INFO:
Kidcodea and me have done this new sky texture for Aston and Westhill sunny conditions. You can see it on all of the latest official lfs screens:
If you dont have it yet, check also our older update, which contains some 2048 skies and hires official skins...here
http://www.liveforspeed.net/pa ... ges/aprilupdate/aero2.jpg
http://www.liveforspeed.net/pa ... es/aprilupdate/dialsB.jpg
http://www.liveforspeed.net/pa ... es/aprilupdate/tires3.jpg
http://www.liveforspeed.net/pa ... es/aprilupdate/aston2.jpg
http://www.liveforspeed.net/pa ... es/aprilupdate/aston1.jpg
unfortunately the hemi didnt get in the latest patch, but it will hopefully get there in some of the next patches.

DOWNLOAD:
You can choose between hires (4096x4096) or lores (1024x1024) texture.
http://members.chello.nl/vvlaardingen/Suncloudy1.rar - hires 4096x4096
http://members.chello.nl/vvlaardingen/Suncloudy1_lores.rar - lores 1024x1024
thanks vicc for hosting

INSTALLATION:
unpack the file in ../your lfs directory/data/pic/

Thanks Don

Downloading...

EDIT - I extracted it to the pic folder but no files were replaced, this normal?

Great work! Thanks!

Looks great. Thanks

Quote from ajp71 :

Thanks Don

Downloading...

EDIT - I extracted it to the pic folder but no files were replaced, this normal?

i think you must be doing something wrong, it works for other ppl...

OK, so what's the point?
How do they differ from originals?
How big of a frame rate hit can I expect?

how? its completely different (and imho better) sky
this is how looks the default one:
http://www.liveforspeed.cz/upload/alsc_2_2_06_resize.JPG
http://www.liveforspeed.cz/upload/alsc_2_2_02_resize.JPG
http://www.liveforspeed.cz/upload/alsc_2_2_01_resize.JPG
frame rate drop ? dunno, try. i didnt notice any

Quote from Don :

how? its completely different (and imho better) sky
this is how looks the default one:
http://www.liveforspeed.cz/upload/alsc_2_2_06_resize.JPG
http://www.liveforspeed.cz/upload/alsc_2_2_02_resize.JPG
http://www.liveforspeed.cz/upload/alsc_2_2_01_resize.JPG
frame rate drop ? dunno, try. i didnt notice any

Jaa, ok, I've tried them and they have a lot more character... keeping them for now.

The new skys did work just my zip program overwrote without asking. Look great btw

yay, going to try this out.

Looks great and no drop in perfomance with the HiRes sky on a crappy computer

*edit*
Just curious as to why its only for aston and westhill? Will all the tracks be updated at some point?

Quote from sil3ntwar :

Just curious as to why its only for aston and westhill? Will all the tracks be updated at some point?

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=245

Who looks at the sky?

Quote from Tick :

Who looks at the sky?

It's mostly just people who have eyes.

count me out then.











i use the force. :jedi:

could someone do a comparison screen shot with the difference between stock skys and the high res ones? like both in the same pic kinda thing..

Here you go. It doesnt hurt my FPS on 4xAA and 16xAF at all but I cant say I see really a big difference either!
Or better yet I like the more cloudy verison better.


http://freeweb.siol.net/denisbr5/LFS1.jpg
http://freeweb.siol.net/denisbr5/LFS2.jpg

Plz post a mirror to download.
I've already tried 15 times to download the Highres version, but download stops at 15%, another download on 78% etc....

And I'm not behind a firewall, can download other files from this (and other) forums/sites.

No one forces you to use it. We give it to you for free and its your choise if you want to use it or not. And you may notice difference in quality with lower FOV.

THX, looks great.. Any chance to keep all this (semi)official addons in one place (zip) for people who dont read forums (lfs.net / Additional downloads)?

These skies are excellent! Can't thank you enough guys. Well done.

brighten'd up my day

Awesome work, big thx Don!

So much better than the defaults. I didn't notice any performance drop. FPS was actually exactly the same. But I still decided to use the 1024x1024 "lores" version, that 4096 version sounds like it's gonna eat some memory? Only difference between lores vs. hires was that lores looked more like badly compressed JPG and hires was more smoother.