I dont think we need more characers, plates are there for realism, adding letters, colours, and other weird symbols is not important and realistic..

MadmanCZ is all I can fit onto a plate, i was wishing i could add the _ to it aswell but then I thought why the hell, its a car number place for gods sake, not a name tag.

( . )( . ) this is a cool plate though some people say they are tits, I say they are eyes!

- infinity.. i just think its not needed.

Right,

Think the Ireland skin is done

have a look, tell me if you want anything added, changed etc...

edit... if you want it too look like the skin I have posted earlier, then thats no problem, would just have to find some descent pictures of it, that one is too small!


mad

Last edited by Madman_CZ, Sun 28 Jan 2007, 14:34.

Quote from luftrofl :

It really looks like you spun out at every turn

After reading that i thought its worth a watch, and LOL! true, looked very funny.

Quote from orange_boy_uk :

Silly but funnyillepall

ROFL! Love it, so random!

Hi,

wow operationsmile is a great site, they do some great work just read through it. I applaud people who do this sort of work, changing lives.

edit: btw i was looking for some more images of the Ireland team and came across this LINK I think this skin looks a bit better as its not as plain looking.

Mad

Last edited by Madman_CZ, Sun 28 Jan 2007, 13:22.

Cool, I'll get my thinking cap on

Hi... i could make your skin for you, If you tell me all the things that you want on it ill make it

colours? logos? numbers? sponsors? driver names?

if I have all the details then I can see what I can come up with.

Mad

Hey there,

It's quite a simple skin, I can have that done in few minutes. I'll be happy to dio it for you just aslong you tell me exactly what you want on it..

Numbers, sponsors, etc....

mad

With the title and the first part of that paragraph my brain made that sounds very weird indeeed.. especially with the word "snapping"... i mean ..auch!

but then it was all clear..... he meant his gear stick

Ok.. i did a quick test...

Method:

1. Found the best possible image of the ABT Audi .... see pic

2. Using the Magic Wand tool and shit key I then went and selected all of the black markings.....

3. After all of it was selected i made a new layer and simply filled the layer with black paint.

4. This gave quite a similar effect

5. I then selected the best area with most randomly spaced marks using the circular selection tool.. Hold shift + alt to make a perfect circle...

6. Then I went to edit> define brush preset, this has now made the selected pattern into a brush.

7. go to the brushes selection and it should be near the bottom..

8. I then just painted randomly the patterns, I just did it very quickly so it doesnt look quite right, but what you can do is, using the rubber you can erase some of the unwated marks untill you are left with something that looks very similar. In my screenshot I just painted, havent eased them yet so it looks very busy and messy.

Final though, this was the fastest and easiest way I thought of, It was rushed and can be perfected, will work on it a bit more. I can also then send you the brush if you want... I will make a proper skin of it later, now its time to eat

Mad:munching_

Last edited by Madman_CZ, Sat 27 Jan 2007, 12:34.

Jesus, you guys have some patience! I'll try and work it out too... brb*

well not to worry..i can create the skin in a jiffy myself..... would save me some precious time though.

Mad

Quote from neilmichaelcasey :

This would look nice if it had a helmet on each side of the name.. to suggest drivers looking at each other, going to battle, rivarly etc... would still need some improvements but nice idea using helmets...

upload the file here.... skin looks great..

Cau

That is a really nice skin, not sure what LFS car that would suit, probably the FXR GTR

Should be quite easy to make, it will look a bit different though on a different shaped car.

I made an opel skin for the FXR a while back of the DTM 2002 opel...

Still one of my favourite skins

Mad

Cheers for the links.

I don't mind doing the 3d meshes, thats the easy part for me, its all the converting, importing, texture + shader assigning for the game that is usually the problem. I can unwrap models and add textures and shaders in 3ds Max but for games its a different cup of tea altogether. Then getting the correct loading grid position, ai race line and so on....

Will check it out.

Mad

Last edited by Madman_CZ, Fri 26 Jan 2007, 15:54.

Quote from keiran :

If you read my post you would have realised that track editing was made possible by L02k and now is probably one of the easiest games to make a track for...

Really? hmmm I will look into this myself, I considered creating a track for rTactor but I really dont want to waste my money on it. GP4 I have had for ages and if now you can make your own tracks... man thats great.. Still waiting for the DTM mod that is due to be released....

mad

Quote from Meanie :

But, do you have any idea which mods are used on those screenies?
Does the guy tell you that?
Where exactly did you get those?

I want to know what he's using, mod-wise

Thanks man.

It appears that he is using the F1 2005 season mod

You can get the mod and other mods + tracks for Grand Prix 4 from www.gp4db.com

hope that helps

Mad

No avatar month is reserved for the pre-patch hype period

Last edited by Madman_CZ, Fri 26 Jan 2007, 12:51. Reason : TYPO!

I'll see what I can do tomorrow.. or today rather!... I used cartoon ones to make the logo appear cartoony. I dont think you could get the same effect with real LFS cars though I havent really tried. Will have to see what car fits the best.. me is thinking probably the XRT

time to sleep now!

Ok.... during an hour of boredom i decided to have a go....


edit: ahh crap! can some one merge my posts please! ta

mad

WOW.... my god... stunning Ferrari. Wonder what it is valued at.

Quote from jamesrowe :

Uhm I dont think you get anything
I dont see what is wrong with the old one posted in post 1!

Its very plain, booring, unispiring, unrepresentative, dull, totaly and utterly poor....

Hes looking for something thats attractive visually, something they can be proud of showing, thats got style and represents a team battle...

mad

Just reading through the GPL preservation society article... and this line made me chuckle..

"Even online, many of the leagues are still thriving; UKGPL is about to start season 13 with four divisions, GPL isn't going anywhere for a while yet.

rFactor, NkPro, GTR and the like are all excelent simulator platforms but that misses the point"

Heh... how NKPro even gets a mention and LFS does not I don't know! and the fact that NKPRO and the word excellent is in the same sentence


I do agree though we as a community who feel very passionate about LFS should make some effort to put some article together once a month to tell and show people what LFS is all about and what a great WIP Sim it is. I think a bit of publicity would be good. I am sure that there are lot of people out there who are looking for the most realistic sim on the market but then choose rTractor or GTR2 to play rather than LFS simply because they don't know LFS even exists.

I am sure that many people from the LFS community could contribute and put something together, we have plenty of clever people here with good writing skills, replace some of that forum sitting/reading/posting/living with some article writing.... faster1111 anyone?

mad

Quote from Highsider9 :

How about the "Scan your Face Avatar Month"?

Hoping the "Photo of yourself" option wins now.. so that I can then scan a few photos/face....mind you there are probably already weird pics of me floating on the forum..... somewhere

mad