Everything You Need To Know About Assetto Corsa Livery/Skin Making in 7 minutes

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[@jamesrowland2002]

Thanks for all the continued love for this video. My channel is not monetised. If this video has helped you, please consider supporting - paypal.me/retiredreplica

[@pikkyuukyuun4741]

now nothing can stop me from slapping waifus on every car!

[@jamesrowland2002]

Apologies if you see adverts on this video, my channel is not monetised this is just youtube running ads on content it deems 'advertiser friendly' and not paying the creators..

[@randykindle6313]

mate not all of can afford PS LMFAO

[@dd_xshadow9208]

@@randykindle6313 the secret ingredient is crime

[@speediskey3856]

@@dd_xshadow9208 Or using free software like GIMP

[@pwblo_org]

@@randykindle6313 just crack it like everybody lol

[@marion3870]

@@randykindle6313 i use MS Paint

[@paintbox9899]

This is exactly what I needed, a lot of tutorials are pretty good but are hours long. I needed this overview of the steps in this shorter format so I can understand the steps required start to finish without it going over my head. Thank you very much! I can now start experimenting and get some skins worked on for the first time :)

[@jamesrowland2002]

Exactly what i was aiming for!

[@RUSTICW0LF]

If only all Tutorials on YT were like this. Thank you my friend, Straight to the point, no fluff, no crap, just exactly what i was looking for 👍🐺👍 New Subscriber , Cheers!

[@SouvantMalade]

This is exactly everything that you need to know about skin creation in AC! Very good video, and above all no unnecessary information, very well done!

[@garagefabroart]

Extremely informative and well narrated! Thank you! I've been painting with photoshop for 15+ years and I've recently gotten into sim racing so I'm going to have some real fun in AC. Do you have any knowledge of modifying a car body in Blender? I want to make some modifications to a stock BMW M635Csi (street car) and turn it into a vintage Group A Touring car.

[@jamesrowland2002]

come join our discord community discord.me/charged, one of the biggest and best AC communities, i can show you some basic stuff like getting the model into blender etc, plus lots of nice people and fun racing! We just announced our new championship seasons yesterday!

[@dvillisback]

This is probably the best and most efficient tutorial i’ve ever seen. You are exactly what youtube needs. Massive thank you to you buddy, not only for teaching me how to do this. But for teaching it so quickly and so easily

[@jamesrowland2002]

Thank you!! So glad it helps!

[@dvillisback]

@@jamesrowland2002 i’m having a little trouble finding your discord server, can you send a direct link? I’m very interested in joining

[@dvillisback]

Oops, i’ve found it now. Sorry about that!

[@jamesrowland2002]

@@dvillisback sure discord.gg/Rse45A7X

[@katyh4487]

I have been pulled over by the cops for my ride being quote-unquote 'too swag' send help in all seriousness, great tutorial james!

[@frankj3378]

so I spend hours hunting around watching lame videos that can't get to the point/detail of how to do something in 45 minutes. You post a video that is 7:27m long, and hits 20 of the top need to know points of skinning a AC car. Excellent job, and thank you!

[@umbral_ivory]

I tried to install the plug-in but photoshop just isn’t detecting it, what should I do?

[@ruben___________________]

Great tutorial, the most time consuming step was convincing nvidia I am a developer

[@stakedz]

great tutorial! but i is there any way to do it on my windows?

[@UCXTSane]

and where can i find the modded cars templates ? cus i want to put a livery on my own car

[@jamesrowland2002]

some (higher end) modded cars have templates marked in the files somewhere, but using the method in this video its as easy to make your own.

[@GolemsYT]

Doesn't line up properly when I export it into the game :/ SOLUTION: because I was using GIMP instead of photoshop some of the layers were expanded and when exported as adds they were changing the canvas size. Simply click image in the top menu and select flatten image and it should work(make sure your mesh is invisible)

[@precisechaos2144]

It took me a few watches through here to figure it out, but so far I've tinted my headlights and tail lights, started doing a new livery, new calipers, new rotors, it's so fun. I ended up staying up until 3 ripping the car around the track. Thank you for the video!

[@ChevchukRacing]

its not transparent when i save it

[@johnmarshallyt]

best in-depth tutorial for livery making in AC thanks for this video!!!

[@miikavuorio6925]

I am really impressed by this video, this is not only the best livery editor tutourial I have come accross, but I think it's the best tutourial video of anything I've come accross on youtube, really good job mate. There's no faffing about and it shows everything you need to know efficiently, mwah, what a beauty.

[@szymcioDrift]

Hello, is there any way to extract kn5 without CM? Im trying to develop livery on E36 from WDT Enjoy Pack, and preview in CM Showroom is unavailable / encrypted.

[@SouthernCrossMotors]

Awesome!! Thank you. I can do my little Daihatsu now :)

[@scaryguy]

Tedious process, not easy at all, for very little reward, not worth the time and effort, PITA!!!!!

[@owenpage7080]

I've installed the NVIDIA Texture Exporter but when I go to save the file there's no option to save it as a DDS

[@jamesrowland2002]

Export not save 👍

[@owenpage7080]

@@jamesrowland2002 Oh haha thank you

[@dpmarple055]

This does not work for me I followed the tutorial step by step making a pink abflug skin for an R34 and it just comes up as blue with nothing on it, anyone got any tips?

[@LuckyCatGaming]

I got assetto corsa recenlty and made first 2 custom skins on Miata I used shadow map (wire frame for interiror) as base layer but dawg, noticed you do it as top layer what looks it saves much more time and work what I spent on cropping and cutting images what were on multiply overlaying each another, your way I can just import image and leave it on normal and just overlay them properly, can't wait to try your method looks much more simpler! Thanks for tips!

[@animeninja2749]

sadly i cant get the fucking plugin to work, i tried to convert it offline but no luck

[@Chizou20XX]

What happens if you don't use NVIDIA?? It just literally confuses ppl do more stuff rather than just do the simple thing in PhotoShop or whatever.

[@SportIce]

This is perfect: not too long, easy to understand and learn. Thank you

[@danjones7584]

having made a skin and exported in with dds in the bc3 format it comes up as just white with nothing on it in content manager, anyone else run into the same problem?

[@jamesrowland2002]

File naming problem or source folder Issue

[@DavidJohnGibbons]

@@jamesrowland2002 I've been having a similar issue myself, it just comes up white. uninstalled/reinstalled made sure routing/names are correct and still turns out white.

[@dioscaresparza]

This video is 2 years old and still the best and most accurate tutorial on YT. Thanks man. You are a life saver.

[@Desolace01]

Finally a comprehensive tutorial for skin editing from scratch!

[@romay7376]

hello I have a black filter on my car when I had my livery did you know what is this ?

[@theletterp7053]

2:58 to 3:26 whenever I enable "skin editing mode" in content manager, make an edit in photoshop and press CTRL+S nothing happens unless I resave it all as a DDS file which takes forever because I have to go and resave it as a BC3 file in the NVIDIA Exporter. Anyone have a solution?

[@jamesrowland2002]

Psd must be saved with same name in same folder as dds

[@sab3r729]

how do i install nvidea texture tools exporter ive tried to but it wont allow me to save anything as a dds file. Help ?

[@Marauder1981]

There´s no pint in making a guide if you don´t explain all the steps in PS. What´s the point using hotkeys in PS if you don´t show or say what you do? You do a lot of steps that somehow work without saying what you click and do. Pretty frustrating.

[@jamesrowland2002]

apologies, i wanted to keep the guide brief for people already versed in the basics of photoshop/digital illustration. PS is really easy to learn and it won't take you long to get up to speed, usually i can answer any PS query i have with a quick google. Best of luck.

[@ryuen128]

What if I want to create a chrome colored skin, do you know how to make it?

[@paulwooding8382]

@jamesrowland2002 Thank you James for excellent tutorial. I am hitting a snag with one modded skin. The TCL Jaguar Mk 2. The output from Calculate AO is just a black image. Any suggestions? I can see the details in the Car Texture window, but nothing appears in the output. Thank you for any help. PS I cant seem to find you in Discord.

[@jamesrowland2002]

Hi Paul, thanks for the dono much appreciated, happy to help, i'm not on charged any more but if you send me your discord ID i'll add you and get it sorted

[@webleyneodrift9567]

This tutorial is a masterpiece

[@Marauder1981]

if you already know what to do. Then yes.

[@stkobii]

Your Video is awesome! Great Tutorial! But I have a question! Is it possible to create liveries without owning Assetto Corsa? Where would you find all the cars to download? Cheers

[@jamesrowland2002]

In a roundabout way maybe. But you would need to acquire car models (google) and then import to for example blender, then uv unwrap them yourself and texture. But AC ultimate edition is well worth it for many reasons.

[@Deso958]

Wow Wow Wow! Simple and easy Thanks :)

[@frogfortress]

one of the most concise videos ive seen on the subject thank you

[@ihahaoo]

how to make black livery ?Backround is black on export file from assetto.If I put black picture in Gimp to multply on car then I cant see the body and if I want to add stickers ,cant see where to put them.

[@jamesrowland2002]

method 1 - make the black layer white and use the 'colour overlay' option in PS, work on it as white, then colour overlay as black when ready to export. method 2 - Ctrl I (invert) the AO layer so it becomes white rather than black so you can see the outline when you work. invert back to black when ready to export.

[@okuu_utsuho]

Thanks to this, I have created my first simple Touhou livery where I used a picture of Sekibanki.

[@michelevitarelli]

Thank you for providing this concise tutorial. It is greatly appreciated.

[@haloodst756]

Thank you so much I ended up making my two dream cars exactly how I would make them so again thank you

[@jamesrowland2002]

that rules! congratulations and enjoy!

[@trobinson9342]

Hope you're doing well James. Have a great day! :)

[@jamesrowland2002]

All good! Just been doing a lot of sim racing!

[@gxaw579]

do i really need to have a nvidia gpu to make this thing work? i run on amd and i did everything till 2:35 and when i got in the showroom the livery didnt work

[@jamesrowland2002]

Nope there are other ways to render dds, as long as it’s bc3 format, feel free to join my sim racing discord and ask in the ‘livery making tips’ channel or just dm me (flatearthmom)

[@bpwoods97]

Is this possible without photoshop on a free program, something like gimp or another alternative?

[@jamesrowland2002]

yea, gimp, paint.net etc.

[@apridgen]

thanks for making this! super quick but tells you everything you need to get started.

[@grzyb11]

You need more subs

[@xFabel]

Thank you so much for making this video! Made my first livery today :)

[@kurian0_0]

Best tutorial on yt. Can the custom liveries be used in online servers?

[@jamesrowland2002]

Thanks! Yes the second half of the video explains what you need to do in order to package the livery to work. But it needs to be uploaded server side. So really it’s for organised servers/events. You won’t be able to just turn up in an open lobby and run it. When I ran a server the liveries would be submitted prior to the event, then distributed to participants via a zip file you just drag and drop into content manager. Then everyone can see custom liveries.

[@bolektoja]

wow, thanks James!!!

[@seangray4512]

Wow many thanks mate!

[@cichandler833]

I assume it's similar for wheels and banners?

[@jamesrowland2002]

Yup! Exact same process. For windows fully turn off the opacity on the AO layer or you get white windows lol

[@강오리]

hello. I made a skin after watching your video. But there was a problem. After applying the skin to the car, the car became matte. Do you know how to make it shine again?

[@jamesrowland2002]

Make the map layer solid white.

[@강오리]

@@jamesrowland2002 Where can I find map layers?

[@assettobam4880]

How to do this in GIMP?

[@mikeyoung4427]

hmm i cant seem to save my file as .dds ive tried to save to copy as well no dds option

[@mikeyoung4427]

restarting photoshop after installing the plugin helped! thank you for the video

[@K9zz]

awesome thank you

[@siebebaelen5872]

can i do it with something free? cus photoshop is paid

[@jamesrowland2002]

Yea Gimp or paint.net also it’s never wrong to p****e adobe products.

[@CronoArms]

How do I edit an existing skin so that I do not have to replicate it from scratch?

[@nothanks4742]

hi there! do you know of a way to do this in a program other than photoshop?

[@jamesrowland2002]

Yea try gimp or paint.net

[@me_dimko]

Do you know how could I make custom plates from a picture? I would like to make a Slovak plate and then in AC Showroom I would like to add custom numbers and letters to it. ALL I NEED is transfer the picture to .dds format I think.

[@probablyrandom4557]

Hi, I'm wondering what if I cannot use BC3, what would be my alternate option?

[@vladthemeatman7406]

Hi I'm struggling doing everything from 1:02 to 1:26, could you help?

[@AlbertoVega]

Thnk your for this. Only one thing, I hope you can help... When pasting the png from clipboard you mention it should be RGB not Grayscale (1:10 mark) but when I post it, it actually pastes Grayscale and every decal I put there is in a shade of gray, any way I can male sure it's RGB if the described method didn't work? Thank you in advance and great tutorial-

[@elroacho5807]

Great vid! Just a quick question, I haven't been able to get my skin to show up in-game but it shows in the CM Showroom, have I missed something?

[@thezenden8424]

Best video and so easy to follow! My only downfall is when I add the paint color I want in photoshop all is good from that point until I open it up in AC. From there every part of the body is that color. Like vents and even windshield wipers are colored Lol. How do I get only the body parts colored?

[@NirvanaSmokes]

anyone have an issue where the livery is really blurry in assetto? even the hq decals i use are blurry as anything. can anyone point me in the right direction?

[@snaipdefix]

That BC3 thing saved me a lot of time. Awesome vid!

[@merc8888]

Awesome! BUT! I'm doing something wrong i guess, mine comes out all gray. Any idea on why?

[@jamesrowland2002]

check when making the new image on photoshop colour isn't set to grayscale.

[@merc8888]

@@jamesrowland2002 Worked like a charm, did not think about that, haha. Thank you!

[@raptor5x57]

so uh i'm trying this with takumi's 5th stage 86 tunable...when i did the calculate ao it turned out as what seemed to be a bunch of stuff piled on top of eachother

[@dersir3526]

Thank you

[@DuxDrive]

How about changing the UV map??

[@darkdistrict2546]

i would like to just paint the car black is it possible to do it without photoshop ? the car in question is matt fields s14.5 would like to make it into what admalz drove in the last round of formula drift

[@jamesrowland2002]

yo! you don't need photoshop for this, you can use paint.net or gimp that are both free and there are other ways to render DDS files without using the nvidia program, feel free to dm me on discord (links in the video) and i can just straight up make you the skin or show you how to make it really easily.

[@lucamaggiolo9816]

Is there a way to calculate the AO with the cpu? I ahve such an old gpu so it takes forever, but I have a last gen ryzen 7

[@maxjohn6012]

Nice video, thanks for making this. Do you know if it's possible to use GIMP instead of Ps?

[@StudioLysyMaker]

Can i do it by using gimp ?

[@Otto-ct6jw]

yeah you follow pretty much the same process. Export the file to the ac car skins folder and hide the mesh. Not sure how to get the live updates on editing the skin though

[@twisteddrift9860]

When i try to copy the image the to the clipboard to make the new template it doesn't show to whole template. What am i doing wrong?

[@jovank6715]

7:27

[@StonerGamingParadise]

Bravo 👏! How would you add logos/emblems? Also how can I find out the "scale/size" of the skin? Asking because I want to make vinyls that I can add to my RC cars.

[@jamesrowland2002]

when you are working on your PSD of your skin, it will have an overall size (image size) which you can adjust in photoshop to any scale. community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/printing-actual-size/td-p/10112944#:~:text=Are%20you%20printing%20from%20Photoshop,to%20Fit%20Media%22%20is%20off. logos and emblems just take any photo or image and add it as a layer to photoshop.

[@shayanspeed8643]

when i hit save DDS, the nvidia window doesnt open up and gives me an error. idk what is wrong 😑🤔🙄

[@stefanstanciu4175]

Love this video man, wso fucking good, thanks

[@darkdistrict2546]

what keys di you press to select all finally got photoshop but have no idea on how to do anything XD

[@jamesrowland2002]

ctrl a! learning shortcuts and commands make the process a lot easier when you've done it a bunch of times, you can also go to the 'select' tab and just click all there! helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html happy skin making!

[@keepcalm1182]

hey man, I have the small issue that one of the modcars I downloaded has a windshield-banner, which does reflect the curbs and the texture of the road from the bottom "through" the car (I drive with cockpit camera, so its veeery dictracting (all reflections settings I already tried from content manager, didnt do anything (or do they? I couldnt find it))). Im kind of hoping that this is easy to fix. But I have no idea. The rest of the car is really nice, so Id like to keep it, and drive it. Have you any idea how this can be tweaked and solved? I hoped maybe I only need to find the config file and change the parameters for the reflextion of the banner. But I dont know.. Im not owning Photoshop, and I hope this can be solved without such (paid) software? Appreciate your feedback! Thanks and regards, Dave

[@jamesrowland2002]

Photoshop can be acquired for free easily. You can also use gimp or paint.net which are free. To me this sounds like you can just replace the windshield textures with blank ones. Make a 1x1 pixel canvas, completely blank, not even background and render it as dds using method in video. Good luck.

[@benicio_cuna]

Very helpful. Just made my livery. Thank you

[@Dominik189]

I have a modded car I wanted to add a custom livery to and followed along but it didn't apply Edit: I got it to work. Note for all, if it doesn't seem to want to apply, press the replace in your cars preview where you get the texture map.

[@besogociridze]

Nvidia texture tool exporter not working on CS5 so it was wasting time for me! but thanks for video :(

[@jamesrowland2002]

there is a standalone version and other ways to convert images to DDS in the correct format

[@lolololollll123]

just use a psd to dds converter on google ,it works for me

[@LeFredge]

thank you for this tutorial ! i started doing my own customs today !

[@BooztedMedia]

how did you select all

[@xcel1130]

Does this work for AMD gpus?

[@sm.otsktsk3151]

Great video, Simply explained but still very informative. Thanks!

[@opsdays]

do video, on substance painter.

[@ukaszregulski6078]

for some odd reason the livery isnt showing up, maybe thats the mod im working with fault (mitsubishi evo VIII time attack)

[@jamesrowland2002]

double check your exported format/make sure the name of the textures are correct

[@bradleycottam8661]

cant see the plugin in photoshop after installing it?? wont let me save as correct file type??

[@jamesrowland2002]

export not save 👍

[@sirklint]

Hello sir. Thanks for making this video.... I have a problem saveing as DDS. Im running photoshop 2022 and i have downloade the pluging from nivida from your link. I can open DDS but i can't export, only as PNG, JPG or gif... I probably doing something wrong????

[@jamesrowland2002]

Try ‘save as’ then select dds from the file drop down menu.

[@sirklint]

@@jamesrowland2002 I found out you have to "save as a copy" thats the only way to gett DDS.... strange way to do it

[@drpivotkid90]

thank you very much! i will try to make meme livery on my cars! ps. there is a method to mirror idk your livery to the olther side of the car?

[@jamesrowland2002]

yea thats very easy to do, what i usually do is group all the layers from one side together in photoshop, then once the left side is done, i duplicate and mirror then line it up with the right hand side.

[@dev_vg]

If the skins are on the machine running the server, will anyone joining be able to see/use them? or does it have to be shared

[@jamesrowland2002]

Have to be downloaded and installed client side,you just drop a zip file of all the skins raceday

[@SorenBoddy]

This might be stupid but is there any way to do this without photoshop, like with MS Paint or something free?

[@jamesrowland2002]

paint.net and GIMP are both free and can do all of this stuff with great results!

[@marioflorent2647]

Amazing tutorial. Quick question. I have been designing in CorelDraw since 1991 lol. Is there a way to see real time changes ( skin editing mode ) using Corel? Thanks

[@jamesrowland2002]

if there is i'd love to see it! never used corel, if it has its equivalent of a .psd or .xcf try that, even if you have to render each time its not so bad, i made liverys for months before i discovered editor mode.