Hi, I'm using Photoshop cs2 to paint. I'm wanting to do a repaint using the VH-DLL template that is in the paint kit, basically, just changing the n number and the colors but I'm having a problem. After finishing the paint and loading it up the edges of the new paint color are really jagged. I'm using the NVidia plugin to save as a dds file and I think that something isn't set correctly in the plugin but I may be wrong about that. Can some kind soul tell me what I might do to fix this?
Question about smoother lines
Question about smoother lines
Thanks Mark
Re: Question about smoother lines
It's been a few years since I've touched CS2 (For age of the software reasons). From what I can tell here it looks like you might have used the magic wand tool in order to select the 'swoosh' and then proceeded to paint over it. If that is correct. I'd advise doing against it unless its for very tiny parts that won't be seen very often or just using the blur tool if you wanted to be doing a quick one off. When I want to make neater lines I grab the pen tool and go to town with that. I haven't quite mastered it yet and I'm no photoshop god but with a few hours of practice you can doodle your own shapes and then they'll come out nice and tidy looking..
Granted this is a CS5/CS6 version tutorial but the basics still apply.
Part 1 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVIUwnyivpg
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSdov7nVYdo
Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb3Yn-OgZ0s
There are more on the guys channel however I think that should be enough to get you started. Call it death by fire hose learning. I wish these existed when I started to learn photoshop when I was back in high school.
This is really the only paint scheme I've really done on A2A aircraft (Because lets face it, other developers have no idea on how to create an easy to use paintkit.) However, you can see that with a little practice you can do a lot. That Eagle on the tail is all pen tooled.
OH Before I forget, VERY VERY important. SAVE YOUR PATHS.
I look forward to seeing more of your work
Best Regards,
Fulcrum.
Granted this is a CS5/CS6 version tutorial but the basics still apply.
Part 1 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVIUwnyivpg
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSdov7nVYdo
Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb3Yn-OgZ0s
There are more on the guys channel however I think that should be enough to get you started. Call it death by fire hose learning. I wish these existed when I started to learn photoshop when I was back in high school.
This is really the only paint scheme I've really done on A2A aircraft (Because lets face it, other developers have no idea on how to create an easy to use paintkit.) However, you can see that with a little practice you can do a lot. That Eagle on the tail is all pen tooled.
OH Before I forget, VERY VERY important. SAVE YOUR PATHS.
I look forward to seeing more of your work
Best Regards,
Fulcrum.
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Re: Question about smoother lines
n454mw wrote:Hi, I'm using Photoshop cs2 to paint. I'm wanting to do a repaint using the VH-DLL template that is in the paint kit, basically, just changing the n number and the colors but I'm having a problem. After finishing the paint and loading it up the edges of the new paint color are really jagged. I'm using the NVidia plugin to save as a dds file and I think that something isn't set correctly in the plugin but I may be wrong about that. Can some kind soul tell me what I might do to fix this?
Disable mipmaps when you save as .dds
Re: Question about smoother lines
I save mine with MipMaps, I have no issues here on my paint :\ Any reason as to why it would?taildraggin68 wrote:n454mw wrote:Hi, I'm using Photoshop cs2 to paint. I'm wanting to do a repaint using the VH-DLL template that is in the paint kit, basically, just changing the n number and the colors but I'm having a problem. After finishing the paint and loading it up the edges of the new paint color are really jagged. I'm using the NVidia plugin to save as a dds file and I think that something isn't set correctly in the plugin but I may be wrong about that. Can some kind soul tell me what I might do to fix this?
Disable mipmaps when you save as .dds
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Re: Question about smoother lines
Previous recommendations from Lewis and Gang, that to get rid of the blurries, save without mipmaps, just the way I have done it since starting this painting madness
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Re: Question about smoother lines
Sorry for jumping in here: Disable mip maps.
Working with paths once you mastered them is the best way to go.
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Re: Question about smoother lines
Because every time you change a setting inside of FSX, the variable TEXTURE_MAX_LOAD in the FSX.cfg file, also gets reset to its default of 1024. So if your texture has mipmaps it will look like this.Fulcrum wrote:I save mine with MipMaps, I have no issues here on my paint :\ Any reason as to why it would?
C182 texture saved with mipmaps and TEXTURE_MAX_LOAD set at 1024.
If the texture has no mipmaps, then it is forced to use the higher, single 4096 resolution.
C182 texture saved with no mipmaps and TEXTURE_MAX_LOAD still set at 1024
I think you can see the potential problem. Of course, if you remember to reset the TEXTURE_MAX_LOAD back to 4096 in the FSX.cfg file, every time you make a change inside FSX, then there should be no reason not to use mipmaps. But I don't take a chance and never use them in my paints, regardless of what make the model is.
Hope that's clear.
Steve
Edit:
In case your interested. That is a re-coloured, standard A2A paint scheme that comes with the paint-kit. All I did was use "Color Overlay" on the relevant layers.
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Re: Question about smoother lines
Hehe looks like a BA repaint with such a simple colour change
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