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lol awsome did you guys ever find out how they get it so exsact because im wondering myself

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Cheers guys, thanks for putting them on the site. I'm more than happy to represent the X3F.

@ Project Ekim

Time and patience. Lots of time and patience.

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so there is no way to upload images u have to like use the shapes givin? If you do wow thts hard good job.

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Yeh i really wanna know whats up with that.

Tbh i'm not really a driving fan but importable images for custom cars is a 100% sale point for me tbh.

Really impressive

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No you can't import images to the cars. It would make things a lot easier, but overall it would diminish the fun of making your own work of art.

Here's my car:

http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/3413/abe39773652340239e738f5yl4.jpg

http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/6423/535265961f88488499c80f0ap1.jpg

http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/7044/9c3de04da55b450bb9fbc4exr4.jpg

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http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z142/higherbe1ng_2007/f234fc66-fa2e-42db-88b2-1ea0e5617b5.jpg
http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z142/higherbe1ng_2007/a0f08c17-fd6c-4ee3-90fd-0e537e5f77c.jpg
http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z142/higherbe1ng_2007/066783d1-4f36-4c50-9c35-9639f17598f.jpg

lil bit of 8 bit love

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Next thing we'll see is Mario Icons on Spartans...

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SOOOO sick bro! I wish i could have this!

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spinthelights: Wow, that's awesome. I actually had the idea of doing an X3F car this morning, but I couldn't have done nearly as good a job as that. Are you offering up the 360 controller as a stamp on the Auction House? I'm sure it would be very popular.

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is it me or do some of these screen shots show off how badly Forza 2 is composited?

look how sharp the cars are compared to the background! too much focus on the car i think.

Dirt and Project Gotham 4 are lookin very nice tho...

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@ ryan

Take a photography class. When you're focused on a car moving at a high speed and you want a quick exposure time, you open the aperture as wide as it can. This makes the subject in focus and the background appear blurred.

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That Bender car is slick bigC24.

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no no, i'm serious. lookat any trailer or gameplay of forza 2 and the car is always in focus, always so dang sharp, even in the distance.

i'm taking a compositing class and there's ways to prevent this.

i mean, yes, a photograph, granted, will do this, but moving footage?

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Oh... After watching some footage, I see what you mean. The cars look to sharp and appear to be floating over an out-of-focus image. I didn't notice this while playing, though.

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if it's done on purpose to show off the detail of the car (because it is very nice detail) then it comes off as unnatural, and artificial.
the stuff Magazine shots are made of- but in real time.

my point i guess is that it's unrealism is a bit of a let down. the customazation is off the hook tho...

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Here are two of mine.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v330/porte66/XLC2.jpg

And here's my work in progress.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v330/porte66/Stewie2.jpg

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@Rubbinz


Thanks bro. I've got a few going on the auction house shortly, so keep a look out if you're interested.

I love the 8 bit car HigherBeing.

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i wanna how you guys make stuff with just the lil bit they give you in the game. there as to be some way yall are importing designs over to the game bc theres no way even with time and effor you could make some of that stuff. i cant even figour out how ot paint my car more than one color. i mean how the hell do you do all of this? can someone explain?

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@ Ryan,

You're right, the moving footage on a lot of Forza 2's promo material has that odd style of the car always being in tight focus, as though the car and track are filmed at different film speeds. The actual in-game replays don't seem to suffer from that problem as far as I've seen, and in-game racing looks natural.

As for the still shots, the game allows you to set aperture, film speed, focus, etc. so much of the composition is up to the player. It is possible to keep all the distances in frame in focus, as well as keeping the ground sharp also. It's just a personal preference. A lot of the car-specific photos are created to either to show off the design of a single car or attempt a dynamic composition, hence the tight focus, slow film speed and shallow depth-of-field.

BTW, excellent other cars everyone.

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I can give it a race car like them, but cant actually produce anything cool.

This is as far as I've gotten:

http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=520017433&context=set-72157600306291342&size=o

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