Beginners guide to painting or skinning yor CarTown cars!!! First things first, you need a graphics editing program.

Now while MSPaint will work for simple designs, to make accurate re-creations of real life designs, or intricate designs, you will need a graphics editing program with a more diverse selection of tools and capabilities, like the following,Adobe Photoshop CS5-E (3 0 Day Trial),Corel Paint Shop Pro X3 Ultimate (30 Day Trial) or Gimp (100% free) now we're ready to start. First, Go in-game and download the template of the car you want to make a SKIN f or(Click car - Customize - graphics - 3rd tab - download). I'm going to use a Ta co Truck I had been planning on graffiti bombing, but never got the chance. I st rongly suggest renaming "uvguide" to in this case, "Taco.png" for organizational reasons. 2nd, Resources are your friend! Head over to either em0rox's thread or Lemonade' s thread on the CarTown forum to download a detailed guide template. HTML Color Code Resources, for finding that exact color you are looking for, lik e Olive Drab, Fuchsia, or whatever floats your boat. Here are two websites that make finding the perfect color you are looking for, with HTML color code that ca n be used in the game. Color Code Site #1 Color Code Site #2 Now it's time to get down and Dirty!!!

Now, Right click the detailed template guide showing the body lines(herein refer red to as just "Detail Guide"), and open it with the graphics editing program, a nd set this layer's properties to multiply. Next, Right click on the template you downloaded in-game(herein referred to as " mask"), and open it with the graphics editing program. Select the entire mask and copy it, then switch back to the Detail Guide, and pa ste the copied mask as a new layer(I also like to use the magic erase tool to re move all the gray lines around the mask). Then, create a 3rd layer which we will call Main. Click Thumbnail for example Now since all I am doing is adding Graffiti to the existing Taco Truck's skin, I am going to leave the main blank except for my graffiti, so it will show up on the original Taco Truck' skin. Otherwise I would normally fill it with white. So what next? Well once you have your design to where you like it, it's time to turn off/hide the mask(see thumbnail), and detail guide, then save it as a PNG. Next go back in-game upload it, and see how it looks. If you're satisfied, click buy, if you're not, go back and re-adjust whatever is bothering you. Doing metalflake paint jobs

In Photoshop, I use a large speckle brush(about 1/4th of the 1024x1024 canvas) w ith an 7% opaque Setting, and 11% flow setting. Next, in a new layer I select a color, (in this instance, for a spectrum metal f lake I repeated step this several times each in it's own layer with Red, Yellow, Orange, Blue, Green, Aqua and Purple), I then spray over the canvas horizontall y with 5-6 passes as needed to cover the whole 1024x1024 canvas evenly(you will barely notice a change in color), then repeat the same step vertically. Repeat p rocess in a new layer with a different color. Then, once I get the colors down, which will become the metalflake, I merge the layers layers into one, then use the "Sharpen" tool @ 10% & 20pxl in size, and w ith one of Lemonade's detail guides, I go over the area's of the car that would normally be exposed to sunlight ONCE. Then, I bump the sharpen tool to 33% and i ncrease the size so that it covers 1/3 of the car, then make 4 passes horizontal ly, and if I feel it is needed, I make 4 passes vertically. From there, I reduce the sharpen size to about 30pxls, ad drop it back to 5% and kind of touch up where I feel more flaking is needed.

Senior Member -------------------------------------------------------------------------------Join Date:Oct 2010 Posts:974 OK, what you want to do is "Create a new layer" to actually do your pa inting in, using the detailed(shadow) guide as a reference as to where the body lines actually are. I haven't used GIMP in many years, BUT, you should be able to HOLD the left mous e button down on the Eraser tool, to bring up more eraser tool options. However, I thought you were talking about the Template you download FROM the gam e. You can download that and add it as a separate layer as well. The key is to make each new section of a SKIN in it's own separate layer. EXAMPLE: 1st layer: Template from game 2nd layer: Shadow Guide(set layer properties to multiply) 3rd layer: Srtipes 4th Layer: Sponsorship decals like Edelbrock, Goodyear, Jegs, Lunati Pistons and so on(just using this as an example) 5th layer: Other graphics such as tribal flames(Also just and example) LAST LAYER: Main Body color. Just remember to HIDE the template layer, and shadow guide layers before saving the image to be uploaded to the game. You see, think of the layers as a paint job sammich, with the bottom layer being covered up by the other layers. EDIT: I'll post a pic of what I mean by layers, albeit photoshop, but you should get the Idea. ALL layers visible. Shadow Guide Layer made INVISIBLE.

Decals layer made INVISIBLE just as a demonstration.

ok im doing this for a '09 Pontiac G8 ill post the guide and template here so yo u can mess with it as well. Guide = http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/...acg8guides.png Template = http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/...9PontiacG8.png this way you can follow along and see what I'm doing or trying to do. im going t o make this as simple as possible and do nothing but make a couple racing stripe s. although you will be able to continue on and make whatever you want. Step one open Gimp. (self explanatory) Step two in gimp click open go to your file location and open your Guide so you have something that looks alot like this..... http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/...arTown/SS1.png Step Three in gimp go to File>Open As Layers and select your template. if done p roperly your screen will look a little like this..... http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/...arTown/SS2.png Step Four click Layer>New Layer and in the window that pops open dont change the size but make sure that the Transparency bubble is selected. this will make a t hird layer that has nothing on it. and your screen will look a little like this. .... http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/...arTown/SS3.png Step Five this is where we would rename our Layers so that we would be on the sa me page as ZER but since this is more of a walk thrugh for ppl and they followin g this protocall all you need to do is nothing and it will be the same. Step 6 go ahead and do your graphics. in this case im just going to make a coupl e racing stripes something quick and easy since i totally suck at tutorials :P t his will make your page look a little like this.... http://i1207.photobucket.com /albums/...arTown/SS4.png Step 7 this part is a little strange but it works well. in your gimp program (if left unchange its on the left of your screen and is labled Layers, Channels, Pa ths, Undo - ...) is a window that has your layers on it. next to these layers ar e eyeballs. this is to show/hide layers. what we will do is uncheck the eye from our bottom two layers (in my case Background and 09PontiacG8) so that are your left with is some plain stripes... and it should look like this....http://i1207. photobucket.com/albums/...arTown/SS5.png now that you have nothing showing except your stripes we will go to step 7... Step 7. saving file... go to file>Save As and then type your file name. click on the plus sign next to select file type (by extension) and select the .png file type. and it will change your file name to the filename.png. click save. a windo w will pop up that tells you you need to export the file. and will look like thi s.... http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/...arTown/SS6.png step 8.....and this one is very important. since we are exporting our file it is asking us some questions. and one of them has bubbles next to it named merge vi siable layers. that is the one we want. (although its not important for this tut orial it will be later on). click the bubble next to the merge visable layers. t hen click export. now pops open a menu that has a few choices on it. we only wan t four choices they are Save background color, Save resolution, Save Creation ti me (if you want it i personally like it), and final and most important is Save c olor values from transparent pixels. then click save. Final steps-go to CT and open your car (in my case the G8) and go to graphics. t hen we want to upload our image that we just saved. this will place a perfect im age over our template and will place the racing stripes over our car and not cha nge anything about it. now that you have had a basic experiance in this we can n ow play around with it. lets say you want your car fussia colored but cant seem to find it in CT base paint. no problem. all you need to do is start the same wa y we did before but this will make it a little more complicated. instead of maki

ng our racing stripes on layer 3 we would make layer 3 your base paint color. af terwords you can hide this layer and continue making graphics adding layers. jus t remember you want your layers made in order from lowest to highest so that hig hest covers lowest. then when you go to save all you need to do is turn off laye rs 1 and 2 and turn layer 3 on. then you merge your file as you save as before. although this isnt the same as previous mentioned it works awesome cause none of the extra colors show up and the excess on the screen will not show up so your car will be flawless.

Guides In this section you will find useful guides to help you with a number of things, such as figuring out which jobs suits your time best, or which functionable gar age item will suit your garage most. Vehicles Below is a guide for each vehicle. Listed is price in coins, Class, level requir ed to unlock the car, and performance. Performance is listed as new (stock perfo rmance) and after all performance modifications have been applied to the car. Vehicle Cost (Coins) level ance Toyota Yaris 4,000 0 Ford Pinto 4,000 0 Acura NSX 75,000 23 Cadillac Escalade 55,000 Chevrolet Bel Air 75,000 '69 Chevrolet Camaro 65,000 '10 Chevrolet Camaro 26,000 Chevrolet Corvette Chevrolet Silverado 25,000 DMC DeLorean 57,500 19 Datsun 240Z 13,000 20 Dodge Challenger 165,000 Dodge Charger 169,000 31 Dodge Viper 85,000 25 Ford Escape 23,000 0 Ford F 150 25,000 6 Ford Fusion 22,000 4 Ford GT 150,000 33 A '67 Ford Mustang 70,000 '05 Ford Mustang GT 27,000 Honda Accord 24,000 0 Honda CR-V 23,000 5 Honda CR-Z 21,000 0 Honda Civic 16,000 0 Honda S2000 33,000 15 Lamborghini Gallardo Lamborghini Murcielago Lotus Elise 47,000 27 Mazda 3 16,000 0 D Mazda MX-5 23,000 11 Mazda RX-7 37,000 25 McLaren F1 833 Points Mercedes-Benz B Class 40,000 Class D D B 13 29 21 22 35 6 B D 25 A B D D D 657 21 15 D D D D C 33 51 C 209 D C 0 Stock Performance 185 171 393 B B B C B D 201 255 A 480 587 185 232 266 997 C C 231 204 181 207 342 A A 383 549 269 361 * C 525 511 733 278 327 308 325 368 229 541 595 473 820 927 525 572 606 376 345 571 544 521 547 682 677 777 723 609 701 998 198 Modified Perform

618 667 648 665 768 569 813

716 685

1017 1117

1338 538

Mercedes-Benz SLK MB-McLaren SLR Nissan 240SX 13,000 Nissan Cube 16,000 '09 Nissan GT-R '69 Nissan GT-R 120,000 '99 Nissan GT-R R34 Pontiac GTO 75,000 Pontiac Trans Am Ram 1500 25,000 Scion tC 17,000 Scion xB 15,500 Toyota Camry 24,000 Toyota Corolla AE86 Toyota Corolla XRS Toyota Prius 21,000 Toyota Supra 50,000 Toyota Tacoma 25,000 Volkswagen Beetle Volkswagen Bus 20,000 Volkswagen Golf GTi VW Karmann Ghia 22,500 Levels

55,000 50 4 8 42 17 80,000 28 40,000 6 0 0 0 24,000 14,500 4 26 6 4,000 18 24,000 7

16 A D D B B 24 B 30 D D D D 12 0 D C D 0 D 14 D

B 641 207 173 509 296 B 350 C 258 216 205 189 D D 150 392 232 D 135 D 157

362 981 547 513 849 636 436 690 244 398 556 545 529 204 220 490 732 572 147 475 270 497

702

776 584

544 560

487 610

In the next guide, each level and the unlocks and gifts associated with those le vels are listed. Blue represents new cars. Orange represents Test Drive opportun ities. Light Green represents Land Expansions. Violet represents new employees. Dark Green represents new services. Level 01 @ 00 xp: 0 points + starters cash + starter car: Ford Pinto, Toyota Yar is, '68 VW Beetle Level 02 @ 43 xp: 1 point + 500 coins only Level 03 @ 90 xp: 1 point + 750 coins + 2nd & 3rd worker + test drive [get in 25 wins] (Honda Accord, Ford Falcon, Chevrolet Silverado) + air hockey table, car detailing service, hydraulics service Level 04 @ 200 xp: 1 point + 1000 coins + land expansion 15x15 + soda punch mach ine, Scion tC + Scion xB + Toyota Prius + Nissan 240SX Level 05 @ 500 xp: 1 point + 1250 coins + Ram 1500 + Toyota Tacoma + Honda CR-V Level 06 @ ??? xp: 1 point + 1500 coins + 4th worker + vending machine, wing ser vice unlocked + Ford F-150 + Chevrolet Silverado Level 07 @ ??? xp: 1 point + 1750 coins + Volkswagen Karmann Ghia Level 08 @ 1820 xp: 1 point + 2000 coins + jukebox + ping pong table + spark plu gs service + Nissan Cube Level 09 @ 2400 xp: 1 point + 2250 coins + bullet proofing service Level 10 @ 3100 xp: 1 point + 2500 coins + land expansion 20x20 Level 11 @ ??? xp: 1 point + 2750 coins + 5th worker + Mazda MX-5 Level 12 @ ??? xp: 1 point + 3000 coins + dark red brick unlocked + '86 Toyota C orolla Level 13 @ 5850 xp: 1 point + 3250 coins + Test Drive [get in 50 wins] (VW GTi, Escalade, Toyota Tacoma) + Cadillac Escalade Level 14 @ 7000 xp: 1 point + 3500 coins + pinball machine unlock + VW mk6 GTi + antenna ball service Level 15 @ 8290 xp: 1 point + 3750 coins + Honda S2000 + Ford Mustang GT + smog check service Level 16 @ 9720 xp: 1 point + 4000 coins + 6th worker + Roll a Ball Machine + su spension service + Mercedes-Benz SLK Level 17 @ 11290 xp: 1 point + 4250 coins + land expansion 25x25 + Neon service + '69 Nissan Skyline GT-R Level 18 @ 13000 xp: 1 point + 4500 coins + DVD System service + VW Bus Level 19 @ 14900 xp: 1 point + 4750 coins + Nitrous service + DMC DeLorean

Level 20 @ 16900 xp: 1 point + 5000 coins + Vintage Red Phone Booth unlock + Dat sun 240Z + body kit service Level 21 @ 19100 xp: 1 point + 5250 coins + 7th worker + Mustang Fastback + '69 Camaro Level 22 @ 21500 xp: 1 point + 5500 coins + '10 Camaro Level 23 @ 25000 xp: 1 point + 5750 coins + monster truck wheel service + Acura NSX Level 24 @ 28750 xp: 1 point + 6000 coins + Nissan Skyline R-34 Level 25 @ 32750 xp: 1 point + 6250 coins + Test Drive [get in 75 wins] (Skyline R34, Acura NS-X, '69 Camaro) + land expansion 30x30 + gas station + car stereo service + Dodge Viper + Dodge Challenger + Mazda RX-7 Level 26 @ 37000 xp: 1 point + 6500 coins + 8th worker + Toyota Supra Level 27 @ 42500 xp: 1 point + 6750 coins + Lotus Elise Level 28 @ 49000 xp: 1 point + 7000 coins + Pontiac GTO Level 29 @ 56000 xp: 1 point + 7250 coins + Chevrolet Bel Air Level 30 @ 63250 xp: 1 point + 7500 coins + jet engine service + Pontiac Firebir d Trans-Am Level 31: 1 point + 7750 coins + Dodge Charger R/T Hemi Level 32: 1 point + 8000 coins only Level 33: 1 point + 8250 coins + Ford GT + Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 Level 34: 1 point + 8500 coins + land expansion 35x35 Level 35: 1 point + 8750 coins + Chevrolet Corvette Level 36: 1 point + 9000 coins only Level 37: 1 point + 9250 coins only Level 38: 1 point + 9500 coins only Level 39: 1 point + 9750 coins only Level 40: 1 point + 10000 coins only Level 41: 1 point + 10250 coins only Level 42: 1 point + 10500 coins + final land expansion 40x40 + Nissan GT-R Level 43: 1 point + 10750 coins only Level 44: 1 point + 11000 coins only Level 45: 1 point + 11250 coins only Level 46: 1 point + 11500 coins only Level 47: 1 point + 11750 coins only Level 48: 1 point + 12000 coins only Level 49: 1 point + 12250 coins only Level 50: 1 point + 12500 coins + Mercedes-Benz McLaren SLR Level 51: 1 point + 12750 coins + Lamborghini Murcielago LP670-4 SuperVeloce Level 52: 1 point + 13000 coins only Level 53: 1 point + 13250 coins only Level 54: 1 point + 13500 coins only Level 55: 1 point + 13750 coins only Level 56: 1 point + 14000 coins only Level 57: 1 point + 14250 coins only Level 58: 1 point + 14500 coins only Level 59: 1 point + 14750 coins only Level 60: 1 point + 15000 coins + 9th/last worker Services This guide is about services. Services are listed in Coins received, XP received , Coins received per hour, XP received per hour, service time and cost, listed a scending in service time.

SERVICE COST Fuzzy Dice Car Wash Oil Change

TIME 0 10 15

COINS/HOUR 00:02 00:05 00:30 600 360 220

XP/HOUR TOTAL COINS 150 120 40 20 40 125 5 10 20

TOTAL XP

Antenna Ball Nav System Spark Plugs Neon 800 Wash'n'Wax New Wheels Smog Check Car Detail Monster Truck Wing Install Paint Job Bullet Proofing DVD System Window Tint Hydraulics Nitrous Install Car Stereo Jet Engine Engine Tune Suspension Biofuel Upgrade Bodykit Install

75 35 150 01:00 12 35 75 20 500 670 25 250 800 55 150 1750 2000 3000 300 1050 1000 500

00:30 01:00 01:00 211 02:00 04:00 04:00 08:00 08:00 10:00 12:00 12:00 12:00 24:00 24:00 24:00 24:00 24:00 48:00 48:00 72:00 72:00

230 165 175 27 144 116 145 104 128 103 96 98 120 82 81 101 107 110 50 120 40 51

44 21 22 1,011 18 16 20 12 15 11 10 11 12 7 7 8 8.5 9 5 6.5 4 5

190 200 325 27 300 500 655 850 1,525 1,700 1,175 1,425 2,325 2,000 2,100 4,175 4,575 5,650 2,675 4,000 3,900 5,650

22 21 22 35 63 78 95 118 105 120 130 146 160 162 200 204 217 250 312 280 337

Service Mastery Levels This Guide will show you how many of each service you will have to do to master that level of the service. With each service comes an upgrade in XP, a reward of 5,000 coins, with a blue point after the last mastery level. The list below sta tes the name of the service, followed by the number of services required to proc eed to the next mastery level, and the upgrade in XP at each mastery level. The XP at the last mastery level is ALWAYS double the XP given at the first mastery level. Therefore, the XP/Hour ratio is also doubled by the last mastery level. T he mastery level's XP increases by 10% in the first upgrade, followde by 25% in the second, 50% in the fourth and 100% (double) in the final level. The XP/Hour rates increase in a similar fashion. JOB NAME Fuzzy Dice # 250 XP 5 Car Wash # 299 XP 11 Oil Change # 199 XP 22 Antenna Ball # 75 Xp 24 Nav System # 75 Xp 22 Spark Plugs # 75 Xp 23 Neon # 75 Xp 29 Wash'n'Wax # 45 XP 40 M.LEVEL 2 750 6 600 12 300 24 250 26 175 25 175 26 175 32 110 44 1,500 8 1,200 15 600 30 550 33 325 32 325 33 325 41 185 53 3 2,750 10 2,000 20 900 40 950 44 500 42 550 44 575 54 285 70 4 5

New Wheels # 30 70 Xp 72 79 Smog Check # 45 95 Xp 90 98 Car Detail # 20 50 Xp 109 119 Monster Truck # 30 70 Xp 136 148 Wing Install # 40 90 Xp 121 131 Paint Job # 40 90 XP 138 150 Bullet Proofing # 45 100 XP 150 163 DVD System # 55 120 Xp 168 183 Window Tint # 10 35 XP 184 200 Hydraulics # 15 40 Xp 186 203 Nitrous Install # 20 50 XP 230 250 Car Stereo # 20 50 XP 235 255 Engine Tune # 5 15 Xp 288 313 Suspension # 5 15 XP 359 390 Biofuel Upgrade # 5 15 Xp 322 350 Body Kit Install # 5 15 XP 388 421

120 95 155 117 90 143 120 177 150 158 150 180 165 195 195 219 70 240 75 243 90 300 95 206 30 375 35 468 30 420 30 506

190 126 220 156 150 190 175 236 225 210 225 240 250 260 275 292 115 320 125 324 145 400 155 408 50 500 65 624 45 560 50 674

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