I'm kinda bored at work so I'm posting a basic tutorial on how to skin your car with custom textures (Photoshop). It's really easy once you set the DDS plug-in. (Sorry for my bad english in advanced).
1) Download the DDS plug-in for Photoshop.
Download here
(I have Photoshop CS in spanish so some options may be named a little different)
Install it, open photoshop and go to
edit > preferences > plugins. In there click on "
additional plug-ins folder" and add the location of the plug-in you just installed. It will be something like "
C:\program files\adobe\photoshop\Plug-Ins" or "
C:\program files\adobe\photoshop\Plug-Ins\File Formats"
Click "
OK" and you're set. Now you can save image files in DDS format.
2) Download the skin template of the Canyon Car.
Download Here
Open it in Photoshop and you'll see something like this:
Hide the Wireframe layer and you're ready to go. Throw in there all the stuff you want.
3) When you finish, go to "
save as..", select the DDS format and name your file
SkinDiffuse.dds. Click "
Save".
The plug-in menu will pop up and it will look like this:
All you need to do here is to set it to
DXT5. Click save.
4) (Optional) Now that the car is done, you need the icon that you see when you pick the car. It's optional but you'll get a white square if you don't do it.
It's basically a 128x128 image so grab any image you want and resize it. When you're done save the image with the name
Icon.dds (same plugin settings as the car).
5) Those two DDS files need to be compressed together in ZIP format (try to use maximum compression) and name your zip file whatever you want. So you have a zip file with the two DDS files in it.
Place the zip file in
...\ManiaPlanet\personal\Skins\Vehicles\CanyonCar\
6) Done!
