Hey, after many threads asking 'how do you make skins' and alike I have decided to come up with a selection of links which will help you, all free software, pm me for help with software.
I'll start off with the basics...
Gimp 2.66 (much better and more reliable than photoshop in my opinion)
-http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gimp-win/gimp-2.6.11-i686-setup-1.exe
LFS Viewer
-http://www.lfs.net/file_mirror.php?name=LFS_VIEWER_6A.exe
Default Skins
-http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=19570
Once you have them you have to start off looking at some of the basics of how to skin...so...The white areas you see, looking much like the car are the skin panels, you do whatever you want with them, try using the 'magic' selector tool (magic wand on gimp 2.66 panel) and set the threshhold to about 45.0 and select the area for a thin coat of paint, if you want to be able to see the car behind it, click on the painting button, set opacity to around 70.0 on full black for a nice shade of gray, put it onto scale 10.00 and cover the car, then just add some decals, save it with a new name i.e if it was an FXO in gray and your name was matt do FXO_graymatt , save it to *lfs root*/data/skins and then go to lfsworld.com and upload it so people can see it (optional as skins are often converted from skins_x from .dds to .jpg as one of mine was in the past week.
Thanks for reading and I'd be interested to read your feedback,
Matt.
I'll start off with the basics...
Gimp 2.66 (much better and more reliable than photoshop in my opinion)
-http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gimp-win/gimp-2.6.11-i686-setup-1.exe
LFS Viewer
-http://www.lfs.net/file_mirror.php?name=LFS_VIEWER_6A.exe
Default Skins
-http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=19570
Once you have them you have to start off looking at some of the basics of how to skin...so...The white areas you see, looking much like the car are the skin panels, you do whatever you want with them, try using the 'magic' selector tool (magic wand on gimp 2.66 panel) and set the threshhold to about 45.0 and select the area for a thin coat of paint, if you want to be able to see the car behind it, click on the painting button, set opacity to around 70.0 on full black for a nice shade of gray, put it onto scale 10.00 and cover the car, then just add some decals, save it with a new name i.e if it was an FXO in gray and your name was matt do FXO_graymatt , save it to *lfs root*/data/skins and then go to lfsworld.com and upload it so people can see it (optional as skins are often converted from skins_x from .dds to .jpg as one of mine was in the past week.
Thanks for reading and I'd be interested to read your feedback,
Matt.
