Metalic effect for skinning

Recon Trooper · Post by **Recon Trooper** » Sat Oct 10, 2009 6:03 pm

How do you make a metalic effect for any colour in GIMP?

Fiodis · Post by **Fiodis** » Sat Oct 10, 2009 6:20 pm

Please elaborate on "metallic effect".

Recon Trooper · Post by **Recon Trooper** » Sat Oct 10, 2009 6:25 pm

When I mean metallic effect...

I mean making a colour shine

mswf · Post by **mswf** » Sat Oct 10, 2009 6:33 pm

Shining ingame? Then you'd have to create an envmap and apply it to a model using MshEx. (search around for both tearms. MshEx is a tool that's created by RepSharpshooter)

eliminator · Post by **eliminator** » Sat Oct 10, 2009 6:39 pm

i think i don't mean something like shining effects...
i can't explain what he mean, may i can fix it with an example:

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you have a blue picture, 

but you want a window,

 so you paint it with some lighter colors 

so it looks like a window

Fiodis · Post by **Fiodis** » Sat Oct 10, 2009 8:12 pm

Umm....you want to take a base color and give it metallic details?

RogueKnight · Post by **RogueKnight** » Sat Oct 10, 2009 8:31 pm

Fiodis wrote:Umm....you want to take a base color and give it metallic details?

I believe he means something similar to this;

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Recon Trooper · Post by **Recon Trooper** » Sun Oct 11, 2009 12:06 am

DarthRogueKnight wrote:
Fiodis wrote:Umm....you want to take a base color and give it metallic details?
I believe he means something similar to this;
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Yes...

RogueKnight · Post by **RogueKnight** » Sun Oct 11, 2009 12:14 am

Recon Trooper wrote:
DarthRogueKnight wrote:
Fiodis wrote:Umm....you want to take a base color and give it metallic details?
I believe he means something similar to this;
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Yes...

Well, I can't help you much, sorry, I do all my texturing via any good texture I can find on google images.

That lovely texture was provided by ?Wolor? and colored by me using colorize.

Master_Ben · Post by **Master_Ben** » Sun Oct 11, 2009 10:20 am

Well, if you're editing an existing skin, which I assume you are, create a new, transparent layer and paint over it with white at an opacity, or copy and paste part of the skin into a new layer, edit brightness/contrast, and soften the edges.

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