Hi guys, and of course, an extra special hello to the courtesy squad!
I'll begin by giving a gigantic shout-out to all the helpful modders in here! The knowledge level most of you have are off the scale!
Just a couple of months into the game I'm amazed at the vibrant modding scene! This in turn has led me in to an old interest I used to have, i.e. making liveries. So I thought; what the heck, lets make a personal skin for AC! I used to make skins eons ago for TOCA2 and Race07 (and maybe some more racing games I can't remember right now...?) So I started with a random car from my 5 star list, the asr_asr2championship. And, well, this has proven to be a pretty tedious journey so far... I've been sitting with this for days now, partly because I've made so many stupid beginner mistakes, and partly because my Photoshop skills are not up to par in certain areas anymore...
Right now it looks something like this:
Yeah, I know the vast majority of users are into the "immersion thing", and that's perfectly fine, but I personally appreciate fictional liveries more as I think they have the potential to bring out the "true artist" behind the keyboard (I mean, how many red Ferraris of the same model do you really need, just because a certain decal has been changed for a certain race...?
As a Nvidia fan boy (hmm, sometimes maybe...) I just happen to start with that theme. I had a "tech-pack" in the the back of my head with AMD, Intel, Asus, Microsoft and others in that field of business.
I've ironed out most of the problems I've had, but there's one file/texture in particular I cant't get my grip on (part of the floor/sidepod):
I want to change the decals on this part. Most of the original cars have a certain file in the skin folder that looks something like this:
This file doesn't react to editing like the other files though... What's that green garbled background behind the decals...? If I remove the decals and put other decals on there, the original decals is still there, messing it up... If i calculate the relevant AO from CM showroom I get this:
That's clearly not what I want. Does anyone of you gurus know the way around this?
Another problem is with the texture for the upper rear wing. It shows just fine in the CM showroom as you can see in the first picture above. On track however, i'ts just black, like this:
As far I can see this is unfortunately true for all the original skins of this car, so I guess it's some kind of problem with the base model that can't be fixed by any other than ASR themselves, or is it? Would love your opinion on that!
