Sorry about that, we recently updated our site and these links are pretty old. Easiest thing to do is just go to our website, all our layouts can be found there.
http://lfs.finalgear.com/modules/Layouts/


Sorry about the inconvenience, hope you enjoy the layouts.

Why don't you use imageshack, or some other free image hosting service, and post the link? Or are you not allowed to post a link either?

Grrr, LX4 layout download is f***ed indeed.

"Not Found
The requested document was not found on this server.
Web Server at finagear.com "

I uploaded it to rapidshare including the spr, as a temporary solution.
http://rapidshare.de/files/25499769/SO1R_LX4.rar.html

I know, but as I said, whenever I make screenshots, I set all the graphics to max, don't care about fps just about quality so I set everything as high as possible.

PS: About blurring, I think that it won't look very realistic to apply blur. All the picture content is relatively close and there's no object in the foreground to focus on. I did some minor blur only on the last one.

PS2: Vale, last one is very cool.

Last edited by pdanev, Mon, 10 Jul 2006 21:46.

Deggis if that was referring to me, I'm afraid that's the best my card can offer. 64mb ATI on a 2 year old laptop.

For screenshots I always set everything to max in ATI control panel, set max screen resolution (1280x1024) in LFS + all the graphics to max there as well.

Sadly, that's as good as it gets.

The poor performance is highlighted on those B&W shots even more, because I increased the contrast quite a lot to get the effect that I wanted.

FZ50 SOFM

A skin based on a litte fiction again, South City Radio this time. Basic design is around that, a stripe with somewhat unique design, and a few sponsor logos here and there.

Preview:






Hope you guys like it and have fun with it.

Get the Skin File here.

I wish the DFP would turn that quickly.

Hehe, there was one of our guys in the LX4 bit, probably Firefox.

Very cool movie indeed, good quality, nice editing. The only minus point would be the choice of music, since this song has been used quite a few times in other LFS videos. But as far as I'm concerned, anything is good as long as it is synchronized with the music, and this was, so np.

I didn't make any edits for a long time, and now I decided to do something else. 2 B&W city edits.

http://img449.imageshack.us/img449/9502/so15sa.jpg
http://img449.imageshack.us/img449/5120/sodriftpark2nx.jpg

edit: 1 more
http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/6809/sodriftpark27gm.jpg

Last edited by pdanev, Sun, 9 Jul 2006 20:17.

Sorry guys, our host is down at the moment, both finalgear forum and site are down. Sorry for the inconvenience.

I can't say much more than try again a bit later.

Videos should be still working though, they are hosted elsewhere.

edit: Well, the offline time didn't last long luckily, we're back online. You can try again, and if it gives errors I'll ask Firefox, our webmaster guy to look after the problem.
edit2: Damn, 1min too slow. :P

Last edited by pdanev, Sun, 9 Jul 2006 17:28.

Hehe, could be much faster though. I backed off a bit for the sake of making the replays, if I really push it I tend to fly off and end up taking out 1/2the track.

Before I go on summer holiday, I though I'll share these 8 layouts that I made quite a while ago. All the layouts can be found here.
http://lfs.finalgear.com/modules/Layouts/

EDIT: Some of the links below may not work anymore because our site went under major changes, but all the layouts are still on our site. Just visit the above link, all layouts are sorted there, you can easily find everything.

I know some people are reluctant to click around and browse sites, so I'll say here pretty much what's on our site. If you are interested in the layout, just click the respective link to see more and bigger screenshots, as well as to download the layout file itself.

I also recommend you to watch the videos, especially for the longer layouts. I tried to keep the size of the videos down, so the quality is really crappy + sound of the videos is the lowest quality possible. Even so, some of the videos are rather big, but thats due to several resons. Long layouts - up to 4-5minutes, I suck at compressing and using codedcs, and I recorded on 1024 1/2size 16bits with medium graphics setitngs.


Starting with 6 Drift Layouts


1 - Drift Park

A drift park for SO3. Random tire sets and barriers, to practice drifting in a confined space. Good for beginners to practice the basics of drifting by doing some small and big donuts around tires, and trying to connect different elements of the track. The possibilities on this track are endless, you can go every way you want, connect different routes etc. Can be also good for twin drifts.

Preview


More & Bigger Screens + Download here.

Videos
Outside cam with the XRT.
30mb Video, several minutes long.


2 - Aston North Drift

You start from the pit area, make a sharp 180, pass several chicanes, and finish up right after the hairpin. There you can turn around a tire, and make the track backwards as well. You will need to push hard on this track, because some of the clipping points are a bit far away.

Preview


More & Bigger Screens + Download here.

Videos (~14mb)
XRT Incam.
Same but outside camera here.


3 - Fern Bay Club

A short drift layout for FE club, with some chicanes on the way. The layout is rather narrow, so be carefull not to hit the grass. At 1-2 points it might be a bit of a challenge to connect the corners. You start from the pits, and at the end you make a 360 and head back. Good for twin drift practice, because the track is a bit narrow you'll have to be up for the task of following your team mate.

Preview


More & Bigger Screens + Download here.

Videos (~9mb)
Incam XRT Video.
Same"]Same from outside.


4 - Kyoto National R Drift Battle

A very short drift layout for KY2R, designed for drift battles. The start is located on the oval part of the track. There are only a few corners and clipping points, so you have to aim and hit them perfectly. It's quite wide, so there is pleanty of room for a good drift battle. Works in reverse direction as well.

Preview


More & Bigger Screens + Download here.

Videos (~4mb)
Incam.
Ouside version.


5 - Westhill Drift

Fast and challanging drift layout for a section of Westhill. The start consists of 2-3 very fast clipping points, mid track 2-3 slower corners, and the end is pedal to the metal. Could be good for twin drifting as well. Does not work backwards, you wouldn't be able to connect all the clipping points on the uphill section.

Preview


More & Bigger Screens + Download here.

Videos (~4mb)
Incam.
Outside camera.


6 - South City Classic R

A fast drift layout with a lot of chicanes. You'll have to swing from one side of the road to the other contantly. The hardest bit is the downhill section which you have to enter with a lot of speed in order to be able to connect the corners. The layout works only in one direction, if you try to make it in reverse way you will not be able to connect all the corners.

Preview


More & Bigger Screens + Download here.

Videos (~6mb)
XRT Drift Inside Cam.
Outside View.


Apart from drift layouts, there are 2 more. 1 Hillclimb and 1 AutoX.


7 - Sout City Classic R AutoX for the LX4 (tough one)

Can't give a preview for this because it's very very long (about 4-5min to complete the track), and there are about 20 screens for it, so you just have to look at them all here.

The track start with a slalom, followed by a 180 turn, and reversing between some cones. Another 180 from reverse, 360 around a tire, and another short slalom section. At the end of that you do again a 180, and reverse into a tight spot untill your front wheels cross the white line (checkpoint1). You continue through some tight turns, another 360around a tire, followed by a figure 8 around 2 tires. Then you have to accelerate, and perform a 360degree turn in the marked region. Don't get too ethusiastic with the throttle at the end of the 360, because right after it follow 2 tires where you have to perform a turn around each. Another tight passage follows, with one more reversing into a tight spot - checkpoint 2. Then the track becomes a bit more straight forward, you just follow the cones. Several slaloms, some more spins around tires. When you reach the final corner on the normal SO1R track, you continue towards the pits. After the uphill section upon pit entry, you go around a tire, and head towards the pit. Circle the tire there and go back through some more challanges till you cross the finish line.

35mb Outside View video here.


8 - Aston Hillclimb

This one is also very long, and I used up all the objects here covering 1/2the track. Don't ask me why I called it hillcimb, it just felt like one when

driving it with the FOX and FO8.

Check it out here.

A hillclimb style layout, for the most mountain like part of Aston. A lot of narrow parts, a lot of obstacles, a lot of chicanes. It is quite long and challanging at some parts. There isn't much to explain, just follow the road and avoid the barriers. There are 2 seperate layout files for both rections,
the only difference is the checkpoint direction and start/finishing position obviously. I recommend to use GTRS, FOX and FO8 here, as those add to the fill of hillclimb. Personally I like the most FOX/F08 in forward direction, and XFR/XRR in reverse direction. You don't need sophisticated setups here, the layout is enjoyable with RACE_S setups. Add only a bit of downforce, some minor steering, camber/pressure adjustments, and you'll be fine.

Videos (~10mb)
FO8 Incam.
FO8 Ouside Came.
FOX Incam.
Reverse direction videos
XFR Incam.
XRR Outside View.


I hope you like at leat some of the layouts. Have fun.

PS: 1-2 of the rar pacakges for the layouts don't have an spr included, because some of the replays got corrupted and give OOS errors.

Last edited by pdanev, Sun, 21 Jan 2007 16:08.

Something simple again. A clean black and white base, with a few orange bits here and there to make the skin stand out bit.

Preview:




Skin file here.

Sometimes less is more. Simplicity was the idea here, and to keep things as clean as possible. A few thin stripes, ATL logo, and numbers. Not much really, but that was the aim. To make something using as little resources as possible. Three color schemes available, hopefully you'll find one you like.




Donload skin package here.

I experimented a little bit with some paint effects, and gave this FXR something like a metallic paintjob. 2 complementary colors with a touch of racing feel.




Skin file here.

A skin for the XFR, with Scavier being in the focus as a sponsor. I tried to make the basic paint already with some racing pedigree. White stripe on the side to contrast the bottom dark and upper light blue shades. I also added some checkered flag graphics on the top and the bonnet. Finally, to give that extra something to the paint, I made some little square patterns. I also added a touch of orange to the end of the white stripe, and to the Scavier logo on the windscreen, to give the overall skin a bit of color.

I hope you guys like and have fun with it.



Render available in higher resolution here.

Some screenshots:





Sking File here or
here.

Last edited by pdanev, Wed, 5 Jul 2006 16:33.

I did a quick search, didn't find it posted here, so hopefully not a repost. It's quite an interesting watch. Look at that tire deform.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O0b90G8Yhg

Crap, that typo was my mistake. One thing I had to do on the final thing was put credits, and I managed to mess that up, grrrr.

Hmm, that's odd, worked fine yesterday, gotta talk to MorroW and see what happened there.

edit: Mirror1 fixed, should be working again.

Last edited by pdanev, Fri, 30 Jun 2006 09:54.

I've never done public skins, only the skins for Team Finalgear. Lately I had some free time, so I decided to make some public skins.

The skins are either fictional, or rely completely on official LFS sponsors. In general I don't like very busy designs, so most of the time I try to use as little as possible. I'll post one skin every 2-3days, so that each can be looked at in time and discussed, rather than posting a bunch of them at once.

Enough said, let's get down to business.

I'll kick off with a Blackwood Airlines XRR skin.


This awesome render, by MorroW Designs, btw is also available in high res, 1600x1200, in their gallery.

Skin file in a rar package, including a 1024 & 2048px version.
Mirror 1
Mirror 2

Some screenshots are available here:
http://lfs.finalgear.com/news.php?readmore=44

Comments, critics, feedback allways appreciated. I hope you guys like it.

In general, you'll find all the skins I made and posted on MorroW Designs and Team Finalgear website.

Last edited by pdanev, Thu, 29 Jun 2006 21:41.

The most accurate way would be to redraw it with the pen tool. Make a path, enlarge the picture, then enlarge the path and fill it with a color.

The one I posted above I did it in a lazy way, enlarge the picture, select the logo with the magic tool, make a new alpha channel, fill, apply some gaussian blur to the channel, and adjust levels. Pretty quick, but as you can see the result I got compared to Gobby is quite poor.

The S isn't sharp anymore, but the thing you posted is really REALLY small.

http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/3971/logo8jc.png

PS: Use color overlay blending mode to get it whatever green you wish.

Here you go, I tried to make a higher resolutions from the one posted here. It's not that sharp anymore obviously, but on a skin I doubt anyoone will confuse it with something else.

http://img47.imageshack.us/img47/3181/caterpillarlogo0ya.png

You could post here the highest resolution one you've got, and maybe someone will try and remake it in uber high res.

^x2

Very good idea, and nice picture, but the water is not looking right.