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Texture parts and formats of a car skin

If you create a car skin for a player or a human car you have to care about:

• Player car skin (see example above too):
  • Size 2048 x 2048px with baked shadows (with Blender) in PNG format
  • Named as the folder and XML file of the car: carclass-vendor-car.png
  • You can create up to 3 car skin styles, street version, tuning/ fany one and a race/ rally car skin, naming of them is: carclass-vendor-car-style.png
    

• The wheel texture:
  • In PNG format sized to 1024 x 512px named as wheel3d.png for standard skin or wheel3d-style.png
  • There are various rim and tyre styles available at SVN
    

• A preview images as a JPG image in 800 x 500px; carclass-vendor-car-preview.jpg or carclass-vendor-car-style-preview.jpg
• A RPM meter as a PNG image in 256 x 256px: carclass-vendor-car-rpm.png
• A speedometer as a PNG image in 256 x 256px: carclass-vendor-car-speed.png
  

• Extra skin parts for:
  • Driver: driver-carclass-vendor-car.png; 512 x 256px
  • Interior: carclass-vendor-car-int.png; 512 x 256px

• Hints for a great gaming experience
  • Variate your skins: street version, tuning/ fany one and a race/ rally car skin have always different details
  • Make an research on Google images search, Flickr and Deviantart to explore the details
  • Keep an eye not to violate the Free Art license by mixing licenses that are not compatible (as an example Free Art license did not work with Public Domain license)
  • Make sure rim and tyre fits to car skin style, as an example: a race car skin should not use street car tyres
  • At SVN you find various car vendor logos - use them!
  • Meshes with transparent textures should have the name prefix "WI_", example: WI_glass.
  • If the car has AI drivers (robots), create an own skin for them too.

Create AI drivers (robots) skins too:

• Robot skins are located at speed-dreams-2/drivers and its subfolders
• A car skin as for the player skin
• A wheel texture fitting to the skin similar described above for the player skin
• A preview image sin JPG format
• A Pit wall logo:
  • In Silicon Graphics image format (*.rgb) sized to 512 x 512 px
  • Use this GIMP template: pit-door-robots.xcf.bz2
  • Make sure your design leaves one pixel empty around

Example SC Boxer 96:

• Player car skin:
  • Street car version: sc-boxer-96.png
  • Tuning/ fancy version: sc-boxer-96-yellow-stripe.png
  • Racing/ rally version: sc-boxer-96-glowen.png
    

• Wheel texture:
  • Street car version: wheel3d.png
  • Tuning/ fancy version: wheel3d-yellow-stripe.png
  • Racing/ rally version: wheel3d-glowen