paint shed
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Holy poop. There are still new threads on Paint Shed. The little program that could!Hi,I have trainz 2009 and I would like to make some locos for a small railway. How do I do it with paintshed? and also how do I put in in trainz?
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Don't know how much of this stuff still works, but here you go . . . . Drucifer's Trainz Paint Shed Guide
Anyway, if you know how to color an old B&W photo, you can reskin anything. It's basically the same technique.
johnwhelan
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There are pages of the things.
Start here
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Trainz
look under reskins.
http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?t=3345&highlight=tutorials
Reskinning a loco is no different than reskinning something else.
Cheerio John
And you can also visit the link at the bottom of my post, to refresh the page just click on the word SOFTWARE to give you more options on how to reskin.
There are also various tutorials on this website to get you by, as a point of interest I use Irfanview, here is the link to the tutorial, you will need Acrobat Reader or similar to read the document.
http://www.gaurc.us/files/info/ReskinningForDummies.pdf
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To get Irfanview,
Just click on this link Download to get Irfanview for free.
For more information visit the link below...
Hope this helps
Joe Airtime
There are also various tutorials on this website to get you by, as a point of interest I use Irfanview, here is the link to the tutorial, you will need Acrobat Reader or similar to read the document.
http://www.gaurc.us/files/info/ReskinningForDummies.pdf
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
To get Irfanview,
Just click on this link Download to get Irfanview for free.
For more information visit the link below...
Hope this helps
Joe Airtime
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If you also have an older version of Trainz which includes PaintShed then you can reskin there and export the results to TS2009 or TS2010.
While PaintShed doesn't satisfy the small number of expert content creators who know how to use advanced programs such as Blender and gmax, it's ideal for the majority of Trainz users who don't and never will get involved with anything more complicated.
John
While PaintShed doesn't satisfy the small number of expert content creators who know how to use advanced programs such as Blender and gmax, it's ideal for the majority of Trainz users who don't and never will get involved with anything more complicated.
John
johnwhelan
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Paintshed gave you a mesh that you applied a basic texture file to or in other words its a simple reskin. On some of my Paintshed models I actually then modified the Paintshed texture file to get a better result. A simple reskin can give better results than Paintshed ever could plus you have a much wider variety of meshes to work with.
I'm unclear why you are saying you'd need to use Blender or GMAX to do an advanced reskin or am I missing something?
Thanks
Cheerio John
I'm not disputing that the advanced programs give better results, but they are definitely not simple. They need expert knowledge that most people don't have and are not prepared to put months of effort into obtaining.
On the other hand PaintShed is a fun thing that is fairly readily accessible to most users. Removing it has destroyed both the enjoyment it gave and also the elementary introduction to the world of 3D modelling that it provided.
There might be a good case for prohibiting further PaintShed creations from being uploaded to DLS though, or vetting them for quality.
John
How do you export (I have UTC with Paintshed, plus TRS2006). I created a couple of simple items in Paintshed, but can only find them within the program. I tried numerous searches the old-fashioned Windows ways and could not find where Paintshed saved these.
I assume if we can find them, we simply copy or cut and paste into the other Trainz directory.
In TRS2004 they are held in kuid folders. Sorry, I don't know how UTC stores assets.
In TRS2006 and later there are no kuid folders. Instead assets are stored in a database and can only be manipulated using the CMP program. I think CMP has an import facility.
John
johnwhelan
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If its TRS2006 then just clone the item and open for edit it explorer. TS2010 is much more robust for this sort of thing.
Cheerio John
johnwhelan
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You can use paint.net to do simple reskins free and fairly simple to use. My favourite would be Paintshop pro version XI available for $15 on ebay in the US. You can also get into GIMP a more powerful but free program.
Cheerio John