Reskinning?

[Hz-Lab]

I know I know, it's been asked 100 times. But where can I find a reskinning tutorial? I don't need any info on the actual painting side, just how to get it in the game.

I used to do it for 2010, I recall I had to use an external program to either unpack or convert the image file or something. I use Photoshop.

I used the search function here and only found threads about editing the actual image, not how it gets in to the game.

any help would be awesome.

Thanks

 

[mjolnir]

OK. I'll assume that the item you want to reskin is already in the game in its original form. Here's how you get your reskin into the game.

First, clone the item you want to reskin, using the appropriate selection from the content manager.

Next, Open the item for editing in Explorer (or the equivalent, if not on a windows platform), and find the image containing the texture you want to change.

Open the image. Depending upon the image type, you may have to use the tool you used in TR10, but in some cases you might be able to open the texture in an image processing program directly.

Make the changes to the image containing the texture, and save the image to the exact same name as the original. Save the item you retextured in explorer, and commit it.

At that point, it should be in the game.

ns

 

[johnwhelan]

Typically the texture file will be .TGA and it is important you do not save it as compressed .tga. Unfortunately compressed .tga is the default save .tga setting in most graphics editors.

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

Might be useful to you.

Cheerio John

 

[Euphod]

I suggest you download the PEV tools (search forum) to help manipulate and convert files.

 

[johnwhelan]

I suggest you download the PEV tools (search forum) to help manipulate and convert files.

I don't think you need them for basic reskinning, only for cracking textures on built in items.

Cheerio John