Skinning on Win7

[Riftcreator]

Having some very fustrating issues, hope someone can help.

Skins made and saved over a current mod skin .dds will not change/show in game.
A new skin pack made with .veh etc will not show in game
Editing a .veh doesn't work as I have to somehow take ownership??
After making a skni, savng to .dds the file wont show when searching a folder, but will in the file browser of photoshop, with what looks like a small padlock on the file.

All the above is fine on XP. and skins made that won't show up in game on Win7, show on the sim pc running XP.

getting rather annoyed

[Rasmo]

Have you turned off UAC (User Account Control)?

[Hugh]

win 7 does not ship with a dds viewer, Nvidia dds viewer does not work in win 7, you can use infranview.
as for not showing in game,, never had a problem with editing files with win 7.
Sometimes have to take control to install plugins for max.

[Riftcreator]

Will try turning off UAC.

btw, someone feel like zipping up the following car/folder for me? don't really want to do a reinstall.
rFactor\GameData\Vehicles\HISTORIC GT\HISTORICAL FIA GT\GTC-65\SHELBY GT 350\2004\880

Need the #880 Shelby.

[Riftcreator]

Saving over a current default .DDS file works, and shows in game now Cheers Rasmo.

However a new skin folder with a changed .veh won't show in game on Win7, but the same folder with skin dropped into the game on the XP machine shows fine
I know it's not a mistake my end, I've done this enough to know what to change, and it works on XP.

[BK]

do you still need the zipped files?

Pm your email if you do and I'll send them over.

[Riftcreator]

Hugh has sorted me out, thanks for the offer though

[Riftcreator]

So now I have the car to show in game, with the right details after just renaming the files and changing the ,veh to match.

Issue is now the skin/car shows up as a plain green Shelby GT350.
Tried re-saving from Photoshop as a .dds (DXT5)
Tried re-naming another default skin and replacing.
Tried deleting the livery dds file, then adding in another.

Car still shows as green yet when I open the .dds file in Photoshop it shows correctly, but in game it's not loading up and just shows a green car.

[Riftcreator]

Sorted!!

Deleted the skin folder and started again with a renamed default skin and .veh, then saved over the default .DDS and it worked fine.
Maybe there was a glitch of some sort causing the skin to not show, or maybe a protected file/folder was the issue??

Odd as the skins were working on XP. But all fixed now.


Ever since I've had Win7 it's been nothing but a pain in the ass, and more trouble than it's worth. Sure there are some cool features, but they don't make up for the hair pulling it's caused, and not just with this recent issue.




Another issue though, this time I assume with Photoshop. The shade layer has lines on the template (as per below pic) If I add a drop shadow to the layer, or gradient overlay it gets rid of them, but that's not ideal. Anyone know what has caused this? or is it another Win7 thing

[Riftcreator]

Looks like it's just my old version of Photoshop that's the issue. I'm sure as heck not paying $1300 to upgrade to the current version, so will have to put up with it.

[BK]

What version are you running?

[Riftcreator]

7.0

Doesn't seem to be an issue on XP, just Win7. Grumble grumble

[BK]

What version are you running?

Sorry I meant version of PS?

[Riftcreator]

What version are you running?

Sorry I meant version of PS?

That's the Photoshop version, 7.0.