Tutorial on creating LFS skins using Blender!

So I've know about this method of creating skins for a while now and I have not seen anyone else use it so I'm going to share it here!

With this method you can get cool patterns on the car quickly that line up over the cuts in UV-map. No tedious lining up to do!

I've made a video showing the basics of it. If you have any questions feel free to post them here!

NEW BETTER 3D FILES: https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/95307-NEW-Blend-and-OBJ-Files-for-All-LFS-Cars-Updated-v1-2%21

Old file:

Spoiler - click to reveal

Link to the thread with the blend file: https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/34770

Direct download link from Bean0: http://www.bean0.com/LFS_cars_ready_to_render_BLENDER.rar

I'm using version 2.92 of Blender, but I think you should be able to follow along with any version above 2.8. If you don't have blender I recommend downloading it through Steam.



Example material to give insperation:


Another skin created using this method:

Great tutorial.

My knowledge in Blender is basic.
I tried to render some of the cars using this rocklan file but the newer version of blender breaks the UV mappings of various objects.

Can you render the cars in the latest Blender without losing the UV mapping?

Could you do a tutorial on how to render cars using the latest Blender?

The problem I had with the UV mapping is here in this post.
https://www.lfs.net/forum/post/1952169#post1952169

Quote from regispicanco :

Great tutorial.

My knowledge in Blender is basic.
I tried to render some of the cars using this rocklan file but the newer version of blender breaks the UV mappings of various objects.

Can you render the cars in the latest Blender without losing the UV mapping?

Could you do a tutorial on how to render cars using the latest Blender?

The problem I had with the UV mapping is here in this post.
https://www.lfs.net/forum/post/1952169#post1952169

Here you go: https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/95304-Blender-Ready-To-Render-kit-UPDATED-for-2-9