Team Mafia's Garage

[teammafiaracing]

Well This Was @ 1 point the cars i opened the garage with just a quick PSP 7 work of the Mitsubishi Starion.. I tried to also REPLICATE the FACTORY wheels as much as possible with bespoke.... after some1 suggested i should make the headlights all one coloer i decided that choice would better the car so here is the updated pics






Rims Are ALMOST a perfect match for wut BeSpoke alllows

[teammafiaracing]

Well Im on dail up so not much activity but heres a few screen shots of what i have been working on the past few days...

I think the graphics turned out decent on the side.. but im wondering if maybe i should start taken shots threw VIEWER in stead of game.. any way here they are..

[teammafiaracing]

This Newest Addition Is 1 Of My Better Custom Ones.. In "VIEWER" & GAME i can appear to have the green change color and form.. this skin will be avalible upon request if you would liek to have it done in custom colors..
(Note: This skin is for the FZR Only "right now")

[teammafiaracing]

Well This Next 1 Im Actually Very Proud Of, Though it is still a W-I-P

Note: TeazR gets ALL the credit for the aluminum base skin!
Thanks TearZ for sharing that with us!





Rivets, Bullet Proof Racing Engine (Logo) all made personally by ME... Just For This Project!

[teammafiaracing]

Well i notice no1 leaves me any feed back... but in the advice of Bunta... during an off topic conversation.. i decided to make yet ANOTHER skin so here it is... ALSO i really like my added touch of the license plate from around the front.....

[daloonie]

Use shapes instead and atleast make it 1024x1024 or better yet 2048x2048.

Also blurry edges aren't any good for designs like that. Sharp edges are full of win.

[teammafiaracing]

its not blurred edges.. i made the dark edges using drop shadow.. and made skin in 2048x2048 as i have with i believe the last 4 skins iv made.. the last 1 i took shots of was done with printscreen since i actually got a new keyboard that all the buttons work now ;D and that last 1 was actually made to look like the RS*R drift S2000.. which except for the shapes being off a little was shadowed the same way with uneven shading

[pdanev]

It doesn't matter what you used to make them, what daloonie meant is that they are not sharp and look blurred, and I personally see it that way as well.

It's really hard to judge your work due to the poor presentation...

[moby45]

since you sued the drop shadow in photoshop for the edges, just turn the range down to 0 or 1. that will make the edges not look blurred.

[daloonie]

Don't use drop shadow for lines like that. Use stroke or make an underlying layer with shapes larger than the ones they're ment to stroke.

Also the original S200 doesn't quite look like that either. It has small sharp black strokes.
www.hondatuningmagazine.com/events/0702_ht_2006_formula_d_new_jersey/photo_02.html

And also learn to use the pen tool. It's a great tool for making shapes like that and if used correctly you can always go back and alter the shapes in your source psd file.

[AutoCat]

you've got some great ideas there I see what these guys are talkin about the blurry stuff, but i also see the fade in the drop shadow. it takes an eye to see. try not fading the drop shadow and see how that comes out. you kinda got some conflicting things going on. some of the red looks blocky pixilized yet theres fade in it.. its interesting but is conflicting eachother.

[teammafiaracing]

well i have tried everything that every1 has suggested to fix how my "representation" appears from LFS screen capture.. to print screen.. personally when i make my skins i make them to how i like the look of them.. and the RS*R skin is personally something i would spray my 89 chrysler conquest to match perfectly.. shadowin and all.. i like the way the shading looks and how i laid out the design to make it DIFFERENT from the original car.. but still to the point iv tried everything to make them appear better in screen shots.. from changin skin size and all.. so :-?? i dunno guess ill just stop postin them till i get a better graphicz card

[pdanev]

No you didn't. Your screens are done in the same way they were before. Look at your last screens. Window mode, windows taskbar, 1024px wide. I don't want to see who you are chatting with or what time it was when you took your screenshot... Then size again, you did post some smaller ones before, but you cropped them, that's not the same as reducing the actual image. This would be quite important in your case as your graphics card is not the most powerful one. Also, why are there sometimes pixel numbers in the middle of your screen?

And again, try to optimize your graphics settings before taking a screenshot. My 4 year old laptop can produce better quality, and it has anything but a good graphics card in it. You can see it from your screens that it's not the weakness of your card, but the incorrect settings that are causing the ugly look. Look at the LFS Wiki for graphics settings and what each of them does.

[teammafiaracing]

because i just got a FULLY workin keyboard 2 days ago so any1 with number pixels was taken using PSP7 screenshot... and if i make it FULL screen game it makes the picture 100 times worse.. THAT WHY i use window mode.. and its nice that ur 4 yr old laptop works perfectly for YOU but we r not all YOU.. i can play LFS on my girlfriend's 2002 emachine and it looks perfect but its not a online set up computer and since she doesnt go online except when shes at work.... seriously i see my flaws but wut flaws there is from screen shots are "un-preventable on my part!"so im askin u out of kind-ness dont tell me im still doing something when i knwo im not.. hell i could put my webcam on and record everything i do and how i set it up and it would show that the more i tweak settings the worse it gets.. and then full window just makes it un playable.. track doesnt load...

[teammafiaracing]

and i just checked that link that was posted.. that wasnt the picture i had found and used to do my skin.. the 1 i found had thicker and un even black lines..