If you make your alpha channel all black the whole windscreen should be transparent. Experiment with that. Might get the result you need?

@kevin_m Thanks, I'll try. Don't even know where is the location for Porsche 911 GT1 liveries.

Download a skin pack maybe for that car from overtake website, inspect the files from that creator, and make your edits. Kind of a way to cheat to learn things. :)

Absolutely. Reiza has done a great job since launch improving things.

Thanks, hope it helped you out!

Hi Dave! I have only lightly dabbled in metallics. What I recall is only certain vehicles support it. There are many knowledgeable folks on the TAMS2SP discord server that may be able to assist. Try this link and see if you can join. discord.gg/KyCvv8XX

@@kevin_m Thank you so much for your reply

Only for you ;). If other players have your skin installed locally on their system they will see it. Otherwise they see default.

@kevin_m alright, appreciate it. Because recently I bought the game and I still waiting for my PC to get fixed.

@ oh I hope it’s not too much of a wait. I think you’ll have a lot of fun w ams2. If you are designing liveries, and want you and a friend to see each others skins while online together, just make sure you each have matching override folders for the cars you are using.🙂

Oh fantastic! Yes, fail early and fail often but you’ll improve! Have fun and thanks for the comment.😄

Simply remove your custom xml file from the override folder for that vehicle OR rename your custom override file with _bk or something like that at the end. The game will then fall back to the default skins. Thanks for the comment!

@kevin_m thank you for the response!

Oh I’m glad it helped out! Windows can be a bit tricky ya. Thanks for the comment. :)

This is excellent news :) Have fun with 1.6!

I’m not sure I understand your question. If the template files are not available on the Reiza site (link in description of video), it would be a guessing game to create the design.

You are not alone in having problems. Hopefully 1.6 version that Reiza is working on will have some improvements to mixed condition racing. Fingers crossed.

Oh I’m sorry you are having trouble. It could come down to a small error in the xml file and the paths to the dds files you have created. Check for any wrong characters or misspellings.

I just checked everything several times, if not a dozen, and it's the same, I don't know what's going on...

@@pablowasilon7534 please describe what you see when you view the car you are trying to edit in the showroom. Is it “solid red”? Try this link to join my discord and I can check your xml file: discord.gg/NkEPABbM (let me know if the link worked)

If I understand what you mean, just by having pit crew visible for player I believe. You can hide pit crew for ai to help improve game performance.

Absolutely! Excited for the Reiza team to release 1.6! Thanks for stopping by. :)

Unfortunately not that I am aware of. Serious modders may know a way. Maybe in the future Reiza will support adding new slots similar to how rf2 does.

Oh awesome! Have fun and I hope it turns out great!

@@kevin_m cheers dude, yeah it's not bad considering I'm out of practice 😂 watched part 2 about Fresnel saved me a ton of time trying to remember the correct compression formats most appreciated 👍

@@colinhughessimracing2757 oh you did the advanced course eh!? 😅 You can do some cool things with chrome and fresnel dds. I’m guilty of liking “matte” finishes a lot.

@@kevin_m yeah I love matte and satin finishes personally but the guys that wanted a carbon base with metallic stripe design. So yes your advanced course was perfect 😂😂👍🔥

@@colinhughessimracing2757 nice - subbed to your channel, so if you throw up a quick video you can show me the final results!

Oh thanks so much! I really appreciate that feedback! It does take some effort for sure. A lot of trial and error.😅 Hope to get back at it again soon. I just have been enjoying the summer a lot. Thanks again, really made my day. 🍻

@@kevin_m Thanks for your reply. When do we get an new Video from you ? Maybe some Groupe C on Silverstone ?

@@klaus3301 very good question! I like the suggestion. Maybe your request will spark a quick rip vid! I’ve been really busy w some personal things but as it gets colder here in Canada there will be more rig time available! Hope all is well where you are. 🙂

Thanks! Not sure what number plates you are referring to? The numbers on the doors or on the hood of the car would all be customizable in your design. Sometimes there are window names/numbers depending on the template/car model. This is a bit more complex as you need to export the proper dds file to be used for “WINDOWS” and update the xml to add in the line that loads windows or windscreen dds overrides. Glad I helped you with the video :).

@@kevin_m sorry for the late reply, usually teh cars comes with numberplates of the series (for example wec or imsa series) at the sides, but when I've painted an porsche 963 the old numberplate appeared together as well instead of not showing at all

@@Corvoreviews oh the number plate might need to be done in a separate file altogether. Check the source xml file of the template you are using and see if there are any sample lines that look like paths to specific number plate dds files. You would not paint them on the car base body livery itself but in another photoshop/gimp file. I have only played with number plates a little so I’m no expert there.

@@kevin_m oh I see, thank you for the support, cheers

Any luck yet? Make sure to restart rf2 for any new content to get loaded. Great guy Paul has a vid here that might help. Skip to 2.30 section where he shows selecting series/cars. kzbin.info/www/bejne/m2KreXekhK6LZrssi=hKfmtn1B4pMWj6Ah Hope that helps. Keep me posted. :)

Thanks for the comment! Hoping Reiza still has improvements coming for us.

Crew Chief app has a spotter and crew chief. I don’t use the ams2 in game spotter. Just Crew Chief. Hope that helps :)

Only certain cars have different color rims available. I’m not sure of them all but the BMW M1 has multiple wheel colors you can apply. The default xml file for the cars will have instructions in them to apply different rims.

Thanks Kevin! I’m interested to see how they drive once the next update comes from Reiza!

Sometime I need to add the 'outtakes' to the ends of the videos lol! You will hear a much less composed commentary! Thanks for firing in the first comment Matt, appreciate all you regulars around here :)

That is such a tough combo. It's nice seeing all the camera views your trail braking is so smooth. Great job Kevin 👍

@@SSRacer_UK thanks man! I have been really enjoying walls lately it seems. Long Beach, Monaco and Montreal are all tough!

Thanks appreciate it! For the replays I make sure they are saved post race, then I just usually use the trackside footage and record the playback with OBS. Then I time it using the starting grid lights to match it up in Adobe Premiere. I don’t get too many glitches luckily. The trackside cameras sometimes are not great though for some tracks.

@@kevin_m Yeah... I have been having trouble with Suzuka and a few others... I started a championship to upload and when I went to record the footage, the timings and track-side cameras were broken :( Also the pit crews many times are standing on the main straight... After so many "fixes and updates" I feel kind of disappointed at the devs because I really like this game and the bugs I mentioned and a few others ruin the whole experience for me. Thanks for the answer and good luck with your channel!

@@subjektivegaming omg ya pit crew standing right in the road! That needs to be fixed! I hope Reiza is bothered by these bugs as much as we are.

Appreciate that feedback Matt! Jealous you’re able to just drive to go see these races! I’d love to attend Oulton or Brands sometime.😀

Oh hey!!! So glad you saw the vid! BTCC is my favourite racing series and I tune in for every qualifying session and all 3 races each round. Being in Canada I have to wake up early on race days but it’s worth it! Fantastic work on the mod! 👍

@jimmycoupe8021 Bobby Thompson is back! Another BMW livery to put together for you I think eh!?😃 btcc.net/bobbys-back-thompson-joins-zeus-cloud-racing-with-wsr/

@@kevin_m Yes fantastic news for BTCC, expect him to appear in the pack as soon as I can see his livery. In the mean time enjoy the post brands update released this evening. Its a pretty big sponsor and quality update, many of the fixes and corrections were only possible with Scott Sumpton's help 🙂

@@jimmycoupe8021 oh amazing ok I have some time tomorrow to try it out! If I do a race video I should go with Sumpton’s Leon!

Hey Jay, ya great work by the creators and free too! Always a bonus. Hope all is well.🍻

​@@kevin_m can't go wrong with free 😅 I'm good man thanks, really can't wait for all the cars in AMS2 to be updated, hopefully you're good on your side of the world

Spring has sprung and it’s starting to warm up! 1.6 is going to be a nice little upgrade to ams2 I think!

I really appreciate that! I’m glad at least you found the video and enjoyed it! 😄 Thanks for stopping by!

Thanks Carlos! I had a few understeer moments where I went wide on corner exit but I was really pushing and on the standard setup. Maybe some tuning would help with that.

You’ll have to plan another championship Timo!

Thx Matt! You might surprise yourself w this combo. I really like the other early nineties layouts Reiza has added too. The bat file is great, better than opening the xml and editing it manually!

Oh Owen who gives a hoot! Free world mate I’ll be checking your vid out later if work ever f’s off. 😅

The time trial record is really quick! 117.500 or something if I remember! Saw your vid too Mike, quite a race!

Absolutely SS! I’m really enjoying learning about f1 history using the mods and making the videos!

Kev ha ya I had 2x tire wear on, plus I probably had tc too low as in the vid you can see the rears lighting up out of the corners!!!😅

Ya once you find the spots around a lap where ai is weak you can really exploit them. Ai has come a long way, hopefully Reiza keeps at it.

Oh thanks for that info! There are a lot of values in that file you could tweak and probably mess up if you go the wrong direction with any of them.

Right, the model has to have the material in it and ability to specify a dds file/texture to it. Not all cars have things like banners, windows, window numbers, different color wheel rims etc. Best trick is to find a really well done skin pack of the model you want to use and open the xml file and check the dds files that come with it. You’ll see the files and paths needed.

@@kevin_m I have been working on the BMW M6 GT3 and an auto banner shows up from inside. It even had the banner info in the _dist.xml file. But you can't adjust it and see if form inside the car. Lots of the people I do liveries for are KZbinrs and want their name/channel visible on the banner while driving. It's too bad, so easy to do yet they leave it out of lots of cars.

@@BOTRacing yes I think I had the same problem with the Porsche GTE. No way to override the inner window.

Thanks man!

By “changing to dds” I’m not sure what you mean. I googled and see that you should be able to “export as dds” from gimp itself. Dxt1 for body and Dxt5 for spec (supports alpha). A white car or red car often means there is a path problem in the xml file. Make sure you don’t have any remaining “commenting” brackets in your new xml and that ams2 can follow the paths in the xml to see your dds files for the livery ID you are trying to override. Keep me posted. If need be I can send you a discord invite and I could take a look at your files. 🙂

Thx for the reply. I opened up Gimp and exported the file saving it to a .dds. And making it a BC1 compression (or whatever...I forgot). Now the car is black. I noticed my livery file....now in the "Timo Race Team Folder.... Looks black as well, with none of my design elements showing. I am a Creative Director by trade, and being from Indianapolis, I have done many liveries over the years.....all on Macs. This Window stuff is new to me. Thank you for your patience 😅. I am open to a discord chat. Open most evenings and all day Weds and Fridays thru Sunday

@@TimCrist busy tonight but free later this week. Ping when/if you get into discord here: discord.gg/GCWA8Rd

Success!!!!! Thanks for helping us all with the vid. I'll send a pic when I tweek it a bit. Thx!

@@TimCrist oh great news! Ok keep me posted have fun with it!

Really appreciate the comment! Yes ams2 has improved a lot. Very cool about your races, did you do the full distance or a percentage? I have decided a 45 to 50 min replica race works out for a video like this. It’s a lot to edit but I’ll try to make more as they are fun to do!

@@kevin_m I did 40/50 minutes for endurance races and 20/25 for sprint races. I tend to do shorter lately, as you said it's a lot to edit.

@@Racer63. oh cool subscribed. I’ll check out your races!

Try Feb 10 for the date which would be summertime in Ecuador. The environment will be different during the seasons. Some tracks you’ll see trackside frost in the winter even! Let me know if that works for you.

Yes I believe it’s the boost function you map to whatever button you prefer to use. Try it out and let me know though! I’ll double check later myself too. Thanks for stopping by!

@kevin_m I will try it out tomorrow and report back to you, thank you so much 🫡😉

Yeap, it's the boost button that does the p2p

@@zebraafs nice thanks for confirming!

Oh good news Owen glad you’re really feeling an improvement with the update! I didn’t notice a huge difference myself but it’s been a while since I’ve been in any of the stock cars. I was able to compete at high difficulty side by side w ai so I must have been getting the info I needed at the wheel! 👊

@@kevin_m I think your wheel setup and custom ffb files don't see as much of an improvement (there alrady v good) than you see on the lesser wheels, The extra grip and nore distinct edge of grip shines through for me.

@@hereward1971 ah ya. Great news then for lower powered bases if there is more detail coming through. I have my old g27 kicking around that I bet would still get the job done!

Agree you can have a lot of fun making your own skins for these! I hope the mixed weather racing improves a bit in the future, I struggle with it myself in certain situations. Thx for the comment!

Thx Dan! Ya and this car can all the sudden bite back too if you start to oversteer. Once it starts going around it’s really hard to stop it from rotating!

Ya I got some good door to door action on lap 3!

Lolol! That math checks out I think? 😅