Hi all.
I understand this is a thread more to do with actually requesting a particular mod, but my request is more about process for kits to get them to actually 'work' in game. I'll attach screen grabs to help explain my not working kit.
First off thank you to Madman, Snowycasanova and Mattw who have offered me some advice earlier however for whatever reason I still can't make it work.
OK, I use photoshop and have a minimal working knowledge although I have used it previously for creating car skins in race07 and kits in rugby challenge with pretty good success thanks to some useful, easy walk-through tutorials that modders had created, so in that context I understand layers, merging, saving as dds, etc. What I have done in photoshop is have a go at creating an old aussie one day shirt (reference photos) - not exactly great but it is more about so I could understand the process, and I have the detail about using red, blue, green, black, etc. which equals the 4 colours you can use in the DB academy. Where my issue lies is that I really only needed to use 3 colours and created a kit using template (using modern_01 from 11Ryan11). I then merged the layers in photoshop -
do you then have to flatten this?; checked the channels and made sure Alpha 1 was unselected; saved as a dds using the nvidea plugin -
I saved as a DXT5 - is that correct? Copied over the kit to relevant texture folder and started DBC. Found shirt and everything I put on it was there and then started to colour and this is where my problem is. Matched up the first 3 colours but when I choose a colour for the 4th one, it 'tinted' the whole shirt - as you can see on the photos attached, if I used pink the whole shirt had a pink hue and when I choose green, the whole shirt had a green hue.
Is it possible for someone to step me through this please? I'd really like to give kit making a go but whatever I'm doing at some part of the process is letting me down.
Any advice will be extremely appreciated.
Cheers.