help creating car textures

I've been trying for almost the past hour to create a cartexture for my new coaster. I have gotten as far as the point where I need to create the masks but I'm stuck.
When ever I try to follow the isntructions on the tutorial that alot of you have suggested it just makes the front car all white.

I'm using Adobe Photoshop to make the mask.
and here is where I am at:


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Thanks to anyone who helps.

Hmm... It looks good enough to me, except there's no text. And look at what it did to the bottom part where you step into the train.

But how do I get it to stop turning the car white?

[Brtnboarder495]

you meant the backround of the flame or....? If you mean the backround of the flame, you will have to add the color in first, because when you make the cartexture it covers up all (or at least almost all depending on the cartexture) of the car color scheme. So if you have three trains, and you want 1 red, 1 blue and 1 green, you must make seperate cartextures, with the colors already on the cartexture. I hope this is what you needed help on. If not repost and I will try to help.

I'm still confused. Why would you need to make 3 different texture for 3 trains instead of just making one and have the white be transparent?

heres an update of what I'm trying to turn into a cartexture:


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Alright so now I added an Alpha channel and did all that crap so that what I want to be shown on the train should be visible.
BUT now I can't see anything, no white, just the color I choose for the coaster.

GRrr this is getting frustrating.

*edit* Nvm, I got it to work...finally. heh

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woo! [8D][:D]

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[Brtnboarder495]

cool cartexture and not tryin to cramp your style but green with flames? Well i guess its creative.......

[coolbeans326]

i think it looks freaking awsome, I was gonna help you out, but you seem to have everything under control

Originally posted by Brtnboarder495

cool cartexture and not tryin to cramp your style but green with flames? Well i guess its creative.......

naw don't worry, those were just the primary colors I choose while testing my coaster