American Truck Simulator install guide
How to Add a Custom Paint Job in American Truck Simulator
Design a custom American Truck Simulator paint job with AI on your truck's cabin template, then get it in the game: download a ready-to-use .dds, drop it into a paint-job mod, and enable it in the in-game Mod Manager.
What you'll need
American Truck Simulator
The game installed, with the in-game Mod Manager available.
Your cabin template
Your truck's cabin template from SCS's official paint-job template pack (pinned on the SCS forum). Each cabin has its own UV, so pick the one you drive (e.g. a Kenworth or Peterbilt cab).
A paint-job mod
A paint-job mod for your truck to hold the texture — your own, or one you build with a community tool like Paint Job Packer.
Install a custom paint job in American Truck Simulator
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Design and export
Upload your truck's cabin template to Ailivery, design and refine the paint job right on top of it, then export the artwork.
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Download the DDS
Ailivery gives you a game-ready
.dds— DXT5 with a full mipmap chain at power-of-two size, exactly what the game loads. No conversion needed. - 3
Drop it into a paint-job mod
Place the
.ddsinto your truck's paint-job mod at its cabin texture path, then repack the folder as a.scsarchive (a renamed ZIP). If you don't have a mod yet, a community tool such as Paint Job Packer generates a valid skeleton, and the SCS modding wiki documents the paint-job structure. - 4
Enable and select
Put the
.scsin your mod folder, launch the game, enable the mod in the Mod Manager, then pick the paint job in your truck's paint shop.Mod folder (Windows)...\Documents\American Truck Simulator\mod
If the paint job doesn't show up
Wrong cabin template
Each truck and cabin has its own UV layout. If the artwork lands crooked, you painted a different cabin than the one you drive — re-do it on the right cabin template.
Mod not enabled
Confirm the .scs is in ...\Documents\American Truck Simulator\mod and switched on in the Mod Manager, above any conflicting mods.
DDS in the wrong slot
The .dds has to sit at the cabin texture path the mod's def files point to. If nothing changes in-game, the texture isn't where the paint job expects it.
Design one with AI
Create original artwork in Ailivery and export it as a game-ready DDS for American Truck Simulator's paint-job mods.