Car of the Month - Discussion topic

[A1 Aaron]

Thanks for the support, Ivo and everyone that has supported and backed the project, Crono for doing the website for us, GeorgM for the permissions, and XYY for his ongoing assistance in running the project

Regards
A1A

[XYY]

No problem
But I don't know if I'd have done this every month
I hope that CoM will be a big success...
btw we'd need a CoM smilie, like we have a ToM smilie

[A1 Aaron]

Well i must admit it was your idea to do it every 2 months though
And yes i certainly hope so too
Ahh i was thinking that earlier, how do we go about doing that?

[Trigger Happy]

Do you mean what, A1 Aaron? This: ?

[A1 Aaron]

Yes that Ivo thanks

[Sutinen]

Can I post my nomination in the nomination thread or must Lukeno do it?

[AleksiNir]

Can I post my nomination in the nomination thread or must Lukeno do it?

Err... Maybe you should read the rules?

[Sutinen]

Can I post my nomination in the nomination thread or must Lukeno do it?

Err... Maybe you should read the rules?

Damnit, I readed them all, but I didnt find anything like that. Ill check again.
E: I found it!

[AleksiNir]

I readed them all

Are you sure about that?

3. An author is NOT allowed to nominate an own car(pack).

[A1 Aaron]

Thanks Alexsinir you are right you are not allowed to nominate your own work Sutinen. If someone else nominates it then that is fine, but im afraid your nomination is not going to count

[Lukeno94]

Any future self-nominations will be deleted by myself as soon as I spot them.

[A1 Aaron]

Ok brilliant thanks Luke saves me searching through for them lol

[XYY]

I'd have a question:
when we upload cars we also post a picture (max. size 120x120).
Should we ask the carmakers to make those or should we of do that?

[A1 Aaron]

Well if the carmakers include one in the zip then we can use that but if not i think we might as well just make them ourselves

[XYY]

and what if more than one car is in the pack?
upload everyone?
or make pic of just one car?
or mini pic of all cars?

[A1 Aaron]

I think that would depend on how many cars are in the pack and how much difference there is between them. Like your Global GT Lights and future designs Formula Fords all the cars are the same other than the liveries arent they? So for those we only need the one car in the pic.
But if the cars are very different, then i think a pic incorporating all cars. I might be wrong but i think we can only upload one picture per car file anyway

[XYY]

Then we make animated .gif's (for all different cars, even if the difference isn't big

[A1 Aaron]

Ah ha! Genius lol

[XYY]

2015 January/February voting

[A1 Aaron]

What option tool are you on about? lol

[Trigger Happy]

he means in tool made by Juan (link is somewhere in Tools & Utilities section).

BTW I don't agree. Ingame pics are much better. If you will use same track for all pics (a track with low WS), it will be enough to show the car. For example CarTest by Markus Möller could fit well.

[Crono]

I used Stravas Showroom Tracks for the first upload.

[XYY]

I could create a micro track in which you can see all cars with a resolution of max. 120x120px...
it might soon be in the track WIP...
what about creating different atmospheres (street, raceway, rally) ?
EDIT I don't know if to do that

[Paw]

For presenting my cars I used "track", which I made. It was just full tarmac with "Paw" written on it and the cars placed in "arc". But here will be only one car, so what about placing the start position at 45 degree? Or maybe the car shown both from front and rear, both at 45 degree? Something like on attached pic, but of course better centered, zoomed etc. If the viewpoint would be good set, your work would be just to cut the bottom display and resize the image.

[Quklis]

I think carpacks as Genetleman's newest shouldn't be classified as just one pack as the cars have big differences..