3dartpol

King of the Road step by step Guide modify Volvo skin by 3dartpol

** New video tutorials how install skin for kor can be found here
http://home.deds.nl/~equality/video_tutorials.html

Needed tools:
http://home.deds.nl/~equality/D2Archiver.zip
http://www.amt-lab.com/D2Archiver.rar
http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-f ... ml?msvcr71
Photoshop or any other image editing program.

1) Copy "D2Archiver.exe" program and "msvcr71.dll" to this directory
C:\Program Files\JoWooD\King


2) Start and run "D2Archiver.exe" program wait 10 sec a open dialog appears..

3) Browse to C:\Program Files\JoWooD\King\COMMON
and open "TRUCKS.RES" file




4) Now all PNG image have been extracted to :
C:\Program Files\JoWooD\King\COMMON\TRUCKS\TEXTUREFILES

5) Now you can open a truck texture file and paint it
open "Volvo_kabine1.PNG" Right click it and open with if you have photoshop installed then open it with that.
Make you modification in photoshop then Save the PNG file in same dir.


6) Once you done modifying PNG texture file then you need to Compress the RES file back
Go to this dir C:\Program Files\JoWooD\King\COMMON\TRUCKS
Right click the file "TRUCKS.D2IMP" and select Open With "D2Archiver" and hit ok button


Now the file "TRUCKS.RES" will be repacked and moved back to COMMON dir, and the original one will be renamed to "TRUCKS.D2BAK"

That was all start the "king of the road" game and play , if you see your modified truck skin in the game
then you have done all correct.



About res files:
Res files It simply a Resource File, It compiled the images,sound,video,data, etc into one file and the game read and load from it. It simply like a zip archive.

The *.b3d file must be collision mesh data files
and the .OVL is plain text def files...

Right now modifying the 3d Mess ins not possible we can only modify existing defult truck skin PNG textures...

awesome 3dartpol man.
make it real to all us kotr fans.
go hard.

Great

Sorry for bumping this older topic but I am having trouble with this. I have followed your steps completely and done everything the way you said. Yet when I start KOTR it hasn't changed the skin. It keeps the older one or the truck doesn't show up at all. I have unpacked the .res file. Edited the skin of the Eagle and then repacked it the way you have said. Yet it does not work. Any suggestions?

You must done a mistake somewhere, If you do it right i will work, also there is many same
trucks in game you need search all to see your modified skin.
It would be good if the game had some showroom to show all trucks but it hasn't.

Here you can dl some skin for KOR here:
kor-mods-f60/

If you install a skin and it do not show up can be you have not replaced all the 4 skins for a trucks. Every truck in the game has 4 different color skins.
You need to replace all 4 of them. If you do it right it will work.

Well I tried it a few more times today, and I even downloaded your skin pack and tried to put the black Pete skin and that still didn't work and I cannot figure out what I did wrong. So here is what i have done:
1) I downloaded the D2Archiver and the .dll file and put them in the King directory.
2)I ran the D2Archiver and selected the TRUCKS.RES file and let it extract the files
3)I then went into the C:Programs/JoWood/King/COMMON/TRUCKS and selected and editied a skin of the Eagle (or in the case of the Pete copy and pasted the skin in and it replaced one of the Petes skin files.
4)After I finished editing I saved the file with the same name and in the same directory as the original.
5)Then I ran the TRUCKS.D2IMP file with the D2Archiver and it re archived the files (the TRUCKS folder was still there and contained a new .res file called TRUCKS_TEXTURES and in the COMMON directory there was a TRUCKS.RES and a TRUCKS.D2BAK
6)Started a new game and called the car dealer on the radio and the new skin did not show up. I drove around for awhile and saw trucks with the skin it replaced on it and the trailer I edited still had the old JoWood skin on it. And the Pete still has the old skins.

Hope this helps and thank you in advance for taking the time to help me out.

oh well, if i have time i will make a video walkthrough how to install
those skins for kor, it's only easy way to show.

Right now, I'm very busy but when it is finished I'll post it here:
http://home.deds.nl/~equality/video_tutorials.html

I'll make more video tutorials and will post all there...

Mmk. Thanks man!

When you say that the new skin did not show up do you mean on the little picture on the radio or the actual truck?

The picture on the radio and the truck itself were unchanged. I watched 3darpol's video on how to change the skin and I did it exactly like that and the truck was still unchanged. I'm going to mess around with it a little. The only thing I can think of is replaceing all of the trucks color schemes. Any advice is stil greatly appreciated if anyone has any.

what did you do to the colour scheme exactly??

super !