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How to edit car skins and upload them.
By MrAaron
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Easy video:
First of all.
First of all you want to download TDM cars or LW cars, for me I will be choosing TDM cars.
https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1184807https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1184807
You will need tortoise SVN.
Second of all - Tools: VTF Edit.
Second of all downoad VTF Edit for later.
http://nemesis.thewavelength.net/index.php?c=149
Photoshop and wireframes...
Then you will need to port your TDM Car .PNG wire frame into PS or Paint / Paint.net, after this overlap the wireframe so you can see what you're working on.

Afterwards save this and then unlap the wire frame from the skin.
Directories... boring.
Open up GMOD Directory > Navigate to your addons folder and create the folder name.
For me its like this:
Ford_Transit
[inside of that make these below]
materials
models
tdmcars
ford_transit
Using VTF ? tricky!
inside the end ford_transit put your VTF and name it SKIN 2-15
Upload your image into VTF and select make a VTF makes a VMT
in your VMT file then you want to select it to look like this.

"VertexlitGeneric"
{
"$basetexture" "models/tdmcars/ford_transit/skin2" "$bumpmap" "models/tdmcars/shared/skin_nm"
"$halflambert" 1
"$phong" "1"
"$phongboost" "10"
"$phongfresnelranges" "[0.5 0.4 5]"
"$phongexponent" "200"
"$rimmask" "1"
"$envmap" "env_cubemap"
"$envmaptint" "[0.1 0.1 0.1]"
!hdr?$envmaptint "[ 0.2 0.2 0.2 ]"
hdr?$envmaptint "[ 0.3 0.3 0.3 ]"
"$normalmapalphaenvmapmask" 1
"$envmapFresnel" "1"
"$blendtintbybasealpha" "1" "$envmapcontrast" ".5"
"$surfaceprop" "metal"

"$rimlight" "1"
"$rimlightexponent" "25"
"$rimlightboost" "0.5"
"$phongalbedotint" "1"
}

VMT AND VTF Folders should be called skin2 or whatever yours will be.
6 Comments
Woody 1 Mar, 2020 @ 9:09am 
And check this picture out!
It looks like a checkered!
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2011494221
Can you help me? :(
Woody 1 Mar, 2020 @ 8:59am 
I got made CHP mustang skin but the logos and texts are brighter
Look at this picture!
https://imgur.com/BVI2lvD
RumekFuria 13 Jun, 2018 @ 5:26am 
dude. you didn't say how to upoad them
LeoSM_07 30 Dec, 2017 @ 11:33am 
How Do i upload them to the workshop?
MLGMagicHoodini 25 Jul, 2017 @ 6:20am 
and upload them. and how to do it....
EvilNomad 21 Nov, 2016 @ 9:41am 
how do you create folders for cars that are not in the TDM pack? For instance the tahoe, suburban, ford explorer, etc