tutorial request

[sfinlay]

Hi
Does anyone know of any tutorials describing how to weather existing locos or rolling stock. (assuming it is allowed by the original creator) ?

 

[sniper297]

I don't actually make tutorials, I take notes on experiments so I don't forget what I've tried in the past and whether it works or not. Which usually end up turning into tutorials why the hell not. :hehe: Assuming you're using an image editor that has layers;

http://www.3dtrains.com/guides/painting/

That was written for MSTS but works for anything.

http://www.trainsim.com/vbts/showthread.php?301358-Painting-tutorial

http://www.trainsim.com/vbts/showthread.php?312072-Fairbanks-Morse-H-16-44&p=1783426#post1783426

Newest experiment;

http://www.trainsim.com/vbts/showthread.php?312485-Weathering

 

[jkfrench]

Maybe this one will help ... http://northwesttrainz.weebly.com/weathering-locomotives.html

 

[BuilderBob]

Hi
Does anyone know of any tutorials describing how to weather existing locos or rolling stock. (assuming it is allowed by the original creator) ?

This one includes weathering as part of a general discussion on reskinning.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Trainz/Tutorial_for_Reskinnng_a_Locomotive_using_Paint.Net

It has the advantage that the paint program is free.

Note that permission of the author is not required unless you distribute the reskins. If you do distribute, then look at the conditions attached to the original - some allow redistribution, so do not, and some apply certain conditions.

 

[sfinlay]

Thanks Guys

I had assumed you needed some expensive software to do this, but looking at these sights makes me think I might give it a go !

 

[sniper297]

Depends how you define "expensive" I guess. I bought Corel Draw and Photo Paint for $250 bucks about 25 years ago, used it until the new extended file and folder name format made it a pain (originally file and folder names were limited to a max of 11 characters so old DOS programs often don't recognize newer files). I bought Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7 for $100 about 10 years ago and am still using that. I tried free programs like Gimp and Paint.NET to see how the layers worked in those, but both have problems merely opening and displaying TGA files, and I gave up trying to figure out why. Whatever image editor you use you should spend some time learning all the tools, nobody becomes a graphic artist overnight.

 

[sfinlay]

That's strange ! I too have had Paint Shop Pro 7 for years and know how to use layers in it but I can't seem to get PSP to open TGA files for some reason ??