated it with the disdain it desverved.

Please no more Genral Lee skins....it's about as imaginative as painting something other than an XRT black and calling it "Kit" ffs...

Guess there really is a reason why the acronym for Dukes of Hazzard comes out DOH....

Last edited by Smax, Sat 4 Mar 2006, 14:37.

Quote from Spurs :

http://www.tristancliffe.f2s.com/smax.png
Here is the big resolution image The link was given in the previous page
(the render is with the Michelin tyres )

I was somewhere near the back of the queue for brains...

Thanks Tristan it's great!!!

Sorry Tristan, I deleted the pm in which you sent the link....would you send it again please?


Thanks for spending yet more time on this for me.

From a personal point of view I play videogames "for the crack" and I don't really enjoy organised competition, so I don't tend to join clans/teams when I start playing a new game, although peversely I do like clean, polite organised teamwork especially in fps games

From an LFS perspective, I don't own a wheel, am not in a position to spend money on one atm, and since i am an average of 5-10 seconds slower than the leader on most servers I join, thus I regard stuff like the ESL as out of my league if you'll excuse the pun.

Time is probably the major factor, I graduate from university in 10 weeks time, and have more work than I can deal with. I tend to work for a while then spend 20 mins - half an hour reading various bulletin boards than I suscribe to by way of a break. Certainly until July I would not be in a position to commit to playing a game at a certain time and a certain place, even if it were only for half an hour.


As an aside I would say that being away at a university is a factor, since it presents a high workload and a great many social opportunities.
Also, certainly for those in the University of Derby's halls just connecting could be a major problem. The Halls are served by the uni's backbone connection and just about all the ports are firewalled to prevent p2p activity and possible unpleasant implications for the uni, thus online gaming is largely impossible for a big proportion of the first years, who arguably are the ones who haven't developed solid friendships with their peers and don't have a good knowledge of the social life in the city, so are perhaps more likely to play games online.

Quote from Monkay :

lol I guess he doesn't get it

.....leave it with ya

I agree....most of those pictures are pretty impossible photgraphically anyway, most of them conform to one of only a few stereotypes and almost all of them have poor/innacurate lighting....

They're nice as eyecandy that is true, but they're invalid as "photo edits"

Having said that, many of the pictures in this thread fall into the same category.

Ok....that would be cool as Tristan....However to be fair it's not really Tristan's fault.... I made the skin, he made the renders and that logo is so small I guess he overlooked it when he applied his [Bridgestone] sidewall texture to the wheel...although I didn't make the same mistake when I based the texture for the tyre pattern on a Michelin F1 wet

It sucks.....or maybe that should be blows....

2mbps/256kbps ADSL home

Uni God alone knows, huuuuuuuuge connection... enough to serve the 2 main sections of the campus and all 5 city centre halls of residence at once.