How do we reskin the new track?

[JCitron]

How do we reskin the new-style track used in TRS2009 and up?

I like the look of the new track, but I find that the ballast is too lightly colored particularly for old yard track. The rusty rails look great, but the ballast is too clean.

What I'd like to do is simply replace the too clean ballast with cinders and old dirty stuff. I have access to photo-retouching programs such as PhotoShop and PaintShop Plus.

Thanks,

John

 

[PerRock]

my guess is that there is either a main texture file (.texture) that contains the ballast texture as well as all the other track textures. or a file that just contains the ballast. However I don't have CMP open (nor have I tried it) so its just a guess.

peter

 

[JCitron]

I'll look again at the track. I couldn't find anything like that before, but I may have not looked hard enough. If I find anything, I'll let you know.

John

 

[PerRock]

I'm currently patching 09 so I can't go and look. Maybe someone else can take a look.

peter

 

[itareus]

Just looked - PerRock is correct if you mean the built in Auran stuff. To reskin I believe you will need to clone the asset, then use PEV's texture to TGA program to convert the compressed .texture files to TGA's that you can edit.

 

[JCitron]

Thank you Peter and itareus for your help. This was pretty easy and no differerent than edting anything else. My brother and I edited the track textures using PSP.

John