GH_Lieste Posted February 14, 2009 Share Posted February 14, 2009 Yes but they must be in the relevant .\red\ folder 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pipe Posted February 14, 2009 Share Posted February 14, 2009 well I think ive done it right but..... lets say if I put a dessert skin in woodland wouldit still work or am I maybe putting wrong skins in wrong folders?Pipe 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andym Posted February 14, 2009 Share Posted February 14, 2009 If you put a desert skin in a woodland folder then all tanks of that type will have desert skins. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pipe Posted February 14, 2009 Share Posted February 14, 2009 ok thx andym Im not sure where i went wrong but.........no joy 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tacbat Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 It might be worth restating that the theme of the scenario determines which one of the season folders it uses for skins. If you've put new skins in the Woodland folder, they won't show up if you're playing a desert mission. Check to see if the mission is using the Autumn theme, as it will look close to the Woodland theme, but uses an entirely different mod folder for the skins. Also, if you have two skins in the same folder for the same vehicle and one of them is .BMP and the other is .DDS, the .DDS file will be used. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pipe Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 Thx all,got it handled now the skin that was not workingfor some reason had "bak" in the file name which kept itfrom working all is good nowPipe 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andym Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 Scuse a bone question but what advantages does a .DDS file have over a .BMP one?Also how would one go about converting exisiting .BMP to .DDS? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Sean Posted February 15, 2009 Administrators Share Posted February 15, 2009 .DDS is a compressed format that loads much faster. It cuts the loading time of SB. I think there are converters on the net. Try googling ".dds converter". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ontos Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 I'm a newbie at SBP, are the old skins usable in the new SBP PE? I am going to try my luck at skinning one of these beauties and was wondering how I put it in game to see the progress of the skin. I know how to do it in IL2, flight sim. but this is new to me. Should I be going to a different forum for this question? I use Photoshop CS3. I have some templates that Congo so graciously gave me and am dying to try them. Thanks for listening to me. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tacbat Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 I had the same question when I started out, and a very wise man gave me this advice:TAC, My approach is this. I create a scenario in the mission editor and place a vehic that I'm gonna mod on the map,give the SCE. a name like Skinworks.Hit test and run just like you would a single player. Do all this in a windowed mode. Now go to your mods folder and the file on which you are going to skin. Save it as BMP1bu.bmp. Now open your photoediting program and open the BMP1.bmp file and go to town on it. Save often and once before you get ready to view. When you want to preview ,open SBPRO exit sce. and hit restart and this will reload all vehic skins from the textures folder. Zoom in.Zoom out, Look from the overhead,ground level. Any glaring inaccuracies will become readily apparent. All while this is happening leave your editing program up and running so you can always take a few steps backwards and recover,orderly retreat and regroup. Some vehics I did templates of my details and saved them as a PSD file so I could reuse the layers. Things like recovery cables,shovels,tools and such. But now mostly I just work off of the bmp file ,flatten image and save that way they all become original works. Viewing the model in its natural enviornment is more appealing to me. If you ever get tango foxtrot uniformed just go grab your backup file and all you lost was the time. Just my 2 cents. Enough preaching. Enjoy your skinning endeavors.Congo 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ontos Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 Thank you for your quick reply. This helps a lot. Now all I have to do is find where all the colors are for the vehicles and countries. Thank God for Google. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
congo Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 Thank you for your quick reply. This helps a lot. Now all I have to do is find where all the colors are for the vehicles and countries. Thank God for Google. Best to save lots of photos plus downloads from this site and then put the eyedropper tool to use. This will give you your base layer then add texture and weathering to the top of that. Check in with Prime Portal they have some exceptional photos for colors and details. All skins remain usuable except the updated models 2A4, Abrams, T-72, Lepardo, BMD, I think thtas all but if I missed any I,m sure someone will let me know. Good luck and have fun. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ontos Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 Thank you, Congo I know I will have a great experience doing this. I thought I would start with something small. Does SBP have voids as in IL2 or is there a place for like the template for the CV9040 ? Sorry to ask all these questions. It's like learning to walk again. Sorry the question was already answered, my old age is creeping up on me. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
congo Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 Thank you, Congo I know I will have a great experience doing this. I thought I would start with something small. Does SBP have voids as in IL2 or is there a place for like the template for the CV9040 ? Sorry to ask all these questions. It's like learning to walk again. Sorry the question was already answered, my old age is creeping up on me.No voids but look at Dejas site for templates, If you want to do a bang up job its probably best to develop your own templates and such. The default non crewable skins don't have things like recovery cables,tools, dirt and scratches and such so it is necessary to make them. BTW I'm a senior citizen also and thats no excuse. Find a good panel locator or make your own you will probably need it for the new models. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ontos Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 OK, I made a Scenario and placed the vehicle I want to do in it. Saved as Skin etc., I went to the mods folder and to my saved sce. I cant find how to save it as a bmp file. It only gives me cut, copy, zip. I'm doing something wrong. :redface: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tacbat Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 It's the skin/image that you want to save as .bmp. It could also be save as a .dds file which will give you slightly faster load times. You can find an addon for Photoshop here. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
congo Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 OK, I made a Scenario and placed the vehicle I want to do in it. Saved as Skin etc., I went to the mods folder and to my saved sce. I cant find how to save it as a bmp file. It only gives me cut, copy, zip. I'm doing something wrong. :redface:You need to place the texture file in your mods folder for the particular vehicle you're going to work on. It will be either a bmp or dds file. Or if you are working with a psd file you will need to save as bmp or dds, better as a dds as they are considerably smaller than a bmp of the same size. Which vehicle are you trying to do? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ontos Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 The one I was going to try is the Cv9040B. I downloaded the Nvidia Plugin and I figure out how to bring the skin up in my Photoshop. I think I'm going to have to download some of the already done skins as suggested before to get an Idea oh how this skinning is done. I have a couple of really good panel finders from SimmersPaint I use. When I save my file to work on it later, I saved it as a .bmp file is that right? When I tried to save it as a .dds it said something about too many channels. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
congo Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 The one I was going to try is the Cv9040B. I downloaded the Nvidia Plugin and I figure out how to bring the skin up in my Photoshop. I think I'm going to have to download some of the already done skins as suggested before to get an Idea oh how this skinning is done. I have a couple of really good panel finders from SimmersPaint I use. When I save my file to work on it later, I saved it as a .bmp file is that right? When I tried to save it as a .dds it said something about too many channels.The simulation will recognize bmps and load them out of the mods folder. For faster load times the dds format is recommended. When you go to the save feature in photoshop and you click on dds there should be a drop down curtain showing you all the different varieties of dds formats. I think you want to choose DXT1 No alpha channel. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ontos Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 You know like I said I downloaded the file into Photoshop using the Plugin, I must have done something wrong, or is it suppose to look like this. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GH_Lieste Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 You know like I said I downloaded the file into Photoshop using the Plugin, I must have done something wrong, or is it suppose to look like this. Yes, for a TIS skin. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ontos Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 I am a complete new recruit here, and learning the new terminology. What is a TIS Skin. Sorry :confused: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tacbat Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 In game, the TIS images shows up different shades of green usually, and sometimes red. However, the TIS skin is grey. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ontos Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Thanks I appreciate the help. Is this the one I want to skin or is there another file I should have downloaded to my scenario, it's hard to make out the part outlines? I guess I should use an already done skin to work off of. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tacbat Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Go here and download a template for the vehicle you want to skin.Open the template in Adobe Photoshop.Paint the skin the way you want.Save as a .dds file using the NVIDIA plug-in for Adobe Photoshop found herePlace the file in your: C:\Documents and Settings\"USERNAME"\My Documents\eSim Games\Steel Beasts\mods\textures\woodlandOpen up Steelbeasts and go to the mission editor. Place your type of vehicle on the map. Left click on the screen and select view. Admire your work. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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