Blackwood high-res pack

[himself]

I've just added some noise to asphalt textures in Blackwood, so they look more detailed. Unfortunatelly they look darker than before - maybe I'll make it better soon. If you like it I can write a tutorial how to do it for other textures if someone wants to do complete LFS2 pack but dont know how to.

Oh. DDS files are huge, I dont know why - I was using DDS Converter 2.1 and no matter what compresion option I took I had the same size :shrug:


EDIT::

http://rapidshare.de/files/12299074/highresBW.rar.html

Enjoy :thumb:

[eindewege]

You sure you didn't accidentally swap startold.jpg and startnew.jpg?

[himself]

Now everything's ok.

[AndroidXP]

Hmm, gotta try 'em.

[ORION]

I have put the file onto the ZT server, for those who might have problems with rapidshare... only virus-checked the file, and not tested it yet, though

http://www.zt-racing.com/zockertempel/download/lfs/hires_ashpalt_texture_by_himself_complete.rar


According to the screens, the lines are too dark, thus the overall look has a lack of contrast imo... just make it a bit brighter and there ya go ;)
I will upload an updated version, too (if you post one)

[AndroidXP]

Looks good ingame, but I have to agree, lighten up those white (now gray) lines a bit.

[himself]

It's true - lines are too dark. I have to finish my Database Structures project (studies) and then I'll make some improvements.


BTW anyone have any idea how to shrink those DDS files?

[AndroidXP]

You can't get 'em smaller. You doubled the resolution (2048x1024 => 4096x2048), that means 4 times the size.

[himself]

... but they are 10x bigger.

[AndroidXP]

Uhm, no?

Old: 1366KB
New: 5426KB

5426 / 1366 = 3.9985...

:really:

[Citywidemicke]

Nice :thumb: thanks :)

[himself]

errr. NO.

old one:
BWnewroad.dds -> 524 416 bytes
new one:
BWnewroad.dds -> 5 592 560 bytes

Simillar with BWoldroad,BWralydirt,BWgravel ....

I see they are uncompressed at all. They all have the same size. I see nothing can be done about it :shrug: if this format have no compression.

[AndroidXP]

Strange. My old files all had 1.3 MB :confused:

[AndroidXP]

OK, there's a trick on how to make them smaller:

1) Save the files as .raw instead of .dds
2) Put them into the data/pic folder (make sure to delete the corresponding files from dds folder first)
3) Start LFS
4) LFS converts the .raw to .dds by itself, but instead of getting a 5MB file (newroad) I got a 2MB one after that
5) Take the new .dds files and upload them :)

[himself]

Thanks man :thumb: My LFS loading time is normal again :razz:

[AndroidXP]

Just tested it, the new file size of the pack will be about 7.2 MB :thumb:

[himself]

I updated the first post and here's the screen from new version of textures, they are not that dark even a bit lighter than orginal ones.

New download:
http://rapidshare.de/files/12299074/highresBW.rar.html

[naskavu]

:thumb: very nice update, keep up the good work

[Vendetta]

Wow, that looks very nice. Thank you :)

[glyphon]

i installed the "old" high-res pack last night and it looked great. guess i need to replace that with the "new" pack when i get home. excellent work!

[Jakg]

can someone please rehost the file on a different server as rapidshare never works, Leechget grabs the download and as download managers are only supported in the premium version, it doenst work

[AndroidXP]

How about you try the *gasp* standard download the browser uses? :doh:

[Jakg]

How about you try the *gasp* standard download the browser uses? :doh:*gasp* there is no link, there is no way i can stop Leechget, it ignores the ignore list as well

[atledreier]

Well, it IS an ignore list, so why shouldn't it get ignored? :shrug: :schwitz:

Just messing with you, dude.. There's bound to be some setting to turn it off?

[Jakg]

Well, it IS an ignore list, so why shouldn't it get ignored? :shrug: :schwitz:

Just messing with you, dude.. There's bound to be some setting to turn it off?i know, it should work, but it doesnt! maybe they use another server on a different adress... i dunno, but if i turn it off it just turns back on, the only place i can actually use Rapidshare is at school

[axus]

Very nice textures! I like them! They certainly make it look quite a bit more real. Is it possible to do the same for other tracks? How did you do these?