Well this was kind of a compulsive skin idea... I was watching BTCC and always been wanting to skin Mike Jordan's car because it just kind of reminds me of a JGTC style or something. At first I was looking at the FXO and FXR, but I wanted to try something different and get it to fit nicely on the FO8. I completed this in about 6 hours today, and overall quite pleased, it does look pretty nice. Though, I guess John Guest has something to do with toilets, lol

Looks good with the gold wheels, or black wheels. All it needs now is some Dunlops (JustinZiarko's sidewall pack with yellow Torro looks good).

Enjoy

*Also note, I had a very limited supply of proper decals. Since this car is an independent team in BTCC, the sponsors are really just local small-business sponsors for the most part, so I had to do with what I could find... and some were too blurry for my liking. But still I did what I could.

Last edited by Tweaker, Mon 4 Jun 2007, 10:57. Reason : ooops, Honda, not Acura!

For once somebody doesn't go and make those gaudy taillights with blacked out circles and lines. These look pretty damn good Electricwolf :up:

RB4 is a little dim though.

Quote from Zachary Zoomy :

can you spot any flaws?

The unrealistic reflections that not only look bad, but also make it hard to tell how a skin truly should look.

Here is something for your collection FEL:

Tony Jaa > Bruce Lee > Chuck Norris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M__9ZmCFNeU

No doubt

I just finished up watching all of the 2007 races so far in GP2, and I must say it is pretty interesting to watch.

All race weekends have two races except Monaco, and so far the 3 rounds have been great. Monaco didn't have any passing really for Formula 1, but in GP2, people were passing in the tight hairpin, and all other kinds of places that you don't normally see passing. Was really great. But I do like to see these cars on road circuits; Bahrain and Catalunya were really good races... Go Timo Glock!!!

Heh, I recognize that from NFS 2. Ford Indigo Concept

Someone else can post a picture.

Yep, your turn Paranoid Android

Yeah, I found it randomly on the net, and I think it is quite cool. http://www.toniqr.co.uk/

http://http://www.toniqr.co.uk/Upload/toniqr/3.jpg

I don't I killed it, I think people are too lazy to search the internet... it is pretty easy to find this car. I already said it is similar to a Lotus 7 style car (in a sense it IS), and Burnzoire narrowed some of it down already by noticing it is right-hand steering. But I don't believe that is a Mercedes badge on the seat, this doesn't have a Merc engine

The picture already gives away a lot, since there are a lot of unique shapes and parts visible in the picture.

Nope @ Thunderhead

Quote from al heeley :

I guess fixing the AI will take far more than the next patch. I think a better guess might be S3 but I'm purely speculating. Don't raise your hopes for a fully functional a.i. with patch Y!

But Scawen has said himself that after patch X he wants to get started on fixing the AI. And he invisions it being a long haul of hard work to get them working right, and maybe just a few weeks to get a few kinks knocked out currently, but nothing perfected. Since Scawen has mentioned it, I think it is highly likely that AI will start to undergo improvements for Y.

Quote from Scawen :

Next thing on the list after patch X is to sort out the AI drivers. Although that's not what everyone cares about, there are a lot of people who do use single player.

You can make the AI drive in qualifying or practice if you know how...

If you enter a practice or qualifying session on your own then use the /ai command to add AI drivers, then restart race, the AI will drive out of the pits. It's not recommended because they really don't know where they are going and they will crash into everything. But in most pit lanes they will make it out eventually. Anyway at least they won't break the speed limit now or drive around with the pit speed limiter on if you do that.

Also the /pitlane and /pit_all commands can send the AI to the pits in the middle of a race.

Maybe this will interest some of you to watch GP2

2006 Highlights --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyOhgHklFKU

The AI are currently in development, and should be fixed sometime after Patch X (I guess Patch Y). For a while now the AI have never worked right, so be patient, they will be fixed soon.

I still have my Red Momo, but now a G25. But I took good care of the Momo wheel and always took it apart to clean and check the insides. Never had to buy a new one or anything, still all in very good condition. Pedal pots never faulted on me either.... and I used that wheel every single day!

I modified the pedals with a heavier/stronger spring and the joints of the pedals I always cleaned off the parts of any dust and old grease, and re-greased up with plumbers grease (lithium grease) which lasts a long time and is great for minimizing friction between two plastic parts.

I did the same for the wheel components. Always cleaned the gears and made sure everything was intact or not under any bad wear and tear. A new grease-job on the gears would make the wheel feel a bit smoother, but it always felt 'notchy'... that is just the design I guess. If you have a problem when steering in only one direction, it could very well be your motor. There is not much you can do about that really, I doubt you could find a replacement. But check the motor's condition nevertheless.

Good luck.

Quote from J.B. :

From a "watching drivers handle challenging cars" point of view I love GP2. In fact I think it's my favourite series.

WTCC: too slow/boring cars but good racing.

WRC: great but not enough competition for Loeb

FIA GT: some cars look nice but that's it, not racing IMO.

MotoGP: best racing full stop.

DTM: I like the cars and the drivers but often quite boring, F1 style races. Bring back the old double headers!

F1: best drivers and fastest cars, lots of serious problems though.

F3: need to look at their aero/engine package as the races are too boring and the cars look too tame

NASCAR: can be entertaining at times, nice to leave in the backround while doing something else.

Yeah pretty much the same comments would come from me here....

BTCC is good for some great racing as well... but pretty similar to WTCC in a way. The Valencia race was kinda cool to watch.

I haven't watched much of GP2, but I know it is always nice to watch. DTM is definitely boring me, a lot like F1 too. But that new driver Paul Di Resta? from Scotland, he is like Lewis Hamilton, and he's the only reason for me to watch DTM.

There is also good racing in Rolex Daytona Prototypes series. I haven't seen what the SPEED World Challenge is like, will be watching it soon. But these two series are over here in the states, you'd have to download the coverage .

I don't watch Nascar or IRL. Champ Cars I will try and watch, it usually has some nice racing, but depends too much on the track. And CCS has taken a liking to too many temporary street courses which are rather crap and not exciting at all. But still something to watch . ALMS is the best sportscar series here.

I can vouch for Sony Studio Monitor headphones. They are good all around. Most comfortable out of other suggested brands too.

Nice long cord, and pretty durable. As much as I dislike most Sony products, these headphones are the ONLY Sony brand product that I ever suggest others to buy, and they all love the headphones too. The BAD Sony models are the cheap plastic ones that are most common... but the Studio headphones are for those seeking much greater audio experience. Lots of people use these professionally.

Doubt that has been considered for something on the car, but you can see each car's handicaps in the F11 display. Which is good enough for now.

AFAIK, if we were to get any stuff added for decorating the windows, it'd be country flags and room for a longer name.

Don't post any of the pics here, you should contact the devs on this matter.

Goto the LFS Main Site and contact the developers via their contact form. I imagine they would ask for evidence to support your claim, so make sure you have that.

Take care.

You guys are still on my picture, stop switching around...

showing a bit more.... and a clue if you have a good eye

Joinin' the club Oh the mystery....

As long as you have a bank account (checking or credit), you can link Paypal to that account. When you give valid account information, Paypal will credit a very small few cents of money to your account, and then you have to check how much they gave you and reply back to Paypal to verify that it is your account. Then you can transfer money from the bank to Paypal within 3-4 business days, and then use your Paypal money.

It is all going to develop in a pretty heated few races between the two McLaren drivers, I can see it now. A lot like the old McLaren days with Senna & Prost.

Massa still has a good chance for anything at this point, so anything could happen. But if the two McLaren drivers get into this 'driver's title' mindset, they will surely be battling it out even harder. Though it does seem that the strategies for pitstops are catered way more towards Alonso in all these last 5 races. Hamilton is doing a damn good job regardless.

As for the race at Monaco... yeah boring, but it is expected. I will look forward to Canada and USGP a lot more, because watching this street race made me want to rip those barriers off so people could run wide.

The reason for it was because he broke his steering on the chicane just before this turn. YOu can see him clip the right side corner/wall and his right front went all skewed sideways and was loose. He really couldn't turn it on that corner, this isn't some conspiracy. But quite funny that it is the same spot .

Someone mentioned the red of the Ferrari's too. I think they are using a more candy apple red in this race, it isn't a very bright bright red, this looks more metallic now... and I like it . Ferrari has announced this color in a press release, and you can read about it in news.

I just pray Hamilton can pull through in this race and win it, he needs a good start on Alonso.

If you want to watch a stream of the race, go downloat SopCast, and view the sports channels. At the moment there is recaps of qualifying, but there will be other channels up for the F1 race, as always.

Quote from Blackout :

although now it reads Marlboro all over the car instead of those stripes.

Because some countries do not allow the cars to have tobacco sponsors on the car, some do.

Last edited by Tweaker, Sun 27 May 2007, 05:26.

Surely by the looks of those graphics VTiRoj, 16 or 24 HVS settings should work just fine for you. Your card cannot be THAT old. If you run games and they have these effects, your card is probably pretty bad. But I'd put money on that being a driver issue. Experiment.

There also already is a racing groove or line drawn on the track... the dark black line.

In your Misc options of the game, the Update Path option, either have it set to User Car or All Cars. User Car will draw the line that YOU drive on the track over time. But it is quicker to get an overall line drawn on the track if you have it set to All Cars. There will be a dark line drawn after so many laps, and you will quickly be able to see where the racing line is.

If you want to see if even darker, go into your cfg.txt file and change these values:


To this

Doing this will draw a really dark path on the turns, and have visible braking zones. Though, you will have some bugs with this, and you will get flickering parts on some tracks.

Last edited by Tweaker, Fri 25 May 2007, 21:48.

Quote from Burnzoire :

This can't be put into a poll, I didn't vote either.

The LX4 is more popular than the LX6 simply because it handles better. A v8 version would be painfully slow through the corners but mega fast n straights, and overall too twitchy. The obvious solution is what I posted above... a racing version called LXR (nothing to do with previous renders), which is either 4 or 6 cylinder, but lighter and with racing fittings as in the picture above. No pointless headlights either lol. I love the LX cars, but we really need something that can go fast AND grip through corners at speed. More grunt won't help (v8) and wings will just look bad, not represent anything in the real world, and make it too similar to the single seaters.

A much more sane summary

Though the Donkervoort had wings, that was only specially made for the record attempt at the Ring. And only a small handful of similar spec Donkervoorts were made for the road after the record had been broken... and it had no wings. There are no real LX-type cars that have huge wings and race in a series as far as I know, so it only seems right to have a car that keeps the image of what the LX is all about.

I think more people voted for the LXR or the LX8 just because they want something beefier or basically an LX with slicks. That is the general idea. Those that wish it to have wings and compete with the GTRs... there are better options for a new GTR than that.