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Dogg Thang,………..I’ve been thinking for over five minutes of some words that would express what I’m feeling right now. The thing is that ….I’m going to say just “Thank you!” because no words could express just haw much I love that Triakis and haw grateful I am for not giving up and finishing it just because I asked you to.
Yes I will use it up to the point where it will become my my personal skin and I believe many others will.
I guess I’m going to call it Cheryl after Harry Mason’s step daughter :)

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Dogg, I just remembered : in game, the flesh of the Silent Hill monsters was shiny, remember the face of the nurses ?, just as the Triakis does so it is even more true to the game, what if it is not made of rusted iron but rather rotten meat with metal interlaced? It is gorgeous:hyper
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GTAce , yes it looks better, much better , and the goteki is a nice idea, but I believe the golf is still your best skin so far.

Yeah the Gulf one has the advantage of the colors.
Its one of my favorite color combinations.

My next project:
http://xs123.xs.to/xs123/08033/harim...887.png.xs.jpg
Still work in progress.

Here it is ...unfinished, I am now realizing how unfinished this is as I was not going for the bowling pin look. :p
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/380...friendsrk1.jpg47KB

Some other angles if you're curious:

Live the dream

Top Right Front

Right Rear

Top Front

EDIT: doesn't look all that bad (bowling pin-esque) in dimly lit areas

Lets Be Friends

A closer look/The Flags

another 1

Another 2

Nice design, DMC. I was playing around with something similar (mostly white AGS)-- New York folks must think alike :)

As others have said in this thread, I think simple designs-- in particular, designs that emphasize bright, solid colors-- work best practically for identifying racers on the courses. It's really fun to see the more complex designs as reprinted here, or as seen before races in the menu screen... but only the bright solid colors show up well during actual races.

It has been asked previously, in another thread, but I have yet to see a response-- has SL indicated whether skins for concept ships and zone ships will eventually be availabe? I'd love to have one for the zone ship in particular :)

actually its an off-white, I tried to find the closest I could to a metalic (stainless steel ;)) texture/color.

In fact, its an extremely light pink

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Dogg, I just remembered : in game, the flesh of the Silent Hill monsters was shiny, remember the face of the nurses ?, just as the Triakis does so it is even more true to the game, what if it is not made of rusted iron but rather rotten meat with metal interlaced?

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Yes, you're right! The nurses in SH2 had a shine that is actually very similar to the Triakis. So maybe it works after all. Really glad you like it!

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A closer look/The Flags

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more flags huh? http://geocities.com/zargz/leenden/slz.gif

2nd is the states, 3rd - holland. what's the 1st flag?


btw http://www.flags.net/ ;)

Friesland:rock

just raced a guy online, Lagua52, he's got a cool qirex skin - rainbowish :D

The 2097/XL soundtrack gave me some inspiration:
http://xs123.xs.to/xs123/08033/harim...233.png.xs.jpg
Still not finished.

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actually its an off-white, I tried to find the closest I could to a metalic (stainless steel ;)) texture/color.

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Very cool-- looking more closely, I can tell the difference!

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In fact, its an extremely light pink

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Don't worry, your secret is safe with me!

Well, I think that this is as good as its going to get - I am very happy with the result:

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http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/9...arrighter9.jpghttp://img525.imageshack.us/img525/5...ontleftwl4.jpg8KB
http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/4...dmcrearhf2.jpg6.3KB

Some more ingame shots:

AG-DMC 01

AG-DMC 02

AG-DMC 03

AG-DMC 04

I see you've got even scotland, england and ireland there! :D

with this color scheme you will stand out on line for sure!

8)

i had those flags on the previous posts, but yes I figured I would really personalize it with my national backgrounds. :)

Nice skin q_dmc12. Love the colours, and really works well on the AG-Sys. Nice pix too.... Amphiseum works really well for those great Jump shots doesn't it? :g

Yes, very much so - it is my new favorite track. I am suprised how well it plays in the phantom class.:nod

Here's a skin I made for CR4SH3D, with a lot of his guidance and creative input. I won't be publishing it, since it's personalised and CR4SH3D's to do with as he sees fit.

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w...116_230356.jpg

More pictures:
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w...116_230549.jpg
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w...116_230935.jpg
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w...116_193018.jpg

Nice, very clean!
Respect for that work but im still astonished how you make it look high res.
Is it possible to change the resolutuion of the original skin?
I know that it works in Live for Speed but not sure here.

Nope, I think you just get to learn tricks to smooth off edges and stuff, and also get to grips with the limits of what kinds of things you can and can't actually achieve at the given resolution. If you look on a couple off the dividing lines between panels on the body, they're actually really blocky and were causing me a few problems, but by significantly reducing the contrast between the highlights and lowlights, they sort of merged much more convincingly.

Also, the way the textures are rendered in game is slightly more sophisticated than how they are in the editor, somehow - I don't know how it works. So skins always look better in game or in the Save? [ Y / N ] screen than in the main editor.

looks to me that if you do it ofline the huge pixles of the online editor magically disappear! :?

Well, however you edit a skin offline, the huge pixels still come right back when you paste it into the online editor :naughty

still you can smooth out the lines, more than online :p

Well, you can do that, but I've so far found that doing any fancy stuff using image editing software ends up using up a lot of your 16 colours on smooth shading.

EDIT: To bring this back onto the topic of skin posting, here's a quick W.I.P. of a wip3out Feisar that I'm working on.

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w...117_222918.jpg

that's true.
However, the online editor will never get as good results as photoshop, which is my point.

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it looks great

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Also, the way the textures are rendered in game is slightly more sophisticated than how they are in the editor, somehow - I don't know how it works. So skins always look better in game or in the Save? [ Y / N ] screen than in the main editor.

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Sure because of the motion in that scene and in-game.
In the game it gets blurred a bit just like in that Y/N screen so you cant see the bloggy stuff.

By the way:
http://xs123.xs.to/xs123/08035/harim...587.png.xs.jpg
Just wanted to upload it on wipeout-skins but the site is down atm.

EDIT: Its up there now!

well i did notice in the editor, that some of the colors on the FEISAR craft are different than they are in-game (ie. the reds that are in the game are a dark yellow in the editor )

also QirexAAX, the Wip3out Feisar looks very nice :g :+

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Here's a skin I made for CR4SH3D, with a lot of his guidance and creative input. I won't be publishing it, since it's personalised and CR4SH3D's to do with as he sees fit.

there was a pic here - saving bandwidth

More pictures:
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w...116_230549.jpg
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w...116_230935.jpg
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w...116_193018.jpg

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WOW!:o Did you use photoshop to make this? The pinwheel is in great detail!:)

well, i decided to dig up my old Wip3out-ish FEISAR and do a little more work on it. still need to fix little errors with the seams and whatnot

http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/9808/w3f2zl5.jpg

nice job! :+

That's a really beautiful AG-SYS. I look forward to racing CR4SH3D in it online!!

hey, i was looking at the awesome skins posted on this topic, and felt the need to make a new one..

im kind happy with how it looks but at the same time if feels empty, please tell me what you think and ideas on how to improve.

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/5...8025308dc7.jpg
http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/159...8025354xx4.jpg

notice it's not pure white i gave it some shadows to make it look like the jigsaw pieces had depth (it works better ingame but on the second picture you can see it more or less..)

also while i was looking at the photo folder i found this one that i took by mistake of my eg-x and it looks cool :dizzy

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/5...7211754sc2.jpg

how to improve? --> http://wipeoutzone.com/forum/announcement.php?f=22

the jigsaw AG looks great, I wouldn't change too much.
may be put an AG logo or your nick on the side. 8)
perhaps on the big piece of jigsaw on the left side under the cockpit?

oops tottaly forgot about that.. edited the post,,

50k is really small,, i guess i could compress the jpgs a little more but not today.. the whole upload process is boring =)

//medusa
ii love it too, but dont race me late at night, im wasted and got beaten on venom >_<

//sakerbax
maybe add some peneling type effect to make out the crafters details a little bit more rather than having a solid looking hull

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hey, i was looking at the awesome skins posted on this topic, and felt the need to make a new one..

im kind happy with how it looks but at the same time if feels empty, please tell me what you think and ideas on how to improve.

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/5...8025308dc7.jpg
http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/159...8025354xx4.jpg

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maybe the puzzle is an image of a world map or topography...;) you'll figure it out

@sakerbax: I think it looks empty because you painted over all the details (little arrows, logos etc.).
I need a higher res pic from the skin to give you some tips. ;)
But overall it looks great!

AXX, I sure know you and CR4SH3D have finished a wonderful skin for the AG.
CR4SH3D must be very proud of his new baby. It seams to me that it is even better, and more Japanese-like design then the original one. Way to go! :clap

As for the Feisar it sure looks better then Bart’s (which wasn’t bad at all either).
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GTAce, nice combination of colors on that Harimau but I personally would rather try a different design instead of new colors

//Ricanebleu
i love it :P im not even trying any other craft at the moment because i love seeing that skin
thats one hell of a compliment for qirexAAX since he did all the work, i just told him what id like to see untill it was right :) id love to see it in wip3out :P thats the style we were trying for

Yep, it's a lovely skin. Great work as always, QirexAAX!

My Wip3out Feisar:

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w...118_184909.jpg

I've tried to keep at as simple as possible and as close as I could to the original, actually simplifying it so that it looked neat and clean and sort of cartoony.

Some more shots:
From above
Nose detail

It's not very showy but I'm pleased with the effect.

Ricane- I don;t think it's fair to say mine's better at all. I actually think BART's is a nicer looking skin, but mine is intended as a sort of replica skin whereas his is a sort of 'in the spirit of wip3out' design which, in my opinion, looks absolutely excellent.

EDIT: I just realised the Wip3out Feisar logo is not, as i believed it to be, the same as the Pulse Feisar logo. I've altered it on my skin but I can't be bothered to reupload a whole set of new pictures. Just imagine it's right.