Honda Accord 07 Skin Help

Erik Tveit · Feb 4, 2011

Hello!

I was giving the make a skin thing a try. And I ain't any good so, I wonder if anyone can finish this is the same style I started, or something to do it better. So here the start is in full size: http://www5.picturepush.com/photo/a/4996163/img/Picture-Box/hoonda.jpeg
The file is saved as jpeg, but easy save do it to dds with: save as/write the name, and change the picture type.

Any help is appreciated!

UMC 22 · Feb 4, 2011

A jpeg isn't much good because it lacks all the layers that are in the usual templates. (dirt, shading, parts, etc) It means you'll be painting over all that detail, which results in a car which looks very bright and odd when in-game.

Erik Tveit · Feb 4, 2011

Ok, I may wrote wrong. Because what I meant is, this is the paint here layer. The rest is in the teamplate that are in your program files.

Saul Boucher · Feb 4, 2011

Hi Erik, have you checked out my Skinning Tutorial yet?

It only uses open source software, and covers all the basics. Might help you out!

Jim Cole · Feb 5, 2011

Erik, what exactly are you going for on that skin? Did you want the Red Bull decal to appear correctly, or were you wanting it to look like it was missing parts?

Erik Tveit · Feb 5, 2011

Hmm, I've changed it a bit now. But the plan is to make it near this:

Jim Cole · Feb 6, 2011

Will put something together and post it and see how you like it. Might take a couple of days to get it done though.

Erik Tveit · Feb 6, 2011

No, don't do that.

I made this:

John Bowman · Feb 6, 2011

The writing on the bonnet needs to be flipped. The writting on the right side needs to be flipped. Only the bonnet requires mirrored.

Other than that, nice work man

Erik Tveit · Feb 6, 2011

I found that out when I saw it ingame.

Christoffer Haugen Pettersen · Feb 8, 2011

looks good

i did the same livery for the chevrolet : p

Till Peters · Aug 12, 2014

i wanted to make a skin for the honda. i downloaded the template but tis is how it looks... My problem is i cant see the hood or the sides.. can anybody help?

Dennis Phelan · Aug 12, 2014

That's what my template looks like. If it looked like the others, I'd have a Honda skin in my garage!
So, I'll wait with you

Till Peters · Aug 12, 2014

My problem for me is that every skintemplate looks like this... example the template of the bmw320si e90

Dennis Phelan · Aug 12, 2014

Yes I see that too. I turned on all the layers and it still looks basically like that. There are skins so there will be answers coming soon!

Till Peters · Aug 12, 2014

ya... i just wanted to start and now that... but we'll have to wait for now.

Björn · Aug 12, 2014

Hey Till,

while this might not sound like an ideal solution, may I suggest trying to use Paint.NET (+PSD plugin)? I've just tried opening both the Honda and BMW skin (downloaded from our resources) with Paint.NET and they opened fine, shading included - if you'd like to continue using GIMP, maybe just re-save the file and then switch back to GIMP, might already help

Till Peters · Aug 12, 2014

hi,
thanks for such a fast answer

and it helped. I downloaded Paint.NET and the Plugin. After that i resaved the template-file with Paint.NET and i opened it with GIMP, and it worked

Thanks so much

Will27 · Sep 1, 2014

Till Peters said:
i wanted to make a skin for the honda. i downloaded the template but tis is how it looks... My problem is i cant see the hood or the sides.. can anybody help?

If you still want to use GIMP, try moving the shading layer out on its own. On some car templates the shading layer is in the wrong group and doesn't show properly
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