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The RaceDepartment skinpack
As discussed during the previous week(s), we're unifying the Mini/WTCC skinpacks into a new RaceDepartment skinpack. At the same time, we're extending the pack to include all other classes run during RD club events, so you can spraypaint your Radicals, GTs, everythings!
All skins by drivers who have signed up for a RD club event during the last three months as well as pending uploads have been migrated and are already available in the pack.
As usual, the pack is available as a 7zip file via the RD download resources and, in order to keep things tidy, now contains a slightly modified folder structure (see below).
Updates, if there are any, will be issued every Sunday - given the current club event structure, this allows short-term skin development targeted at vehicles used at the next week's events right after they are announced
Guidelines & Informations
(a.k.a. "I don't wanna call this rules, we're still casually racing)
Getting your skin added is easy - just zip/rar/7zip it, upload it somewhere (dropbox, mega, the choice is yours) and link it in this topic. If everything's fine, it will be added to the next update.
You don't have a skin yet? Whoops! Well, basically, there are three ways to overcome this dilemma:
Currently, there are no skins waiting to be included - the pack's up to date!
As discussed during the previous week(s), we're unifying the Mini/WTCC skinpacks into a new RaceDepartment skinpack. At the same time, we're extending the pack to include all other classes run during RD club events, so you can spraypaint your Radicals, GTs, everythings!
All skins by drivers who have signed up for a RD club event during the last three months as well as pending uploads have been migrated and are already available in the pack.
As usual, the pack is available as a 7zip file via the RD download resources and, in order to keep things tidy, now contains a slightly modified folder structure (see below).
Updates, if there are any, will be issued every Sunday - given the current club event structure, this allows short-term skin development targeted at vehicles used at the next week's events right after they are announced
Guidelines & Informations
(a.k.a. "I don't wanna call this rules, we're still casually racing
)Add your skin
- updates will be published every Sunday evening(GMT-ish time), please make sure skins are submitted by then to see them included.
- since we're drastically increasing the amount of permitted car models, your skins will be removed from the pack after 60 days of not signing up for club events - of course, you are free to re-submit your skins once you restart racing.
- please stick to the default skin sizes - oversized skins have been causing problems in the past (for example, for WTCC skins, body/windows/internal dds files should be less or equal to 1366/683/513 KB)
- each car can only be present once per driver - another upload of the same car will replace your current skin
- one skinned car per class (WTCC/GT Club/Retros etc.) is what's desired - should you find yourself to be switching cars often enough to justify it, however, you may enter multiple skins per class - please mention this accordingly in your upload.
- the skin pack features a root folder which should be placed in Race07's user files (for Win7/8, entering "%USERPROFILE%\Documents\SimBin\RACE 07\CustomSkins" in Windows Explorer should get you there). Inside this folder, there are user-based folders which might, in turn, contain car-based folders - but I'll take care of that
Getting your skin added is easy - just zip/rar/7zip it, upload it somewhere (dropbox, mega, the choice is yours) and link it in this topic. If everything's fine, it will be added to the next update.
You don't have a skin yet? Whoops! Well, basically, there are three ways to overcome this dilemma:
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- Get your Paintbrushes out and skin your dream car! Basic skinning is actually quite easy and very well covered in this RD guide. Software-wise, the guide (rightfully) covers GIMP and Paint.Net, a worthwhile addition might be Inkscape in case you work with or need scalable graphics.
The base files needed can be found in RD's download section: Base Game | STCC | Retro | Additional.The guide mentioned above only covers body and windows skinning, so here are the formats which other files should be saved as:
Body/Driver/Ext_Driver/Numberplate = DDS file, DXT1 with Mipmaps (6, if adjustable)
Windows/Helmet = DDS file, DXT5 with Mipmaps (6, if adjustable)
InteriorWindow = DDS file, DXT5 without Mipmaps
Menuflag (menu) = 32Bit TGA file, 60x45px
IngameFlag (result screen)= 32Bit TGA file, 40x20pxWTCC 87/06/07, Mini, Caterhams, F3000, FBMW, Radicals + Nameplates/Driver/Helmet templatesSTCC2, Camaro Cup Gen5, Retro Volvos (240, 850)Retro Cool, Retro MaxCamaro Cup Gen4, GT Club, GT Pro, GT Sport, Muscle Cup, Formula Master, Formula RR, WTCC Extreme, Seat Leon TDI, Lada 110s, additional STCC1 cars (Peugeot 308, BMS Incognito, Audi A4)- Use Simplivery to create basic skins for a few cars.
- Don't have the time or patience to do it on your own? Well, some of us really like this stuff and might be willing to create a car or two for you - just post into this topic and ask for help
(Do you like designing cars and want to be contacted for skinrequests directly? Shoot me a PM and we'll get your name in here!)- Found the skin of your dreams on some site or the RD download section? We might get it included as well, however, please contact the author and make sure he's alright with this!
Currently, there are no skins waiting to be included - the pack's up to date!
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