Request help .

[E.F.Hartmann]

Hi all,

Here I would like to help.
Is somebody could tell me how to create pattern with gimp.
Dir or me how to add a pattern.

I Thank You in advance.

[major_setback]

I don't use Gimp. If you have Photoshop Elements (the cheap and simple version of Photoshop) then I could help you a lot more. Photoshop Elements comes free with cameras/printers/scanners etc. and if you can find it somewhere it would be good.

You need to use Layers. I don't know how much you know about editing in Gimp...but you need to know how to use Layers when you are skinning.
Maybe these will help you.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=using+gimp+layers&oq=using+gimp+layers&gs_l=youtube.3..0.2756.7451.0.7530.17.10.0.7.7.0.4 6.395.10.10.0...0.0...1ac.1.gDewsD86w2Y

http://www.simmerspaintshop.com/forums/f8-gimp/working-layers-3409/

I'll show how I start in Elements:
Basically you need to open one of these templates, (that we discussed earlier):
http://airwarfare.com/sow/index.php/downloads/viewdownload/11-templates/258-official-cod-textured-templates-pack

then create a new layer on top of that, which will be your own skin.

If you reduce opacity of you own skin then you will see the template at the same time as you work on your own layer.

It is best to do each camouflage colour on a different layer.

Add then layers for markings and anything else you want.


Simply it should look like this:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y129/major-setback/tutor01.jpg

I hope this helps.
Sorry if I misunderstood your question or answered it too simply.

EDIT - the top layer is 'Panel Finder by Tom' http://www.pumaszallas.hu/Private/VO101_Tom/Panel_Finder_by_Tom_2_2048x2048.jpg
You need this as a layer when making your skin, also put it in your skin folder. Play the game with this skin to find parts... Use the panel finder to locate them - when you look at the skin in-game you will see the colour of the part your a looking for. Look then for the same colour on the layer.

Cheers.
major-setback

[major_setback]

Photoshop Elements version 11 is available for free trial for 30 days.
But it looks like you can get version 10 free.

Be careful installing (in case of virus), I haven't installed from here myself.
http://downloads.phpnuke.org/en/download-item-view-y-y-l-b-y-g/Adobe_Photoshop_Elements.htm

It's only a cut-down version of Photoshop but it has all the tools you need for editing skins.

[E.F.Hartmann]

goodnight,
Sorry to reply so late.
Thank you for answer, but I'm looking to add a camo patterns directly on the layer.
And know how to use them as from gimp.
I'm looking for but with different camo pattern.

[major_setback]

Sorry, you'll have to explain more clearly. I don't know what help you are asking for.

Do you mean that you have found a camo pattern that you like and want to put it on the skin? It is not that easy. You paint it onto the skin. The skin is broken into many pieces so you can't just add a profile picture to the layer.

Can you show me what it is you want to add? (or an example of something similar).

Cheers.
major-setback

[E.F.Hartmann]

hello,
Neigh an example of what research: http://theairtacticalassaultgroup.com/forum/showthread.php?1256-Looking-where-to-download-this-skin.
I am looking for that kind of reason they are not beautiful.:roll:

But I look with a camouflage pattern.;)

[major_setback]

hello,
Neigh an example of what research: http://theairtacticalassaultgroup.com/forum/showthread.php?1256-Looking-where-to-download-this-skin.
I am looking for that kind of reason they are not beautiful.:roll:

But I look with a camouflage pattern.;)

I can't see the link because I am not a member of the ATAG forum.
Can you post it again from another place.

Also could you ask your question in your own language. Someone here will translate it. I still don't know what you are asking.

[checkmysix]

Hi E.F HARTMANN
Here is a link to Vagabonds excellent IL2 Skinning Tutorials.
Although this is Photoshop the Principles are the same with Gimp.
I used these tutorials when I first started making Skins and I have always used Gimp.
There are NO voids with Cliffs of Dover so just use the Blank Template instead.
You wont need the "Remove White" with My CLOD Templates
Click on url at top of link to Watch ALL the videos on Youtube and then practice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=091RJs4nQtk

USEFUL GIMP TUTORIALS

Layers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrVnI3l9fgE

Tools
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNks2WsSXU0

[JG26_EZ]

I can't see the link because I am not a member of the ATAG forum.
Can you post it again from another place.



Someone had asked where they could get a pink skin with white daisy's on it over at the ATAG site, and two of us "elaborated" ;)

Here's the one that I had posted, one of the ones that Hartmann speaks of.. The other one which is on that post is from a different artist, but is basically the same kind of thing.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v315/JG26_EZ/HE111_Flowery.jpg

[E.F.Hartmann]

Hi E.F HARTMANN
Here is a link to Vagabonds excellent IL2 Skinning Tutorials.
Although this is Photoshop the Principles are the same with Gimp.
I used these tutorials when I first started making Skins and I have always used Gimp.
There are NO voids with Cliffs of Dover so just use the Blank Template instead.
You wont need the "Remove White" with My CLOD Templates
Click on url at top of link to Watch ALL the videos on Youtube and then practice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=091RJs4nQtk

USEFUL GIMP TUTORIALS

Layers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrVnI3l9fgE

Tools
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNks2WsSXU0

A big thank you to the video that is cool.;)

[E.F.Hartmann]

Someone had asked where they could get a pink skin with white daisy's on it over at the ATAG site, and two of us "elaborated" ;)

Here's the one that I had posted, one of the ones that Hartmann speaks of.. The other one which is on that post is from a different artist, but is basically the same kind of thing.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v315/JG26_EZ/HE111_Flowery.jpg

Yes that's right. Thank you EZ.
Is it possible to find with camouflage?

[major_setback]

Sorry, I misunderstood you earlier. Now I understand (I think).

You need to look for 'tiled' images of camouflage. They can be joined up many times to male a big pattern. They are also known as 'seamless tiles', and they are made so they can join together without the join showing. You can join as many as you want and Gimp will join them, I'm sure.

Seamless tiles (tiled images):
https://www.google.se/search?q=tiled+camouflage&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:sv-SE:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=sv&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=OzApUdSCK8aItQaEpYHQCg&biw=1024&bih=666&sei=PTApUa-5NITNswbQ04D4Cg
more:
https://www.google.se/search?hl=sv&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:sv-SE:official&q=seamless+tiles+camouflage&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&bvm=bv.42768644,d.Yms&biw=1024&bih=666&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=njIpUbHdHcrhtQbK8YHAAQ


I know how to do it in Elements, but not in Gimp.
These might help:
http://superuser.com/questions/384393/using-gimp-easiest-way-to-repeat-an-image-in-a-tiled-fashion

http://gimptips.com/articles/automatically-tile-images-gimp


Videos:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=seamless+tiles+gimp&oq=seamless+tiles+gimp&gs_l=youtube-reduced.3...1517.5032.0.5287.19.16.0.3.3.0.88.779. 16.16.0...0.0...1ac.1.0RqcMD2yYHY





Google for more information on it.

I hope this information helps you now.

Cheers
major-setback

[JG26_EZ]

Well.. if you think about it.. any image can be turned into a pattern, if that is what you're looking for.

Copy image "A"
Paste image "A" and mirror it once so that you have image "B"
Copy both images "A" and "B"
Paste image "A" and "B" below the existing "A" and "B" and then flip the image so that you have images "C" and "D"
Add all four of them together and they merge seemlessly ("E")
Repeat and Repeat and/or modify the image ("F") so that you don't have the same repetative pattern happening (unless the pattern style is what you're looking for).

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v315/JG26_EZ/pat.jpg


Hope this helps.

[E.F.Hartmann]

Thank you it's going to help me.