how to add hood accessories?

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Drysyn
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how to add hood accessories?

#1 Post by Drysyn » 19 Aug 2022 07:57

Hi, how do you add a hood accessory (hood ornament) to a truck? I would like to put a flying goddess on a Kenworth W900 but I have no idea how to even go about such things.
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Reinhard
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Re: how to add hood accessories?

#2 Post by Reinhard » 19 Aug 2022 09:25

Prerequisites:
  • General ability to create mods
  • Teaching yourself how to handle definition files for accessories (by analyzing existing accessory definition files)
  • Some experience in 3D modelling (Blender + Blender Tools, or Zmodeler)
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Re: how to add hood accessories?

#3 Post by Drysyn » 19 Aug 2022 13:30

Ok, I have dabbled making the odd truck skin here and there, but that's as far as I got, and that took me quite a while and didn't exactly turn out as it was supposed to to be honest.

Couldn't really copy the image I wanted right, but then again I was mostly using paint.net and euro studio 2 thingy so I'm surprised It even worked at all :D
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Re: how to add hood accessories?

#4 Post by Reinhard » 19 Aug 2022 14:12

So it is about making a truck hood skin? If so, it seems I took the term "accessory", which has a special technical meaning in truck modding, a bit too literal.

Sorry, I've only skinned ETS 2 trucks, which of course don't have a hood - and anyway, that happened years ago. Wish you good luck, but I can't help you.
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Re: how to add hood accessories?

#5 Post by Drysyn » 19 Aug 2022 15:09

No, you were right about talking about something you put on the truck, I was just stating that I know little more than how to skin a truck, aka my knowledge is limited
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