For Premium members of Race2Play. Check your User Portal page for FTP upload information.

Any rFactor Series
rFactor allows new skins to simply be placed in the vehicles SKINS folder (in DDS form) with no risk of mismatches or file over-writing. You will be able to choose your skin normally just as you can any other skin. Anyone that chooses not to install the skin-pack will see the default skin for the car.

How to include your car's skin:
- Create skin of your liking
- Compile as a .DDS file
- Create the description TXT file
- Upload files (not in zip or rar format) to the exact car SKINS folder on the Premium-member FTP

There are no deadlines for car submissions as I re-compile all files every week.

For those that need assistance in getting a car painted, visit the Race2Play Paint Shop and Showroom and recruit a painter.

Are there any Panoz templates out yet?

You forgot the // after the "ftp:" in the text. If someone was setting it up manually and they copy/pasted, it wouldn't work.

Templates are on the FTP

Thanks Tim.

Got another question, now regarding rFactor skins in general. Looking through the Panoz files, I see no skins folder, just a few .dds and .veh files. There are skin folders for F1 and a few other mods but none for Panoz. Am I missing something again?

.DDS files of some mods are in .MAS files. Use this utility to open .MAS files and export/import .DDS files.

Conor, I just have to create a SKINS folder and rFactor takes care of the rest :-)

Exactly. I don't know what you're racing, but let's just go with this example for the Panoz ALMS:

Go to c:\\Program Files\rFactor\GameData\Vehicles\Panoz\espALMS. Let's say you chose to make a skin for the #15 car for the "American Motors" team. Just make a "SKINS" folder inside the American Motors folder, then inside the SKINS folder place your .dds file. With the .dds file, insert a normal .txt file with the following:

Description="Whatever... Conor's New Skin, for example"

Painter="Optional, but if you want to credit someone for the skin, then include this, too"

The game does the rest. Just click on the Skins tab in the customization screen, choose "Conor's New Skin" or whatever you named it in the .txt file, and voila.

If you want to make it specific for each car if the team has multiple cars, then you name it after the main .dds.

Example: Skins for ALMS_15 becomes ALMS_15skins or something along those lines.

Kewl. Thanks a lot Ray :).