How to paint your car

[Cato Larsen]

There are a few things needed to paint your cars. I will try to point them out here.

1. Template of the car you want to paint
2. Software that can handle the files you want to use (Photoshop, Gimp etc)
3. DDS plugin to save the files in dds format
4. Patience and creativity

While I cannot give you number 4 on the list, I will try to help with the rest.

Firstly, instead of me writing it all again, the guys at s397 have made a decent tutorial to follow.

The tutorial uses a version of photoshop, but if you know your own software it should be easy to follow.

• Creating a new team car and paint it

Now, saving it in dds, as shown in that tutorial is fairly easy. But it does not tell you what to do with windows.

And that I have found can be different from car to car. I am not sure if that is supposed to be the case, but anyway. I usually save it as dxt5 no alpha first and test. That usually works fine.

It is also not always straight forward what to save the window files as. Usually you are good to save it as it is named, only with your “altname” in front.

As an example from the Infinity Q50 BTCC:

altTPR69WINDSHIELDIN.dds

altTPR69WINDSHIELDOUT.dds

The car file name is altTPR69.dds so you see how it is connected?

 

If you do not create a window file, it will use the original one from the car you “copied”

 

At the end, I will tell you where these skins go, in case you need to know.

To install loose skins/paintjobs in rf2 you need to have the correct folder structure. Using BTCC Toyota Corolla as an example it Should look like this

“yoursteaminstalldrive”\steam\steamapps\common\rFactor 2\UserData\player\Settings\Toyota_Corolla_2020

In here you can drop loose paintjob folders. It might just look like this after that.

“yoursteaminstalldrive”\steam\steamapps\common\rFactor 2\UserData\player\Settings\Toyota_Corolla_2020\Peter Harvey

with then dds files, json and MAS files inside the “name” folder.

Any questions, ask or google. Either way you will get help.

 

 

• This topic was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by Cato Larsen.

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