Forza Skin Show-off Thread

Leadfoot5 · Post by **Leadfoot5** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 8:35 pm

Another Leadfoot Racer... Porsche style... Clean, with a secondary team logo... Looking forward to taking this one on-line...

Teal · Post by **Teal** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 9:43 pm

Leadfoot5 wrote:Did you really catch that much air or is that a Photoshop job???? Amazing!

I really caught that much air. It was at Laguna, and I drove it backwards, and hit the chicane at an angle at about 90 mph. What happened after that was REEALLY ugly...

TCrouch · Post by **TCrouch** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 2:21 am

Sat down to really try to mess around with this paint shop tonight...inspiration came from an evening snack of cereal

Danimal · Post by **Danimal** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 2:25 am

Ok color me stupid as i have never messed with this stuff before. But i went in tonight and was messing around. How in the hell are you guys getting custom images in there?

I looked through the manual and I don't see anything about that.

TCrouch · Post by **TCrouch** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 2:27 am

There aren't any custom images. You lay a series of simple polygon shapes in layer format, one on top of the other. For mine in particular, the Tiger is a series of about 100 different shapes, lines, etc. Just have to be creative in the construction of it. You can't import a picture, but you CAN create just about anything you want by stacking and rotating tons of basic polygonal shapes. You just have to draw and create things from scratch and try to make it look as close as possible to whatever you're modeling.

Danimal · Post by **Danimal** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 2:29 am

Holy s*** you did that by hand!

Good lord.

Can you trade paint schemes like this online?

Phototropic · Post by **Phototropic** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 8:27 am

Terry,

What shape(s) did you use for the tiger stripes on that car?

Zeppo · Post by **Zeppo** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 9:02 am

Danimal wrote:Holy s*** you did that by hand!

Good lord.

Can you trade paint schemes like this online?

Yes, you can. Since you can 'gift' cars to friends, you can just slap the decal scheme onto any old cheap car and give the car to someone. Then, that person can save the decal scheme, and then use it on any car he wants. There may be some messy bits at the edges of each surface, so you might have to tweak it a little from car to car, but it's set up to be easy to transfer decal schemes from one car to the next.

TheTruth · Post by **TheTruth** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 10:02 am

Teal...that general lee shot catching some air is awesome!! I assume you chose american as your home or whatever? I still haven't gotten my copy of the game yet.

Leadfoot, love the designs man. They look great!

I remember trying to mess with this stuff in the first Forza. I still can't see how you guys do this. I mean, I understand the concept, with the layers and all, but putting it into practice is another thing. I guess you just really have to sit down and spend some time learning, especially if you have no graphic design background/artistic abilities at all.

Slumberland · Post by **Slumberland** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 10:04 am

That car is really well done, Terry.

I want to devote some hours this weekend to paint jobs. Last time 'round, I never wanted to invest a ton of time into a car that might not work out on the track, but the whole copy and paste design thing takes care of that worry.

TCrouch · Post by **TCrouch** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 10:32 am

Phototropic wrote:Terry,

What shape(s) did you use for the tiger stripes on that car?

There's a little "fang" shape. Just spun it, made it black, and resized it.

If you mean the bigger blue stripes themselves...I think those were just a seriously enlarged "wave" stripe on the 2nd tab of shapes. You have to look at the shapes and not necessarily how they look in the selection box, but imagine just blowing them up to huge proportions. All of the black stripes outlining the Tony the Tiger are actually that "C" arc in the first page. You can stretch it to just a slight curve, etc.

Just takes some patience and tinkering, for sure.

Phototropic · Post by **Phototropic** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 11:14 am

TCrouch wrote:
Phototropic wrote:Terry,

What shape(s) did you use for the tiger stripes on that car?
There's a little "fang" shape. Just spun it, made it black, and resized it.

If you mean the bigger blue stripes themselves...I think those were just a seriously enlarged "wave" stripe on the 2nd tab of shapes. You have to look at the shapes and not necessarily how they look in the selection box, but imagine just blowing them up to huge proportions. All of the black stripes outlining the Tony the Tiger are actually that "C" arc in the first page. You can stretch it to just a slight curve, etc.

Just takes some patience and tinkering, for sure.

Thanks. I need to experiment more with the curved shapes like that.

Teal · Post by **Teal** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 11:51 am

TheTruth wrote:Teal...that general lee shot catching some air is awesome!! I assume you chose american as your home or whatever? I still haven't gotten my copy of the game yet.

Yep, I chose American. I like cars from overseas, but my love is good ol' American muscle. It'll cost me more to get the cars across the pond, but it's worth it to me to be awarded beasts like that 69 Charger, the Chevelles, and so forth.

And thanks for the kudos. I was kind of surprised I got that much air when I did it, and so far, I haven't been able to replicate it very well, so I'm glad I got the shot!

My designs are very rudimentary and simple so far. Terry, Tony never looked better! My kiddos would get a kick out of that. I'm gonna try to expand and experiment as I get more cars. I'm now working on one called 'The Teal Mobile', a PT Cruiser that will have my wife and kids and me represented on it, but probably NOT in picture form...I just don't have the patience for that...

Gurantsu · Post by **Gurantsu** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 9:51 pm

Wow, that Tony the Tiger is nuts! Awesome job.

This is my standard paint scheme, but finally on a car that resembles the real thing.

Still need to work on that star though...

Post by **ScoopBrady** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 11:12 pm

Put some more work into mine. It's a picture of my daughter (pretty sure you already knew that though

). I added more depth to her hair and changed the color scheme of the car.

Metman24 · Post by **Metman24** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 11:29 pm

This is my first shot with this version.

Leadfoot5 · Post by **Leadfoot5** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 11:47 pm

That's AWESOME Metman!

Metman24 · Post by **Metman24** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 11:51 pm

Leadfoot5 wrote:That's AWESOME Metman!

Thanks! I'm actually having a blast just playing around with this thing.

Leadfoot5 · Post by **Leadfoot5** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 4:04 am

Ok, so Hoffman's 500th save gave me inspiration tonight. This is a work in progress, but the main design is done. Need to figure out a good place to put "Trevor Time!" ... Took me about 2 hours just to do the damn "P" logo...

Gurantsu · Post by **Gurantsu** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 9:31 am

OK, now THIS is how its supposed to look...

Looks much more like <- that one now!

Great job by everybody on their cars. I forgot how much fun it was to paint them.

SoMisss2000 · Post by **SoMisss2000** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 7:00 pm

here's my latest creation......ode to my new wireless carrier

Leadfoot5 · Post by **Leadfoot5** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 11:57 pm

Trevor Time completed...

vader29 · Post by **vader29** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 12:31 am

My first paint job, also made a license plate that turned out pretty good:

dbdynsty25 · Post by **dbdynsty25** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 1:04 am

Shouldn't the left side of the car be blank?

Phototropic · Post by **Phototropic** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 1:22 am

Marshall University (incomplete)