Skins

[Graham Bridgett]

Basically I just wanted to know how you make skins for RBR?

 

[Senad Subasic]

Basically I just wanted to know how you make skins for RBR?

Find a skin template for the car in question, open it up in Photoshop or GIMP or whatever, paint away, and save it as a .dds file.

At the very least, you'd want to have an external (skin for a shiny new car), external_scrape (skin for a damaged car), and external_transparent (windows, your name, flag, and stuff like that).

That's the basics of it I guess, I'll leave the rest to experts.

Here's a template example for the 06 Focus WRC: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6335348/rbr stvari/FocusWRC06templatev10.rar

 

[Graham Bridgett]

The car I'm going to be using is the Impreza URT (if that helps)
I wont be painting the skin a friend will be doing it but I just need all the info I can get, once its all finished where do put the skin in my directory?.
Also I've noticed the season 4 plates have come out now, where do I save them?

 

[Senad Subasic]

The car I'm going to be using is the Impreza URT (if that helps)
I wont be painting the skin a friend will be doing it but I just need all the info I can get, once its all finished where do put the skin in my directory?

Try this for a template: http://www.mediafire.com/?kyc6d98xbo99ad2


When it's all ready, you put the .dds files inside a zip file, and the zip file inside a folder with the same name. For example:
Richard Burns Rally\Skins\Impreza_N14_URT\Graham Bridgett\Graham Bridgett.zip

Also I've noticed the season 4 plates have come out now, where do I save them?

Those are just image files you can place on your skin, it's not used by the game directly.

 

[Graham Bridgett]

Thanks for that, this is one area I have zero knowledge about

 

[Daniel Tonsberg]

Im currently trying to learn how to make my own skins for RBR, but im struggling abit. Is it anyone with lots of experience regarding making custom skins I could bother in PM with questions ?

 

[Joakim Skalstad]

try Roy Magnes

 

[Damien Jones]

Im currently trying to learn how to make my own skins for RBR, but im struggling abit. Is it anyone with lots of experience regarding making custom skins I could bother in PM with questions ?

I'm happy to help, ask away.........

 

[Jack Hintz]

and me

 

[Roy Magnes]

Im currently trying to learn how to make my own skins for RBR, but im struggling abit. Is it anyone with lots of experience regarding making custom skins I could bother in PM with questions ?

For help in norwegian, press 1. For help in english, press 2

 

[Joakim Skalstad]

- to learn skinning in 2minutes press 356634523542 while standing on one foot 5 meters away from the keyboard -

 

[Daniel Tonsberg]

Thanks for the all the positive feedback =D ill be sure to bother you when needed

 

[Daniel Tonsberg]

Any quick tips on how to inspect the skin ? do I have to start RBR to check it out ? and if so any way to rotate camera around to get a better view of the car ?

I cant seem to get the Camhack Mouse modifier to work anymore

 

[Damien Jones]

Yeah, no convenient car viewer for RBR so you have to have to running to see your skins 'in action'. What I like to do is have RBR running in a window, with a replay of the car you're editing playing. Then you make edits to the skin, export to DDS into the skin folder, and restart the replay where the skin will be automagically updated to show your new changes. Makes lining up textures across different areas of the map much easier.
As for your CamHack problem, try deleting its .ini file and see if that helps (it will create a new one).

 

[Daniel Tonsberg]

I see. Guess I have to work around that then.

Ive come across a issue now with my Internal Transparent view, ingame the screen is all black. Does anyone have any idea why ? :S

 

[Damien Jones]

Check your internal_transparent texture's alpha channel, sounds like there's a problem there (white = opaque). Also, remember to save from Photoshop as a DXT3 (explicit alpha) DDS format file.

 

[Daniel Tonsberg]

Thanks to Damien, ive sorted out the internal transparent file

Still I have new question. When running on dirt (english tracks and so on) the dirt texture that comes on the car seems rather bad. By the end of the stage my car looks almost completely brown, is it a way to change this ? maybe get some more detailed dirt or something.

 

[Christen Struys]

if sambady need logo's lat me now i hev more dan 10.000 logos

 

[Tony Gentile]

thanks Senad im understang it now

 

[russvox]

HI guys, I know this threads old but im really stuggling to make any sense of making a skin.

Whenever i try one the whole car just ends up white, wheels, window the lot!!

Any suggestions?

Thanks