The 500,000th "I Need Help With Skinning Components" Thread

[Badnik96]

oh cool. Thanks, I'll do it tomorrow.

[Naryar]

Open the regular GMF file with a txt editor.  Most of the stuff will be junk, but the name of the BMP file would be in plain english.

This method only allow you to replace letters, so the new bmp file name will need to have the same length as the old.

I reskinned Junkyarddog's wheels with this method.

Ah, OK. I tried that method once but had a longer bmp name, changed the length of the file and it screwed up :P

[Serge]

Yes, the length of the name can't be longer than the default one. It can be shorter, but you have to pad out the rest with \x00's.

[Badnik96]

I did that, making absolutely sure that the bmp names were the same size, and when I click on it the game crashes.

[JoeBlo]

what text editor did you use ? notepad++ ?

[Badnik96]

gaah used notepad. Will go fix.

[Badnik96]

DP

I got it to not crash, but it's completely grey.

[JoeBlo]

file name you put in the GMF match the BMP in the maps folder ?

[Badnik96]

That was the problem, thanks.

*goes to post in his custom components thread*