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Gmax - Paint Kit

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Adraesh

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Hi all!

I come to you, as my model is finished in gmax. The next step is to create the paint kit that will allow then to texture the plane.

I know how to texture an object in Gmax (thank you to the tutorial d'Arno), but I do not know how to create a paint kit that will allow then to assign the right FSX textures to the good polygons ?

I understand that i need to name polygons starting with $, but I did not understand everything ...

Does anyone have a link to a tutorial?

Thank you in advance.
 
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Hello Adraesh,

Alot of people now just include a 'all white' paint scheme, and people use 'colorize' and colorize portions of a copy of the paint kit to make their paint schemes with. FSX pretty much introduced this (on a massive scale, others had been doing it also).

A 'really good' paint kit will be layered, and have all the scuffs, rivets, shading and things on the upper layers, so that people can swiftly go in and add stripes and color area's, N numbers, etc, on the lower layers, and they are auto-blended with the upper layers. These are usually in PSD format, and sometimes are HUGE to upload/download, like 200 megs at times with really heavy layering.

You just get a set of source textures together, the main bulk of the paint kit (usually just the exterior textures), thrown them in a folder with a ReadMe, and upload it.

Let the people know in the intro at the website what format the kit is in, be it Bitmaps or PSD files, etc, what the kit was created in, so that people know if they will be able to use it or not.

Usually an 'all white' paint scheme is the kit itself, so if you have that included, then you can say, the white version 'is' the paint kit, just use colorizing to add N-numbers, stripes, etc.




Bill
 
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