Im confident with the painting of an aircraft using the paint kits, but I would like to enhance my repaints to make them look more realistic by adding dirt or shading, Im currently repainting an IFDG Airbus A320 but the paint kit for it is "Clean". are there any paint kits for this aircraft that include shading or dirt etc, or are there any good tutorials on how to add these effects, i have a couple of tutorials inc the cal classic one but they dont seem to explain how to add these effects from scratch only how to do it using the alpha channels, which unfortunately dont appear to be on any of the paints I have for this "Bird"
any help would appreciated
I have a few links here and there that I can find and post over the next day.....specific stuff for what you're after. For starters I have the following link to a thread by Lionheart over at The FreeFlight Design Shop. You may have to register to see it, but maybe that's just to reply to posts - you may get right in to read the forums....have a look-see.
http://www.aerodynamika.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1169551344
If you browse that 'Texturing' section of their forums, you'll find some gold nuggets by Lionheart and a few other artists. More links from me to come. A few of the boys here at SurClaro are serious texture artists and may give out some goodies. I believe we also have a few repainting tutes right here off of the main page (not the forums - the first page). I suppose it also matters what image editor you're using too, as some tutes are a bit specific...the concepts and techniques are always handy though.
Have a look at the 4 wing textures I came up with for my waspy aircraft - about halfway down this page;
http://forums.surclaro.com/ftopic12200-0-asc-0.html
I'm not so hot at rivets yet so I modelled them into the wing and took a screenshot. All other stuff other than the base blue-ish colour and the rivets are done in a few image editors. Panel lines were simply drawn in using lines. I decided on a light source direction and added darker lines to the far sides of panel lines and lighter lines to the close side of panel lines, etc, to give a look of raised stuff...or indented stuff. The airbrush tool in PhotoShop was tweaked just so and used to add soot streaks. I added a few marred areas by just using splashes of different airbrush colour hits...and added a whack of further 'paintchipping' effects sort of pixel by pixel, varying the lightness of the dots, and coming up with little impact patterns or weather-and-wear dents, etc. It's all fairly small and subtle but contributes to an overall look of realism, or at least enhanced believability while simming and admiring your aircraft in 'Spot' view. I'm new at this as well, and don't layer very well yet, but most repainters have a base layer, a logo layer, and then at least a layer of weathering and panel lines over that. I've been lazy about the learning curve and just get carried away painting one layer up to look real - but layering allows more versatility and endless repaint possibilities for you and others.
Got PhotoShop? Look quite hard at the filters, especially the 'Add Noise' and 'Stylize' ones. Try a 3% monochrome gaussian noise filter on your final paintjob. Look at the 'wind' filter, it's in one of the main filter dropdown categories (adds wind streaks and weathering sort of) Look at the 'Blur' filters. Check 'em all out, can't hurt and you can pick 3 or 4 filters to weather or loosen up a paint scheme in minutes. Then you can just get creative with that mouse, try and picture what you see in real life and practice rendering those effects up over your base paint scheme.
Stuff to add yourself as you gain experience:
Paint chips.
Wind and weather streaks in the right direction.
Sooty exhaust streaks in the right direction.
A bit of rust?
Slight darkening, lightening or dirtying of certain panels on your plane...keep it real subtle and it adds tons of definition to the overall look of your surfaces.
Oil leaks? ...or slight discoloration from hydraulic fluid escaping a little hatch or such and running down to the ground with gravity or swept back by airflow.
Just plain old discoloration from dirt or dust.
Bird *beep*.
The edges of raised surfaces often get more paintchips and slight damage & wear.
It's all illusion. Just pixels on a flat, white screen of light. Tons of fun once you get going.
More links to come, have fun.
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If your new to painting, simmerspaintshop is an excellent way to learn how to do it.
You can find all four of the paint tutes on YouTube. Just click on the video tute, and it will go directly to the Youtube version. This way you can see it full screen.
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