A few questions i have dealing with creating trucks

[DM19_FLXMEGXD]

Ok so, ik there's a request area but i wanna start making trucks myself (as a hobby and for public use, you never know when they might come in handy 😂) but im unsure about certain things so i wanted to ask here:

 

1. I know blender and paint.net (i think) are used for making things like chassis and schemes, but would gimp (something i can actually do lol) work for the designs? If so are there already templates for the meshs?

2. Are there any chassis/models that are able to be exported in as a basis (another side question would be like, "is there a way to remove bodies and replace the chasis in a non-tedious way?)

3. If any of my questions have a link or something that'd be helpful, where could i find it? (Anything's appreciated tbh, thx in advance)

TL;DR: 🤷‍♂️ *Lè Confusion*

[WorpeX]

On 8/4/2021 at 1:14 PM, DM19_FLXMEGXD said:

Ok so, ik there's a request area but i wanna start making trucks myself (as a hobby and for public use, you never know when they might come in handy 😂) but im unsure about certain things so i wanted to ask here:

 

1. I know blender and paint.net (i think) are used for making things like chassis and schemes, but would gimp (something i can actually do lol) work for the designs? If so are there already templates for the meshs?

2. Are there any chassis/models that are able to be exported in as a basis (another side question would be like, "is there a way to remove bodies and replace the chasis in a non-tedious way?)

3. If any of my questions have a link or something that'd be helpful, where could i find it? (Anything's appreciated tbh, thx in advance)

TL;DR: 🤷‍♂️ *Lè Confusion*

1. Yes you can absolutely use Gimp for painting!
   1. Ehhh yes and no. Most of the top authors will just create their own UV Bake and use that as the template. Rarely will you find the bakes still with the trucks though so you'll probably need to ask around. For someone just starting out, I recommend just repainting right over top of someone elses paint. It wont look much different apart from some shading loss. Hell, I still do it pretty often cause baking is annoying.
2. Yep. Everything. The nice thing about RoR is that it uses open .zip files so you can find any part of someone elses truck and load it into Blender. You'll need blender 2.79 for this and the OGRE export tool. Alternatively, you can simply find pre-made files in the truck building items scrapyard here on Sim Monsters.
3. https://sim-monsters.com/files/category/14-truck-building-items/
   1. https://www.blender.org/download/releases/2-79/
   2. I forget where to find the OGRE exporter, google I guess

 

[DM19_FLXMEGXD]

Thanks fam, that does help alot and i'll give it a go when i can