Tutorial Add Unlimited Skins AMS 2 (Mod)

[waldhalm]

Hi guys, I came here to share some little things I learned about adding skins in AMS2. I searched a lot and never found it, so it might be useful for someone too.

There are two important folders for adding skins:

/Automobilista 2/Vehicles

1. In the "Vehicles" folder you will edit the textures (file with the skin that will be on the car's body, the paint job) the files that will read the codes with the skin commands with information about the team name, number of each car, etc.

Note: If you are going to change cars to another category like me (I created three GT3 classes with all the cars from the Thunderflash mod, I added the Callaway, 650s, Cadillac in all GT3 classes) the files that identify which cars will be read within the game will be here too.

/Automobilista 2/GUI/vehicleimages

2. In the GUI folder you will edit the thumbnails (or preview) of each car, this will be the image that will appear in the game menu

I will give the random example of the Nissan GT3 car for the Thunderflash Mod: {LINK REMOVED}https://www.mediafire.com/folder/9uiungtcuaunl/Automobilista_2_-_Thunderflash_Mods#2kmsjqrb4ej1l

For the GT3 mod, there are some classes which are:
- Adac
- Blancpain
- Spa24h
etc...
For each car there are its variations. Let's add a skin for the Nissan GT3 "Spa 24h" class

You will find the car to be modified in the "/Automobilista 2/Vehicles" folder
in this case: /Automobilista 2/Vehicles/Nissan_GT35_GT3

Inside this folder you will edit the files (with notepad) that end with ".rcf"
For the spa24h class in this example you will edit the files:

"nis_gtrgt3spa24h.rcf"
"nis_gtrgt3spa24h_hr.rcf"

Edit both files .rcf to make them the same

Inside it there will be three parts to be edited.

First:

<INPUT NAME="LIVERY" OPTIONS="1" />

In this command you will need to change the number "1" to the number of skins you will leave for this car

Second:

<NAMES INPUT ="LIVERY">
<NAME LIVERY="54" NAME="Spa 24h 2015 MRS GT Racing #73" />
</NAMES>

Here you will put the skins to be read, the first number is important, this number "54" in this case should be reproduced in other files.

The following name "Spa 24h 2015 MRS GT Racing #73" is the name of the team that will appear in the game menus. You can edit it as you wish.

Third

<CONDITION LIVERY="51">
<REPLACE MATERIAL="Vehicles\nissan_gt-r_gt3\nis_gtr_gt3_paint_carbon" NEWMATERIAL="vehicles\nissan_gt-r_gt3\nis_gtr_gt3_paint.mtx" />
<REPLACE TEXTURE="vehicles\textures\common_paint.dds" NEWTEXTURE="vehicles\textures\Customliveries\Nissan_GT-R_GT3\NURB_24H_2013_Sony_GT_Sport_123\nissan_gtr_gt3_livery.dds" />
<REPLACE TEXTURE="vehicles\textures\common_tire_diff.dds" NEWTEXTURE="vehicles\textures\tire_yokohama_diff_00.dds" />
<REPLACE TEXTURE="vehicles\textures\common_tire_spec.dds" NEWTEXTURE="vehicles\textures\tire_yokohama_spec_00.dds" />
<REPLACE TEXTURE="vehicles\textures\common_tire_blur_diff.dds" NEWTEXTURE="vehicles\textures\tire_yokohama_diff_01.dds" />
<REPLACE TEXTURE="vehicles\textures\common_tire_blur_spec.dds" NEWTEXTURE="vehicles\textures\tire_yokohama_spec_01.dds" />
<REPLACE TEXTURE="vehicles\textures\common_tire_nmp8888.dds" NEWTEXTURE="vehicles\textures\tire_yokohama_norm_00.dds" />
<REPLACE TEXTURE="vehicles\textures\common_paint_cpit_white_diff.dds" NEWTEXTURE="vehicles\textures\common_paint_cpit_black_diff.dds" />
<REPLACE TEXTURE="vehicles\textures\nis_gtr_gt3_banner_diff.dds" NEWTEXTURE="vehicles\textures\Customliveries\Nissan_GT-R_GT3\NURB_24H_2013_Sony_GT_Sport_123\nis_gtr_gt3_banner_diff.dds" />
</CONDITION>

This command is what reads the location where the textures will be read. You will change the text pointed to the new texture folder. You will find this in the following address

/Automobilista 2/Vehicles/Textures/CustomLiveries/Nissan_GT-R_GT3


Identify which folder contains the skin you want to add and copy the folder name and paste it where I highlighted in blue in the code.

Then you just need to change the number "<CONDITION LIVERY="51">" to the same as in the second step. In other words, to "54" in this example.

There are some secrets to changing/adding thumbnails.

I wrote this in 20 minutes.

If anyone reads it and asks, I'll edit it, make the text better, add more images and write part two as well. Thanks and feel free to contact me.

[Camilo Osorio]

I need to add more liveries to an official serie, it is possible? example Porsche GT3 R GEN 2, Actually it has only 7 liveries, I want to add more liveries to this car, it is possible, it is the same procedure?

[Ale Tavares]

I was just going to ask the same thing. Is it possible to add it to official series?

[waldhalm]

The problem with the official liveries is that the game's car files are hidden. They are not in the "Vehicle" folder.

I at least don't know how to work with them.