Quote from BMWM3GTR :

i love the look of your skins and cant wait till i can use them.. but thats the problem, on z share everytime i open it up and press the download button, i wait for 1 minute then press download.... and then the internet freezes or lags or what ever is going on and goes to a screen that says DIAGNOSE CONNECTION PROBLEMS, not so far this is the only time this has happened on my computer

Thank you

Mike

You'll have to wait for a while. I just got a new computer and realised that my skins kinda sucks. I'll rework on them.

Count me in

Amazing work there! Thoses lights makes the XR more....real

Quote from Zipppy :

I was planning on making a skin for a distance covering event that is coming up in a few hours. It has the name of "Gumball 3000", on a server I regularly go on. But I got the "template" already. I used some of the white XRT skin's parts to make my skin look better than it was before. It was well worth it however.


EDIT: "before" images posted

Sounds good! I'll send you the psd file now. Show me the results after...if there's a change lol.

Quote from Zipppy :

The new skins are better, much better than the first release I saw this news last night on my laptop right after I came back from my Toronto trip.

I downloaded them now and I was driving around and a few people said "Nice Skin"

EDIT: do you have the photoshop file with the headlights/trim?

Yep I still have thoses, but it's quite a mess to know which layer is which through XD. I'll put it in Zshare if u need it as soon as possible. What are your plans btw?

Quote from Yelpats03 :

Everytime i try and click a link it says "Forbidden" or the pic is smaller than a thumbnail. Seems like a nice pack; you mind fixing those pictures tho? I'd like to see what I'm downloading first

I tried multiple things and it seems fine to me...I'll put some screenshot of it here.

V2 of my stock looking skin for the XRG/XRT are up! go get it

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=31122

Version 2 of my skins are up for download ^^ get it!

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=550523#post550523

Quote from Zipppy :

Good to see you got a license

Also, the way I make a metallic effect on a skin is by adding a little bit of "noise" to it, while putting the colour saturation to 0, the intensity should vary from 14 to 30 on a scale of 1 to 100, and of course put the coverage to 100%. I use basically a "free version" of Photoshop, Paint.NET. It works as well as the Photoshop that is at my school, which is a decent version.

I made a skin a while ago with this effect and with Paint.NET, here is the result:

Thanks alot Zipppy! I was going around and around with other ppl's suggestions to make the metallic paint XD. There's the results...I've also worked on the shadows to make the skin more metallic like.

Quote from Zipppy :

good to see you back.

I did not know anything about this until now

Glad you found it Zippy . Am gonna try to do some metallic paint on thoses cars (just found the way to do it today ) and maybe but a little badge on the limited tune version saying "limited tune" lol...but I cant find a way to make it pretty or not too heavy on the skin...

AM S2 LICENSED

Last edited by Kawakita, Sat 24 Jan 2009, 17:23.

Am not dead....lol.
Drool!....a bit...







I dont know why...but this pic came up like if it was in a 80's-90's Honda brochure o_O



The XRG will be available to only 2 versions this year, Base and S. To make it a bit realistic I've decided that some color will be available with the XRG Base only and vice versa for the XRG S.
The S and the base model have different front styling and lights

The XRT will be available in normal and the limited tune edition that is only offered in White, Black and Red.

Badging has been upgraded again, the lights as well and a bunch of other stuff (I'll post some pics about it tommorrow).

Am almost finished with the XRG/XRT...just got some little details to finish up and it should be good

As for the XFG...am working on it after. It's gonna take some time (I really mean it!!! a bit of time XD) through since I need to think about the design.

Stay tuned....

OHH and a question for u guys...who lost faith in me? lol

Last edited by Kawakita, Sat 24 Jan 2009, 07:10.

Long time no see guys...am back! I dint connected my self for months because I dint had internet anymore. I was using my school's computers to create and send those skins on this forum...but I got kicked out(putting too much of my time on theses skins :razz. But now that I got internet and a decent version of photoshop on my computer...so am back to business Just let me take time to relearn photoshop and I'll be sending the new skins like I've promise in a pack

Malice Mizer - Shiroi hada ni kuruai to kanashimi no wamai

Quote from herki :

I guess he's more motivated to do skins he can actually use ingame
Looking forward to the big package btw

Not really...i've already done the same kind of skins for the others cars of LFS except that i was stuck with the RB4 and they werent hi res. Maybe after this project I'll released them in hi res with all the features I have now in a second package.

edit: oh....forgot to mention I wont do any skin for thoses cars: -LX4 -LX6 -UF1000 -RaceAbout -Formula cars and -UF1000 GTR. Why? Because I hate the UF1000 and as for the others it's because I dont see any potential in them (I've done some skins on them and they dint changed that much + it was way too easy to do).

Last edited by Kawakita, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 14:19.

Long time no see guys, I've done some modifications to my skins and i've finally done some XFG skins.

As u can see i've added details on the rear bumper of the XR GT Turbo(to be less likely to the XR GT) and redone the emblems(of all the cars)...they shine now.

I've redone the front grill (copied from the new mustang bullitt) since my last one was crap and I added the liscense plate cover. I dont know I should keep the vents in black looks ok but feels odd too.

The front of the XR GT 1.8S and Light Tune version adds black front vents and the back on all XR GT adds a space between the bumper and the muffler.

There the base model with the new front grill and plate cover.

And now....The XRG version

The GTI version (add a sunroof and sportier front rear bumpers)

The GTI Light Tune version(add a carbon bonnet, euro front side lights and a sunroof)

And the base model

If u look at the details u can see that the back bumper of the base model isnt the same as the GTI model....it's less sporty and there's no vent like the GTI, plus the side lights arent the same as the GTI.
I've also added little 1.3l emblems on the base model.

As for now it's just a preview. I wont release anything(unless u guys can't wait for it) until I get the Dirty(rally), Old car (scratchs,dirty,rust and faded colours), Damaged, Ghetto (parts with other colors,damage rust). I just want to make a big zip out of it and release it into a new thread. It will be a long project...

Keep putting comments, tell me what improvement I could do get my cars better.

it's gonna be long until I release the XF version this time since I've got lots of work from school and now I have a job.

but like I said before i'll release the XF version along with a new redone (again) version of the XRT and XRG in a new thread

This pack will include all the versions i'ved released since last time with a dirty version, a rust version and a rustbucket(worst than rust) version.

Until then be patient and if u got any suggestions write it down here

By the way hinirags I can't see the skin in the link looks like it had been deleted and I dint found anything that could replace rapidshare Zachary Zoomy...got any suggestions?

Last edited by Kawakita, Thu 4 Oct 2007, 22:53.

Quote from hinirags :

Oh yes I had a question/suggestion for you: here the cars are out of the dealer. Did you plan to make the skins with some dirt, insects maybe scratches (normal traffic scratches i mean, like a 10 yr old car). And maybe a dirty version for rallycross?

In my opinion your skins are great and the first step towards reality that you did by adding these details could deserve the next step which would be the "environemental" effect on the car as i said above.



EDIT:
Oh yes actually I have seen some beautiful skins with fake air grills, but they were quite well integrated and seemed true.

I am looking forward to it...am still learning how photoshop works at school so it's gonna be long until I released a bucket or dirt version of my cars...or maybe not.

As for the grill, I gotta say I dint worked enough on it. Am gonna check on the net some pictures I could use as reference. So I might re-released the whole pack again with a reworked front grill and new versions of the cars in a new thread...

And about this thread, am gonna turn it into a project thread since I got lots of upgrade to do...I just hope no one's gonna be mad at me for doing another thread after this one lol.

By the way am gonna do an Heavy tuned version of my cars...it adds carbon trunk and side mirrors with some "LFS reality" stickers (maybe with bit reworked Ectype skin for the XR GT TURBO if I can contact the one who did it...). Do u think it's a good idea?

Last edited by Kawakita, Wed 19 Sep 2007, 22:28.

Quote from hinirags :

That is exactly the type of skins that I was wanting! Thank you for your job!

I need to DL them and see if I have any improvement suggestions .

But you would help me very much by uploading on RS just a pack of all your skins! That would be great, because I would like to have them all

Thank you in advance!

Edit: Do you plan to do the XFG as well?

I am doing an XFG version right now...with school and everything I should finish it by monday. Kept up with the comments on how I can improve this project

P.S: What did u mean by uploading on RS? Race Sim central?

It is a starion...but I fought that someone could do a kit for it to make it look exactly like a XR GT TURBO like persons who do kit cars

I gotta say...I wasnt really into rally but i'll sure remember how he took the corners and his finish in the X games 2006...I've never had the chills like that! He was the best driver i've ever seen...Rest in peace we gonna miss u...

Man i think that was the worst released ever in this forum...with all the changing i had to do and stuff...tell me I wasnt the worst.

P.S. if someone want the jpegs files non zipped send me a private message with the model(s), the color(s) u want and your email. I'll send it by email beacause it would be toooooo long to release it there...105 jpegs man what was I thinkin!?

Quote from Zachary Zoomy :

2048x2073?

I know it's big. I could resize it but I would lose all the details i've done...unless u got an idea on how I can counter it..

I was wondering...did someone ever fought of doing a XR GT TURBO out of a Mitsubishi Starion? I could be a great project when u think of it...

It's finally completed with a pack of colors and new details.

Check my thread for info and download

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=31122

The new Hi res skins are now available...check on the top