Hey guys, post pictures of your paint jobs or just post your paint if you would like. I havn't seen any and would like to!

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I still got a lot to learn regarding painting.

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It looks much better after I got the alpha channels to work right.

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Wow, very nice all of you!

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I dont think many people are painting cuz it's just frikkin ridiculous to put a skin in the game, mush less being able to save one. Surely ISI could make a skin importer or something a bit more user friendly.
Listening Mike D?

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the reason they use dds is that it takes up less texture memory, once you get the plugin and do it a couple times, its actually pretty easy.

It seems that the biggest hurdle people are having is if they have PSP and getting the plugin to work.

Once you get to that point that your ready to save, hide the layers you dont want to use and flatten the image, in photoshop its under the layer tab. Then in the layer menu click on the channels tab, and unhide the alpha channel, edit the alpha making anything you want to be super shiny the color white ( like a helmet visor), make the alpha a shade of grey for the body ( different shades of grey = the shine on the car, the lighter the shade of grey, the shinier the car will be) and then save it as a .dds file. I use DXT 5 and generate the mipmaps.

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You just proved my point..........

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Its just like NSR...

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Patriot Guard Rider 163818

yea...I wish the whole car file system was easier....like the Papy NASCAR series. Simple TGA file import ... everything goes into one nice file ... and you don't get booted if the server doesn't have your car file.

....oh well...hopefully this will be something that is rectified in future updates/mods.

...because, no offense to ISI and the developers, the rFactor way of importing paints is a PAIN IN THE

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I admit its a little more work, but when im done, i dont end up with a 4meg .tga that becomes a 2meg carfile once I add a pitcrew.

I think that the reason the files need to be on the server your on, is somewhere down the road, you will be able to get files off of the server that you dont have, I think I read somewhere that a filesharing system like that is planned for rFactor down the road. If thats the case I can deal with the car files for now.

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Not that big a deal with Photoshop.

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