The Revolution Racing Scirocco:

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Quote from LineR32 :

Go to the Scenes and Meterials thread, I upload the VWS and updated FBM models in .3ds format, did try .obj but it messed them up for me.

So it can't be used with blender yet?

Quote from John5200 :

anyone has the vws .blender file???

can´t wait anymore! when i can´t drive the car, i wanna render it at least :yikes:

Me too or is there an easy way to import the car from the viewer?

Just a quicky.. but it's a start first R-R VWS skin!

When can we expect a VWS_Pro-Kit.psd?

Quote from cathal50cc :

use thumbnails

+1 and don't post skin files..

the best Xmas gift i could think of! Thanks Scawen, Eric and Victor (and all i fogot).

'k heb de hyve ook op de hoogte gebracht

Quote from james_bskt :

It could just be a simple task of changing the look function in the View menu to mouse, rather than axis or steer..

hm.. good point

Quote from traxxion :

Oh wow, congratulations!

Helmet cam vid is quite nice Sponge I remember Darkone made one too.. looked quite nice as well. let's see if I can find it..

E: http://www.lfsforum.net/showth ... &highlight=helmet+cam
Bit over-the-top with looking in the mirrors maybe, and not with the nice overlay you have, but still good for some inspiration maybe

The movements look quite realistic.. but something similar is beyond my abilities (I think it's done with that head tracking system?).

Been working on a heartbeat sound but it turns out to be really difficult I had a 1.5sec. sample which I tried to paste like 100 of them together but every time you go from 1.5sec. segment to the next you hear a sort of 'static' noise. With that every 1.5sec it gets pretty annoying after a second or 10

If anyone has a good (long, 1min.+) heartbeat soundclip (a fast heartbeat is preferred) I would love to hear about it

I've been busy with the overlay this afternoon.. well.. I 'lent' one from Race07 and edited it a bit. I plan on making one myself, but this is for getting idea's on how to make one.

Looks nice!

Quote from tristancliffe :

Personally I think the view is a bit too high. But the amount of 'look to apex' is about right. With a touch more head tilt it'd be even better... And the overlay isn't very much like looking through a helmet - I think the bottom bar needs to be darker with more 'helmet internals' detailing - seams, seals, padding etc.

But good job nonetheless

Thanks
I'm working on making a better, more detailed helmet overlay. I've been looking around the web for inspiration from games like Race 07 and GP4.

The hight can be adjusted, but the tilt is at it's max unfortunately (in-game)..

Quote from evilpimp :

Much better like this.

I also liked your idea of adding heart beat and breathing. If you could do it, it would be awesome aswell as some blinking :P.

Keep it up though, you're improving!

(The quality though is a little :S but hey, not everyones got 1000$ to pull out for a new pc :P.)

Thanks

The idea of blinking came to mind too, gotta figure out how to do that though... maybe just a black frame for like 1/100th of a second or something.. Also still searching the web for breathing and heart beating sounds.. the breathing I could record myself, but the quality would probably suck..

See first post for update!!

Quote from james_bskt :

What are you editing with? Obviously something good, on premiere pro 2 you can tilt the video as well as resize, so you could leave the edges of the helmet on one layer and tilt the background (westhill) would look nice.

I make my video's with iMovie (from iLife '08) I run LFS on my MacBook via CrossOver [that's why the quality of the recorded video is pretty bad] and recorded the video with "iShowU".

Don't know if iMovie has a function to tilt/rotate the video clips.. But I thought LFS kinda made it look like the driver tilts his(/her) head in the corners as it does 'recreate' the forward motion during braking.

Quote from BenjiMC :

If u had the helmet leaning into corners and stuff it would been awsome

Thanks

Well, that's the kind of effect LFS can provide if i'm correct, but i didn't had all settings the way they could give the best effect.

Quote from hadesko :

lol, iam just doing this same in my upcoming vid -,-, but i didnt knew about that u made it 2. damn now i have to remove it. -,-
Nice video!

Thanks

I didn't know you were on this too I would love to see your version of it So please don't remove it

Thanks
Well, the 'helmet cam' refers to the helmet overlay I tried to make (working on a better one atm). But I think I've should gave it a different name "Drivers perspective" or something.

If i'm not mistaken, if you drive a few laps and then look in one of the tabs (F11 or 12), it shows the average % of fuel used per lap..

Or am I off the point here?

Quote from The Very End :

As he said, it's on the [noobs] Destruction Derby server.
The server is a chill out zone for people that want a relaxing time away from the serious racing, so crashing are allowed, and approved in DD
....

If something get's on my nerves and.. well.. NOT chilled, it's racing on a server where crashing is allowed... I can get red hot furious after being rammed off the track for the millionth time So not relaxing at all

Anyway, I gotta agree with what's stated above many times.. lag crashes and (in my opinion) bad music take a bit off of the experience..

Hi all,

I've made this FO8 cockpit-view edit Tried to make a 'helmet' overlay so it would look like you're really inside the car

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It's the same overlay (with some minor tweaks) I used in my latest vid

Quote from Hawku :

Best lfs video what i've ever seen. Keep up the good work

lol.. I almost tripped over your sarcasm

Quote from der butz :

what I love most about your vids is the brilliant fluidness! There is no lag, no noticeable decrease in framerate. The effects are set quite sparingly and subtle. And except for the purple cone I couldn't find a single error in physics :-) ....

My thoughts exactly Awesome job hadesko!

Quote from [SWE]RE :

Shift+F.

+1 Nice website though

Quote from evilpimp :

I like the idea, the helmet is alright, the quality of the video itself isn't that good unfortunetly. I think it would have been better if you had left the carsounds with a little music in the background instead of music only and for the quality I guess the only fix would be a better computer? :S

Nice concept and well enough executed though. Keep it up!

Thanks

Yup, the only fix for the quality is a better (new) computer I think But I don't actually know what went wrong with the sound.. Maybe I had a setting wrong so sound wasn't recorded. In the 'original idea' I wanted the car sound plus some kind of breathing and a hearthbeat sound to give it that real feeling you're actually there.. Also i had a better overlay in mind.. with some dirt and stuff on the visor..

Maybe in the next version