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Title: Skining question
Post by: Heinkel on October 04, 2002, 05:04:53 AM

This is for all planes bascially, but lets say I wanted to make a new skin for the Dora. I saved the textures, and I found this file (see attachment.) Lets say I want to make desert camo, now my problem is, how do I keep the lines on the wings and stuff?Is there a way to only remove the dark green/light green, but keep the metal seam lines? Thanks

BTW: I am using an older version of Photoshop for this (5.0).

Title: Skining question
Post by: Wlfgng on October 04, 2002, 10:24:37 AM

not until we get layered templates I think.

otherwise you'll have to do them from scratch.

Title: Skining question
Post by: Dux on October 04, 2002, 10:40:14 AM

Mine will be layered... laid-out in Illustrator and exported to Photoshop, so you will be able to repaint below the panel line/ weathering layers.

I'll be happy to share them as I finish them.

Title: Skining question
Post by: Wlfgng on October 04, 2002, 11:21:12 AM

Dux, you da man!!!
please let us know as I'm sure there are lots of us that can't wait to get started.
Actually I would prefer the Illustrator

Title: Skining question
Post by: gatso on October 04, 2002, 11:54:05 AM

What Dux said, although I'm a heathen Paint Shop Pro man. Anyone have plans to create a resource site for all this lot? downloadable default panel lines would be soooo useful.

BTW. Attached the Dora wing panel lines that I'm playing with. Image is 256 colour grey, should just overlay to whatever you've done Heinkel. :cool:

Gatso

Title: Skining question
Post by: gatso on October 04, 2002, 11:57:50 AM

Had ya worried  ;)

Forgot to attach it.

Gatso

Title: Skining question
Post by: Heinkel on October 04, 2002, 01:19:46 PM

Wow, thanks gatso, I keep trying to do that, but it ended up comming out weird everytime i tired :) Whats your secert?

Title: Skining question
Post by: gatso on October 04, 2002, 01:44:19 PM

With PSP, I apply an edge enhance to make the panel lines more obvious, and then a trace contour which dumps all the colour and just highlights any colour transitions.  Greyscale it and clean it up a little. The crosses needed taking off by hand and a few extraneous lines but it was actually dead simple, took about 5 mins and it should work for just about any texture except maybe the C205 or ones where the lines are obscured by other things. :)

I left that one 'messy' with bits of the weathering and shadows on, figuring it would be easier for you to take them off that it would be to add them again. The ones I'm using I take off nearly everything except the basic panel lines.


Gatso

Title: Re: Skining question
Post by: NUTTZ on October 04, 2002, 09:55:21 PM

Yes you can do this by using your eyedropper tool and clicking on the color and it will just erase that color.


NUTTZ

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Originally posted by Heinkel
This is for all planes bascially, but lets say I wanted to make a new skin for the Dora. I saved the textures, and I found this file (see attachment.) Lets say I want to make desert camo, now my problem is, how do I keep the lines on the wings and stuff?Is there a way to only remove the dark green/light green, but keep the metal seam lines? Thanks

BTW: I am using an older version of Photoshop for this (5.0).  

Title: Skining question
Post by: Tilt on October 05, 2002, 02:53:38 AM

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Originally posted by gatso
Had ya worried  ;)

Forgot to attach it.

Gatso

neat............. Library of rivit and panel profiles is just what we need..............

I would reccommend that we work in 16 million colours or more on a picture size at least 1024 x1024.......

then we reduce size and colour (in that order) for the final bmp.