Paint Job Packer

Paint Job Packer is a lightweight mod making tool for Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator. It allows you to generate simple paint job mods, with a focus on mods that support multiple vehicles.

Features

• Support for player-owned trailers, including those from DLCs
• Support for trucks using the newer accessory-based paint job system, like the Scania S and MAN TGX Euro 6
• Support for as many vehicles as you like in a single mod
• Built-in support for >100 truck and trailer mods, full list here
• Support for separate paint jobs for each cabin of a truck, in case a single texture doesn't work for all of them
• Optionally includes readymade 4k templates for each vehicle, which can be downloaded separately here (ETS 2) and here (ATS)

Making a mod

Paint Job Packer doesn't make a completed mod when you click the Generate mod button. Instead, it makes what I call "custom example mods", giving you all the files you need for your mod, but with placeholders standing in for every image/texture. You then go through and replace all the placeholder images with your own to complete the mod. Since you usually have to test and tweak a paint job many times before it's ready, generating paint jobs this way means you only have to run the program once.

A more in-depth video version of this guide is available on YouTube

Image editor requirements

Paint Job Packer requires an image editor that can save DDS files. DDS is a special image format used to save textures for many games, including both Trucksim games. You can use any of the following:

• Photoshop with its DDS plugin
• GIMP
• Paint.NET
• Or you could use any program you like and convert your images to DDS using DXTBmp

1. Generate base files using Paint Job Packer

   • Make a single paint job for a single vehicle, or a pack with support for multiple vehicles
   • Support each truck's biggest cabin only or all of them, with a single paint job per vehicle or separate ones for each cabin
   • Optionally use 4k/2k templates as placeholder files (if installed)

2. Replace mod manager files

   • Mod_Manager_Description.txt and Mod_Manager_Image.jpg
   • The description already contains a pre-generated list of vehicles supported by your mod
   • The image must be a 276 x 162 JPEG

3. Replace icon

   • material/ui/accessory/<paint job> Icon.dds
   • Must be a 256 x 64 DDS
   • If you want your icon to match the vanilla paint jobs, use the placeholder image as a guide for size & shape

4. Replace vehicle textures

   • vehicle/truck/upgrade/paintjob/<paint job>/<vehicle> and/or vehicle/trailer_owned/upgrade/paintjob/<paint job>/<vehicle>
   • These are the main files of your mod, which determine what your paint job will actually look like in-game
   • Save each DDS in DXT5 format with mipmaps, if possible
   • Ensure every file's height and width is a power of 2 (e.g. 16, 64, 2048, 4096 etc)
   • You can download template packs here (ETS 2) and here (ATS)