User Skins - Discussion

[_Invincible 829]

here are 3 skins of mine :

 

P-47D red Tails

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P-51D Crazy Horse without invasion stripes and tail numbers

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P-51D HeartBreaker

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[TheHaechi 3,115]

 

 

 

So, it's normal?

It looks much worse than it should...

 

 

Double check your graphic settings. Dev server reset them.

[RideR2 5,040]

Double check your graphic settings. Dev server reset them.

Hmm...

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There's no problem here...

Edited April 13, 2014 by RideR2

[MobJarley 452]

Actually I made a skin that looks really bad :/

[doriedd 396]

Had a first crack at a skin using a WOP psd as a base, definitely saves about 90% of the time and messing around. The sooner GJ do this for WT the better.

 

Shame there are no custom decals yet, adding some of my own decals to the skin texture means the end up very small and either too pixelated or very heavily antialiased.

[Frederyk_Chopin 966]

Can anyone make this skin for P-51? Edited April 14, 2014 by Shizuo_Ishii

[InkaL 861]

 

So, it's normal?

 

Screen from photoshop:

 

Screen from game:

 

It looks much worse than it should...

 

Edit.

 

No, I checked them and they are in 2048px...

 

Oops/ Maybe it's just me then. Sorry. I play on lower settings so I get lower resolution template, I guess

 

This shot from hangar seems very smudged. I guess you up sampled color texture. And text is looking bad. Rasterize text in PS with some other anti aliasing method, try with sharp.

 

How do you save your tga? Bits per pixel should be 24 and no compression. At least that worked for me.

Edited April 14, 2014 by polydrafter

[_Invincible 829]

how can i "copy and paste" things into the photoshop ?

[MobJarley 452]

how can i "copy and paste" things into the photoshop ?

Use google for this, you can find innumerous tutorials to do all sort of thins on photoshop.

[RideR2 5,040]

This shot from hangar seems very smudged. I guess you up sampled color texture. And text is looking bad. Rasterize text in PS with some other anti aliasing method, try with sharp.

This quality is a bug (confirmed by mod) and it will be reported...

 

How do you save your tga? Bits per pixel should be 24 and no compression. At least that worked for me.

32 bits and no compression.

[iamablocker 332]

Like i said in a thread i made: A central topic with links to individual skin templates would be nice, preferrably in PS/GIMP readable formats with layers and stuff.

 

just so people can get some grasp.

[SabreGunner29 10]

how do we edit these for custom skins

[Plane_Whisperer 73]

Can anyone make this skin for P-51?

I made an Indonesian skin on this forum, its quite nice actually :)

[Fernbhoy 28]

anyone got a clue what i've done wrong here

 

this is my custom RAF skin (not great but anyway)

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however in game it comes out shiney like

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Edited April 16, 2014 by Fernbhoy

[_Invincible 829]

anyone got a clue what i've done wrong here

 

this is my custom RAF skin (not great but anyway)

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however in game it comes out shiney like

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change the _n files 

[Fernbhoy 28]

change the _n files 

 

 

change them how? as it stands it's just a copy of my a file

 

Edit Nvm, that was the issue :D

Edited April 16, 2014 by Fernbhoy

[_Invincible 829]

change them how? as it stands it's just a copy of my a file

 

Edit Nvm, that was the issue :D

the orange calour in the _n files are the Metallic shiny calour , the green and darker ones are those noral calours 

[MobJarley 452]

Well, i'm waiting for gaijin to release a pack with all the .psd templates. I won't create skins for planes without it :(

[foxlight713 276]

If you guys haven't seen this thread you should check it out -> http://forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/124989-custom-skins-for-war-thunder/  Basicaly we can have multiple custom skins as long as you name the folders right.

 

So when you generate the template the folder in the UserSkins folder will look like this -> template_p-40e

 

However you can remove the 'template' from the folder name and as long as the plane name (as the game files know's it as ie. the P-40E is read by the game files as p-40e) you can name multiple folders anything you want as long as it has the correct corresponding name on it.

 

For example i have 2 custom skins for the P-40E that use the folder names

p-40e_BlankPaint

p-40e_Checkertail_Tigershark

 

In game under 'User Skins' both will appear and I can select from both camos to use.  So for example you have multiple skins for the P-38G just make sure that 'p-38g' is the prefix for all the folders so the game can recongnize that a specific folder is for a specific plane.

[TheHaechi 3,115]

it's actually even easier. In UserSkin make a folder with any name you want (for example I have two different B17G, Carrie B and Liberty Bell), and just put the right files in it, no matter the name. Once in game, I pick my B17G and can choose between the name of the folders, no matter the name of the files.

[sgtfcamp67 39]

My first tank paint...http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o199/sgtfcamp67/shot20141218104650.jpg

Edited December 20, 2014 by sgtfcamp67

[Rhyunix 95]

 

 

 

So, it's normal?

 

Screen from photoshop:

 

Screen from game:

 

It looks much worse than it should...

 

Edit.

 

 

No, I checked them and they are in 2048px...

 

An affect of TGA instead of DDS right here

[Rhyunix 95]

change them how? as it stands it's just a copy of my a file

 

Edit Nvm, that was the issue :D

 

 

the orange calour in the _n files are the Metallic shiny calour , the green and darker ones are those noral calours 

Hueynam is right about n file, but it's not to do with the colours- somewhere, one of your layers is full opacity, you need to turn it off or down to 50% or something like that- opacity causes the "feature" (shine or matt) to be displayed more or less

[Silent_Sentinel 0]

I am looking to create camouflage skins for my tanks, but when I open TGA file with GIMP (latest version 2.8) I get the checkerboard screen with Red, Green, Blue, Alpha channels available. When I copy the alpha channel to edit, the checkerboard becomes all black. This only happens for ground forces, I can edit aircraft just fine. Please point me in the right direction for creating skins for tanks.

 

 

 

[Rico_53 38]

Hello everyone , :salute:  Rico here. Just made my first skin ; :good:

 

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More on the way :yes:

 

Maj. Rico_1953 Pilot  signing out :salute: