Paint.net Reskin

[JamesJA]

I was wandering does anyone know how to reskin with paint.net, it is confusing to me. I'm trying to reskin , Amtrak Horizon cars IVb , and The Metra Commuter Bi- Levels into Amtrak Surfliner using Paint.net could someone help

 

[sniper297]

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Trainz/Basic_Reskinning_for_beginners

Follow that for all the cloning and conversion, substitute paint.net wherever they talk about gimp.

Useful tool that might be hard to learn unless you have some basic computer skills, Trainz Mesh Viewer from

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~villaump/pevsoft.htm

The way I use it is open the folder with content manager for editing, edit the TGA in Paint Shop Pro (you can also use the free paintshed.net or gimp, anything that will read TGA files), and use the Trainz Mesh Viewer to see what it looks like without having to finish the editing and look at it in the game.

 

[Johnk]

Rick Hargraves has done a couple of tutorials on Paint.net. You can find them on the Trainz Resources Directory web site:

Link

There's also a tutorial by Josh Harvey on Texturing with photoshop which could also be addapted in the next edition of the Trainz Community news due out in a couple of days.

Link

I think there's a tutorial for Mesh Viewer in one edition also.

John