Awesome efast thanks

I was hoping someone would Render that for me

Does'nt look too bad does it - my new screen background

Just to let you know it's Mika Hakkinen's DTM CLK Original photo's below

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A few Colour Variations Thrown Up in 10 Mins

Last edited by CELTIC100, Mon 16 Apr 2007, 21:49.

I know what you mean Al but any smaller and ingame shots just look like a black car IMO

Master port is now selectable in cfg.txt (29339 or 8080)

How do you select this exactly ?

Do you go into the cfg.txt file and just edit it or something else i'm not aware of.

Just wondering as i'm with tiscali and cannot connect between 4pm and 11pm due to port blocking and traffic shaping, hopefully this may cure some of the problems

Phtoshop CS2 here done a little bit of chopping cars before I found LFS.

If anyone wants tutorials on how to use photoshop try this site

http://www.photoshopedup.com

Helped me loads on how to do skins

(FZR) Aston Martin DBR6 Public Skin

And my personal 007 varient

CLK AMG (FXR)

This Skin is Public

Last edited by CELTIC100, Wed 18 Apr 2007, 00:00.

Yep cause tracks go clockwise and anti clockwise

I have photo's of the real cars from both sides and there is two fuel caps

My personal 007 Casino Royal Skin

Hopefully most of you will only see the rear view

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Quote from Zachary Zoomy :

i thought the STCC doesn't run GTRs. but great skin!

They don't yet ZZ but it could be a safety car car

Thanks for the comments lads

Decals Tommorow

PS : Eric can you give me the file name to the previous DB9 skin or better still post a version here please 2048 if possible as obviously it would help me complete my version and I could hopefully produce a better version

I'll post pictures of my personal 007 Casino Royal version later

Finished Version for public use

Last edited by CELTIC100, Sun 1 Apr 2007, 17:45.

About halfway to completion

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Just a quick Question - What programme are you guy's using for those clean renders ?

They look great Guy's good work

My take on metallic paint

The two shots show the light from different angles

With Purple - Pink Variation

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XFR @ Westhill

OK Case Closed i'm off to lunch (Shakes head and walks off slowly)

Yes Totally agree

But the File size issue is all to do with algorithms within the program that transforms your image fron one size to the other - Would'nt you agree

Whatever means you use on a computer to enlarge or reduce files it never works out exacly correct this is due to the way in which the program that you are using works as it will always lose something in the process.

The real world is a murky place

Point taken Gunn I stand corrected but my post just outlines the true mathmatics to the problem the difference you are stating in the example above must be to do with compression from 1024 to 512 as I take it the original Photoshoped Image was possibly 2048 reduced to 1028 and then 512, compression not being perfect gives the inconsistancies in the file sizes.

But I now know where your coming from thanks

Gunn I think you missed understood BBman's post what he is saying is that the file size of 1024 x 1024 image is four times larger than a 512 x 512 so a file size of 100kb @ 512 becomes a 400kb File @ 1024 therefore
the cost to the dev's for traffic would be 4 times as much hence the suicide comment

Even Worse a 2048 x 2048 is 16 times larger than a 512 x 512 image = 1.6mb

Just a quick tip to do with skin resolution - when saving skins to jpeg make sure that DPI (dots / Inch) is set to 72 and not 300 as this will keep the file size down.

A DPI of 300 is used in Digital Photos etc When anything above 72 DPI for online use has no effect as 72 DPI is optimum for your monitor output.

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Quick reply's lads cheers but can the hosts stay one step ahead of the ISP's by changing to known ports that do not have issues ?

Tiscali say that gaming should not be affected as it is relatively low bandwidth with LFS using about 2 or 3GB / Month and thats hammering it, but they specifically deny port blocking ?

Last edited by CELTIC100, Mon 26 Mar 2007, 15:35.

Same Problems Here - Tiscali - Unable to connect to master server this happens between 4pm and 11pm

Funny thing is though I can get around this to by using Join2Lfs to a certain extent - by using join2lfs I can connect to some servers such as USA City and some others that are not regularly in use but the STCC servers I still cannot connect to between 4pm and 11pm.

Seems to be a combination of Service Throttling and Port Blocking by Tiscali

I'll try and see if I can connect directly to the STCC servers by Connecting directly as mentioned above but if it's port blocking I doubt this will work.

PS. Any chance of hosts setting up servers with different ports or is there other issues I'm unaware of not being a techie - it's just if I can connect to a couple of servers with no problems then it must be possible to get around this problem.

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MMMmmmm very interesting techniques guy's, Just goes to prove I need a wheel and pedal set up as I'm using a mouse and keyboard at present and I could not pin down how some cars seem to fly around the track especially on the tight SO curquits

Time to Bite the bullet and get that G25

Cheers for that It's the little details that make it so simple

Awesome skin AL

AL How did you do the Colour using a gradient or burn tool ? :color:

Last edited by CELTIC100, Sun 18 Mar 2007, 21:23.

Been getting the same here :

No reply from master server between 4pm and 11pm when connecting directly from ingame outside these hours fine I'm with Tiscali 8mb max package and from what I understand it may be down to them traffic shaping

The past couple of days I have been using Join2LFS but encountering the problems that you have mentioned plus other connection problems such as :

Did not receive track info