Bleeding.


if i did choose to pick up this project again, and it all on 1 layer.  Would Bleeding such as this even matter being that it would just bleed over to the other side of the craft that would end up being red anyways???

I can see Propwash's point of view entirely here, I've been trying my first re-paint on the C-172 for quite a few days now and even after reading several articles about how to do it there are still a lot of things that are not clear so in my opinion 'the in-depth tutorials' are not as 'in-depth' as they maybe should have been.
I've had a go at multiple layers and a single layer but still can't seem to achieve anything worth a damn, there isn't any guide as to where different parts of the aircraft meet up in a lot of cases.... i.e. - if I wanted to add stripes along the fuselage it's all trial and error trying to get them to join at the right point once FS has joined the two parts back together again.
As for multi-layers, is there a guide anywhere that explains how to use these? I've painted hundreds of cars for the race sim 'Rfactor' using many multi-layers and every single one has worked out fine but for some reason the layers I'm using for FS just end up a big blurry mess once I've flatted them down.... I'm with you Propwash, I'm seriously thinking of giving it a miss....haha!

garryrussell wrote on Sep 1^st, 2011 at 4:42pm:

Garry, the big difference between Rfactor cars and FS aircraft is that when you open up car texture/skins, they are already layered into each individual part of the car that is 'paintable'. Once you've finished your painting you have to flatten all layers and save as a .dds to put it in to the sim. It's pretty easy once you've done a couple so I was hoping FS painting would be the same.

garryrussell wrote on Sep 1^st, 2011 at 6:58pm:


I've tried several different ways of doing this now and everything I try ends up with the same result..... Not a bad paint job but no aircraft detail what so ever. I.E. - all rivets, flaps, rudder, doors etc, etc have disappeared under the paint and this is happening no matter how many layers I use. The finished plane ends up looking like a kid's painting of one because all the detail is missing.

Nice start! So how did you learn this? Is there a manual somewhere? Curious myself.

What programme are you using

Have you tried saving to BMP without flattening the image

It makes no sense..it should stay in the order you put the layers in else there's no point.

What layer blending options are you using?

If your layers are all set to normal then you might as well use MSPaint.

Google can be your friend here, look for some Photoshop tutorials, there are tons of them out there.

One specific site that has some good tutes is- http://www.simmerspaintshop.com/

To produce quality repaints you first have to be proficient with the editing program you use.

Once you master layers and the pen tool the world is your repainting oyster and you will only be limited by texture mapping.

Here is another good tute- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwHkzVszOMg&feature=player_embedded

cheers,
Joe

jon157uk wrote on Sep 3^rd, 2011 at 1:13pm:

All due respect, layer blending options have nothing to do with "saving".

cheers,
Joe