awesome run down dude, I don't use photoshop either, I've used Paint Shop Pro for years. This spec mapping is pretty sweet , I had no idea it was just variations on Pure Green and Pure Reds to get these effects. thanks again!
Yeah, not sure if it works for paint. It's just the grey shades weren't working for me when I was messing around with it so I was like.. Hmm, I wonder if just solid red and green would work and whalla lol
I've never dove deep enough into the parts. I've done them with and without showing on the tga upload and never noticed any difference, mainly just worry about the body.
I think I found out that iRacing uses black and white in the templates, but it only uses the one color channel. So white works but I like your method better. Only use the color channel for that layer.
That would make life so much easier. I still haven't tried messing with uploading to trading paints. Spent 4 hrs trying to get this figured out since we dont have all the options that photoshop does. Thanks for the input.
I gotta be doing something wrong... cuz my paint doesn't load. it reverts back to the default paint. I don't understand how following directions could give me the wrong result... of course it's now 2021 so there's that.....
@@ryanwilson5301 I know this is two years old now, but if anyone ends up here with the same problem (as I did) then you fix it by going into layer attributes (double click on your red square next to Base Paint #1) and change RGB from "perceptual" to "linear". Same for the Green channel.
I have a question. When I saved the first step to, car_spec_(number) I couldn't open it again in gimp, or Trading Paints. Where do I find the MIP file and where do I save it?
I saved it on the computer in the specific folder. As a tga file. To my knowledge it has to be a tga file and the iracing program converts it to the mip file. Computer-documents-iracing-paint-caryouwant-export as
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Thanks man I'm not gonna lie the first time I watched this I couldn't understand but I watched it again and I know how to do it now
Awesome video Daniel! I did not even think about using opacity for scaling roughness and metallic properties, thank you very much!
No problem. So many different ways to get it done lol
Great video, this taught me how to do spec maps!!. Thanks
GIMP warriors, baby
awesome run down dude, I don't use photoshop either, I've used Paint Shop Pro for years. This spec mapping is pretty sweet , I had no idea it was just variations on Pure Green and Pure Reds to get these effects. thanks again!
Yeah, not sure if it works for paint. It's just the grey shades weren't working for me when I was messing around with it so I was like.. Hmm, I wonder if just solid red and green would work and whalla lol
Cool, that metallic silver is just what I am looking for!
if you don’t use single window mode,u can just drag and drop folders from the template to the car paint etc. or from paint to paint
It wont let me paint the red or green channel, it says cannot modify the pixels of layer groups i missed something lol
Thanks for the tutorial. Why are the parts layers white, but you used red or green?
I've never dove deep enough into the parts. I've done them with and without showing on the tga upload and never noticed any difference, mainly just worry about the body.
I think I found out that iRacing uses black and white in the templates, but it only uses the one color channel. So white works but I like your method better. Only use the color channel for that layer.
Trading paints asks for a decal layer after uploading a .mip file. I haven't tried it yet.. but I think it will stamp it over the spec map.
That would make life so much easier. I still haven't tried messing with uploading to trading paints. Spent 4 hrs trying to get this figured out since we dont have all the options that photoshop does. Thanks for the input.
I gotta be doing something wrong... cuz my paint doesn't load. it reverts back to the default paint. I don't understand how following directions could give me the wrong result... of course it's now 2021 so there's that.....
Same thing still applies.
@@dan1elhalas then I'm doing something wrong. oh well.. I guess chrome isn't for me then lol
I made a car kinda shiny and now every paint I make is the same shiny. Who do I get rid of the spec map
Delete the spec map out of your paint folder.
My car comes out either matte red or chrome red. Cant change the color of the car to a different color. Not sure what I'm doing wrong.
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I'm having the same issue and can't figure out why my car is a bunch of different shades of red.
@@ryanwilson5301 I know this is two years old now, but if anyone ends up here with the same problem (as I did) then you fix it by going into layer attributes (double click on your red square next to Base Paint #1) and change RGB from "perceptual" to "linear". Same for the Green channel.
@@rhule6659 I gave up on it pretty much immediately after I couldn't find anything that explained how to do it.
I have a question. When I saved the first step to, car_spec_(number) I couldn't open it again in gimp, or Trading Paints. Where do I find the MIP file and where do I save it?
I saved it on the computer in the specific folder. As a tga file. To my knowledge it has to be a tga file and the iracing program converts it to the mip file. Computer-documents-iracing-paint-caryouwant-export as
Thank you Daniel !
BTW putting the logos above the layer works...they don't appear as chrome.
Explain this to me, cos I've been fucking up hard lol
Awesome
thanks man
holy shit this is complicated
THANK YOU!!!