Whats the difference between renders and skins?

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Whats the difference between renders and skins?

There's more than one difference, as they are 2 completely different things. Take a look in a render topic and take a look in a skins topic and you can see.

A skin is just another word for car texture.

A render is taking a skin and car model, putting them together in a 3rd party 3D modelling program, applying lightning, filters, maybe creating a "scene" around the car, updating the car model (mesh) a bit if necessary, etc. THEN you render the scene, so the 3D program computes a picture from all the things you set up. This is called a render.

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