How do you reskin Trainz 12 locomotives?

[BNSFCAM13]

Hi im trying to reskin a BNSF gevo from an h3 to an h2 logo but cant find the right image. Also how can you reskin locomotives in Microsoft paint?

-Thanks,Cameron

 

[Zeldaboy14]

one good thing you should use is paint.NET It's a freeware of a paint program, and it can help you! as for the Image, try google images

 

[boc61]

Hi im trying to reskin a BNSF gevo from an h3 to an h2 logo but cant find the right image. Also how can you reskin locomotives in Microsoft paint?

-Thanks,Cameron

You mean MS Paint that comes with Windows? You can't use it to reskin.

 

[BNSFCAM13]

My friend used paint for his reskins though :/

 

[NSWGR_46Class]

You need to ask him how he did it
and then tell us all
MS paint does not open TGA format file - I think he was using paint as a generic term

My friend used paint for his reskins though :/

 

[mezzoprezzo]

You need to ask him how he did it
and then tell us all
MS paint does not open TGA format file - I think he was using paint as a generic term

When I first used GIMP2 freeware it was possible to create jpg images in MS Paint, open them in GIMP as a jpg and immediately save them as tga (uncompressed).

I only did this as a temporary, but effective, stop-gap whilst getting the hang of GIMP and its far superior functionality which I now use for all reskin work.

 

[BNSFCAM13]

Ok so now Im using the paint.net software, now how do I get started with reskinning locomotives in there and saving them to trainz 12? And again thanks for the help!

 

[nicky9499]

Locate the locomotive in Content Manager, right click > Edit in Explorer. You will find the various textures in there. Play with these like you would a normal image.

 

[boc61]

Locate the locomotive in Content Manager, right click > Edit in Explorer. You will find the various textures in there. Play with these like you would a normal image.

Clone it first, and play with the clone, this way if you mess it up you have the original. There's a reskinning tutorial around somewhere, maybe if you ask in the Content Creation Forum, you'll get more help.