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Post by tony kloosterman on Jan 21, 2015 3:27:01 GMT
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Post by Tony Mino on Jan 21, 2015 3:50:10 GMT
You mean putting every driver in a grid according to their last name or number?
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Post by tony kloosterman on Jan 21, 2015 3:52:10 GMT
with the pictures of our skins
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Post by Greg on Jan 21, 2015 3:53:18 GMT
Lets say there might be something like this for the Saturday series, but not sure when it will be done. I have to figure out how to make the cars  |
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Post by Tony Mino on Jan 21, 2015 4:02:33 GMT
I can grab some screen shots from tonight's race and mock something up to show either tomorrow or the next day. The hard part would be getting all the cars to look identical due to the changing lighting conditions per session and the fact that not everybody attends each race.
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Post by Greg on Jan 21, 2015 4:09:11 GMT
My idea was to use trading paints and download all the cars. Then all you had to do was change everyone's car number to your iRacing number then take a pic, alt tab out change the next paint to your number, ctrl+r, take a pic, repeat. That way you can get the same shot for every car. If that made and scene, its getting late for me But that doesn't work for people you don't use trading paints. |
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Post by Eduardo Lorente on Jan 21, 2015 19:32:03 GMT
Hi gents - I was fiddling with this again last weekend. I had anticipated we'd do the "photoshoot" at Daytona since the night lighting has a nice effect on the cars - plus I think we'll have our full grid there.
There's no shortage of ways to do this. At the NAGP, when I did a spotter's guide, we took the photos when the cars were in the pits ... you just "lock" the camera angle so the cars are photographed at the same angle and they all look uniform. Not the prettiest, but it was simple.
I sent Greg an idea I had for photographing the cars but adding something "extra", like a driver # and name in a fancy script. Same as above, you "lock" the camera into position so the picture is almost the same for each car. IMO this is my favorite method, you can still get great pictures and it's relatively easy.
This weekend I played with photographing cars by swapping the skin files with yours and blanking out the number. This way you can put the cars in any "pose" you want, and get the lighting to your taste. This probably would look best, but a Greg said above, you can't get cars that aren't on Trading Paints, plus it's probably more work than the other two methods I described above.
Joe should chime in here too ... will we have space on the website to post a spotter's guide? (I think Joe said we've got a five page limit, and we're almost there.) If not - that's fine - they can just live on the forums then.
(Greg - If you're still up for the challenge, maybe we can chat again during/after Thursday night practice.)
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Post by Eduardo Lorente on Jan 22, 2015 2:54:56 GMT
So here's a very low-tech example of what we can do on the forums. Unfortunately our HTML palette is limited so you don't have too many options to format the box. If we can get the ability to use "iframes" - we can do some neat effects like a "lightbox" (example here: lokeshdhakar.com/projects/lightbox2/). (I just threw this together in 15 minutes ... you could prettify this a little more, but not too much.) | Driver Name | Driver Number | Team Name | Sponsor/Skin | | Smith, John | #92 | Team GRAsim
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The alternative to using HTML for this, is that you make one big graphic like in the facebook post you listed above. It would look MUCH nicer, but it might be a little problematic on the forums (I think if it's too big, the file will get resized, and when you resize pictures you lose some quality to the extent that they get blurry or fuzzy looking). As I think about this more ... maybe you have a small picture on the forums that's a clickable link to a better quality picture hosted somewhere else, or maybe downloaded? One last suggestion ... if you decide not to bother with HTML, then a good tool for putting together something like this is Microsoft's Publisher and its Adobe competitor (Illustrator?) -- I would bet that's what Andy Blackmore uses to organize his spotter's guides and publish them. They're relatively easy to use tools once you learn them, and you can go crazy making boxes and grids and adding pictures and text. I have a little experience with Publisher as I tried using here for our pre-race notes before I switched to a mix of HTML and hosted pictures. |
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Post by Eduardo Lorente on Jan 22, 2015 2:59:21 GMT
Whoops ... almost forgot. As for the photos, here are a few examples we did for our first season at the NAGP. Credit goes to Tony Atkins for doing these pictures for us, unfortunately, we lost his services after the first season    Tony did a great job with these, but they're not impossible to reproduce. I would imagine our drivers could copy these from the spotter's guide and use them as their signatures too - that would be cool! I would just suggest we decide on a "standard size" so they don't overwhelm the page or signature line. |
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