Post your RF2 car skins here.

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  1. MaD_King

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    Thanks for your help Jeff and Tosch. Tosch, I installed everything under rFactor so I'm actually shorter than you F:\rFactor2\UserData\player\Settings\Meganes2009\M2009_04\M2009_04ALT1.DDS
     
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    Hi Mad, I Nissan370zGT4 inside the folder I have folders llamadas370z_06 trs, 370z_07 and 370z_08 and within each put the. Dds of skins and it works, anyway renames files the way you work, I'm a bit clumsy with computers and I can not help more.
    Let me know if you got to make them work.
     
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    Hi, I talked from the hosting site, I can't get the file, there is an error (it's not a problem of uncompressing, but getting from web)
     
  5. Twista

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    You don't need to use the that naming structure for the file itself. I can get it to work with -

    \Documents\rFactor2\UserData\player\Settings\MEGANES2009\M2009_01\ren_alt
     
  6. hoser70

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    Not sure why it doesn't work for me then.
     
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    Tonight will try to fix it, thanks.
     
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    Guys...

    I`ve managed to get some paint on a BT20 and whilst experimenting last night was able to save it as .DDS and even had it in game to have a look at it.

    Today I tried another paint job but when I go to save it as .DDS I`m getting the following message:

    Could not save "x".dds" because of a problem with the file format module interface.

    I appreciate I`m new to this so it`s probably something I`ve either done wrong or something I`ve just not done at all but I`d be most grateful for any help.

    :)
     
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    Try saving as a .TGA file first, then dds.
     
  10. Tosch

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    Something is wrong with your template (psd file). Try the ISI template.
     
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    It`s the ISI template I`m using...

    Anyway, I just re-opened the template and tried again and it seems to have worked this time. Bummer is I don`t really know what I did differently this time :p

    Off to see if it`ll go in sim.
     
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    changed my car file name to jg_alt.dds, it works now.
    C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\rFactor2\UserData\player\Settings\Meganes2009\M2009_06\jg_alt.dds
    good tip, twista.
     
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    Interesting. I'll try when I get home. Maybe lw_alt.dds
     
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    You can only have file names 7 letters or less, "M2009_04" is 8.

    :-D-J-C
     
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    Good to know - thanks DJ. I'll rename it tonight and give it another try.
     
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    Question guys...

    What number will give the "blackest" black in the colour picker in PS2?
     
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    Ok...

    Spot the noob painter lol...

    I guess it must be #000000...

    :D
     

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