Editing skin in real time

Hi. I've started to skin the 200bx a little bit, but what annoys me is that, I have to exit the game everytime I wanna apply the skin, due the fact it's in a .rar. Is there a way to get it out of the rar, and still make it work in game so I can change skin in real time? Thanks.

 

I just tried it, but when I try to save it, I just get an error that it's open in another program (beamng)

Error code if needed:

Code:

System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.


   at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)


   at System.IO.File.InternalMove(String sourceFileName, String destFileName, Boolean checkHost)


   at PaintDotNet.IO.SaveTransaction.Commit() in d:\src\pdn\paintdotnet\src\PaintDotNet\IO\SaveTransaction.cs:line 146


   at PaintDotNet.Controls.DocumentWorkspace.<>c__DisplayClass30.<DoSave>b__28() in d:\src\pdn\paintdotnet\src\PaintDotNet\Controls\DocumentWorkspace.cs:line 2969


   at PaintDotNet.Functional.Func.Try(Action f) in d:\src\pdn\paintdotnet\src\Base\Functional\Func.cs:line 174

 

Yup that's the same problem I have when modding in Documents\BeamNG.Drive\mods

What I do now is have the car extracted in

Steam\steamapps\common\BeamNG.drive\content\vehicles\your_car

If you want to extract the coupe it will extract to a new vehicles folder. So it's going to look like this:
Steam\steamapps\common\BeamNG.drive\content\vehicles\vehicles\coupe
Take it out of that folder and put it in the first vehicles folder:
Steam\steamapps\common\BeamNG.drive\content\vehicles\coupe

Now you have to get the original coupe.zip out of that folder and store it somewhere safe as a backup and it should let you update your texture without having to restart. You may have to reload the map before every update...that's pretty anoying too but better than restarting the game imo.

 

Open the file before you open beamng.