I'm new to this, need a little help please guys...

[Bombardier101]

Hi all,


I've started doing a little repainting. Just emblems and new markings. Can anyone give me some good tutorials so I can actually paint them different colours without making an extremely strange repaint?

All help appreciated,




Bombardier8)

[Sytse]

PM me your email addy and I'll send you some.  ;)

[wji]

Select the area to be changed on the duplicate Layer and use the Fill Tool. I have no idea which program you are repainting with so find it difficult to be more specific (Hybrid Layer? Multiply Layer? Normal Layer?). In PhotoShop an Adjustment Layer would be a good option.

[igorski]

check out Mike Stones aircraft for easy to repaint aircraft (blank textures inlcued!!)

http://www.pmstone.com

Also my site has a specific forum for repainters new and old.

[Bombardier101]

Select the area to be changed on the duplicate Layer and use the Fill Tool. I have no idea which program you are repainting with so find it difficult to be more specific (Hybrid Layer? Multiply Layer? Normal Layer?). In PhotoShop an Adjustment Layer would be a good option.

I'm using MS Paint

[Sytse]

Oh.... well... errr... in that case:
Zoom in on the emblem you want to put on the plane till it fills your screen. Then select it as good as you can. Copy it and open the texture file of the aircraft you want to put the emblem on. Paste the emblem and drag it to the right position.
Then you are ready to save it. I don't know if this works, but you might wanna give it a try:
Select the "save as" option. Save your texture file as a 256 colour bitmap. The name of the texture should be the same. (DON'T FORGET TO BACKUP THE ORIGINAL FILE!!)
Now start FS and see if it works.
I don't know if this works, but I don't see another solution. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong please!
The trick is to save your textures as 8 bit .bmp's. Maybe it can be done with irfanview, I wouldn't know...
Good luck!  ;)

[Bombardier101]

Hi Pigeon,


Sorry to tell you but I've already taught myself to emblems and markings. I've done 3 repaints that should be in the latest CFS2 section very soon since I just uploaded them. It's the bit where you actually do cool stuff like giving the whole plane a different colour that I'm new to. I need to paint myself the stock CFS2 B-25 to a Soviet one. They were coloured green and the stock one ain't so it won't be as easy as adding a big red star. I have to remove a few white lines. Thanks for the help anyway and I'll check out those tutorials when you e-mail 'em to me. Or have you done it already?


Happy repainting,




Bombardier

[Sytse]

LOL
I've done it already! hehehe
But if you want to do more than adding red stars you're going to need a better program than MS paint, like photoshop or paint shop pro. I don't know of any freeware programs...
Any suggestions? Anyone?

[wji]

Good to hear you got your mojo workin', Bomardier
"I'm using MS Paint"

I understand . . . :-)

Get yourself a FREE copy of Pixia and start using Layers to place paint over the paintkit.

By using a Pixia Hybrid Layer one can see through the added paint to the paintkit's plates and rivets, etc., -- Cool.

[H]

Is CFS2 limited to 256 bit?
If you're limited to repainting in the 256 bit format with MSPaint, the colors your applying have to already be included somewhere in the original. MSPaint often does a crappy job of maintaining texture regularity when switching between color formats; when necessary, my original method was finding a different aircraft texture that had what I needed but that took a lot of time in the transferal (a lot of fringe-work).
I recently acquired a multi-program cd that had Paint Shop Pro 8 and another with PSP9. PSP8 switches between formats very well; it works well with CFS1 and I found a hue control in it so I can automatically change the texture colors which sure makes things easier than my old pixel by pixel method -- dang, the time I wasted !
However, I don't know where you find PSP8 (I got mine at a computer show and PSP9 may be a bit costly in its own box) nor can I speak for the free Pixia or where to get it. An internet search should turn up something.

[Bombardier101]

Ok I'll get Pixia. I think I've got PSP7 somewhere.

MS Paint did the repaints fine. I could even remove a big red stripe with 'em. Pete hasn't uploaded the paints because the site where I say you get the planes from doesn't work so I have to include the aircraft in the zip. Pigeon, I'll get around to the tutorials in a second I'm ditching my half-assed repaint (it's only in progress anyway, not complete ) because Corsair Freak has told me of an existing one.

Thanks for your help guys


Happy flying,



Bombardier

[Sytse]

Those tutes are for repainting using psp or ps. I don't know if they are of any use when using pixia. I think you should dig up psp7.

[Bombardier101]

I will then I'll get back to the tutes tomorrow