Skinning - Quick and Dirty for absolute beginners
I wanna paint my Sturmovik!
1 - get the template.zip for the sturmovik, from jason's post.
2- get GIMP, or any other of the Popular Graphics Manipulation programs (Adobe Photoshop CS2 is so outdated they don't mind you having it for free)
3 - open the Zip, and find the PSD file in there.
4 - open the PSD file with your Graphics program.
5 - understand that the PSD file is like a big set of transparent sheets of plastic stacked like a tower. You look at the sheets from above.
On each sheet is one subject, like rivets, Panel lines, Stars and stripes, dirt and dust.
You can paint on each sheet individually.
You can turn them on or off for better viewing or to hide them.
6 - find the Sheet that's called "your paint here". Take a Brush and get painting. Or put some stickers on there like for Formula one cars. Your mind is the limit.
7 - Save the PSD file to someplace safe
8 - find a DDS plugin for your particular program (Nvidia DDS plugin for Photoshop is what i use) Install that Plugin.
9 - open the template again. do a "save as" -> DDS file (i chose DXT5 ) and give it a descrptive name "hellokitty_G2.dds"
10 - put the dds file in the game/data/graphics/skins/nameoftheplane/ Folder.
11 - check the result in the skin viewer.
12 - screens or it didn't happen!
It's just for those totally lost, tried to get to the point fast and quick to lift the veil of Fog that hovers over the subject.
No other ambition than that.
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