Gordon Posted August 31, 2000 Share Posted August 31, 2000 All you mod makers out there, I've started doodling around with my first mod (An historical Hetzer cammo scheme from the Battle of the Bulge) and had a couple of questions. Which app or apps do you use? Do you work from existing textures, or do you start from scratch. If the former, how do you eliminate the original cammo/paint scheme from the texture? If the later, then presumably you're working from scanned photos of models? Thanks for the advice, and keep on mod'in' Gordon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
von Lucke Posted August 31, 2000 Share Posted August 31, 2000 Ditto that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest KwazyDog Posted August 31, 2000 Share Posted August 31, 2000 Hiya Guys Personally I use photoshop but there are many programs out there you could use, some shareware such as Paint Shop Pro (it used to be, hehe, and I think it still is). Thats about all you really need to do mod work on the textures, a good imaging program. You can use textures from anywhere, I have even used some from old WW2 shots that Ive colourised and edited. I also made some from scratch in the past, which is very time consuming but if done carefully gives very good results. [This message has been edited by KwazyDog (edited 08-31-2000).] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Formerly Babra Posted August 31, 2000 Share Posted August 31, 2000 As an experiment I scanned a side image of a Sherman out of a book, trimmed and adjusted it to the same size as the textures (using MGI Photosuite), and copied it in. It worked. I didn't complete the mod because it was just a test to see if it worked. ------------------ Sounds like 100% weapons-grade bolonium to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mace Posted August 31, 2000 Share Posted August 31, 2000 Has any one tried copying, then coloring, the camouflage schematics included with AFV Kit instructions (eg Dragon, Tamiya, AFV Club)? It might be worth considering. Mace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackhawk-2 Posted August 31, 2000 Share Posted August 31, 2000 I use Corel Photo- paint. Most good paint programs have a feature called a mask. The mask can be used two ways. By masking an area of your drawing you paint only where the mask is or you can set it to paint only outsade the mask. The mask feature has tools which can be used to pick just one color or all light colors or all dark colors. There are tool to help you out line any part of your painting. Once you have an area masked out you can change the color of that area to any color you like. The mask feature is very powerful. There are also effect tool which will pick out all the lines in your picture given you just the outline of things in your picture. Hope this helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest KwazyDog Posted August 31, 2000 Share Posted August 31, 2000 Oh, and one program I couldnt do without is acdsee. Its a shareware imagine viewing program that allows you to view thumbnail of images which would can click on to get a full image. Check it out at : http://www.acdsystems.com/products/acdsee/index.htm Once you install it go under the view menu and switch to thumbnails. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeadams Posted August 31, 2000 Share Posted August 31, 2000 Is it possible to overlay an actual photograph of the machine? Obviously the photo would have to be taken at the correct angle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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