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Post  patryk28 15/4/2020, 10:52

Hello,
I'm new in this forum, but I would like to start making skins. Does anyone have any advice at the beginning?
Which program is the best for it?
Thanks in advance Very Happy

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Post  Guest 15/4/2020, 12:52

possible ways to do it with painting programmes like Photoshop or Gimp. I don't have experience with the last one, but it's free to use.

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Post  harvestmouse 15/4/2020, 13:35

Photoshop's better. Gimp isn't as intuitive, but perfectly workable. I used Gimp for years and changed to photoshop and.................to be honest I'm so used to gimp i keep going back to it for easy things.

Finished skins are .DDS files and it used to be that you had to download a special app for GIMP. I hear now this isn't the case............which is great news.

You'll probably need Geditor too, to break up the .GTR files so you can work on them.

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Post  patryk28 15/4/2020, 13:54

OK, I will try to start in gimp and see how it goes Smile thanks

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Post  drr6 17/4/2020, 19:23

Hi Patryk,

Take a look at this tutorial made by [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.], it's really useful.

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Post  patryk28 17/4/2020, 20:10

Hi Daniel,
Thanks, but I don't have permission to read this.

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Post  Guest 18/4/2020, 13:20

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Not sure if it works but there's a good tutorial for Race07, it works more or less the same.
"Race 07 Car Skinning Tutorial - RaceDepartment"

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Post  patryk28 18/4/2020, 18:32

I try use it and I think that soon I will be able to send a test skin here Very Happy(if everything goes well)

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Post  patryk28 19/4/2020, 15:43

I download the template for Porsche 997 GT3 R and did this random skin, I saved it as .dds file but I don't know how to add it to the game.
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Post  kk08 19/4/2020, 16:12

You have to copy a .car file from a working car. If you open it with text editor, you will see the lines (usually placed at the bottom): Manufacturer, Driver, Driver1, Driver2, Team, Number and Classes.

Edit Driver, Driver1, Driver2, Team and Number as you want. Then remember the content of Manufacturer and Number.

The Number format is YYXXXzz where YY is the year, XXX is a 3 letters number e.g. 001 for #1 and zz is an optional couple of characters.
If you don't respect this format the skin could not work.

Now rename your .car file to match your number and rename your skin Number_Manufacturer_body1.dds

Now if you put the two files in a folder and put it inside game's file structure, the magic should be done...

You should learn a lesson about the lines Classes and Genstring but I think this is enough as first lesson.

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Post  patryk28 19/4/2020, 20:44

OK, I made my first skin.
It's not difficult and there are not many elements (made today) Very Happy but if someone could rate it I would be grateful.
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Post  Sylphide 19/4/2020, 22:17

patryk28 wrote:OK, I made my first skin.
It's not difficult and there are not many elements (made today) Very Happy but if someone could rate it I would be grateful.

Looks really nice for a first skin. Always smart to start simple. Biggest thing i will say is to always organize your layers. I remember starting out i always just added layer after layer and not naming or organizing anything and if i needed to change anything it took me forever to find it.

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Post  patryk28 19/4/2020, 22:49

Really thanks Smile
I will remember it, the next one I will try to create real skin to see the similarity

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Post  alexmezza 20/4/2020, 07:48

For a first skin, it looks really good... thumbs

Keep up the great work !!!

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Post  drr6 20/4/2020, 08:40

Good job Patryk, looks really nice! thumps up

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Post  degas 20/4/2020, 16:48

Great! clap

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Post  patryk28 20/4/2020, 19:23

Today's skin Very Happy
Mercedes AMG GT3 - Triple Eight
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Post  Sylphide 20/4/2020, 21:28

Well on your way to making some quality stuff!

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Post  kk08 20/4/2020, 22:59

+1 Ask and you will receive help. We are always happy to share our knowledge.

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Post  GeForce06 17/5/2020, 00:09

nice work on those skins

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