After three little years here comes another skin (which is more like a bodykit) for the much beloved Raceabout!
It's called "Black Edition" and comes in white, blue and red. Other colours will be possible which is why I attached the template, too. But regarding the contrasting parts the selection I supply you with works best.
It has been quite a while since I've skinned (outside of team skins). However, here I am again. I was first making this as a request for a friend, but a public release is a no-brainer. I present the FIA Formula One World Championship winning 1999 McLaren-Mercedes MP4/4. Both driver editions - #1 Mika Häkkinen and #2 David Coulthard - are available for download!
Livery of the 1999 McLaren-Mercedes MP4/4, MH & DC editions.
By the way, the skins are already on LFS World, so you do not need to upload them.
This skin is free for public use, but please do not edit it, do not rename it, and stuffs.
Reposting other people's skins isn't cool, dude - especially when it's a private skin. Most people can figure out for themselves that you can rename the files anyway, so at the end of the day, you're just spamming.
I used the cmx2obj converter to get the obj-file(s) of the car. Within those files the geometry is described(vertices,tri's and normales) as well as the UV mapping, so what vertice corresponds with what coordinate on the texture. So the UV-Mapping is already in the files. I just opened the file with C4D and it also reads the UV-Mapping. So rendering a skin is possible without problems since the UV-Mapping is already done.
I then used Bodypaint 3D, a powerfull UV-Edit and Paint tool within C4D to project a image onto the 3D Model and let Bodypaint do its magic by reversing this projection back onto UV-Mapping.
Hello guys
I will be grateful if someone will make a skin for me.
I need it for XRG from Demo version.
Requirements:
Nissan 270r with nismo and nissan emblems.
White color with carbon hood.
Text "Downhill Drift" - both of the doors, red color..
Some sponsor stickers in random places, like Toyo, Yokohama, Japan Tuning etc. in black.
Other things - as you wish.
I will be really grateful! ^^
If you ever did a more complex skins, with elements that went around certain edges, you know the problem. You fiddle around for ages to get the transition from one UV-patch to the next one as seamless as possible, with more or less satisfying results. Especially with the different stretch-factors for certain UV-patches this can be a pain in the ass.
When i used the LFS-Skin Viewer i always wished there would be a feature, where you just projecting a texture onto the 3D-model of the car and get back a corresponding skin. The difficulty lies within the transformation from the frontal-mapping of the projection into the UV-Mapping of the 3D Model. With the help of Cinema 4D and Bodypaint i was able to do this transformation:
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With this technique the possibilities for complex skins with logos, pictures, etc. are huge. Especially for open wheelers with all those edges at the rear. My example is just a fast and sloppy one but i think its still impressive
Here the result, i know the render isn't the best, but i wanted a fast result. If you playing CS GO the theme should be familiar
I still work on the quality of the reversed UV-Texture. Its still a bit blocky and you need quite big pixel sizes to get a good result since there is a certain loss when transforming into the UV. But on the plus side, you dont need to mind the stretching. You just put on you texture as you would like to see it on the car and the rest goes automatically
Sup lfs players. I'am asking for a favor, can somebody make a black xrt skin with those awesome looking head lights and maybe some tuning logos. I mean like fortec logo and others, like in the original skin and carbon hood and other stuff to make it look cool. Make it look like a drift skin? I would really appreciate for doing that!. ps. sorry for my bad english thank you ohh and upload it for me?. peace
Potluck skin pack - this is every FXO skin in my LFSW library right now.
Mega.nz seems to be having problems, so I've attached the rar file here.
All uploaded to LFS world, and all free to use and modify in any way you see fit - but you're uploading those ones yourself.
Credit me if you want to.
Enjoy!