Well because Im really struggling for things to do before I head off on a commenting spree, I think Ill share what was involved in creating the piece.
Firstly I knew that on the
Official Japanese GT4 site the car page used external images for the renders and not ones embedded within the flash file itself, this would then enable me to easily save them all to my computer. I checked how the
cars page worked and discovered it used an
.xml file as a backend, this then lead me to find each images specific location.
The format for each car location was
http://www.gran-turismo.com/gt4/garage/car00xxx/thumb.jpg, x being a number from 000 through to 850. Labelled in the
.xml file each car has a corresponding
shortname, for example number
00801 is for the Volkswagen W12 Nardo Concept and by substituting 801 into the general URL format youd get the following image.
From there I simply ran a batch download using Net Transport starting from 00000 through to 00850. This would attempt to download every image in the corresponding folder. If such a folder didnt exist for a certain number it would simply move on to the next numbered folder. Since each downloaded file was called
thumb.jpg, Net Transport named the downloaded files as
thumb.jpg,
thumb(1).jpg,
thumb(2).jpg and so on, and thus ended up with a folder with a total of 451 images sequentially labelled.
From there I loaded up Excel and printed off a page of numbers from 0 to 451. Afterwards I loaded up Photoshop and created a large canvas with the regular 4:3 wallpaper ratio and at random chose and opened images, ran a simple action that resized them by 50% and dragged them into the document placing them into rows. As I chose each image I highlighted the number on the print out so I wouldnt get repeats, this created one very tedious operation, but the highlighted areas helped in the artificial randomness of selection. As each row of cars was made, I merged the layers so that each row was as one layer and not a series of thirty linked cars. This allowing for greater organization, without having to fumble through folders in the layer palette.
So that was basically how it was done.
Man I've taken all year to get to 100%, the game gets very repetitive very quickly. Now I've got to continute to B-Spec spam the DTM race for money to buy each vehicle avaliable, only 150 to go! (I wish I had PERFECT BALANCE's Action Replay
!) Just leave the PS2 on overnight and trust that it doesn't burn your house down by morning. Be sure to check on it every 30 minutes to keep it on 3x speed and in the lead! Cheers, JFM92_GTRacer!
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. That's such a stylish shot, it's all already been said really 👍
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