external steering wheel

has anyone got a tutorial on making steering wheels,thanks in advance.

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how to make them?

lee1971 Wrote:
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> has anyone got a tutorial on making steering
> wheels,thanks in advance.

i think he wants to know how to make them, READ DAMN YOU!!




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sorry,been away from my pc for a while,but yes i want to know how to create them

heres one:



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HE WANTS TO MAKE ONE (1) (as in the number before 2)

























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Its a tex file that you can extract from your cars wad. You then can repaint the wheel. The shape of the externam wheel is defined by the alpha channels (I Believe.)

ive repainted original wheels that ive extracted but want to make one from scratch.

lee1971 Wrote:
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> ive repainted original wheels that ive extracted
> but want to make one from scratch.


well remove the original from the tga file so its all green, and paint away!

i had a nice external wheel, which had 3 green LED's then a red one for when to change gear, coming on as the revs changed, but i didn't like it so i got to work changing the alpha channels and tga, and made is so that it had 1 orange for the first LED, then 4 green ones, then a red one for the highest revs when to change gear.

took a while working out how to edit the alpha channels, but once i figured it out, it all came together.

i'd suggest taking an already existing wheel and editing it, both alpha channel and tga, and when its working in-game, then make a new one from scratch.

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To edit the alpha channel of the stwheel image(to determine what part of the image is seen, and which is invisible), In Paint Shop Pro(which is what I use), here's a basic tutorial:

1) Go to: File-->Preferences-->General Program Preferences.

2) Select the Transparency tab and change the colors 1 & 2, to colors other than pure black, and pure white(make it easier to edit, as you'll discover).

3) Load the stwheel's .tga file.

4) Select Mask-->Load From Alpha Channel. Then select the file's alpha(you'll see the transparent grid 'behind' the image.

5) In the color menu bar, select pure black(RGB=0,0,0) & pure white(RGB=255,255,255).

6) In the Mask menu, Select: Edit, and using the Paintbrush tool, the black will determine what gets seen, and the white will determine what's invisible.

7) Once alpha is edited to satisfaction, in the Mask menu, select: Save To Alpha Channel, and select: Alpha Channel 1.

8) Go to: File, and save the image, clicking 'yes' to the dialog boxes that pop up.

9) Load the saved tga again, and in normal drawing mode(not Mask mode) make sure the white background is black(you'll get a unsightly white line around the wheel and hands ingame otherwise). I always make a .bmp copy of the image with a black background, which i copy to the finished tga.

9) Save image to .tga, and use an editor to add it into the stwheel.tex file(I use GP4Master v1.00).

10) Pack into your cars.wad, and away you go!



Check out some of my wheels HERE:




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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/08/2005 12:13AM by Berger_Fan.

thanks a lot im gonna give it a go

Thanks for the tips, Mr. Greg :D