Livery Guide

In this guide you will learn:

• Where to find templates for aircraft
  
• Their structure
  
• Hints how to make changes
  
• How to move your skin into the game
  
• How to upload your skin on workshop

Introduction

Hello

In this guide you will learn how to prepare and edit templates to create livery of your own airline or recreated one!
We will provide all the necessary information step by step to do that!

To work on the templates you will need:

• photo editing programs like Photoshop, Gimp...

Preparation of templates

The best way to quickly prepare a folder under you livery is to enter "Templates" inside the installation game folder.

[YourDrive]:\Steam\steamapps\common\AirportSim\Community\Templates



And than copy folder of selected aircraft into PlaneSkins folder.

[YourDrive]:\Steam\steamapps\common\AirportSim\Community\PlaneSkins

PlaneSkins

Is a folder where you should place all of your liveries after finishing the work on them. From it are collected all the necessary textures, information and are put into the game.

To work on the liveries you can either use templates that are inside the folder already.

If you would like to work on PSD files download them using a link below.

Link to download PSD files[drive.google.com]

Template Construction

Now we will explain how the templates are constructed.

Template for the aircraft divided into 5 parts.
Fuselage1, Fuselage2 and Fuselage3 are pages that hold the painting parts for the fuselage of an aircraft.
Last two named Engines and Sharklets for A320 Neo or Engines and Winglets for B737 Max and Tails which hold tail and horizontal stabilizer.



Each file contains separate layers:

• three folders with individual aircraft parts
  
• layers to help with colored overlay and description of the part to help distinguish each layer

Layers (PSD)

Fuselage

Name of the aircraft part


Background Color - separates parts of the aircraft fuselage.

Overlay layer on



Overlay layer off


Wireframe - gives better visibility of aircraft parts when painting.

Wireframe on


Wireframe off

Other Parts

Folders with individual aircraft parts

Engines

B737 Max

A320Neo

Painting

Painting and hierarchy layers example

Exporting and naming textures

Exporting

After painting, turn off the support layers!



Crop texture to square




Export texture to PNG.



File Export and Select format

Save the textures in the folder of your livery previously copied into PlaneSkins

Naming textures

Airbus A320 Neo


B737 Max


Don't Forget that you can support your self with the names directly from a folder with templates

Sett up of Text data

Any changes to the text data should be made after | sign

Example

Before: Description|Description

After: Description|This is my description for my airline

Airbus A320Neo

ContentType|PlaneSkin - This section has to be left untouched. Any changes to it might result in Livery not being read by the game

SkinName|Your Livery Name - In this section type in name of your livery

Description|Description - In this section you can type in short description for your airline

AirlineName|AirlineName - In this section type in the name of your airline which will be displayed in the game

AirlinePrefix|AS - In this section type in airline prefix (or ICAO number) it will be displayed in the game

PlaneName|A320 - This section has to be left untouched. Any changes to it might result in Livery not being read by the game

BollardsIndexes|1;2;3 - Select which cones configuration should be used for you aircraft

B737 Max

ContentType|PlaneSkin - This section has to be left untouched. Any changes to it might result in Livery not being read by the game

SkinName|Your Livery Name - In this section type in name of your livery

Description|Description - In this section you can type in short description for your airline

AirlineName|AirlineName - In this section type in the name of your airline which will be displayed in the game

AirlinePrefix|AS - In this section type in airline prefix (or ICAO number) it will be displayed in the game

PlaneName|B737 - This section has to be left untouched. Any changes to it might result in Livery not being read by the game

BollardsIndexes|1;2;3 - Select which cones configuration should be used for you aircraft

Cones configuration

Example:

If you want to use only 1 and 3 setup
BollardsIndexes|1;3

If you want to use only 2 and 3 setup
BollardsIndexes|2;3

If you want to use only 1 setup
BollardsIndexes|1

Placing the livery into the game folder

As previously mentioned to place ready livery into the game

[YourDrive]:\Steam\steamapps\common\AirportSim\Community\PlaneSkins

Create a photo of your creation

Now! Launch the game create a new scenario and take a photo of your new airline!

If you already done that simply rename photo of your livery from xxx into PreviewImage and drop it into your livery folder and you are ready for upload!

Upload the livery

To upload the livery

• Open the game
  
• Open "EXTRAS" and select "Livery Editor"
  
• Inside the skin manager make sure that you have turned on "LOCAL" skins
  
• Select your livery by clicking on it
  
• Then select Upload option
  
  
  
  
• Follow Further instructions

Ending

I hope this instruction was helpful.

Good luck!

[Larz Jacobs]

Has Someone the PSD files. I want to make a livery.

[LilHundr]

Link to download PSD files doesn't work. Please reupload. Thank you.

[OIFsurvivor]

@GamingNerd Paint.Net is a free option and you can get a plugin to open Photoshop (.psd) at Website link [Psd Pluging] [www.psdplugin.com]

[GamingNerd]

Any good *free* editors?

[Floy747]

Thank you very much!

[Jova]

BONJOUR JE NE PEUT PAS SAUVEGARDER MA PROGRESSION

[s.pink369]

can we download premade???

[hahahahoho]

i have a question, i made a livery for a320neo, but it doesnt show in workshop.
For me it says that it is hidden, but i cant change it in any way

[cuzin.it1102]

ugh wish this was much easier and had an in game way of doing this more simple. Rough way of doing this for those of us who aren't overly savvy with this type of thing.

[I_g_man]

for some reason I thought the process of creating your own livery would be A LOT easier. I guess I'll have to wait for someone else to create an Alaska Airlines livery