F1 2019 Adding Abbreviated name to number on Halo

[Bruce Banner]

I'm doing a career with Haas and in the latest update they added Grosjean and Magnussen's names ( GRO and MAG ) as well as their numbers ( 8 and 20 ) to the top of the Halo . For the career driver ( myself ) or any driver who may get transferred to them though there's just a number so it looks kinda odd . Ive exported Grosjean's number ( 8 ) and my own number ( 6 ) and am trying to copy over Grosjean's number and name parts ( both the GRO on the Halo and the Grosjean on the side of the cockpit as well as the flag . I'm using the ' Space Age' font on the name parts ) and I'm trying to use Kris's 2017 Sharkfin tutorial to do so but Kris is so adept with Photoshop and so fast with it that I just can't follow what he does to get all the bits I alter to show up correctly both in the normal channels and alpha channels . If Kris could see and help with this that would be great but any help is welcome as I'm not bad at basic Photoshop stuff that basically revolves around cut , copy , paste , resizing etc but when it comes to stuff like alpha channels I can never get stuff to show correctly . I've tried using the clipping mask feature but that still doesn't make the new stuff Ive pasted in appear on the alpha layer .

 

[KeisariKine]

The way an alpha channel works is the same as a layer mask, so white is fully visible and black is not visible. What you need to do is create a selection of all the added parts (just ctrl click on the layer preview icon) and then move to the alpha channel and then fill with white on the alpha channel

 

[Bruce Banner]

Thanks . That helped a lot as I always find alpha channels a nightmare to work with . I'll see if it's worked in a bit . Thanks again .

 

[Bruce Banner]

It worked great and everything shows up great , but ... for some odd reason it seems a fair bit brighter than the numbers were previously even though I didn't alter the main car numbers in anyway and just added the extra bits to the existing numbers .

 

[KeisariKine]

It worked great and everything shows up great , but ... for some odd reason it seems a fair bit brighter than the numbers were previously even though I didn't alter the main car numbers in anyway and just added the extra bits to the existing numbers .

did you save it as BC3 sRGB or BC3 only?

 

[Bruce Banner]

Yeah I saved it in the wrong version of BC3 . Dont you just love modding Now redone it by exporting the original Haas 6 I had saved for a rainy day and imported the parts Ive taken ages doing ( the name and flags and Abbreviated name on Halo ) and now going to reload the game again . I'll post back in a bit as this one has been saved in the Srgb format this time .

 

[Bruce Banner]

Yeah my redo in the correct format is a lot better now thanks and matches Grosjean's bang on . Thanks for all your help , much appreciated , and just doing a number file like this kinda gives you an appreciation of the hard work some of you guys do to make liveries etc . If just doing a number like this has taken me so long with so much hassle I dread to think how much hair some of you guys pull out One false move and you have to go back a fair bit like snakes and ladders .

 

[KeisariKine]

Yeah my redo in the correct format is a lot better now thanks and matches Grosjean's bang on . Thanks for all your help , much appreciated , and just doing a number file like this kinda gives you an appreciation of the hard work some of you guys do to make liveries etc . If just doing a number like this has taken me so long with so much hassle I dread to think how much hair some of you guys pull out One false move and you have to go back a fair bit like snakes and ladders .

I mean you don't go back anything by making a mistake, Photoshop has an undo feature and you can just resave it. Also working in PSDs helps a lot

 

[Bruce Banner]

I had to go back and redo some of it because I'd already saved it and exited and tried it in game . I then tried to just resave the same mod in the correct format but when I reloaded it after doing that it all went blurry . So I reinstalled the original number , redid the mod and then reimported it and now everything's fine . Thanks again for all your help , it will also help me with future mods that use alpha channels .