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How do I edit the UVs for a skin?

Discussion in 'Troubleshooting: Bugs, Questions and Support' started by umustbeloggedintododat, May 28, 2019.

  1. umustbeloggedintododat

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    I am a noob at GIMP, so I have no idea what to do. The wiki doesn't help. I wanna make a skin for the Wentward. What do I do with the UVs? I saw a tutorial but it was really fast and there was just music - not helpful at all.
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    I made a skin... But it says Failed to load overlay map... Can you help.
    upload_2019-5-28_17-42-10.png
    You load the paint in the Paint Design. It's called upload_2019-5-28_17-44-5.png
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    I got it working but it has this grid thing on it and some of it is cut off
    screenshot_2019-05-28_17-50-34.png
     

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    #1 umustbeloggedintododat, May 28, 2019
  2. Alex_Farmer557

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    Separate the decals onto s separate layer, then turn the grid's opacity to 0
     
    #2 Alex_Farmer557, May 29, 2019
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  3. CN877

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    Have a look on the wiki: https://wiki.beamng.com/Skin_Creation_Megapage :)

    And FYI UVs are basically just there to help you figure out where things go, you don't include it in the final image.
     
    #3 CN877, May 29, 2019
  4. krallopian

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    Uvs are created in the 3d app, you cannot change them outside of it, only edit what is shown on them. =)
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    UV literally translates to,

    U: "left/right" direction
    V: "up/down" direction

    A UV map is created when working in your 3D app to tell the textures how to stretch over the polygonal surface. Once you build it, a UV MAP is generated. Its why some uv maps are human readable and others are just a mess of randomly rotated and skewed shapes.

    So what you're after is simply redrawing textures that are based on UV maps =)
     
    #4 krallopian, May 29, 2019
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