I need help making a skin.

So I am trying to make a honnigan skin for the sunburst, but the dds file from the origional won't save because it has "too many minimaps." If I try to use a skin from a mod, I have no outlines of the vehicles, to see where to, and where not to paint. Do I have to use the origional dds file, and create a new layer, then delete the rest for it to save properly?

BTW: I am using GIMP 2 with the dds plugin

 

Within some of the official vehicles' files are UV maps. The Sunburst has two maps, one for standard and one for the rally/race version of the car. I haven't worked with GIMP so I can't help with any issues you have with that.

 

ok. I just can't find the outlines. I kinda got it working. thx

 

The UVs are in the vehicle's zip file in Content\Vehicles. They are labeled (roughly) *vehicle name*_UVs.png