Hello folks,

I decided to give the Kyoto surroundings a small overhaul and put them into a little more alpine setting.

All you need to do is to replace the file HGAmount.dds in your LFS/data/dds folder by the one in the attached ZIP file. Please don't forget to save a backup of your original file first!

Thoughts and critics welcome, as always!

Thanks! Which Sky and Track textures are you using?

Track textures should be stock if I'm correct, and for the sky I use this one that's based on a panorama texture I found on the web. If you'd like to use it you need to convert it to RAW, though.

Thanks Mate! I just converted it, it looks not bad :-) But on your screen it looks more nice. Do you really use the original textures They are sooo low

I am using this ones, could not find any higher resolution till now.

https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/83915-Kyoto-Ring-2013-Textures

For the sky it would be nice to have a 4K or 8K textures. Would be nice to have some.

But your landscape is really nice. Now I can switch bewtween Lynce's and yours

Thx! The problem is that in my ancient Photoshop version I can't generate a spherical map above 4096px size. Do you have a workaround for that?

I found the origin of the texture, it's here and quite high-res: http://www.foro3d.com/attachments/191747d1396261083-background-360-grados-en-cycles-sky-photo-new-clearday2.png - but I had to adapt it a bit in the horizon area.

This is a nice large texture :-) Yesterday I was creating some 8K asphalt textures for Aston, but LFS didn't load 8K textures. Same here... I made an 8K *.raw file but got an error from LFS while loading track. So I guess maximum size is 4K. Maybe Scawen could clear this..

The 4K texture looks a little bit better, but there are some points to do with the colors and some other stuff need to be worked on , which were getting bad while bringing it to spherical map.

Maybe other sky textures would be better to work on. Could you link some other sky textures , maybe some with less clouds?

Doublepost^^

I found the thread were you got the texture and found some other good textures. I built a new sky for afternoon / evening, for example for "cloudy afternoon" driving @ Kyoto.

Here some pics of my first made sky:

For some reason, last 2 links take me to my own dropbox account

Quote from sinanju :

For some reason, last 2 links take me to my own dropbox account

I uploaded it again. Now it should work

Fantastic work as always.

In your quality line.

Quote from Lynce :

Fantastic work as always.

In your quality line.

Thank you, much appreciated!

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Doublepost^^

I found the thread were you got the texture and found some other good textures. I built a new sky for afternoon / evening, for example for "cloudy afternoon" driving @ Kyoto.

Here some pics of my first made sky:

Most sky textures of this source seem to be generated in a 3D software which makes them look quite artificial, at least the dawn ones. Quite entertaining, but for the same reason not overly realistic and a bit too overdrawn if you bring the rather toned down original LFS graphics to your mind. Nevertheless, they somehow work with the textures you're using. Did you post-process any of the screenshots?

Yeah, the quality is not bad, but I dont feel a higher level than a 2048 px sky. It could be sharper for my view, but even it looks really nice. Yes, screenshots are taken with activated shader and modified postprocess. So, if you would disable shader, brightness would be much less and you would see more details of the clouds. Problem is, that with deactivated shader LFS Looks really poor, so it is a compromise for sure.

I just uploaded the high-res (4096 px) version of this sky to TinyUpload.com: http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=27805230618914672294

Could anybody test if it works?

The file is there and downloadable, and the zip extracts perfectly. Haven't been able to test ingame though.

Thanks!