can ya tell what it is yet..?

hope so...this is proving very frustrating...



hoping to knock together a few F1 skins for the new season

Uhm, the new Honda F1
Seems like a pain in the ass to skin if you want to get it right, interested to see what come out of it

You are:

• very brave
  
• very talented
  
• plain mad

delete as applicable
Looking forward to seeing it finished

not to spoil the party but I think your image of the earth isn't high res enough...

find a better pic and start over. (before it's too late)

Quote from JJ72 :

not to spoil the party but I think your image of the earth isn't high res enough...

find a better pic and start over. (before it's too late)

well, thats its the best one i could find..as its from the high res photo's on the Honda site..

I cant find any suitable pictures anywhere, so am kinda putting a picture of the Honda RA107 onto the BMW...

lots of bits need blending in, hence smudging and less detail...i'm pretty useless at skinning (this is the first proper one i've ever done)


So this wont be a super high quality 100% accurate skin..lie Gobby's of last year..

i'm hoping it will look like the real thing, in the game...and the detail wont matter so much there

this is what it looks like now..

Try here for some hires images of the earth.

Quote from LineR32 :

Try here for some hires images of the earth.

yeah i searched for ages, but they arent the right colour...or part of the earth..

This purely looks amazing mate, F1 starts this weekend, were gonna have a big party to kick it off, lol

Anyway, great skin, i cant wait to see the final product.

TIP: Take your time, especially towards the end, dont rush it as rushing it at the end could destroy a skin.

ok, think i'm gona start again...theres a few things in the wrong places and its getting a bit muddled..

the new attempt is looking much better, i'll post a screen when a bit more is done..

its gona take a while though

take your time, no need to finish a skin in a few hours, time is what makes art better

WOW! didn't think the BF1 could look so good!

one side done, the world map is now a lot more accurate, with africa on the monocock and australia on the left sidepod..and the colours stronger though the lighting perhaps hides it a bit

Looking good man!! Jus dont forget that the number is gold or pale gold, not white.. =)

dunno its really stretched out and quite blurry, and it is easy to pick out a ton of jpeg artifacts; i'm guessing from the world image

...use google earth or something, and in photoshop just make it all green.. not hard at all
then you can get a really high res image of the earth

I've been sitting here trying to write something complementary and all i could come up with was "WOW" (is this skin gonna be public?)

Quote from Rish :

I've been sitting here trying to write something complementary and all i could come up with was "WOW" (is this skin gonna be public?)

i'll make it public...eventually, when its finished


its gona take a lot longer than i antisipated, as there are very few photo's of the other side of the car..


XCNuse -

Google earth pics simply wont work for this, all the wrong colours and the detail will be completely wrong. I've been using high res pics of the actual car so far..

the reason some bits are stretched out, and blured is because it doesnt fit perfectly onto the BF1, and needs some editing. I'm trying to keep all the most clear bits on the real car clear on the skin...


in the end, it shouldnt matter much as you wont notice the small details at 200mph!

i realize that, but if you have any knowledge using a photo editor, it is easy to change colors to get what you need

what program are you using?

I.M.,

You're doing quite well with this.

For those complaining that it's not hi-res enough, not this, or not that,
I'm anxious to see your vastly improved results.

nice work man, your correct to use the images from the HONDA website as they are the images they used for their cars.
don't mind people that say use other images or use google earth, that's just stupid. you need to use the exact same image thats on the side of the HONDA to replicate it properly. no amount of photo editing in any program is going to turn a google earth image into exactly what the HONDA pics look like.
it looks really great, keep it up!

its coming along now....not entirely happy with it...i will probably update it over time when i can get better pictures...

shouldnt be too long till release now, as you can see there are some white bits waiting to be filled...plus the front of the car will be more detailed

All kudos to you for taking this one
Looking good

Can't wait to see this one in person, and niki hit the nail on the head -
using the actual images from the car as opposed to other earth images
was the correct approach - the car is a lot closer to the real car than I expected it to be.

WOW! Awesome skin. Can't wait for it to be finished. I find this strange and one of my fave liveries this season actually.

ha thats kool, thanks for pasteing, good job makeing,

thanks for posteing this =)

Just wondering: Is the placement of the continents/land areas accurate?
GREAT job btw!