Are there any out there???

I have tried creating some artwork on my cars, but I just can't seem to make any look bearable, let alone half decent!!!

If there is anyone out there willing to help me along with a couple paint jobs, please add me (username is thorvertonian),

Thank You!!!!

is there something you need help with? i can't really get on live at the moment because my cable company sucks and i get dropped all the time. so any service that uses a persistent connection (like xbox live or lfs ) is pretty much unusable until they figure out how to fix the problem, which i'm not even sure they know what the problem is.

The main problem is I suck at skinning, I can just about manage photoshop, but can't get my head around the Forza 2 skinning, I can make the base coat look ok, but as putting anything half decent ontop, it's beyond me, the vinyls aren't really what I want, something unique....

http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/images/news/e1.jpg
http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/images/news/e2.jpg

Not really of any help to you but I thought they looked pretty good.

Are there screenshots of the skinning bit in Forza 2?

yeah, skinning is a very different beast, since there isn't a way to upload graphics, and so to get results that you want you have to think about everything in is base geometric shapes...

lets use the last skin i made as an example...



the birds are just one of the fonts. i took one of the lower case V shape and stretched it until i got a look that i liked.

the fish are similar, but a little more involved. are made up of 5 shapes
a set of parenthesis put together to make the body shape ()
an ampersand to make the tail &
a circle shape stretched into an oval to fill the body in
and then a gradient circle shape stretched into an oval to give a some dimensions to the fish bodies.

the clouds are basically just a whole bunch of gradient circles on top of a circle stretched into an oval to give the cloud a flat base.

and finally the mountain is a triangle with a couple of tear shapes on the edges to make it look more like a mountin, and then a couple more tear shapes on top of the triangle to give some more detail to the mountain.

hope that helps.

if you want to gift me a sprinter trueno, i'll put this skin on it and gift it back to you so you can look through all the labels to see how i accomplished everything if you'd like. i should be able to stay online long enough to be able to do that.

here is a pretty good tutorial
http://forums.forzamotorsport.net/forums/thread/213264.aspx

if you follow it, you should be able to make something more or less like this...