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350plus
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As you might have noticed, some questions and doubts in this forum are constantly being repeated, and, as we have a guides section in this site(almost unused...), it would be good if those who have knowledge and experience in modifying the game (car painting, 3d model importing, track building, file tweaking etc..) could write small (or big if you wish) tutorials about those subjects and submit them to our guide section.
It would also be better if you could post them first in the this thread before submitting, so that we all could contribute to improve them.
Thanks for your help in making this site even bigger 
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Stickman
Joined: 20 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Sat Mar 27, 15:53 |
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O.K. as promised, here is draft 1 of my painting guide. As it went through it became less of a painting style guide and more of a mechanical nuts and bolts guide on Photoshop tools and file formats.
Can everyone please post replies with suggested changes, additions or requests for clarification of any point.
Also let me know if anything sounds just plain wrong.
 NT2004_Paint_Guide.zip - 8.68 KB
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Pittfan1017
Joined: 21 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Tue Mar 30, 13:22 |
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way to go Stickman with the first draft but it didnt help me out that greatly b/c I have Paint Shop Pro 7. I was wondering if anyone can make a tutorial fo Paint Shop Pro.
Thanks
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Stickman
Joined: 20 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Fri Apr 02, 09:51 |
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So are the 25 of you who have downloaded the file happy for me to put it in the guides section?
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K4yo0
Joined: 31 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Sat Apr 03, 00:08 |
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way to go Stickman! there is an error in the guide ya know... Check your PM's!
And, I'll be very happy if someone put a guide for editing TEAMS and Pilots! that would be great!
or I'll have to figure on my own... lol! im so lazy for this kind of things... 
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Stickman
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| Posted: Sun Apr 04, 14:02 |
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Ooops! 
Thanks for the heads-up. It was just a typo at 3am.  Those of you who have downloaded the document already please note that image sizes MUST be divisable by 512. So where I have foolishly typed 1028, replace with 1024.
I will fix this error and also address the issue of creating new teams and pilot names in the next revision - sometime this week.
Another thing I want to include in the tutorial is a tweak I am working on, but I need to fully test it first to make sure it gets the results I am after.
Watch this space
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Wanderpoole
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The guide is fine stickdude. I use PSP7 and i can translate it fine ... What I need to know is this .. I used the dds filter just fine then had to reformat my hard drive and when i replaced the dll's and all that, dds save format won't show . Heard of that before? Again thanks for the guide. I see what to do to paint and I have a good start on one but can't save it to the game.
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Stickman
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| Posted: Tue Apr 06, 04:32 |
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I also had trouble getting the DDS filter to work. After you install the DLL files you need to reboot the computer. Also, try opening a DDS file the first time by right clicking on the file and select "Open with..."
For some reason Photoshop needs to be forced into recognising the file format the first time and then after it opens the first one it is fine.
I started the new guide yesterday. It's three pages long already and I have not even finished walking through template creation, so it's a lot more thorough than the last one. Expect it to be ready just after the Easter weekend.
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OFxLedzeplin
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| Posted: Thu Apr 08, 11:05 |
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I had a similar problem where dds file types did not show. I installed DDS_Viewer (allows viewing dds files in explorer) and this solved the problem. It basically teachs the OS what a dds file is. There is likely another better fix, but thats what solved the problem for me.
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Vertigo6911
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| Posted: Mon May 17, 14:17 |
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Vertigo6911
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hey im working on a league i inted to start soon and i made this guide
for the players. i thought id post it here so u guys can telle me whats wrong with it.
(please be detailed cuz i need to get this right be4 i start my league)
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ok u have a home made skin with a number that isnt use by any of the cars that are in the game.
this guide is to set up your files so that the car will have the same number in the stats online
as the one you have painted on it.
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choose a car make. for the purpose of this guide it will be a pontiac.
open your nascar thunder ..\NASCAR Thunder TM 2004\Season04\Vehicles\Pontiac\ folder
make a new folder and give it your playername folowed by the number u want to use like
like the other folder that are in there... i will name mine Vertigo69.
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no go back to the pontiac folder and open the Army01 folder.
from here copy
Army01.hdv, Army01.veh EngineRestricted.ini and EngineUnrestricted.ini
to the folder u just made.
now rename the Army01.hdv and Army01.veh to match your folder.
mine will be named: Vertigo69.hdv and Vertigo69.veh
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now in your folder create a new folder and give it your playername followed by your number
followed by " - Alpha" mine will be named "Vertigo69 - Alpha"
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now inside that folder make a new text file and give it the same name as the folder
mine will be named: Vertigo69 - Alpha.txt
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open the file with notepad and enter:
Description="description"
Painter="paintername"
(if u have a downloaded skin it might come with this file included. if so
just use that and rename it as above)
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now copy your custem car skin to this folder and name it the same as the folder
mine will be called: Vertigo69 - Alpha.dds
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ok now we have set up the files and folders, all we have to do now is set the number
u log in as to the same as the number on the skin.
go back to the folder above and open the Vertigo69.veh file (as above change Vertigo69 for your name and number)
inside find HDVehicle=Army01.hdv and change it to: HDVehicle=Vertigo69.hdv (as above change Vertigo69 for your name and number)
now look below and change Number=01 to Number=69 (as above change 69 to your number)
now save the file and your done.
well almost...
Your driver is nude!, well sortof...
cant have that can we...
Go back to the Army01 folder and find Army01driver.bmp and Army01driverhelm.bmp
and copy them to the Vertigo69 folder (as above change Vertigo69 for your name and number)
ofcourse if u dont like the way that looks u can copy the same files from any of the other folders...
thats about it...
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wiseco90
Joined: 19 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Thu Oct 07, 23:26 |
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ive got templates for featherlite mods and i painted them but i dont know how to put them on the game i dont know what files to move around any suggestions would help
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