How can I create skins for el-trains, buses etc.?

[danielanzaldua 8]

Can someone show me how to make skins for EL- Trains, subways, trains and buses. Tag-one told me how to but it didin't help. Can someone showme how!

[TinySim 4]

1. Bad title. Good title.
   
2. Is it just the textures or the whole model you want to change?
   

I beleive the textures are FSH-files, and I think you can easily export them from the reader and convert them with FiSH-whatever-its-called. Both can be found in the modding files section in the menu to the left.

If you want a step-by-step tutorial you'll have to ask someone else. For example trolca, who is really good at this stuff.

[danielanzaldua 8]

I just what to change the skins on bus and trains

[screamingman12 30]

You will need FiSHman and ilive reader to do this, first go into Ilive and open up a model, click on the fill the list button and find the FSH file, right click that and select save texture then go into FiSHman and open the texture, save it as a bitmap or PNG file, then open it in photoshop or paintbox and make the changes to it. Afterwords, go back into FiSHman and click on the texture, select replace then find your texture and the location will be inserted into the box, select DXT3 compressed with alpha then save your skin. Open up Ilive reader and select mats then replace texture find your texture and insert it then select apply if you click on something else, you will se a white line flash across the screen, this is a signal that the texture has apllied and you can now veiw/test it. For clearer instructions on how to do this, see Vester_DK's signature

[vester_DK 477]

I will pop in anyway because the are server problem so you will get a 403 Forbidden error.

Two seconds.....





Here we go. Just needed to log-in on the server to get the link.

Have collected some posts by Trolca in this one. . Here you can read about how to reskin a model, remodel it (moving the points around) and more.

Beside the iLive Reader and FiSHMAN that you find in the section Modding Files you will need a graphic/photo editing program like PhotoShop, GIMP (free), PaintShopPro, PhotoImpact ect.

Just pm me (or s12) if you need some help or write in the train mods thread.

[vester_DK 477]

Well the signatur file is back online, thanks to JohnB.