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....
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....
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Using Your Custom Skin In LFS
How to apply your skin and see it in-game:
- Launch LFS, choose your car type and enter the garage.
- Create a new colour profile or select your existing one if not already selected. Name your profile, after you have created a profile it will appear in the list
- Click on the Colours button in the menu at the bottom of the garage screen.
- Using the colour sliders, set the body colour to white if using a custom skin, otherwise your skin will not look the way you meant it to. Body colours applied here will shine through your skin but only a white body will not effect your skin's colours.
- Choose your skin by clicking on the button next to the title Texture name, a list of all the skins for the car type selected will appear. These are the skins in your LFS/data/skins folder.
You can select a different skin for your profile whenever you like, just click on the Texture name button to bring up the list of available skins and choose one from there.
AI Skins
You can also make a colour profile for your AI drivers. Name the profile exactly the same as the AI driver's name and choose a skin. Whenever that AI driver uses that car type he will use the skin you selected for his profile. This is a great time-saver. Make sure that "AI use player colours" is selected in your Options/ Misc menu. With this selected, if you have not made a special AI colour profile, the AI will use whatever profile you are using.
Cut 'n' paste from "A beginner's guide to skin making" tutorial by Bunta of masterskinnerz.com
http://skinnerz.proboards26.co ... lay&thread=1139970414
[You might have to register to read that]
How to apply your skin and see it in-game:
- Launch LFS, choose your car type and enter the garage.
- Create a new colour profile or select your existing one if not already selected. Name your profile, after you have created a profile it will appear in the list
- Click on the Colours button in the menu at the bottom of the garage screen.
- Using the colour sliders, set the body colour to white if using a custom skin, otherwise your skin will not look the way you meant it to. Body colours applied here will shine through your skin but only a white body will not effect your skin's colours.
- Choose your skin by clicking on the button next to the title Texture name, a list of all the skins for the car type selected will appear. These are the skins in your LFS/data/skins folder.
You can select a different skin for your profile whenever you like, just click on the Texture name button to bring up the list of available skins and choose one from there.
AI Skins
You can also make a colour profile for your AI drivers. Name the profile exactly the same as the AI driver's name and choose a skin. Whenever that AI driver uses that car type he will use the skin you selected for his profile. This is a great time-saver. Make sure that "AI use player colours" is selected in your Options/ Misc menu. With this selected, if you have not made a special AI colour profile, the AI will use whatever profile you are using.
Cut 'n' paste from "A beginner's guide to skin making" tutorial by Bunta of masterskinnerz.com
http://skinnerz.proboards26.co ... lay&thread=1139970414
[You might have to register to read that]
Well since this seems to be the "live" version I'll give it a go.
Been driving nearly 18 years now, had a few scrapes and scratches in that time, not all of which were my fault.
First car was a '78 2 door Mark 2 Escort 1600. It had a Kent high lift cam, a Peco cherry bomb, and a 3 litre Capri carb [I was too young and stupid to realise that made it drink like a thirsty alcoholic without making it go any faster]. Had an argument with the girl I was seeing at the time, threw teddy and stormed off home in a huff, came out of a junction when I should really have waited for a bigger gap, stamped on the throttle and ragged the nuts of it up to the top of second when the transmission destroyed itself, and spat bits all over the road for the car behind me to run over before it ploughed into the back of me. Wasn't ever so serious, because he wasn't doing more than 15 mph or so when he did hit me. Escort went for scrap, I went back to the Mark 1 foot.
Second car was an Orion 16i Ghia, rolled that one night street racing, to this day I'm not sure why it rolled, it all happened too fast, but I think I'd hit a sudden and quite adverse camber change that dug the passenger side front wheel in, certainly that's the side that got crushed almost down to the top of the door panel. I walked away from that, and learned a sharp lesson.
Went through various crappy Astras and Escorts, and other than blowing a couple up and having some dips**t reverse into one in a car park that part is pretty boring.
At 27, I bought a Sierra Cosworth 4x4 Lux, which was already modified with 2 stage T3/T4 hybrid & bigger injectors etc. It pushed out close on 380bhp and I was a hooligan in it, usually although not always on the track, but on the odd occasion I did rag it on the road there would have to be nothing about. Melted the solenoid for the twin aftermarket fans blowing a Scooby away when I was in Wales for the rally about 4 years back, it overheated bigtime, and drank literally 40 litres of water getting back to Derby [most of it was coming back out as steam]. Sorted the fans out, but it was never quite the same again, obviously damaged the block somewhere pretty untraceable, so I sold it.
Grew up and bought a Golf Tdi, quite a come down, but nice car nevertheless. Decided to go to uni 3 years ago and also decided to pay for as much of it as I could myself, so I sold the car and am still using buses/pushbike/feet to get around now.
Been driving nearly 18 years now, had a few scrapes and scratches in that time, not all of which were my fault.
First car was a '78 2 door Mark 2 Escort 1600. It had a Kent high lift cam, a Peco cherry bomb, and a 3 litre Capri carb [I was too young and stupid to realise that made it drink like a thirsty alcoholic without making it go any faster]. Had an argument with the girl I was seeing at the time, threw teddy and stormed off home in a huff, came out of a junction when I should really have waited for a bigger gap, stamped on the throttle and ragged the nuts of it up to the top of second when the transmission destroyed itself, and spat bits all over the road for the car behind me to run over before it ploughed into the back of me. Wasn't ever so serious, because he wasn't doing more than 15 mph or so when he did hit me. Escort went for scrap, I went back to the Mark 1 foot.
Second car was an Orion 16i Ghia, rolled that one night street racing, to this day I'm not sure why it rolled, it all happened too fast, but I think I'd hit a sudden and quite adverse camber change that dug the passenger side front wheel in, certainly that's the side that got crushed almost down to the top of the door panel. I walked away from that, and learned a sharp lesson.
Went through various crappy Astras and Escorts, and other than blowing a couple up and having some dips**t reverse into one in a car park that part is pretty boring.
At 27, I bought a Sierra Cosworth 4x4 Lux, which was already modified with 2 stage T3/T4 hybrid & bigger injectors etc. It pushed out close on 380bhp and I was a hooligan in it, usually although not always on the track, but on the odd occasion I did rag it on the road there would have to be nothing about. Melted the solenoid for the twin aftermarket fans blowing a Scooby away when I was in Wales for the rally about 4 years back, it overheated bigtime, and drank literally 40 litres of water getting back to Derby [most of it was coming back out as steam]. Sorted the fans out, but it was never quite the same again, obviously damaged the block somewhere pretty untraceable, so I sold it.
Grew up and bought a Golf Tdi, quite a come down, but nice car nevertheless. Decided to go to uni 3 years ago and also decided to pay for as much of it as I could myself, so I sold the car and am still using buses/pushbike/feet to get around now.
Well I suppose I can make do with it
No seriously I am delighted by it and very grateful to you for spending so much of your time on this work for me.
I am strictly 2dSMax, there's no way I could have pulled that off by myself.
It'll be interesting to see the look on my programme leader's face when I tell her that texture design for video games is a perfectly relevant area of graphic design, and it doesn't all have to be about semiotics, and the looks on my coursemate's faces when they see it 'cos they're all a bunch of petrol heads. I'm tempted to see just how big I can print it...A1 poster size might look quite nice I think.
THANK YOU TRISTAN, now all I have to do is "brand" it for my portfolio, I take it your name is actually Tristan Cliffe? [for credit purposes... stupid question I know]
No seriously I am delighted by it and very grateful to you for spending so much of your time on this work for me.
I am strictly 2dSMax, there's no way I could have pulled that off by myself.
It'll be interesting to see the look on my programme leader's face when I tell her that texture design for video games is a perfectly relevant area of graphic design, and it doesn't all have to be about semiotics, and the looks on my coursemate's faces when they see it 'cos they're all a bunch of petrol heads. I'm tempted to see just how big I can print it...A1 poster size might look quite nice I think.
THANK YOU TRISTAN, now all I have to do is "brand" it for my portfolio, I take it your name is actually Tristan Cliffe? [for credit purposes... stupid question I know
]Playing it and loving it, primarily since I'm old enough to have had most of the 70's cars as metal toys when I was a kid, and have always wanted a Mk 1 Escort, but never got closer than a Mark 2.
Most impressed by its sound, most unimpressed by trying to make skins for it and finding out that it's a) difficult thanks to the developer withdrawing all the files and b) when I do manage it they look like crap anyway...
Most impressed by its sound, most unimpressed by trying to make skins for it and finding out that it's a) difficult thanks to the developer withdrawing all the files and b) when I do manage it they look like crap anyway...
Lol....now thanks to Hyperactive both topics point to each other
Dood....lay off the pro plus...
I think what Tristan is trying to say is check stuff like the quality slider in whatever image software you're using, jpg compression is a bitch for killing the quality of an image. If you didn't get the decal from somewhere like brandsoftheworld.com and it isn't at least 400pixels square to start with then find one that is and resize it to fit, or make it yourself, otherwise it will look crappy.
Try skinning at 2048 resolution and shrinking your skin down to 1024 when you're done, this won't actually improve the quality, but it will create the illusion that it has.
Avoid pinstripe thin lines if possible, the current version of the game renderer will brutalise them and ruin the appearance of your skin from close up, even though it'll look fine in the cmx viewer.
Finally the compression in the game is more severe that in the CMX viewer, and if you really want to know what your skin's gonna look like, get an ingame shot, and don't rely on the viewer alone.
I think what Tristan is trying to say is check stuff like the quality slider in whatever image software you're using, jpg compression is a bitch for killing the quality of an image. If you didn't get the decal from somewhere like brandsoftheworld.com and it isn't at least 400pixels square to start with then find one that is and resize it to fit, or make it yourself, otherwise it will look crappy.
Try skinning at 2048 resolution and shrinking your skin down to 1024 when you're done, this won't actually improve the quality, but it will create the illusion that it has.
Avoid pinstripe thin lines if possible, the current version of the game renderer will brutalise them and ruin the appearance of your skin from close up, even though it'll look fine in the cmx viewer.
Finally the compression in the game is more severe that in the CMX viewer, and if you really want to know what your skin's gonna look like, get an ingame shot, and don't rely on the viewer alone.
I smoke more than a factory, drink more than a brewery, and am the reason so much of the Amazonian rain forest has given way to coffee plantations... I am the cause of global warming, binge drinking and chav culture all by myself and should be put down before I become nothing more than an embarrasment to the miserable f****d up selfish brats that I have spawned to replace myself.
illepall If you can go to twice that size [which is presumably 2048x1536?] without making your machine decide to reboot halfway through then hell let's have it twice as big 
Yes, I am more than happy with the scene as is, The matte background will be well suited to paper, the contrast on the car is just about right, well maybe you could pump it up a tiny amount say a coupla % or so but only if you like
Any other alterations can be done by me and my photoshop.
Thank you for spending so much of your time on this, and a particular well done on the tyres, they've come out much better than I ever expected them to, and your sidewall texture compliments the tread pattern very nicely
Yes, I am more than happy with the scene as is, The matte background will be well suited to paper, the contrast on the car is just about right, well maybe you could pump it up a tiny amount say a coupla % or so but only if you like
Any other alterations can be done by me and my photoshop.
Thank you for spending so much of your time on this, and a particular well done on the tyres, they've come out much better than I ever expected them to, and your sidewall texture compliments the tread pattern very nicely
Now that I like Tyres look great!
I can always get all photshop on it if I ever want it to look really shiny anyway.
Tyres look great!I can always get all photshop on it if I ever want it to look really shiny anyway.
That tyre texture actually looks better than I thought it would.
My only complaint is that the car itself is looking a little too shiny for a matte background, I know your personal preference is for quite shiny cars, but I must admit I would prefer if you wound it down but only by a little.
Thanks for taking the time over this, I understand the uni thing, I finish in 8 weeks myself.... so obviously don't spend too much of your time on it, unless you fancy treating it as a learning experience /chance to play with "stuff"
My only complaint is that the car itself is looking a little too shiny for a matte background, I know your personal preference is for quite shiny cars, but I must admit I would prefer if you wound it down but only by a little.
Thanks for taking the time over this, I understand the uni thing, I finish in 8 weeks myself.... so obviously don't spend too much of your time on it, unless you fancy treating it as a learning experience /chance to play with "stuff"
Yes it is, although the front rim is probably a little overdone, given the length of the car, and the distance that it would be from the photographer.
Nice edit
Nice edit
Got it....don't have time now, but I'll rattle your cage when I've done something with it
post me a link to this Kegety fella's site and tell me the name of the files you're using and I'll go hook em
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