S15 - Skins Thread

David Turnbull · Mar 20, 2015

I dont have full control over mydrive vale

plus if we keep the race07 downloads seperate from rfactor 2 it will save anything getting mixed up.

can skins be uploaded in rar files?

Peter Decker · Mar 20, 2015

those are .rar files, car and helmet, had to be separate files - maybe 1MB file size restriction?

David Turnbull · Mar 20, 2015

that didnt work lol ended up as text files.

Peter Decker · Mar 20, 2015

.rar-files can't be uploaded - that was what I meant, so they must be re-named to .rar when downloaded

Steeve Fournier · Mar 20, 2015

Is it possible to explain us how to do that Peter? If i rename it still show as text file.

Steeve Fournier · Mar 20, 2015

Or we can send to David via email but he will need to agree that.

David Turnbull · Mar 20, 2015

i know what peter means now, if you download the files then right click them and open with.... select winrar and then you can extract the files.

Steeve Fournier · Mar 20, 2015

David Turnbull said:
i know what peter means now, if you download the files then right click them and open with.... select winrar and then you can extract the files.

ok It works

now in what car # should i put it? is it important?

Steeve Fournier · Mar 20, 2015

Peter Decker said:
those are .rar files, car and helmet, had to be separate files - maybe 1MB file size restriction?

Peter, how do you turn a .dds file into a txt file, that can be re-convert to a dds?

David Turnbull · Mar 20, 2015

i think you just add it to a rar file and upload the rar here, the forum software changes it to txt then we change it back ourselves.

Peter Decker · Mar 20, 2015

Sorry for the mess - I made this:
1. one .rar-file of every single .dds-file.
2. Renamed (altered file-type) every .rar-file from .rar to .txt (this is a typical way to bypass systems which dont accept certain file types to be uploaded as .dds here for example)
3. Uploaded the .txt-files here

I didnt know it was possible to choose Open with... Winrar directly at the .txt-files tho. I have always renamed back to .rar first.

I dont know about the importance of which catalogue to put them in - mine are in car #12 in my install.

Steeve Fournier · Mar 21, 2015

What i have try in picture, but it doesn't work..... is it me that is too noob in computor stuff??

Step1

Steps 2

I guess that is not the way to do....... but its the only way i found to "alter" the file extension from .dds to .txt.

WHat am i doing wrong??

Thanks!

Peter Decker · Mar 21, 2015

Oh, now I see. My bad, I was not clear at all

The whole purpose is to change the RAR-file to a TXT file - it is only a TXT file that can be uploaded. The WinRAR-file should still contain the .dds-file.

So,
Do Step 1.
You get the WinRAR file (at 718 KB in your case)

Stop

Now:
To change extension (the last bit in the file names) you need to enable a setting to show file endings in windows explorer:

When that is done you should see .rar after your WinRAR's file name. Right click it, choose "Rename":

Simply change to from .rar to .txt and hit Enter.

Now the .rar file should have "become" a .txt-file with the same file size as when it was a WinRAR-file. The actual content of the file hasn't changed at all, it is just the file extension change that fools the forum system

Try to upload the file now

Steeve Fournier · Mar 21, 2015

Thanks Peter, though I had to find another way to get acces to that option because i don't have the toolbar that you have. This is how i found it.

Steeve Fournier · Mar 21, 2015

So here is my skin. No helmet done for me.

car #12

Valerio Vinassa · Mar 22, 2015

season14 skin

Peter Decker · Mar 22, 2015

Hm, shouldn't we need to place the skins in the folder of the car number that the player uses?

Steeve Fournier · Mar 22, 2015

Peter Decker said:
Hm, shouldn't we need to place the skins in the folder of the car number that the player uses?

I guess so Peter, So everyone please write the car number you use when posting your skin. I use #12

Peter Decker · Mar 22, 2015

yeah I guess so too - Im #12 as well

Nicolas Delamare · Mar 22, 2015

I use the 11th car.About that, there is 13 car numbers and we are about 30 to run the league, so what do you think about be 3 players by car numbers, maybe it's better for the game, you know, to avoid the mess we've seen on the boxes.
For example in our case, 3 players choose the #1 car, 3 others choose the #11 car,etc for the 24 first players and it lasts 6 players who share out theirself into 3 teams.