@Sir Sm0ka too much: I can't help on specific topics but wrote an essentials guide for Blender here>>
http://www.mad-motion.net/inde ... ew&id=58&Itemid=1

That should help you get started with Blender in general. You might also don't have to use such a confusing camera navigation as John uses in his tut video :P

Sry, had to remove the files to make some space for more important stuff.

Thanks for the Attachments John.

Quote from buck77 :

post us a link for the HD vid!

I'm repeating here : http://vimeo.com/4819220 register/login and dl it.

@andRo: Silverchair - The Closing

@R.Kolz: lol, awesome ms paint skills

Thank you guys.

I usually get paid to do stuff like this - so this is not the first time in a NLE/compositing app for me. But the first serious attempt with the awesome LFS free camera.

I frapsed out some replays for demos n friends from time to time.

@BAMBO: I really would like to but I don't think there will be time for another 10-15 :/

EDIT: Vimeo's flash player is still playing my first version/upload(1:35 lenght). I've updated to a longer(2:17) version yesterday. So if u want to see everything: login and download!

Last edited by Tappi, Sun, 31 May 2009 13:57. Reason : vimeo is crap

Hi guys,

my first serious attempt to squeeze a video out of this wonderful sim. Have fun!

WARNING FXR drivers: offensive content inside :P

http://vimeo.com/4819220

Btw, login to vimeo to download the original video file(720p, x264, MP3, 30fps).

Chrome is easy. It has no color and just reflects it's enviroment. Just set the color to black, reflection to almost 100% and give it a hard specular - everything else is the enviroment - so make sure there is something to reflect. In case of emergency use a HDRI as EnvMap.

^^Btw, in that case its brushed alu. Just a grey texture with 'scratches" along x and anisotropic(stretched), glossy reflections.

Hey there,

if anyone is interested in a bling bling render setup grab it here:
http://www.mad-motion.net/inde ... w&id=64&Itemid=38

Inlcluded are some OZ Racing rims and 6 hi-res f1 skins for the FBM. More details inside the blend file.

Whoops, i missed that. sorry.

Anyway, if some has problems/questions it would be a lot faster to look in this thread.

Hi,

I got a little Render Setup for Blender to share:

Updates 25.02.2009
-switched light type to spot for faster shadow rendering
-increased transperency of glass
-added edge split modifier to FZR mesh to fix some shading problems
-adjusted the levels to light the scene a bit up
-removed the odd looking LFS S2 window plate

Download John's Attachments

it includes some custom wheels I made last year. Instructions/credtis are included in the blend file. Just look at the text editor.

Last edited by Tappi, Sun, 4 Oct 2009 15:02. Reason : updated URL

I don't know if these work with 8k cards but I always work with the recomended Nvidia Gelato drivers 91.36 found here:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_91.36
(It says Quadro drivers but will work with any GeForce)

I work a lot with 3d apps were these drivers seem to be at least more stable/compatible than these i-wannabe-the-3dmark-king- over-optimized gaming crap drivers they release every few months. LFS runs super smooth even with 4xAA and 16xAF on my 7800gtx.

Hi James,

just a quick help with the translation as I see some german words left in the details.

Sprit = Fuel; Spritmenge = Fuel amount; Spielernamen = Player name; Bestzeiten= personal best lap; frühest = early / first pit stop in that context

Hope that helps and nice app.

Make sure you're using the neweset version of Fraps. They fixed such an issue some versions ago.(at least they mentoined such a bug in premiere pro, cant clearly remember...)

Btw, this has nothing to do with your harddisk-space. The codecs runs out of RAM in this case. One thing you could try is increasing the virtual memory/page file. On default setting windows should do this automatically...

@ dmwright: YouTube/Google Vide recommends Mpeg-4/AVI+MP3 as upload format. I've good experience with
XVID @ ~1700kpbs
MP3 @ ~128kbps

Shouldn't be more than 80mbs then..

Last edited by Tappi, Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:53. Reason : removed ugly auto format

The freeware/shareware converters on these software sites are hard to use and very limited in their functions
in my opinion.

If you're looking for a free encoder tool I would give

MPEG Streamclip
-requires Quick Time
-has very powerful batch processing

Virtual Dub
-works with images sequences
-especialy powerful when combining video and audio streams
-a shame it only works with avi

a try.


If you can effort it go for Sorenson Squezze or Canopus Pro Coder. Both have very useful watch folder and batch processing functions where you can even encode in several formats at once but are very expensive.

Wow, a lot of rotoscoping and motion tracking in there! You put it together very nice. Of course 50% of the credits belong to trentemoller :P

One thing to admit: as stated before it would be a nicer viewing experience if you go with 720p which is 1280px by 720px or at least a 16:9 ratio in smaller res.

I had no trouble with 60fps playback here. But for a wider audience i'd lower the bitrate a bit and/or try WindowsMedia VC-1(also called Professional) or WMV9 which handle 60fps very smooth in my experience.