I dare say I've outdid myself.

"If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent" (essextee) 07/12/2015 at 00:07 • Filed to: lfs, shoop

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Anyone ever heard of the racing sim Live For Speed? Well, I’ve gotten into making skins for the cars and I dare say this !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! inspired one for the game’s “Formula V8” car is my best work yet. Anyone who wants to try to get into doing this themselves should click inside for more info.

The skins are just jpegs like above, so as long as you know your way around image editing software you can make them and drop them into the game’s skins directory and use them in-game. You can download skin templates !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , they come as multi-layered .psds with each body panel on its own layer as well as a handy wireframe overlay that’s great for aligning your work.

There’s even a stand-alone car viewer (pictured at top) so you don’t need to load up the game every time you want to see updates for your skin-in-progress. !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! Just select your car and then a skin from a displayed list of whatever’s in the viewer’s skins folder and you can inspect your work freely. When you make your skins don’t change the three letters and underscore at the beginning of the filename as this is what tells LFS what car to apply it to.

If you pay for the full version of the game you get a great selection of cars, it’s got pretty much everything except for prototype-style ones, and you can easily make skins for all of them.

I decided this one looked like a Calibra or Astra so I made an !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! for it.

To use your skins in online play you need to have an LFS account and then go to !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! where you can upload your skins to their databases.

The game is great as well. The tracks are all fictional, but they are awesome , on par with or better than the best of the fictional tracks from Gran Turismo and Forza. The free online multiplayer has largely been taken over by “Drifterz” but there are still a few good race servers out there.

Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 07/12/2015 at 00:18

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I’ve also been on an LFS skinning kick, i feel like this reached a level I haven’t been.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy 07/12/2015 at 00:26

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The racing cars are scary to do at first because of all the bits and bobs to the bodywork but it’s quite fun.

If you go to that skins link I posted there’s a tab at the top of the page to download all the sponsor decals that show up in the game.

Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 07/12/2015 at 00:36

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yeah, I got those decals, it sometimes helps to get some bodykits to make the cars more detailed, wear/tear, buildup, etc.

as for online, I usually hang out on [TC] CityDriving

lonestranger > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 07/12/2015 at 00:54

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Nice! I’m a car skinner myself.

On one hand I hate to criticize, but on the other hand it is constructive: that Jaguar font isn’t period-correct. That is, if you care about that sort of thing and that’s what you’re going for.

This is the logo used on the 2000 car:

2001 -2011 vs 2012+ :

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > lonestranger 07/12/2015 at 01:31

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The incorrect one had a better quality transparency available online so I went with that.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy 07/12/2015 at 01:33

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Just finished a Zonda Cinque inspired one for the RAC.

Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 07/12/2015 at 01:38

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ooh, nice! could use some depth, but looks nice.