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[Fireboyd78]

Proposition: Make the city of Los Angeles day time like by replacing any and all night time textures.

Reasoning: Los Angeles is very dull and boring, and when you think about it, driving around in a night time Los Angeles is pretty...well, stupid.

What to do:

-Replace all textures

What we need:

-People who are willing to help out

What you need:

A photo editing program, capable of doing simple things, as in:
-Smudging
-Color adjustments (Hue/Saturation)
-Touch up tools (similar to Patch tool in Photoshop, like for removing wrinkles)

Driver Texture Editor 0.9B or higher


I will get all the textures we can successfully edit without having palette problems (miscolored images). I will also instruct you how to properly import the images that may have a different format, like transparency and etc.

What we'll be doing:

Divisions/Teams:
-1 to 3 people will work on one section, etc.

New roads:
-This is ABSOLUTELY needed.

REMOVE ALL NIGHT TIME TEXTURES:
-Getting rid of yellow glows, brightening up images, getting building images off of Google and editing them, etc.

Create a Daytime atmosphere:
-See above


So please, SIGN UP NOW AND JOIN THE EFFORT! LET'S MAKE LOS ANGELES A BETTER PLACE! I will be your project leader, and as soon as we have a team going, we will work for a rough release date. That way, we don't spend too much time slacking off.

The stages will go like this:

Planning stages:
-We will decide whether or not that one building is worthy enough of becoming a daytime building, etc. We will also decide the final name for the mod.

Rough drafts:
-Is this building good enough? What do I need to adjust on it? What about that road? Do you think it'll flow in the game?

Final builds:
-We will do last minute touch ups to ANY textures and package them in a ZIP file for manual installation, and a POSSIBLE new LA_01.LEV to replace for the lazy people.

Distribution:
-The massive mod will distributed right here on Driver Madness, in the Downloads section. THE DOWNLOAD WILL BE EXCLUSIVE TO DRIVER MADNESS.


I built this list during my 4th period, I will touch it up at home.

[Nikusakken]

Nice! I'll see if I have some free time, and if I do, I'll join!

[madness]

Sounds good, but a little time consuming.
Is it possible to write a photoshop script that will automatically open all textures, change the hue/saturation, save the image and your done. Or is it going to be more complicated than that. Ignore me, I lost my brain in the park mid last year.

[Fireboyd78]

I know how to create a photoshop RECORDER, like it records your actions then you can repeat it, but i dont think it would work too well...

[downer]

Sounds like a good start to Driver hi-res textures! Night time driving does look good though, especially with rain!

How did you get LA to be daytime? With the DMC, I can get dawn, but not daytime. Maybe there's preset limits, like snowing doesn't work in Miami.

[Fireboyd78]

I think if you put it like this -

Dusk
Dawn

it'll transition from Dusk to Dawn. But then again, I think that if you delete the line that says "Night" it'll automatically go to day time...Not quite sure though...

[downer]

I gave LA a quick try without any weather or sky info and it defaulted to night
The dawn sky does look nice though, and the LA textures do look pretty bad even in low light, so it does sound like a good idea to still redo LA. Maybe they left LA pretty simple so that four cities would fit on one disk for PS, instead of two cities on two disks for Driver 2, who knows. It does seem pretty cool to have LA as a sort of outdoor night club that you can drive around in

[Fireboyd78]

I have looked into this with deep detail, and even tried to make my own daytime textures, and I have to say - we're going to be doing this for a LONG time. I tried doing it in multiple ways, but none of them worked. It looks like we're going to have to RECREATE some of the textures, you know, make them in OUR image. But that would require people who have a LOT of experience with photoshop, as making new textures requires use of multiple tools.

I really hope this idea can go through though, as DTE V2.0 should allow us to properly replace the sky textures. One particular texture I'm interested in replacing, however, is the water. It's f***ing purple!

[downer]

I'm not a texture artist, but maybe to get a new person started on free textures if you're planning on recreating everything from scratch...

http://www.burningwell.org/gallery2/v/textures/

http://blender-archi.tuxfamily.org/Textures
Also has some good links at the bottom of the page.

http://freegamedev.net/wiki/index.php/F ... C_textures
Might also have some usable textures if you dig around.