Can anyone please tell me how I can make my own textures? Basically I was wanting an old train texture, so the components I would need are wood slats, metal ladders, custom glass, a leather seat texture, a wooden box texture, a custom sliding door texture and method of making it slide or swing open, beam texture and a rail texture. There may be more but these are the basic ones. If anyone knows how I can go about making my own textures please help me.
Thank you in advance,
Badnews.

You need to download m32tool beta 2 from here...

http://www.modsonline.com/Downloads-full-1740.html

Make your images into bmp or tga files that are of specific sizes (in pixels) such as 128x128 64x64 etc though you can have 128x64 etc
The max size in SoF is 512x512

The rest of the info you need is in the m32tool readme

Add surface properties etc by loading a similar texture from SoF (such as metal or sand etc) and copying the properties to your custom texture in m32tool

All the property flags are listed here...

http://www.modsonline.com/Tutorials-read-29.html

If you need an Alpha (transparent) channel in your texture you will need to use m32build to convert your image - available here...

http://www.modsonline.com/index.php?mod=Downloads&op=full&id=5

A good post regarding making transparent textures in photoshop by Peter RDAM is here...

http://www.modsonline.com/Forums-top-22743-0.html%23125385

Good luck!