Released Released New Material Editor! (Car Paints)
- Thread starter Christopher Elliott
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I'm also eagerly awaiting some documentation/release of the new materials for us modders to use.
I'm desperate to make some metallic factory colours - Techno Violet Metallic (299), Avus Blue Metallic (276), Estoril Blue Metallic (335), Le Mans Blue Metallic (381).
If you're familiar with those colours, you'll know what I'm up to
https://docs.studio-397.com/developers-guide/cars/car-art/working-with-new-ibl-pbr-car-shader
Chris Lesperance
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I believe I asked of this before, but that was a while ago. Is there going to be a way to change settings in the show room, or maybe have a model viewer of the cars that are encrypted? I'm losing so much time saving the skin in .dds (1-2 min), then hitting refresh ingame (another 1-2 min). Then having to load a car in track to view when you don't have light (another 2-5 min).
All that added up when I could load the model in 3d Sim Ed, and change the texture to a .tga. 1-2 sec to save as .tga. Another 2-5 sec to refresh the change in 3dsim ed. It makes a lot of difference when you are adjusting logos 1-2 pixels at a time, especially when the templates are really complicated.
All that added up when I could load the model in 3d Sim Ed, and change the texture to a .tga. 1-2 sec to save as .tga. Another 2-5 sec to refresh the change in 3dsim ed. It makes a lot of difference when you are adjusting logos 1-2 pixels at a time, especially when the templates are really complicated.
ayrtonforever
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one question: wich material i have to assign to plastic parts?
If it's shiny, car paint or shiny carbon, if not, matte paint or matte carbon.
ayrtonforever
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thanks, and what about simple "paint"?
I don't know, try them all and see what looks best, it'll adjust the second you change it, so you can go through all of them fast and see what they look like.
ayrtonforever
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i think "paint" is better for those parts:
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ayrtonforever
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i have a problem with the Aston Martin GT3 windows file: i created the dds file (DXT5 interpolated alpha) and called it alt_skinnamewindow but it is not loaded correctly in the showroom, in fact i have two different skins, one with the windshield banner on the body. where am i wrong?
juanchioooo
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very long the name, and the denomination should be if I remember correctly, altxxxwindshieldout
ayrtonforever
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no, it worked fine with "windshieldout" at the end of the name, thanks
ayrtonforever
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is there a way to paint over the honeycomb to prevent it from covering the whiteness of the teeth?
juanchioooo
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you should have the file of the metal mesh, in the official mod the files are encoded, but I have not looked if you can access that one in particular, I imagine not.is there a way to paint over the honeycomb to prevent it from covering the whiteness of the teeth?
No, you can't. And it's a tiling texture too, so it would be very difficult if not impossible to paint it the way you would want it.
juanchioooo
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that's what I believed, sorry if the translator expressed it badly
ayrtonforever
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thanks guys, i was afraid that this was the answer 
ayrtonforever
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i'm creating a skin for the mercedes amg gt3, but when i create the new car as usual, it don't appears in the car selection menu.....why?
alexSchmurtz
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Are you using a unique driver name? If you use the same name for 2 cars, only one will appear unfortunately... This behavior came with the new materials, that's pretty annoying. I wish it could be possible to fix that...
ayrtonforever
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yes, i also tried with several driver names and team names, nothing changes. car name is "Mercedes AMG GT3 #XX", is correct?
Florian Boswell
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Is your *.veh-line up to date?