Change an existing 3d skin car paint

[Hart]

Hello guys !

Here is my problem i download car skins from Trackmania Carpark bbut most of the time they don't show up on my carskin list in game so i can't really try to edit them, and when it appears to work here is the message that always appear on edit cars because the cars don't show up on the list
https://i.gyazo.com/d1036f8ab00fb4b4bf8 ... 6812b7.png

Can someone link an up to date skin creating tutorial or explain to me whats the problem here please? Thanks

[tombuilder]

http://www.maniapark.com is for TM2, carpark is for the old games.
Have fun

[Hart]

http://www.maniapark.com is for TM2, carpark is for the old games.
Have fun

Thanks mate, trying that out right now!

[Hart]

Thanks mate it actually work ! I just have to find out how to make it not shiny as hell

https://i.gyazo.com/983210a1a982c246a39 ... 3045cf.jpg

Lol ! Any idea how?

[tombuilder]

In the ingame editor there is a bar where you can set the shinyness (dunno exactly where, because I skin outside of MP).
Outside of MP shinyness is the alphalayer in the diffuse.dds (grayscale).

[Hart]

In the ingame editor there is a bar where you can set the shinyness (dunno exactly where, because I skin outside of MP).
Outside of MP shinyness is the alphalayer in the diffuse.dds (grayscale).

Here is what i actually have :

https://i.gyazo.com/8c1cf550e0c3ab9bff5 ... baf077.jpg

[tombuilder]

You have to apply an alpha channel to the pic. White is most reflective/shiny, black is no reflections/matt and different grey tones are all in between. The DDS has to be DXT5 with mipmaps.

[Hart]

You have to apply an alpha channel to the pic. White is most reflective/shiny, black is no reflections/matt and different grey tones are all in between. The DDS has to be DXT5 with mipmaps.

hmm ok i understand but as a beginner in Photoshop i wouldnt know how to do it, isn't it when you Get all templates together, Select and paste into the alpha 1 thingy?

(https://i.gyazo.com/1dcaba821c41b884981 ... 0a5726.png) ??

[tombuilder]

Yes, that looks fine. Now export as skindiffuse.dds as DXT5 with interpolated alpha and mipmaps!

EDIT: The pure black alpha will lead to no reflections at all btw.

[Hart]

Yes, that looks fine. Now export as skindiffuse.dds as DXT5 with interpolated alpha and mipmaps!

That's what i was doing mate, so there must be a way to take off that shiny thing that ruins the car skin basically ... can't seem to find what does that ... and when i change it directly ingame it makes the carskin reset to black :/