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Painting is easy. You should have read the REPAINTING section first before you started this section. If you haven't, go there and read it NOW. For this tutorial, you will learn how to paint the aircraft. Once you've converted your texture file to 24-bit (see REPAINTING section), you need to start painting the aircraft - giving it texture, making it something. I've made this tutorial because I've gotten a fair amount of complaints saying that people were having trouble painting the planes. So I felt I needed to make someone happy, so I'm making this tutorial for all of you. This is the biggest part of the repainting process (duh!), of course, repainting! I've gotten an overload of people in the past month, it now rising to 305 visitors. I feel kind of bad knowing that they read my tutorial, and never found out how to paint the aircraft! So here it is. I hope this is a worthy tutorial for you, and e-mail me if it works!
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PAINTING THE AIRCRAFT
Take a look at the picture on the left of this text. Notice that the fuselage is painted with JESSE on the side. You should see just a plain normal plane's texture when YOU view your plane that you are repainting's texture. (see REPAINTING section)
Now if you want to repaint a plane, you should know where the following things are in the new bitmap you converted (see REPAINTING section).
1: Where the wings are
2: Where the fuselage is
3: What the accessories are in the bitmap
4: Where the tail is
5: And so on...
Repainting a plane is just like painting a car - you paint with the brush, and it comes out painted!
Say you wanted to make the TAIL blue in MS PAINT. First, find the TAIL hidden in your converted bitmap, and paint it.
Say you ALSO wanted to paint the WING blue in PAINT. Just look for the wing, and cover it in blue paint!
And of course, the nose. If you wanted to paint THAT green in PAINT, just grab the green color and smudge it in green!
And so forth...
So you have your blue wing and tail and green-nosed plane! Now all you need to do is convert it to 16-bit 555 (see REPAINTING section)!
That's how easy it is! Just smudge and convert!
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My "Jesse" plane. |
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