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  18   <h1>Workshop Guide - Custom boards</h1>
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  20   <h2>Installing Blender</h2>
  21   <p>You can get the latest version of
  22   <a href="link to blender">blender from steam</a>, this guide is for version
  23   3.4 and above.</p>
  24
  25   <h2>Installing exporter addon</h2>
  26   <p>Skaterift comes with the addon in its game files, we just need to install
  27   it. This addon script gets updated between skaterift versions.<br>
  28   <br>
  29   To install, go to [TODO]options > preferences, then to the addons section.<br>
  30   [TODO] Add image here<br>
  31   [TODO]Now, select install from file, and browse to the skaterift game
  32   files.<br>
  33   If you don't know where to find those, you can go into [TODO]steam and
  34   rightclick Skaterift, and browse game files.<br>
  35   [TODO] Add image here<br>
  36   Now just search for Skate rift in the addons panel, and enable the addon.<br>
  37   [TODO] Add image here</p>
  38   <hr>
  39
  40   <h2>Configuring the addon</h2>
  41   <p>Open the [TODO] tools tab by pressing N, and click the SkateRift section
  42   <br>
  43   Next set the output directory to be the game folder<br>
  44   [TODO] Add image here</p>
  45   <hr>
  46
  47   <h2>Open the template</h2>
  48   <p>Again in the tools folder, you will find a template .blend file for a
  49   custom board. Open this to get started<br>
  50   [TODO] Add image here<br>
  51   An optional step here is to edit the board model, or create one from scratch.
  52   <br>If you want to do this, <a href="board_spec.html">take a look at the
  53   detailed board specification</a> for how to set it up. If its your first one,
  54   you probably want to skip this step.</p>
  55   <hr>
  56
  57   <h2>Edit the texture</h2>
  58   <p>Next step is to customize the artwork, in the template folder there is a
  59   texture which you can edit. There is also the original .xcf file which you can
  60   open using <a href="Link to gimp">GNU Gimp</a>, or a similar image editor.<br>
  61   [TODO] Add image here</br>
  62   Now you can change the texture on the material to your own file, and see how
  63   it looks in Blender.
  64   </p>
  65   <hr>
  66
  67   <h2>Compile the model</h2>
  68   <p>Rename the collection name, called boards/[template]/board.mdl, to
  69   whatever you would like. The collection name is the path it will export the
  70   model, relative to the directory we set earlier.<br>
  71   <br>
  72   Now in the Skaterift tab in the viewport, we can compile the model.
  73   </p>
  74   <hr>
  75
  76   <h2>Test it out in-game</h2>
  77   <p>If everything is good, you should be able to visit the board shop and it
  78   will be loaded in there.<br>
  79   [TODO] add image here
  80   </p>
  81   <hr>
  82
  83   <h2>Upload via the Workshop tool</h2>
  84   <p>From the menu of Skaterift, you can open the
  85   workshop tool. From here, fill in the folder name which houses the board. This
  86   is relative to the game folder just like the export tool. You will know its
  87   correct when you see your board after pressing the load button.<br>
  88   [TODO] Image of setting the path<br>
  89   From here, just fill in the information like the title and description, and
  90   press submit.
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