Post by Radar on May 9, 2005 8:52:58 GMT -5
Double Sided Skins
Step 1-3.Using DDS Viewer open the trucks file and select the positive dds you wish to mirror.
Step 4.Double Click the image to open in your selected edit program. (Default is paint).
Step 5.Click on the select button and highlight the image you wish to mirror.
Step 6.Right click on highlighted image and select flip/rotate.
Step 7.Choose the horizontal flip option then ok.
Step 8-9.The image is now mirrored repeat the same procedure on all desired images.
Step10.When all required images are rotated go to file select & click save then close paint program to return to dds viewer.
Step11.Select and click on image/reload after edit.
Step12.The image should show your original skin with all logos reversed.
Go to File/save as/DDS texture and click the original skin name will appear in this case jc just add an r to create jcr.dds.
Step13.Open your truck folder in this case named Jordan (My Documents/18 WoS Pedal to the Metal/makes/truck/scania6x4/Jordan or share).
Step14.In the file are kept the mat &tobj files for the original skin. Copy and paste these in the same file.
Step15.Rename them both from jc/mat/tobj to jcr/mat/tobj.
Step16.Open the tobj file and rename where highlighted from jc.dds to jcr.dds and save changes.
Step17-18.The mat file needs to be opened with notepad to do this open notepad then file/open in the drop down folder select files of type and select ALL Files the mat files will now be visible and need to be edited in a similar way to step 16 apart from .tobj replacing .dds.
Step19.Open the desc. File if this is not in the selected file it will be in a separate file named paint with the same number/name as your edited dds.
In this file look for lines with r_cabin or similar as these are the line to edit from there original name i.e. “r_cabin: jc.mat” to “r_cabin: jcr.mat.
Step 1-3.Using DDS Viewer open the trucks file and select the positive dds you wish to mirror.
Step 4.Double Click the image to open in your selected edit program. (Default is paint).
Step 5.Click on the select button and highlight the image you wish to mirror.
Step 6.Right click on highlighted image and select flip/rotate.
Step 7.Choose the horizontal flip option then ok.
Step 8-9.The image is now mirrored repeat the same procedure on all desired images.
Step10.When all required images are rotated go to file select & click save then close paint program to return to dds viewer.
Step11.Select and click on image/reload after edit.
Step12.The image should show your original skin with all logos reversed.
Go to File/save as/DDS texture and click the original skin name will appear in this case jc just add an r to create jcr.dds.
Step13.Open your truck folder in this case named Jordan (My Documents/18 WoS Pedal to the Metal/makes/truck/scania6x4/Jordan or share).
Step14.In the file are kept the mat &tobj files for the original skin. Copy and paste these in the same file.
Step15.Rename them both from jc/mat/tobj to jcr/mat/tobj.
Step16.Open the tobj file and rename where highlighted from jc.dds to jcr.dds and save changes.
Step17-18.The mat file needs to be opened with notepad to do this open notepad then file/open in the drop down folder select files of type and select ALL Files the mat files will now be visible and need to be edited in a similar way to step 16 apart from .tobj replacing .dds.
Step19.Open the desc. File if this is not in the selected file it will be in a separate file named paint with the same number/name as your edited dds.
In this file look for lines with r_cabin or similar as these are the line to edit from there original name i.e. “r_cabin: jc.mat” to “r_cabin: jcr.mat.
