Skinning Tutorial

[Ramon van Rijn]

I started this tutorial some months ago on RaceSimCentral, but after a while the graphics were lost. At the moment even the startpost was gone.

Recovered the text and reformatted it into a PDF.

Hope it is still useful for our members.

 

[Timothy Miller]

paint dot net comes with a dds plugin, though it is very limited in the settings department or I haven't found a way to adjust it yet.

 

[Anderson Pereira]

Thank you.

 

[Nuno Areias]

hi there

nice tutorial:thumb: thanks mate

 

[Sander Hogendoorn]

Thanks Ramon, I never really went deep into the skinning stuff, but I will soon :thumbs:

 

[Ramon van Rijn]

You're welcome

 

[Ariff Roose]

yes!!! at last i found one! thanks man!

 

[Marcin Wójcik]

Thanks for the tutorial Ramon! Great work

 

[Alberto Marzi]

Thanks Ramon

 

[Daniel Monteiro]

hey ramon, can you tell me how to change the wheel color apart from black, silver and white?

 

[Jarrod Crossley]

Officially there is no other way unofficially there is but it means decyrpting the game files.

 

[Simon Kaminski]

Really great, but I think you can get better Skins with Vector based Lines, if they are wrong you can Edit them in seconds I know for the beginning its not so easy but work with them and you get a great feeling Have a look at here, and you know what I mean http://www.webdesign.org/web/photoshop/photoshop-basics/photoshop-paths-made-easy.5451.html

And here: http://www.webdesign.org/web/photos...-tool-to-extract-or-make-selection.16168.html

And here: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDrtyNmp3A4[/media]

I think thats enough

And insert logos from ai or eps files as Smart Objects, then you can easy transform them without qualiti loss

 

[Chad711]

If doing this in Photoshop CS3 do you need a DDS converter still? In other guides I do no recall seeing any other tools needed besides a paint program that supports the files.

This is regarding GTR-Evolution skins.

 

[Simon Trendell]

http://developer.nvidia.com/object/photoshop_dds_plugins.html

 

[Chad711]

Guess that is a yes!

I read your tt but I wasn't sure if this was really needed or not. Guess so

 

[Márcio Campos]

Thanks a lot, now i can make my own skins...

 

[Tim Hogendoorn]

*Fixed*

 

[Ries Notenboom]

Thanks for the tut !

At least now I am able to get a custom skin in game.
I am still absolutely clueless in regards of working with Photoshop and hence I won't produce anything stunning at all but it is fun to be able to piss about a bit now with the knowledge I will actually be able to see it ingame.

Guess I now just have to go hunt for some guides in terms of working with PS and specific stuff that applies to making skins.

If anyone has a usefull link that will set me on the right track, please !

Thanks

 

[Péter Bártfai]

I'm making a skin, but I can't save the windows because it says it has too many channels! I'm not a pro photoshopper, so what should I do?

 

[Stuart Thomson]

Hi Peter, get into the habit of saving the psd (just as backup), and then use the "Layers -> Flatten Image" command.

Once the psd is flat (ie no layers) you can save it out as a DXT5 dds.

Because flattening loses all the layers, that's why you save the psd first.

 

[Péter Bártfai]

Thx for the help!