F1 2020 F1 2020 Decal problems, how to costum decal?

[Amir Hakiem]

I have a problem with costum Haas livery decal. There is no problem with the livery it applied fine to the car, but the decals come to a problem, there is applied decals but livery gone its become white all except numbers decal.

i start to make it same as others skin did with no solid black color backcgroud in photoshop with 3D modeling Haas car, when in the game the car looks white. I have no idea how to fix it.

hope you can give me guide to me fix that. Thank you.

 

[hrry]

You are missing an `alpha` channel. The alpha channel should be an additional channel and look like the following.
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(roughly of course.. because the resolution of your images is so low that I can't pull a clean alpha for this example. )

If you open the decal file with the default options, then you can hold `ctrl` and click on the image in the `Layers` tab to automatically select the masked area for you. All you have to do is switch to the `channel` section, create and alpha channel, and fill your selection with the white. ( I usually change the default forground and background colours to black and white, so `alt` + `backspace` is the hotkey. ( Sorry I actually don't know where any of the menus are anymore because I use hotkeys for speed almost exclusively. )
The last step is to create a background layer, fill it with black, and flatten the image. Every else you have been doing is correct.

Cheers

Thanks so much I finally got it working. Just as you replied I found some video from 2018 of a guy making a mercedes livery and your explanation combined with being able to see what he was doing meant I now have a half decent looking Sauber in the game. Thanks again!

Edit: here is that video if anyone is still confused reading this thread -

 

[spooker60]

Sorry for necroposting here but I'm confused about the alpha channel. I have created a livery for the Alfa Romeo (meant to look like Sauber c19 for reference) in f1 22 and the car at the moment looks like this:
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This is similar to what the other guy's car looked like at first so I tried following your steps to fix it but how do I make the alpha channel a 'black and white masked duplicate of your decal file'. I didn't select to open it with transparency. So right now I just have the 3d model of the Alfa Romeo Car:
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The paint file for this car
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And the decal file:
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On the right hand side of this ^ there is 'decal' which is the red bull and Petronas logos and all of that then the 'decal real' is the actual Alfa Romeo sponsors so I know what goes where if you know what I mean. Then there is 'black' but if I enable it the whole car turns black in game which also happened to the guy above.

So when I save it I am using these settings for the paint and decal files (I do have Intel texture works):
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This makes the paint and decal files look like this after saving them:
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With the black background on:
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If I am doing all of that right which I'm not sure I am then the channels I know are the problem because the decal channels tab look like this:
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Clearly there is nothing called alpha and If I make one then it is just a black square.
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Maybe I'm just being stupid but I am very confused right now and some help would be appreciated. Thanks

Hi,

I've seen that you have got the photoshop's wireframe layer for the Alfa Romeo.
I'm really interessed by it. Do you have all the wireframes layer for all 2022 cars or only this one. If so, where can i find it ?

Thanks in advance,

Thomas.

 

[hrry]

Hi,

I've seen that you have got the photoshop's wireframe layer for the Alfa Romeo.
I'm really interessed by it. Do you have all the wireframes layer for all 2022 cars or only this one. If so, where can i find it ?

Thanks in advance,

Thomas.

If you still need it it is this link: https://whenboredomestrike.wordpress.com/2020/09/26/photoshop-3d-model-f1-2020/

 

[VedicaXD74]

If the alpha is white, it's because you made it white.

The alpha channel is something that is totally up to you to create when you mod the decal file. If you're using Photoshop, when you open a game .dds decal file it will give you the option to open it with transparency. If you choose `yes` then you will get an alpha channel that matches the decal file, and all you have to do is maintain that when you mod the decals. If you do not choose to open with transparency, then you will have to create an alpha channel for the file yourself.

Hii i started moding for this game even though its 2024 still F1 2020 is amazing game.
Does the alpha channel need to be white as when i made it and imported it to ego ERP it was all black apart from sponsors that were cutout.Any help mate would be awesome and in photoshop background's white and sponsors are black soo idk what happend there tbh

 

[Maabus]

Hii i started moding for this game even though its 2024 still F1 2020 is amazing game.
Does the alpha channel need to be white as when i made it and imported it to ego ERP it was all black apart from sponsors that were cutout.Any help mate would be awesome and in photoshop background's white and sponsors are black soo idk what happend there tbh

The alpha channel should be black, with anything you want to not be transparent coloured in white.