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FSXA Mapping problem

Although I have been using Photoshop for years if I didn't have it I would certainly use GIMP. It's the best freeware photo editor/paint software I have ever seen.
 
Thanks for all your program suggestion. But since this boat (and maybe the dinghy) will be the only project I plan to work with, I will do my best with Paint.net. I am not into photo editing at all so there is no use in getting all sorts of other program that I am only going to use once. Learning one program will be enough for me.

Lionheart, most on my model I plan on using solid colors for now. For most of the trimming I will try to find a nice wood grain image and apply that, and for the cabin wall, I will leave with G-max colors for now. At least until I master texturing on my hull.

I did run into a small problem with my glass texture. By adding a green color in my map file to get a tint, some of the panels behind the glass disappears. I am pretty sure it has something to do with the color that I am using on them witch gets filtered by the green and it makes those panels diapered.

upload_2015-3-17_20-10-0.png


The 2 brown panels that you see thru the open door disappears when looking thru the windows, and I can see the lower cabin windows behind those panels.


BTW, here is a pick of my hull, mapped on 2 sheets

upload_2015-3-17_19-51-39.png


Next is painting it adding the "water boot" line.

Michel
 
n4gix said:
You guys know that Adobe has been giving away Photoshop CS2 absolutely FREE for the past few years, right?

http://gizmodo.com/5973730/grab-photoshop-and-cs2-for-absolutely-free-right-here

Download and install the free nVidia plugin for DDS file loading and saving, and you have a very nice and robust professional grade system for your studio absolutely FREE! :coffee:
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You might want to look at this. I grabbed it from the Adobe site.
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I've had CS2 Photoshop running in Win7 since long before it became free, so do pay close attention to Adobe's advice... :confused:
 
Well, I signed in and I was able to get access to the downloading area and a links are alive :scratchch
If there is not activation servers and everybody can get the installation files, Adobe can trust in people to be honest?
If you ask me, it is some sort "of danza del diablo" / "devil's dance"

Sign in:
http://www.adobe.com/downloads/other-downloads.html

So i think is up to you...
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Sergio.
 
Well folks
Here is what I have up to now.
My hull is painted as I want, except I might want to change the color. But now that my Bitmap master file is done, that is easy to do. Finding the right color to match with the Philippine Mahogany trim will bet the hard part. I don't have much of an eye for color coordination. Most of the other parts are just done with plain UV map and a color square, mostly made up of wood pattern images for the different wood used for different parts and a color square for the inside and outside of cabins.

Here are just a few pictures:

Klondike_Front_View.jpg
Klondike_Rear_View.jpg


Klondike_VC_View.jpg
Klondike_Deckhouse_View.jpg
Klomdike_Front_Deck.jpg
Klomdike_Rear_Deck.jpg


I remember reading about collapsing the stack to miminize draw calls
If later on I want to change from just a simple UV map with a color square to a full UV map for fancy painting, will I still be able to do this if I colaple the simple UVmap that I have now?

Michel
 
The object will retain the mapping after you collapse the stack provided you do not edit the object. You can add an Unwrap UVW Modifier to the stack later and the original mapping will be there.

As far as I know you do not have to collapse the stack. The export converts everything to a mesh. I always retain my stack.
 
Well done Michel! As Paul says, you don't have to collapse the stack. It's only needed if your model is big or complex enough that Gmax is running out of memory and I doubt you've got that problem yet.
 
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