How to make a 3 color vinyl using Photoshop

chad · Post by **chad** » 27 Oct 2004, 22:01

How to make a 3 color vinyl using Photoshop

Steps1 open a car template
Step2 make new layer & use the gradient tool, use the 3 colors (RGB)
Step3 make a 3rd layer make blocks of color for the front, rear & additional parts of the car
Step4 save this as a *.PSD â€œyou may need to move bits around after testing with all the car partsâ€
Step5 remove car template, flatten image & save as a *.DDS & install

Tyrant · Post by **Tyrant** » 28 Oct 2004, 11:49

Or just download Chad's vinyl..

ViperJay · Post by **ViperJay** » 29 Oct 2004, 21:47

can you post a pic to see an example?

Pelado · Post by **Pelado** » 30 Oct 2004, 00:41

You can make even a 4 color car.3 colors from the vinyl and the base color of the car.

ViperJay · Post by **ViperJay** » 30 Oct 2004, 14:49

ok guys, this is the pic from our friend Chad
well...I must try it

edit: I upload now the pic (thanks to Bojan for fixing the problem), I need to clean my attachbox in pm

Post by **Bojan** » 30 Oct 2004, 15:36

ViperJay wrote:ok guys, this is the pic.
I post it cause (strange thing) it seems to be impossible to post a pic here in this thread (or at least for chad, and me too....I don't know why)

Sorry about that, I just remembered of some settings on this board and saw that attaching files for users was not permitted. It's been fixed now.

ViperJay · Post by **ViperJay** » 30 Oct 2004, 21:35

so thank you Bojan, but I saw the same problem in some other thread too, but I don't remember which ones

btw, thanks for this man, you've been very fast

sphinxman · Post by **sphinxman** » 31 Oct 2004, 21:29

Mr. chad, i followed the instructions and made my first vinyl ever! i changed it a bit but it doesn't matter! i made some other vinyls too! all based in the 3colors by chad! i heve another problem. i made one for the celica and in the back of the car under the spoiler the vinyl is black!! why this happens? i hope you understand... and some other areas of the car appear black too.pls help me because i don't know anything from photoshop..

ViperJay · Post by **ViperJay** » 31 Oct 2004, 22:37

I'll try answering you...
can be 2 things:
1-check out the mask, if you have some uncovered zone where you have the body of your car (notice that the template isn't perfectly covering all the body)
2-with some cars, and with some body parts, you'll have problems like that, I don't know why this happens, but if you, for example, made a whole covering white vynil, you can still have some different parts, like the black part you see...I just noticed that in a couple of car I made vynils for

(so, ifit's not the 1 is the 2 I think)
hope this can help

chad · Post by **chad** » 01 Nov 2004, 09:29

i think viperjay with step one is rigth, i think its the car template thats being sceen.

i do remove the car template before i flatten it to a *.dds

all the best chad.

gianquinto · Post by **gianquinto** » 01 Nov 2004, 12:22

hi
im kinda new to nfsu
but did some other nfs editing,
i love the 3 color vinyl,
but how do i set all colors ingame?
when i click on vinyl color, it only changes the back of my car.
anyone knows?

chad · Post by **chad** » 01 Nov 2004, 12:51

gianquinto wrote:hi
im kinda new to nfsu
but did some other nfs editing,
i love the 3 color vinyl,
but how do i set all colors ingame?
when i click on vinyl color, it only changes the back of my car.
anyone knows?

Just to check, are you installing over a vinyl that supports 3colours? â€œas in the readme in the downloadâ€

If you have tried this? Please post a pic of the problem. And we can see what to do.

All the best chad.

sphinxman · Post by **sphinxman** » 01 Nov 2004, 15:17

ok thanks chad. this is my first vinyl based to your directions.. can you see behind the rear window? this is the black area i was telling you... what do you think about the vinyl? it's not really something but it's my first!

sphinxman · Post by **sphinxman** » 02 Nov 2004, 17:13

sorry something went wrong and i didn't upload the pic here it is

Tyrant · Post by **Tyrant** » 02 Nov 2004, 17:27

Nice car! Although winter is about to begin (or already began)

chad · Post by **chad** » 02 Nov 2004, 20:39

re sphinxman

nice bit of work, well done.

chad · Post by **chad** » 03 Nov 2004, 10:30

sphinxman wrote:ok thanks chad. this is my first vinyl based to your directions.. can you see behind the rear window? this is the black area i was telling you... what do you think about the vinyl? it's not really something but it's my first!

i have got round the marks on the windows

the golf & 350z are a pain to get to work with all the car body parts.

ViperJay · Post by **ViperJay** » 05 Nov 2004, 23:01

nice work sphinxman, it's really well made
@chad: can you help me guy, I'm trying to fix a black stripe appearing on the skyline's back (where there is "skyline" written, between the tail lights); you can see it only with 2 or 3 rear bumpers, but I hate it

I've made full covering body vynils but nothing changed with my work...

did you noticed it before?

chad · Post by **chad** » 06 Nov 2004, 22:02

ViperJay wrote:nice work sphinxman, it's really well made
@chad: can you help me guy, I'm trying to fix a black stripe appearing on the skyline's back (where there is "skyline" written, between the tail lights); you can see it only with 2 or 3 rear bumpers, but I hate it
I've made full covering body vynils but nothing changed with my work...
did you noticed it before?

hi viperjay, i will have a look & let you know!

ViperJay · Post by **ViperJay** » 06 Nov 2004, 22:41

thanks m8. I'll try posting a pic as soon as I can

Rucell · Post by **Rucell** » 15 Nov 2004, 12:00

where can i get those pictures

http://www.members.lycos.nl/rucell/vwgolf.bmp

chad · Post by **chad** » 16 Nov 2004, 10:42

Rucell wrote:where can i get those pictures

http://www.members.lycos.nl/rucell/vwgolf.bmp

which pic's are you after

Rucell · Post by **Rucell** » 17 Nov 2004, 21:51

for these cars
vw golf
peugeot 206
honda civic
skyline

Rucell · Post by **Rucell** » 17 Nov 2004, 22:43

where can i find a car template
???

NFSUnlimited.net

How to make a 3 color vinyl using Photoshop

How to make a 3 color vinyl using Photoshop

i think your rigth

nice work

no window marks