What next after painting?

[Prez]

Hello guys...I couldnt hold my self so I just made a new paintjob for a Corvette in photoshop.

But how do i continue with alphalayer and so on..i have made it apper in the game but it only shows one blue standard color on the car(my paitjob isnt there...so it has to be with alpha or whatever...

[sunalp2]

Usually if you don't rename\number everything correctly, it will not show your paint scheme. Check that all the GTR files are named correctly, and that you have assigned all the team and class names, and the car number in the GRAPH file.

[Prez]

Everything is there. Maaaan how frustrating this is. I look at the GLPK team folder and the files in there...my is the same and still it doesnt show my paintings...........gaaaaaahhhh

[snowy]

You need the patience of a saint to skin for GTR2 and the resilience of Joeb for rFactor. One seemingly insignificant uppercase letter in a line that should have all lower case will stop everything dead in it's tracks. Take a team that works and just add your body.dds don't change anything else until you've seen your skin in game. Then bit by bit patiently recreate your own team. Do you have vehviewer? If not it is very useful for viewing your car without having to start any games. You can get it from rFactorcentral http://www.rfactorcentral.com/detail.cfm?ID=Vehicle%20Viewer It saves a lot of time and aggrovation but you need to be quite experimental at first because there are a few hidden features! The first of which is how to get your texture to show up on the car!
I'll give you a clue to that one, mess about with the materials.

[Prez]

Snowy...thank you for not enlighten me...I cant even open a little vw in that program....and now i will give up on this paint job etc etc...funny thing was I made a corvette paint job for c5 and it worked...then i did exactly the same thing with a Lambo...and NOOOO NADA...gaaah AGAIN...

Exactly what can go wrong? Besides the naming thing?


/Prez....

[Prez]

Ahh finally im on to it...My first skin is a Lamborghini with a Buffalo Sabres touch...Not much but hey its my first :)

[alex291190]

Beter than nothing:D

[sunalp2]

Ahh finally im on to it...My first skin is a Lamborghini with a Buffalo Sabres touch...Not much but hey its my first :)

So could you share with us what the problem was? :)

[Prez]

The main problem was that i thought only numbers was important. That made me rename the BODY1.dds files to ex:

05099_lambo_BODY1.dds.....This was a big mistake it seems. The correct filename inside a .GTR file must be the name of the car, so i changed it to:

05099_LAMBORGHINI_MURCIELAGO_BODY1.dds

Outside it in a folder it seems not to make any difference, its whats inside :)

Ex the gtr file can be named by just the number:

05099_TEX_GTR it doesnt need to be:

05099_LAMBORGHINI_MURCIELAGO_TEX.GTR

Hopefully this will help someone in the future, or maybe im the onlyone making this mistake :hehehe:

[sunalp2]

It's always a good idea to have a look in one of the GTR_TEX files to see how the DDS files are labeled, as somtimes it's not the same as the way the Template is named.