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The Mini Shirt Guide: How to make and add them to the game

In this guide, PCM.daily will show you how to make and add mini shirts to your game - and don't worry, it's not difficult at all. No graphic skills are needed.

This guide is based on PCMScandinavia's mini shirt guide.

Tip: The three explanatory screenshots can be clicked - this will enlarge them.

What's a mini shirt?
A mini shirt is the the piece of graphic which is displayed when you select a team, pre-races, etc. More often than not, these are not included with the 'actual' shirts, and therefore, it's quite handy to be able to make them yourself, especially if you like using the "Custom Team" feature.

Here's an example of a mini shirt (you can find the ones included with your game installation in Program Files/Cyanide/PCM/Gui/team_shirt):
Example of mini shirt

Files that you need

  • The free 3D Program Blender. You can get the latest version here.
  • The base mini shirt file (for Blender). Get it here.
  • ... and the shirt that you want to convert to a mini shirt, either in jpg, png or tga

How to make the mini shirt
First of all, you do of course need to install Blender. When that's done, you can open the program by double clicking the base mini shirt file (the 2nd file I asked you to download). If Windows doesn't know which program to use, right click the file and select "Open with" and find Blender.

When the program has opened, it looks a bit complicated - don't worry, it's not. Start by clicking F10 on your keyboard. This will change the lower-bar menu. In the right menu - the one where it says "Format" - change SizeX and SizeY to 256.

Guide to Mini Shirts

When that's done, click F6. Again, you need to use the right menu, the one called "Image". Click the folder icon. In the menu that appears, you need to find the shirt that you want to convert. It's recommended to use 32 bit TGA files, but it's also possible to convert directly from .png or .jpg. There are some side effects of using the latter two, but I'll explain that later. Anyway - when you've found the shirt, click "SELECT IMAGE".
Tip: If your shirt is located on your desktop or somewhere else in your Documents folder, you may have to enter your username manually into the address bar.

Mini Guide 2

How to save the mini shirt
Almost done. Click F12 - a window will pop up with an example of your mini shirt. In many cases, it will have a weird background colour, but don't worry about that. It can't be seen in-game. Return to the main window and click F3. This will open the saving menu. Choose where to save in the 1st bar and select a file name in the 2nd bar. When done, click "Save Targa".

Find your mini shirt and check that your mini shirt file has a size of 256 KB. If your mini shirt is based on a tga file, it will probably have the right size. If it's based on png or jpg, it's likely to be too small. In that case, open it with Paint.NET, hold down CTRL + S and click OK.

If you're using a custom team and using the c01 folder, you have to name the file c01_minimaillot and place it in Program Files/Cyanide/PCM/Gui/team_shirt. You may have to delete the original c01_minimaillot file before yours will be used. Likewise, if you want to replace Saxo Bank's mini shirt, the correct file name would be sax_minimaillot.

Mini Guide 3

Comments
#1 | matiu on 29. November 2009 03:07
hey its not working for me if done all the instructions im pritty sure what do you do once if saved the folder just chuck it in the cynide folder and it works?
#2 | CrueTrue on 29. November 2009 12:52
"Not working" isn't a very detailed description.
#3 | hushovd14 on 30. November 2009 15:25
python
#4 | asmod on 30. November 2009 21:02
works fine to create minijersey from PCM 2008 and PCM 2009 jersey, but when I take PCM 2007 jersey format to create a minijersey, all bottom from the jersey is missing in the minijersey. What's the wrong thing I do ? Maybe it's the default .blend file that I use to create the mini jersey. thanks for you help.
#5 | CrueTrue on 01. December 2009 09:58
You need a different .blend file to make it work with PCM07. I don't have it, but someone else might.
#6 | asmod on 01. December 2009 11:31
you know where i can find it ?
#7 | CrueTrue on 01. December 2009 12:14
If I did, I'd have said so Wink
#8 | matiu on 04. December 2009 02:31
hey sorry about the explanation.you know how if theres 2 c01_minimallot do i delete the other 1? but the other co1_minimallot is a DDS file..? what do i do there? thanks
#9 | matiu on 04. December 2009 02:33
description* i mean
#10 | matiu on 05. December 2009 08:42
dw if got it going
#11 | cycloweb on 12. January 2010 21:09
Great!
Thanks for this fantastic guide... now i'll make all my minis without ask to the forum's community Smile
#12 | saivert on 06. March 2010 19:08
matiu: open it in Paint.NET and save it as a DDS file
#13 | 10theri on 02. April 2010 09:44
yes, this was just what i needed Grin
#14 | masila5 on 22. May 2010 19:56
I cant open Blender. When i try to open it, its says No Installed Python found? but i have installed Python but it's maybe not the right or it's just the wrong blender? Do anyone know what i need to do? Sad Sorry for my bad english.

- Masila5
#15 | Fleshnbone1999 on 16. June 2010 13:05
thank you very much
#16 | jseadog1 on 19. July 2010 01:05
does it have to be dds?
#17 | BuzzingFridge on 26. July 2010 09:13
Thanks a lot for this guide. The majority is easy to follow and clearly explained. I had a little trouble right at the end, but I worked out what I was doing wrong and got it to work. Banana
#18 | Porte on 02. August 2010 02:09
Hey thanks a lot fpr the guide. I have one problem however, when I press F10 at the start, nothing happens. Am I doing something wrong?Thanks
#19 | ElPistolero on 11. August 2010 00:41
this guide is really awesome very good explanationsBanana

thx ! Smile
#20 | BlueMidget on 11. August 2010 20:42
how to make it work with Vista? it gives me an error saying Blender doesn't work with the operating system i use.
#21 | Cedric De vries on 26. March 2011 20:29
I can't put my shirt in the game?
#22 | Cedric De vries on 26. March 2011 20:39
Where do you delete the first shirt?
#23 | Zuper Zino on 26. June 2011 14:32
i press f10 and it does nothing
#24 | JBNJUNIOR on 09. July 2011 20:17
I have the same problem as Zuper Zino
#25 | Sondre on 11. July 2011 17:31
download a older version of the program if you are having problem with the F10 command. try this one: https://download.b...ender2.43/
worked for me! Wink
#26 | kitface on 21. July 2011 09:09
i press f10 nothing happens. ARGHHH
#27 | kitface on 21. July 2011 09:13
hey Sondre thank you SOO MUCH it worked.
#28 | jnmblan on 22. July 2011 10:46
I saved my file as a .dds and put it in the game. When I run the game I get a blue square where the mini maillot should be.
#29 | yakub97 on 29. July 2011 12:34
In game I see only grey shirt like in Blender. Sorry for my English.
#30 | pcm2009fan on 10. August 2011 12:35
Hello for anyone who can't get f10 to work you can download the same version used in the article here:
https://download.blender.org/release/B...nder2.49b/
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