How do i repaint a loco?

[Ferrisybuga]

Hey all I'm now part-way through reskinning the Deltic into the older BR Green Livery, I took the greens from the class 47 Kuju offer but I'm thinking that it needs to be darker looking at the screenshots, but since these sweet muscle machines were around well before my time i'm a bit clueless, any thoughts and comments are welcome!

[Ferrisybuga]

Darkened the main part of the bodywork, brightened up the bottom running strips, could do with some more weathering a D900* number an old BR lion logo and a name tag oh and the white around the top of the cab to be fine touched along with the window panes and wipers, so much to do.

[overmarze]

Im haveing more problems after problems?

I have the class47_01TGPCDX File on the desktop
i go to open that file then conversions then edit dds file but all i get is this?


As you can see the skin comes out but its blank????

The dds file is installed as i can save to dds?


Any idears????
More like what am i doing wrong

[jivebunny]

You can't open TgPcDx files with Photoshop, you need to convert it to .dds as per the tutorial.

[overmarze]

ok lets have a look

[jivebunny]

i go to open that file then conversions then edit dds file but all i get is this?

You've lost me there.

It's pretty straightforward - open tgpcdx file in RSBin, export dds data, open dds file with photoshop. If RSBin is telling you "export successful" and you still can't open the file then it's probably that the dds plugin doesn't work with Photoshop Elements.

JB

[overmarze]

Cheers for that will have a good look tonight.

I cant get your Dirty haa to work.

[jivebunny]

The HAA works fine here on a fresh install of RS. Either you've installed it in the wrong location or you haven't deleted blueprints.pak.

JB

[overmarze]

The HAA works fine here on a fresh install of RS. Either you've installed it in the wrong location or you haven't deleted blueprints.pak.

JB

Ive put it with the other Haa dirty folder in the freight folder then deleated the blueprints pak file.

Still not working here?

[jivebunny]

Ive put it with the other Haa dirty folder in the freight folder then deleated the blueprints pak file.

Still not working here?

Which other HAA Dirty folder? There's only one. The "Dirty" folder contained in the zip file needs to be put inside Freight\HAA so that you have Freight\HAA\Dirty. If it's still not working then it sounds like you'll need to reinstall RS because something's not right

[jivebunny]

I've just reuploaded the file as there was a problem with the GeometryID reference which mean it couldn't be clicked on, thought I'd fixed it but forgot to put the new .bin file in the .zip! It doesn't affect the mesh though, just the bounding box, so it's not related to what you're experiencing.

[overmarze]

Has anyone else got any problems with any of the other latest stuff uploaded today?

[jivebunny]

Nope all working fine here except the Black TTA Tanker, which doesn't seem to contain a bin file!

[overmarze]

Hmmm mine dont show at all?

Did you do anything to get them to show?

[jivebunny]

Did you do anything to get them to show?

Nope they all worked fine out of the box, sounds like you're either installing them to the wrong location or you need to reinstall RS.

JB