After trying to explain this to people for the umpteenth time, I decided I would throw together a quick visual aid. I'm always surprised at how many "featured painters" on rFactorCentral have paint schemes that obviously have no Alpha, making the cars stupidly shiny. Even the painting tutorial on rFC (and others I have seen) completely ignores this most important part of creating an rFactor car skin. It's not just for making gold and silver foil effects as I do here. Just highlighting all ...