How to make proper skin files?

Okay, this whole thing about skins has been stressing me out so much lately. I've pretty much spent all day searching the internet on how to put together files to make a working mod download (All I know how to do is the paint.net skin file) with no avail. Can anyone here tell me how to make this skin file actually work within the game? I've currently made a Van skin, I just need to know how to make copies of the JBeam of the van or whatever (I think) and other things, put them all in a folder, then ZIP it, anyone know where to find those extras besides the skin? I'm brand new to modding and all, so it would be great to not have someone talking pure programming language to me, just English .

 

Yeeeaaah I know that, I could use some help figuring out what to actually do with all that code...it's a bit confusing to me, plus I'm not sure how to get to it.

 

Well, first of all, I'm not sure how to get to these codes, second, am I editing these codes or am I just making them from scratch? I'm also worried I might delete or edit the wrong part of these codes if I even get to them.

 

Ah yes, I've actually already made my own skin from that tutorial, as seen here:

My goal is to make my own skin for the Van, not the Covet. Should It be as easy as copying the Jbeam files and whatever material.cs is to the skin folder, then ZIP it? Where would those Jbeam and material.cs files be then?

P.S. Thanks for helping me out, I'm used to jerks yelling at me whenever I ask a question on this website...

 

Okay, I did everything, and it doesn't show up in the game. It reads it as a mod in the mod menu, but under skin selection in the parts selector, I cannot find it anywhere. Could you look at the file down below to see if I did anything wrong? (The skin is just a quick test skin obviously, not the final)

 

Do you mean to change SKINSAMPLE_YOURNAME in all of the materials.cs to a custom name? I'm confused...

 

Changed what you said to change in the material.cs file (Changed line 4 "SKINSAMPLE_YOURNAME to snowy_van_skin), still isn't working for me. Renamed jbeam file to van_snowy_van_skin and that doesn't help either, Is there anything else I did wrong..?

 

Here you go:

 

Thanks so much! Finally works. One last question though: For skinning, is it okay to "draw" over the lines of the main vehicle outline? Not sure if that would glitch out the vehicle or anything, but it would be great for having the right texture repeat itself without having it be a weird size and angle to fit the outline of the vehicle. Also, is there a way to fix the green inside the vehicle, or will that simply be fixed when I overlay the base grid pattern with the snow texture?

 

Alright, thank you very much for all the help

 

If you want to upload a skin onto the website as a resource, what exact files do you need??
And can I change the SKINSAMPLE_YOURNAME.dds name to anything else?