I know thats alot of work but what did the Devs think about a Skinviewer
where we can Paint in the Viewer on the Car and save it then as skinfile.

I dont mean a perfect Skinviewer"painter" just to make there simple lines as preview for the design, i just remember that in games
like "Viper Racing" or "Nascar Racing" you can paint on the Cars in the game and save it as jpg file.

That would be very nice just to make it easyer to skin a Fo8 or Bf1,
because if u want to make a simple line over the Car u must
paint in the Skinfile there a little bit and here and here...

I hope someone understand what i mean.

Greets Everen

Because of the extra amount of work (that wouldn't benefit most players and the sim) I can't see this ever coming. But I know what you mean.
There are some .PSD pro-kit skin templates over at the MasterSkinnerz web site. Those help you line up the transitions in the body panels and make life a little bit easier when skinning.

I haven't got links, but google is your friend. evil

Just see the link in his signature. I think, he knows that.


I don't think it would be very useful. If you wanted quality and then paint a choppy line on the skin you would have to do it all again, including the tweaking here and there.
I don't find it a big deal to align things (except my current skin-.-) and I mostly grow designs in my head, so I would not need it.

And I agree the amount of work would be huge.

Jepp right 5tag, i know about prokitz, my signature.

I know it is possible to make it all by your self, but my Skins are most creatred in my head , so my own ideas and no replicas.

So i have a Idea and try to skin it, then i see oh lines cant come togehter there and then i must try some else.

So my Plan is in a Skinviewer"painter" i can make the grounddesign to see if the linies will come togehter from top to side and front to top , all that edges .

So it would be very useful i think.
but otherwise everyone can say iam a good skinner, just because they bring some edges togehter .

I can do it with the Edges just would make it much easyer.
Just look at my FXO Alpinestars

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Photoshop CS4 Extended will help.



Haven't tested by myself though. Tell me if I'm wrong.

what does that ?? and what if i dont use photoshop?

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Photoshop CS4 Extended will help.



Haven't tested by myself though. Tell me if I'm wrong.

he doesn't mean that.

He wants a programme that allows him to paint directly on a model, it will then automatically unwrap into a skin file.

So basically how you do skins in Forza2?

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He wants a programme that allows him to paint directly on a model, it will then automatically unwrap into a skin file.

With PS CS4E you can paint DIRECTLY on 3D models.



Haven't tested it myself, so not sure about what it can do.

That looks interesting! Try it on LFS!

I would also love to see a DDS file viewer. I made a thread suggesting it before, but not many people replied. ^_^

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That looks interesting! Try it on LFS!

I would also love to see a DDS file viewer. I made a thread suggesting it before, but not many people replied. ^_^

http://developer.nvidia.com/object/dds_thumbnail_viewer.html

DDS thumbnails before you go open it in Photoshop.

That looks very intresting, but how can i do that ?
Would be perfect if someone can make a little tutorial.