Quote from Bean0 :

It took me hardly any time at all to find them, and would not be much work to put them in the proper position as you have the default skin to copy from.

OK, I might do that instead, then.

BTW, I apologise if I wasn't clear enough, but what I was looking for was some kind of big transparent layer file with all the decals at the right place. I saw those logos on other third party skins in the past, so I thought that something like that was available somewhere.

Quote from Bean0 :

If he is skinning at 2048x2048, they'll probably look poor when enlarged.

Yes, I'm planning to skin at 2048x2048.

Quote from boothy :

Like so

Thanks for the screenshot boothy. Not sure yet which solution I'll use, but I'll still give it a look later.

Quote from boothy :

Why not just overlay the default skin and use the multiply blend mode, gives some extra shadows as well.

Thanks for the advice. Will try to figure out how to do that - I'm a complete noob at skinning

Quote from Eclipsed :

Hmm,I would just google for png logos (for example search "castrol logo png"),most of them are with transparent background,just put black color overlay if they are needed black.

Quote from Bean0 :

www.brandsoftheworld.com not got them ?

That was always an option of course, but I was just too lazy to find/download/resize/place correctly all the logos.

Hi.

Where can I find .psd decals/layers for the logos present at the bottom of the FBM's sidepods, on the default skin? You know, the long line of logos with Ferodo, Castrol, etc. Check the attached picture to see what i'm talking about.

The reason why I'm asking that is, I'm trying to make a replica of a real life Formula BMW USA livery, and it seems that they had the exact same decals at the exact same place in the real life series too.

Sorry if the answer to my question is obvious... This is the first time I make a serious attempt at skinning the FBM

Last edited by GreyBull [CHA], Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:25.

Quote from rockclan :

Event will stay on Thursday, thanks for an amazing count of new sign-ups

Good.

First and Lastname: Yann Laprevotte
LFSW-Username: GreyBull [CHA]
Teamname: Tiger Express Motorsports
Country: France

Quote from PMD9409 :

Too much slicks (IMO).

Agreed.

Quote from DANIEL-CRO :

I wonder myself why he only attacks cargame, maybe its because cargame is still 0.6A4 host?

He has "attacked" other servers under another license, some of them being 0.6B.

http://www.spdoracing.com/eventdb/driver/Swamp/hosts

Quote from The Very End :

My guess is that he is some sort of attention whore. He probally watching this very topic, and see's the stuff we write, and joins the most populated server atm.

He reminds me a lot of Phlos actually. An ego-driven, softly-spoken guy who pretends to be acting in the good of LFS.

Quote from Gougoodthing :

From indycar.com


I hope he isn't out for too many races.

Apparently it looks like he's getting replaced by Giorgio Pantano at Mid-Ohio. Official announcement should come out soon.

I do... Great stuff.

Quote from Mustafur :

Yeah I got banned

How long and what for...? Just for that TG thread?

Quote from Mustafur :

Apparently Mazda might be interested in taking the Judd supply off lotus(according to Trackforum).

Don't belive in everything you read at TrackForum... There are some reliable sources out there, but they are outnoumbered by the amount of outsiders guessing randomly.

I enjoyed your thread about TG anyway. Nice baptism of fire. Too bad it got closed so fast

Awesome race today! Helio looking strong!

Track limit infridgements have been a problem in European single seater racing for a little while now. I'm glad the stewards have at least decided to open an investigation. No matter the results, it at least gives a small signal to everyone.

Anyway, I'd say just put a good old gravel trap there, and it will kill all sort of controversy... I understand that it would represent a safety issue in many corners, but come on, this incident happened at the exit of a 60 kph hairpin.

Quote from TexasLTU :

BTW, Karl Raudsepp's of Savage Simsports "Erki Racing Team" finished 7th overall!

Awesome!

Last time I asked him, a few months ago, his Civic was sold and he had no plans for the future. Glad he found a way to carry on racing.

Quote from PMD9409 :

You still explained why it is silly, and how the argument that guy used is silly.

I don't care if he promised a 900hp engines or a whole new chassis. It isn't the point. The point is that it isn't logical. Why even worry about aerokits? It's the chassis' 1st year in a series that has funding issues apart from the 3 big teams. They've spent this year trying to cut costs, yet you want them to go and jack up costs by having to design/buy aerokits? And multiple aerokits on top of it. You are then saying that because they can't get it done by the 2nd year on the chassis that it won't ever happen with this chassis. Why not? The other chassis had 8 years on it, this chassis will most likely be the same.

The whole argument seems like a 4 year old child asking for an iPhone when it obviously doesn't need it now and it's a waste of money. The child can wait and have it at the right time, and now isn't it.

Rome wasn't built in a day, IndyCar has practically restarted and in all honesty it needs to get the track schedule straighten out and get a proper budget that all teams can meet before trying to have them throw in money for accessories that the racing doesn't need at the moment.

True


About Cavin, I think you shouldn't get too much on your high horses about him, he seems to be a really good guy overall. It sounded no more than a badly worded thesis/anti-thesis answer... I bet he has no strong opinions about aerokits either way.

I am listening to his radio show every week and he's a class act. He knows his subject well, he is passionate, he doesn't hold grudges(quite rare in the AOWR world...), he doesn't live in the past and enjoys the present, he does his best to remain objective, he doesn't take his stuff too seriously, etc.

The guy receives tons of negative mails and questions every day, as part of his Indianapolis Star gig. Hard to stay fully objective in those conditions. His only mistake would be to take the "fans"' tentrums and desire a bit too seriously. But somehow it's part of the job, as someone who's answering the public's questions.

Last edited by GreyBull [CHA], Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:31.

A bit disappointed to see no reference to LFS and netkar, but still a decent read.

http://jalopnik.com/5926673/ho ... makes-you-a-faster-driver

Quote from rockclan :

They reminded me of some races from Verstappen.

No self-respecting Verstappen fan without a legit copy of Interlagos 2001...

Quote from rockclan :

8. Monaco 2005 = because I was in the studio this race, and I can see myself.

Quote from TFalke55 :

Well, better having one more year with one aerokit and 20+ cars, then having 4 kits on 12 cars. We know what can happen with teams that can't afford racing - they simply vanish and with thereby the big teams can break away to create a formula under their rules.

Agreed.

PS: Curt Cavin is the man!!

Quote from Cornys :

Half of the drivers who started ended up on the podium.. Sweet

If you're into schedenfreude, it's actually an entertaining watch...

Jeez, lighten up people.


Jerez 1986
Adelaide 1986
Spa 1992
Kyalami 1993
Hockenheim 1994
Suzuka 1994
Adelaide 1994
Spa 1995
Adelaide 1995 (I guess you like high attrition races? Never watched it actually, but I bet it's an odd one)
Monaco 1996
Monaco 1997
Jerez 1997 (maybe not so much "action" involved, but it's a pretty cool one just for the excitement of the title chase)
Spa 1998
Nurburgring 1999
Hockenheim 2000
Interlagos 2001
Melbourne 2002
Interlagos 2003
Suzuka 2005
Shangai 2006

Indianapolis 2005 is a funny one too...

http://www.racer.com/qa-beaux- ... ficiating/article/249520/

Quote :

RACER: Why were the pits closed at the first caution period?

BEAUX BARFIELD: The pace car was positioned in that runoff that goes from (Turns) 1 to 2. If I would have left the pits open, I'm encouraging a race back to pit out, which really isn't a problem. But then the cars would likely continue to maintain some speed until they hit the pace car at Turn 2, since it wasn't at pit out.

With the incident being at Turn 1, and needing to get response vehicles there, I didn't want the cars coming out of the pits carrying speed through that area. I decided to shut them down and get pace car out in front of them to get them cleanly through that area while the safety vehicles were on site.

R: This is to prevent a case, similar to say maybe 2005 or so, when Sebastien Bourdais and Paul Tracy raced themselves out of the pits, and went over the white line on pit out?

BB: Yeah, that's exactly what I didn't want. It was in just a bad enough spot in that turn, that with such a wide entry and a narrow exit, that I wanted to get it shut down and under control.

Quote from CSF :

If Will continues to stumble, it won't much matter what RHR does, he will just have to be consistent. On current form that doesn't look to be too much of a problem...

Will SHOULD still take it on paper, but...

True.

That said, it's much harder to make race-ruining mistakes on Edmonton, Mid-Ohio, Sonoma.

Baltimore can be tricky, but Will was in a class of his own there last year.

Fontana, well, it's another story. Ovals are pretty much his cryptonite right now.

Anyway, things are still wide open. A 34 points disadvantage is not that much, it can be overcome in one race only.

I expect Dixon to be a factor too, even though he's 54 points behind. However, I belive he was on his final engine at Toronto, so he faces one or two engine penalty(ies).

The thing that worries me about RHR is, he's never been in a title fight at that level before. He's a great, all around, consistant racer, but he can have his own streak of bad results sometimes. Remember the first half of 2011.

Quote from J@tko :

Just watching the replay on SS - good god 2-wide restarts around there are fairly interesting.....

Maybe they should go back to single file for Toronto.

Quote from Cornys :

I had been disconnected for a little while (cable and internet), but they did bring back the push to pass didn't they?

They did.

Quote from Mustafur :

Power got screwed by that caution where as guys like RHR already pitted, the closing of the pits under caution is a stupid rule.

Exactly.

Actually, Beaux is always trying to keep the pits open under caution these days. I just fail to understand why he didn't do that yesterday. Maybe he knew something we didn't know, as Jack pointed out.

Man, I'm a bit disappointed(as Will would say). First yellow changing the outcome of the race entirely(not sure why Beaux didn't keep the pitlane open), then hell broke loose with 8 to go.

Could've been worse I guess. Still less carnage than last year.

Quote from Mustafur :

Got a Feeling this race will be a Ganassi Domination, they have dominated every practice.

Ha!

Quote from JackDaMaster :

What you mean to say is Conway put Kimball into Bourdais and into the wall.

Yep.

Quote from CSF :

Will Power, champion of not being champion.

We'll see if RHR can keep the good results coming on the next road/street races...

Quote from Jonathon.provost :

Sorry for bump, But Is there any ware I can see the old articles, Would love to see them :P

I'm pretty sure I still have most of those somewhere on my HDs, if not all. I will try to make re-uploads.

Seems like TGBB used to love caps: https://twitter.com/marshallpr ... 19943489536/photo/1/large

Quote from banfwd :

Right, keep on watching Chevy 1-2-3.

Enjoy WTCC 2013 then. I guess it will always float your boat, aslong as Michelitz and Zengo take the checkered flag at the Hungaroring, no matter what the car count is, and no matter which scrubs they will have to compete with

BTW - If you want a championship with gentleman drivers and borderline caricatural engine equalisation, there's the BTCC already. Not taking a shot at it, it makes great racing too!

Last edited by GreyBull [CHA], Wed, 4 Jul 2012 18:43.