Solved having trouble making a skin selectable for a modded car

This happens when you usually have two parts that have the same name.

Make sure you have no other parts named 'mercedes_skin_race'.

 

You can send us the files here if you wan't

 

Hey,

after having a closer look at your files I got it (kind of) working.




The skin system uses existing materials. Unfortunately there was no mercedes material which you could have used to use the skin system. The material is called 'aa' so you have to redirect your modified material to this one.

Code:

singleton Material("aa.skin.race")
{
    mapTo = "aa.skin.race";
    overlayMap[2] = "vehicles/mercedes/race/race.png";
    diffuseMap[2] = "vehicles/mercedes/texi.png";
    specularColor[1] = "0.02 0.02 0.02 1";
    normalMap[2] = "vehicles/mercedes/texi.png";
    diffuseMap[1] = "vehicles/mercedes/texi.png";
    specularColor[1] = "0.02 0.02 0.02 1";
    normalMap[1] = "vehicles/mercedes/texi.png";
    diffuseMap[0] = "vehicles/common/null.dds";
    specularMap[0] = "vehicles/common/null.dds";
    normalMap[0] = "vehicles/mercedes/texi.png";
    specularPower[0] = "128";
    pixelSpecular[0] = "1";
    specularPower[1] = "32";
    pixelSpecular[1] = "1";
    specularPower[2] = "128";
    pixelSpecular[2] = "1";
    diffuseColor[0] = "1 1 1 1";
    diffuseColor[1] = "1 1 1 1";
    diffuseColor[2] = "1 1 1 1";
    useAnisotropic[0] = "1";
    useAnisotropic[1] = "1";
    useAnisotropic[2] = "1";
    castShadows = "1";
    translucent = "1";
    translucentBlendOp = "None";
    alphaTest = "0";
    alphaRef = "0";
    dynamicCubemap = true;
    instanceDiffuse[2] = true;
    materialTag0 = "beamng"; materialTag1 = "vehicle";
};

So instead of 'mercedes.skin.race' use 'aa.skin.race'.