Lamborghini is one of my favorite car brands. If you’re like me and want a series of desktop backgrounds that span all of the models over the years, now you have that.
I created a series of wallpapers of all of the Lambo models that I could find, from street cars to race cars. You can download them from Flickr here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jonhillenbrand/albums/72157714375345207
As some of you may know, I am a full time photographer and videographer. So lighting is my life. Lately I’ve been creating renders of some of my favorite cars in the racing sim Assetto Corsa using Content Manager‘s Custom Showroom. If you haven’t used it, it’s a very cool mini-program for looking at cars. You can set up four different kinds of lights including point, spot, directional and plane lights. These are equivalent to a china lantern, a fresnel, sunlight and a panel light or soft box. There are also scenery lights that come with various “showrooms” that you can download which light up or remove the brightness of the background. You can also play around with reflections and shadows and all sorts of other characteristics of the final image.
If you are a fan of photography, especially studio photography, I highly recommend you try out this awesome program.
I’ve created a gallery of images on Flickr here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jonhillenbrand/albums/72157674895588447
Here’s a preview of some of my favorites (including some images I haven’t posed yet):
Let me know what you think. Are you a fan of photography? What do you like to take photos of? What about sim racing? Any sim racers out there?
And now back to my roots. Some of you may know that I started out in game modding by creating skins for racing games. Today I’ve created a very simple skin for Assetto Corsa for the beautiful Dallara FX/17.
Download at RaceDepartment here:
A massive update to my Sailing Mod to version 1.5. I’ve completely redone how the boat moves using PhysX instead of setVelocity commands. This will make operating the boat much more smooth. I’ve also changed the way the display works so that it now correctly indicates the True Wind Angle. I changed the numbers displayed to include boat speed (BSPD), True Wind Angle (TWA), True Wind Direction (TWD) and True Wind Speed (TWS).
I also was able to calculate Apparent Wind Angle, which is now indicated on the display as a yellow arrow which moves around the compass indicating relative wind direction as it’s felt on the boat.
If someone wants me to display Apparent Wind Speed (AWS) instead of boat speed, let me know as that is a value on most sailboat displays. I just like the boat speed display because it’s in tenths of a kph.
Also, if people want me to change the indications of speed to knots instead of kph, let me know. KPH is kind of the default speed for everything in Arma, so I figured I would leave it at that. But if people want knots, let me know. I might be able to add an option to switch between both.
A few of the other changes include:
I still have to update some of the pictures on Steam and on the in-game instruction manual. But I wanted to release it before I went down that road.
