hi sniper,
another suggestion... if you want to colorize some parts i suggest to make them fader. i seem insisting on this but otherwise it looks like two pictures overlapped. but if you make the background fully black-white or fader with colors it will look like a trackmap with a background picture as it is supposed to be. that's why i strongly suggest this. moreover, i recommend not to bind yourself to a single colorset for trackmaps. there can be a very cool shot which may interfere with the trackmap if you bind yourself to a single color set. and i am glad you liked those crashes and interesting moments idea (two credits now
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ps. i recognized why i liked the first (australia) on this page but not liked the latter two. i told one of the reasons: i think the background pictures would be better in black&white. another reason is that (i recognzied it just now). in the first preview the track graphics isn't transparent, thus looks seperate from the background picture. but in the others, it is transparent. so we have:
full black&white background, nontransparent track layout
specially colored background, transparent track layout
what we don't have is
specially colored background, nontransparent track layout
as final words:
1-personally i'd like to see cars instead of pilots
2-the track map and background pictures should look seperate this way or other. i think black&white backgrounds look good but your color edition could also be nice if you can prevent mixing of track map and the background picture.
3-though the gp info fonts and fontcolors should be standard, you can change the track map's colors in order to gain more flexibility at choosing background pictures. and if you decide to use different colors, try not to use same colors in following gp's. as a result, do it this way or other way, but keep the background and track map easily seperatable for an eye.
4-do not restrict yourself to winners, there can be very exciting accidents or passing maneuvers or etc. you may use them also.
5-that's all for the moment.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/21/2005 11:06PM by watercolours.