My son is getting really into LFS recently, and wants to try out various skins.
I have seen quite a few arguments over the years where people get extremely angry because someone is using there skin. The reactions are often completely out of proportion to the perceived crime, and sometimes hypocritical, e.g. a skin author builds a skin from existing commercial logos and artwork that he doesn't have permission to use, then accuses others of stealing his work!
I really want to avoid my son becoming involved in this sort of pointless bickering - it can get really nasty.

Are the skins uploaded in the Finished Skins automatically free to use by anyone (without modification of course)?
Are they assumed to be 'private'?
Or is is purely down to the individual author?

Can we assume that if the author doesn't request for them not to be used, then we can freely use them without being accused of theft?

We've been using Beano's excellent site, are there any good places to download free to use skins?

cheers,

Col

Most of the skins in the finished skins part of the forum are for public use unless otherwise stated.

Bean0's site is a great place for skins, There is also l4p which has plenty of top quality skins :

http://www.life4pixel.com/index.php?do=skins

and the master skinnerz forum has plenty in the "skinning lab" section :

http://skinnerz.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=labs

In finished skins section all downloadable skins should be public I believe. Most skinmakers write on skinfiles if it's public,private,editable or whatever.

Thanks for the info guys.

A friend of mine has a website up. Then if you find my designs, they're free too.

Quote from Speed Werx :

I'm pleased to welcome another website dedicated to LFS and Iracing. I have made the website because, after all the year of playing LFS i've found myself grabbing other designers skins and using them. One day (3 years ago) i got tired of the same old general racing brand skins, SO my solution was to put all the textures and un-official mods that ive gathered over the years and contribute to the LFS community in a way thats not a forum and has live updates. What i mean by live updates is, There's not one skin, texture or mod on my website that isn't compatible with LFS 0.6e.

On to the good stuff, I'm now making customized skins for LFS users, you can sign out a form on the website. BUT, what makes this process so unique is you can order a roll cage, gopro camera attachments, suits, helmets and you can even order custom in-game banners for Blackwood and Fernbay.

Talk to you soon, Creative Skinzz Designs

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