If you are using GIMP, go to Image at the top bar --> Scale Image

Yeah, this is unfortunately a known issue. I made Paint Job Packer using Python, and in order to package it all up into a .exe file that anyone can run I used a program called PyInstaller, which has a known issue where the files it creates are flagged as false positives. I've submitted builds of PJP to Microsoft multiple times so they can scan them in-depth, and each time fixes one false positive, but another shows up eventually. If you're comfortable using Python, you can have a look at the GitHub page (where the full source code is available) and run the .py files directly, or even build the .exe files yourself if you download PyInstaller. Unfortunately there's not much else I can do about it for now, until I find a better solution for packaging PJP up into an app. Sorry!

I don't support paid mods in Paint Job Packer or my template pack because I believe paid mods are harmful to the community. I'm afraid you'll have to use templates provided by the mod authors, and you'll have to either make the paint jobs manually, or use custom XMLs with Mods Studio.

Thanks :) You can make a paintjob with changeable colours using Mods Studio 2, but not using Paintjob Packer unfortunately. That kind of mod is a bit more complicated, and it involves making parts of your texture (the parts you want to be changeable) bright red, green or blue. You then tell the game which colour it needs to be by default by converting it to the SCS colour space (divide by 255 then square) and popping it in one of the .sii files, in the correct fields (mask_r_color etc). I personally don't have any experience making them myself, but there might be good tutorials somewhere on the web that could help you!

@@Carsmaniac Thanks!

At the moment, you can only install the templates when you first install Paintjob Packer - if you download the installer version (i.e. windows-installer, not windows-portable or the source code), you can choose to install the templates in the installer. The template pack you can download separately, with PNG and PSD files, is a completely separate thing, but if you wanted to use it without reinstalling Paintjob Packer, you can just resize one of the 1 KB files to 4096x4096, then pop one of the templates from the template pack on top. Hope this helps!

@@Carsmaniac that worked! thank you so much! :)

Hi, I have exactly the same issue, the colour of the truck is washed out in the game and my teal truck becomes a much paler hue. I'd love to know how to stop this from happening.

That would be because the game uses a gamma colour space, whereas most image editors like Photoshop use a linear colour space. The technical differences don't matter too much, but the result is that certain colours will look a little off when you put them in-game, I've noticed it happens most obviously with certain shades of red and yellow. There are ways to convert your colours to the SCS colour space, or preview what they will look like, but the easiest thing to do is just trial and error - tweak your colours until they look correct. It's not ideal, but it's one of the side effects of the somewhat odd way mods work in SCS games :)

Yep, overwrite the existing files. I tried to keep the names mostly the same, but yeah there are some differences :) Making trucksim paint jobs can be a little fiddly, let me know how you go! If you run into any other issues, hopefully I can help, good luck!

​@@Carsmaniac Thanks for the quick reply! Okay, at least I was able to create a paint for the cabin. So is it irrelevant e.g. which of your chassis templates I'll use as long as I overwrite the chassis template within the Paintjob Packer folder? Edit: After re-reading my question, I have realized that it's probably very difficult to understand. I will therefore try to explain my request in more detail. Let`s say I try to create a skin for the Scania S. Within the accessories folder of your templates there a multiple versions for each part - e.g. Chassis Cover (4x), Chassis Cover (6x Short) and Chassis Cover (6x Long) - where as in the created Paintjob folder there's only one template for the chassis. So how to I know which chassis template I have to use?

@@manollobango Ah gotcha, sorry for misunderstanding before! Short answer: If you want an intricate design (like a logo or pattern) on the chassis cover and you're going to use a specific one yourself (e.g. you always drive a 4x truck), use that template. If you just want to set the chassis cover to a solid colour, you don't need to use any template and you can just make the DDS a solid colour. If you want an intricate design that is different for each one, so that you can make the logo fit on each chassis cover individually for example, it gets a bit tricky... Long answer: You're right that for parts like that, there are multiple templates in the template pack but only one DDS. In this case for example, the Scania S has 3 different chassis covers (one for each axle configuration), but Paint Job Packer only generates a single Chassis Cover.dds file. In mods generated by PJP, every chassis cover will use whatever texture is in that single DDS file. There are similar stories with many of the other accessories, like sun visors, sideskirts, etc. The reason why I've done things that way is so that I can hopefully strike a balance between letting people paint all the different parts the way they want to, and not overwhelming people by making every truck have over 100 DDSes that need to be edited. I'm sure you can imagine how painful it'd be if you needed to edit 19 different sideskirt files, and 12 different rear fenders, etc etc. In my experience, most of the little fiddly accessories like that just need to be a solid colour, e.g. everything below the bottom of the cabin is black, or everything behind the front wheel is red, or something like that, and in that case each of those DDSes can just be made a solid colour, they don't even need a template. If you do want to make separate textures for each part, you'll need to do some fiddly file editing, making a new accessory group and moving the parts you want (e.g. the 6x Long chassis cover) out of the existing group and into the new one. You'll need to edit some SII files with a text editor, and a TOBJ file with a hex editor (like HxD). I recorded a quick clip separating the main mirrors from the "Mirrors" accessory on the Scania S, you can see it here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oaiqeaaXu9KUpp8.html If you try it yourself, make sure to change the filepath length in the TOBJ as well, it's explained at 16:19 in this video, and I change it at about 0:28 in the linked video. Ideally there'd be some nice way to group together or break up the accessory parts in Paint Job Packer itself, but since PJP was a pandemic project of mine the code is all a spaghetti nightmare, so I'll leave that feature to the 2.0 rewrite that I'm (slowly) working on :) Sorry for the long rambling answer, I hope it helps...? Let me know if you need anything explained in more detail!

​@@Carsmaniac Thanks for the detailed reply! Okay wow, that's a lot of information I've to process first 😅 Well, I'm trying to paint an intricate design e.g. onto the Scania S (maybe I've to paint it also on another trucks for my mates) and also on trailers etc. later on. Just the background of the design alone already has a color gradient and multiple stripes with different widths, which at the end should perfectly match all the way from the front of the truck to the end of the trailer. I've already noticed that this project will be very time consuming and it'll be very fiddly to match everything up nicely - I guess it would be a lot easier if most of the accessories would just use one UV map? - but however, it definitely would be much harder to achieve without your helpful tool and your tutorials, so I really appreciate your work and help! I'll let you know if I need more help!

Yes! The FH Tuning Pack DLC lets you swap out that part for a paintable one, and the DLC parts are already included on the templates. In general you can't re-skin other parts like that though, only parts that are paintable. Any part of the truck that is affected by a standard paint colour can be re-skinned, anything else would probably involve custom truck parts, which are more complicated to make.

@@Carsmaniac i see, thanks a lot!

I make most of my logos in Adobe Illustrator, but you could also use a free tool like Inkscape, or you could even make logos in Photoshop/GIMP/Paint.net. More important than the software that you use is your personal skillset - making logos/stickers is graphic design - which comes down to practice mostly. If you just make a bunch of logos while learning the software, you'll get better. You could also take an online course on Skillshare or LinkedIn Learning or something, or in my case I studied it at uni.

sorry i should explain better. i'm trying to make a pack and on the trailer list i can't find the base game (SCS) curtainsider and flatbed.

UPDATE: Nvm i figured out the "Box Trailer" should work with most base game type boxed trailers including curtainsiders dry freighters, etc. But if you could confirm if i could customize the flatbeds that'd be great.

​@@giooliodraws Yeah, the curtainsider and dry freighters are both part of the "SCS Box Trailer", because they're technically the same trailer in the game files, you can't make a paint job for one without also making it for the other (I think?). The SCS Flatbed isn't really paint-job-able, so it's not included in PJP. From memory the only flatbed with support is the one from the Krone DLC, because you can at least paint the front wall, whereas the UV mapping (the way SCS decided how templates are laid out for each vehicle) on the SCS Flatbed is terrible iirc, so you wouldn't be able to make a paint job beyond just setting it to a specific colour. Hope this helps!

Is it a blank white square as well? In that case, it's because that file doesn't have a template in your generated mod. If you didn't tick the "use templates" box (3:22), or if you didn't download the "Windows with included templates" version of PJP, all of your DDS files will be like that. Or, if you did download templates and you are using them, some of the DDS files will still be like that - the files for minor parts like mirrors and sideskirts. If a DDS file is a small white square, and you just want to recolour it, you can just change the colour of the image and keep it at 16x16. If you want to put designs on it, you can change its size in your image editor, optionally drop a template on top, and make your design.

Yes! Trailer paintjobs work the exact same as truck paintjobs, just replace all of the DDSes that are generated.

Two days ago! The new TGX is supported in v1.10.1 of Paint Job Packer. Confusingly, in-game it's just called "MAN TGX", and the old truck was renamed "MAN TGX Euro 5", so that's what they're called in PJP as well.