Custom Stickers

The Painter's Guide to Making Custom Stickers and Stencils

By Xp (adobe photoshop used)

In Trackmania, there are many things to customise within' the game, the (no-duh) track editor, the replay editor, the (under used) ghost editor and finally the skin editor. Inside this skin editor are some stencils and stickers to make your car look more unique. Though, to make your car more unique without making the skin outside the painter, you'll need some stickers and stencils of your own, but they are a bit complicated to make and the launcher won't convert the nessersary things. So here's how to make your own stickers or stencils.

Stencils

This is the longest of the two methods. You need to do is make the brush.tga and the icon.dds.

As you can see, the brush.tga only consists of 2 colours, black and white. The black is constant while the white changes colour depending on where you have the square thing in the painter on. To make somthing like the picture above, you open (or make) a picture of something and change the colours to black or(/and) white. With this picture, I had to get rid of the white parts outside the picture and make the shades of grey into black and white. Remember to lock any transparent parts due to they end up white in the painter (sometimes). Once done save it in the path below (and in a folder with the name of your choice within the path) as brush.tga. You're halfway there.

Ok, now you should open this into Dxbmp or in my case, convert it into a dds file. First, make the height and width the same. Then resize it to 64x64 pixels. To avoid making it look weird inside the painter, add a background colour (any). Now save it into the folder in the directory above where you put your brush.tga. The a window like below should appear.

I kinda recommend using the settings above. If you click on 2D Preview, you should get this.

Now go and see if your hard work has payed off by going into TM. If you're successful you should get this.

Stickers are the same except that you call 'Brush.tga' 'Sticker.tga' and put it into Stickers instead of Stencils.

Well, that's it. Hope this helps with your 'mad' painter skills.

This article including the pictures has been saved from 
http://www.xtremetrackmania.co.uk/Hints and Secrets.php in January 2007. 

It was not copyrighted and a publicly accessible tutorial. 
The site is now offline.