new skins

[Matt Strand]

I'm having issues figuring out where everything goes in rfactor2. I tried to expand the .mas files in every folder of my game and they're all empty. I'm just trying to do a few skins on the GT cars for a few friends in the World Challenge series but cant figure out where to put them or new .veh files. Could somebody help me out?

 

[James Bowders]

Matt,

Check out Jimmi's FAQs... http://www.virtualendurance.net/index.php?threads/paint.80/

and check out...

http://isiforums.net/f/showthread.php/9875-rFactor2-Where-to-put-custom-car-skins

 

[Matt Strand]

i got that but how to I add stand alone cars not an alternate skin?

 

[Jimmi Allison]

You can't do that without making a complete .rfcmp
Depends on in which mod it is - remember our .veh does not apply to other leagues using BES mod.

 

[Matt Strand]

well that bites. thank you ISI
thanks for the info

 

[Tomas Beha]

You may feel that it "bites", on the other hand, how many mismatches have you had in rfactor2 ?

 

[Matt Strand]

You may feel that it "bites", on the other hand, how many mismatches have you had in rfactor2 ?

ask me how many I've had in rf1 in the last year too

 

[Matt Strand]

if this ALT skin thing is the only way to have a car for your self offline how do you put the extras in like wheels, windows, etc? Is there a certain naming that would add those extras into the alternate skin that I'm missing? for example my alternate skin right now is PWC64_ALT. I tried PWC64_ALT_WINDOW, PWC64_WINDOW_ALT, & PWC64WINDOW_ALT which did nothing. Even for this league this would be useful to know to preview a full car that I'm working on before submitting it.

 

[James Bowders]

Yea, I couldn't do that either, so I just gave up... I was going to try having the additional items named for the original car skin in the folder with the ALT skin... thinking the added texture would load over the texture in the MAS file (rfcmp).

But I haven't spent the time to crack the nut yet...

 

[Tomas Beha]

ask me how many I've had in rf1 in the last year too

If "few", then it's because of good management, but the old system made it possible to mess with files both intentionally and not and STILL join a server - which was kinda my point

 

[Matt Strand]

If "few", then it's because of good management, but the old system made it possible to mess with files both intentionally and not and STILL join a server - which was kinda my point

good management with tools like sim sync and knowing what i was doing back then helped haha answer was 0 by the way and maybe 2 the year before that. I just want to know how to have the windows and wheels show up for preview without having to make a whole new package everytime

 

[Tomas Beha]

But thats what alternative skins are for, VERY clever solution actually

 

[Matt Strand]

still doesn't answer my question. not exactly clever if the rest of the pieces cant be added to see the whole car

 

[James Bowders]

OK as for the "I was going to try having the additional items named for the original car skin in the folder with the ALT skin... thinking the added texture would load over the texture in the MAS file (rfcmp)." No this does not work... I tried looking at the spinner, and in game, it did not work.

I agree, this is a big pain in the butt if you are painting custom cars, I liked the rF file format so much better, but that is only my opinion.

I also tried dropping the dds files in the Installed Folder (with all the mas files) this did not work either.

 

[Tomas Beha]

if this ALT skin thing is the only way to have a car for your self offline how do you put the extras in like wheels, windows, etc? Is there a certain naming that would add those extras into the alternate skin that I'm missing? for example my alternate skin right now is PWC64_ALT. I tried PWC64_ALT_WINDOW, PWC64_WINDOW_ALT, & PWC64WINDOW_ALT which did nothing. Even for this league this would be useful to know to preview a full car that I'm working on before submitting it.

Sorry, missed that part... But it depends on the name of the actual material assigned the .GMT inside the .MAS - usually they are called WCWINDOW, WCEXTRA, WCBODY, WCRIM etc.

So "PWC64ALTWINDOW" or "PWC64_ALTWINDOW" should be your answer

 

[James Bowders]

That did work, The trick is knowing what the item is named e.g., for the Vantage, the template for the wheels is RIM, but in game it is RIMS.

Example: RWR_13ALTRIMS.dds

 

[Matt Strand]

thank you

 

[James Bowders]

Matt,

If you want to crack the rfcomp nut here is a document that might help.