Euro Truck Simulator 2 worthy of purchase

Hank_Marvin said:
voorhees, howd you get to the skins? i want to do some designing.
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I will try to explain, it is really easy but sometimes I make it sound harder then it is:

You need a file called scs_extractor.exe. Then you need to extract the base.scs from the main game install. So copy base.scs to the same location as scs_extractor. To extract it you need to get a cmd prompt up, goto the location and type "scs_extractor base.scs base" the last word base is the folder it will extract to.

You will then get a ton of files which will take a min or two to extract. In these files/folders is all the graphics which are in DDS format. I use photoshop with a DDS plugin to open and change them and save as DXT 5 when done. Now to get it back into the game you need to zip up the location, example if you found the DDs file in c:\Games\Truck sim 2\Vehicles\ Daf\Daf.dds that is the folder you need to zip. Get rid of everything else and just leave Vehicles\Daf (all the contents in daf should remain) you right click Vehicles and add to archive with winrar. Make it a Zip and set compression method to "store" Once done rename your zip to whatever.scs and bang this into your mod folder. Job done.

I hope I explained it OK I am a little crap at it :) Might be an easier way but this is the way I am used to now.

EDIT: Or download a modded skin pack, rename it from whatever.scs to whatever.zip, extract it and mess with those DDS files then just zip it back up again.

Photoshop DDS plugin:

https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-texture-tools-adobe-photoshop

EDIT2: I guess you could rename base.scs to base.zip and extract it but I have not tried this, I figured if you could then why did they make scs_extractor.exe
 
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The first one was good and this is so much better :D

I have even started my own DIY gear shifter.

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Game purchased from their website.

Amazon at £15 is a few quid cheaper, but when you factor in that Amazon and the publisher will be taking their cut, SCS will get very little.

It seemed right to purchase from the devs. Of course, you still need Publishers to back these projects but Amazon has sold out so they are still getting their fair share.

I coped the key into clip board, when I went to activate, it had already populated from the clipboard, nice touch :)
 
Austria has some decent mountain roads. I may have going a bit too fast and also cut a corner a bit more than I intended to and clipped a barrier which sent the truck and trailer on to it's left hand-side wheels. I managed to get it back on to all of the wheels and slow down enough to drive into a grass bank on the side of the road without causing too much damage. At least I didn't end up going the other way and landed in the bottom of a valley.

I then got a fine for apparently driving the wrong way when all I was trying to do was maneuver my truck around some cars which stopped stupidly close to me. Live and learn, I suppose :p
 
Hank_Marvin said:
when you make a skin, how do you know what area of your graphic will appear on what section of the model?
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Not sure what you mean, when you open the DDS template this is what you get and this is what you add your stuff to, so you know where it is going as you can see it. You only get half a truck as it duplicates it on the other side, example:

 
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