I am new to skinning, need help please.

[HornetUK]

Hi all this is my first post on the forum and I am very new to DCS as I have only today downloaded it.

 

I have been looking into getting for sometime and one of the things I am very interest in is beefing able to make skins. I know how to use photo shop and I also have illistrator for drawing.

 

Is there anywhere to find out the rules of skinning in this sim?

 

Can you totally make up a skin does not exist in the real world?

 

Can othere see you own skin and what do you have to do to make this happen?

 

Where is the best place to get instructions on the process to make a skin?

 

Sorry to ask so much but maybe someone could help me.

 

HornetUK

[Home Fries]

If you check out the DCS World Misc page, you will see a number of Photoshop templates. You can use these, and save the images as DXT1, or as BMP or TGA files (depending on whether the original files have alpha channels). Take a look at some of the downloadable skins to see how the description.lua file is structured (important: files that you add in that folder should be labeled as "false"), and add the files to the bazar\liveries\<aircraft>\<skin name> folder along with your own description.lua.

Edited April 13, 2013 by Home Fries

[HornetUK]

Thanks for that can you tell me......................

 

Any idea where i can find the other stuff i am looking for in my original post?

 

One other thing how do I open the rar file to get at the pds file lol I dont know ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Edited April 14, 2013 by HornetUK

[Taproot]

Is there anywhere to find out the rules of skinning in this sim?

 

I dont get what you meen. There are tutorials out there on how to create skins.

 

Can you totally make up a skin does not exist in the real world?

 

Ofcourse you can! Free world. :)

 

Can othere see you own skin and what do you have to do to make this happen?

 

Everyone have to have the skin installed. Also server side.

 

Where is the best place to get instructions on the process to make a skin?

 

google/youtube

 

Sorry to ask so much but maybe someone could help me.

 

Never say sorry for asking questions mate. ;)

[Taproot]

One other thing how do I open the rar file to get at the pds file lol I dont know ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

 

winrar...

[HornetUK]

one last this

 

so if I was to set up a squadron. there is no way for us to fly with our own skin? Even if I give them a copy. there is no way round this? if it can be done how would I go about it?

[Taproot]

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=73093

[joey45]

so if I was to set up a squadron. there is no way for us to fly with our own skin? Even if I give them a copy. there is no way round this? if it can be done how would I go about it?

 

1. Make sure you all have the same skin in the same place named the same.*

 

2. in the Mission Editor select the skin in the drop down box.

 

* This will be ... DCS World\Bazar\Liveries/ Aircraft folder name

[311Gryphon]

 

One other thing how do I open the rar file to get at the pds file lol I dont know ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

 

I personally like 7-Zip. It seems to be able to unpack more file types for me, runs better, is more intuitive, and completely free. But that's just my perspective.

[HornetUK]

do you know how to set up a new b-52h skin? cant seem to get it to work???????????????

[TimeKilla]

What's the program that skin makers look to be using that allows them to load up the model with the edited skin and view it that looks very helpful.

[joey45]

For editing the Templates you can use either Photoshop or Gimp.

 

To load up the model you can use the model viewer.

 

Make a .bat file with

bin\ModelViewer.exe

and save it as >

ModelViewer.bat

in your root directory.