I want to make a better horion for all tracks.

The first track is KYOTO. I post a picture from the first test. I know there are some little mistakes, but i want to know what you think about it? In the next week i will upload the first beta-version.

The picture was made in 1440x900 with 4xAA and 16xAF

hard to say from those small pics, but it seems you just addes some contrast and maybe sharpness to the original textures - that wont make them any more higher res ..... but hires horizonts is really something i`d like to see

you are right, i modify the original-file with a lot of elements. But i also make the resolution higher, from 1024x1024 to 2048x2048.

Is it better, if i make some completely new horizons?

Resizing an existing image to be bigger doesn't really do much to it - you could just apply contrast and sharpness to the 1024 version and the result would possibly be much the same without extra artifacts from resizing.

Making completely new horizonts would be the best option, but its not that easy...you`ll find out if you try.

The altered pics look better than default, but I'm skeptical that they'd be better under all the different ingame perspectives. The more blurry and less saturated images would probably still look nicer in closeup, and that's the main problem with the horizon graphics. Boris's altered/sharpened horizon edges look way too sharp and steppy in the close up zooms, whereas the blurred edges fade into the sky and background much better. New graphics altogether would be much more appreciated.

Anyway, good job- I'll check them out

So, here is the first version. I hope you like it.

it looks really nice

I reckon I could get used to that

Well done. The edges seem really nice now. If I was going to make a criticism, then I'd say that due to the higher contrast and overall darkening of the background texture, it loses a bit of that off in the distance feel. Maybe it's just slightly distracting while racing (by intruding into the foreground more), but of course I was checking the texture out anyway.

Good stuff. Hope to see some more background textures from you soon