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Tutorial: How to add Camo to BF2 Troopers

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 6:14 pm
by ACEwithSPADES
This is a tutorial that will explain how to add Camo to your BF2 troopers through GIMP.
Step1: add your files that are needed to your folder and have your trooper .tga and camo .tga out (they must be the same dimensions)
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Step2: Rename your camo to Alphastuff.tga (any name will do but be sure to do something you can remember as your stock .tga) and rename your camo .tga to rep_inf_ep3_trooper.tga
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Step3: Go to your Alphastuff.tga and select an area you want to have camo on
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, then go to colors, Hue-Saturation and set saturation to -100.
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click ok.
Step4: Now with that same exact area selected go to colors, Color to Alpha.
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it should look the way it does so don't panic. Click ok.
Step5: Deselect your region of alpha and copy the WHOLE! image and paste it over your camo image.
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then go to image, anchor layer and save. (looks like this)
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Step6: Now go to your .msh viewer to see how it looks!
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Step7: Now that youve learned to do it good job! but remember EDIT UNDO on your Skin you just copied to and only do skinning on the .tga file you named alphastuff and to test copy and paste over your skin with the camo on it. If you leave it there, next time you copy the camo won''t be the layer shown when colored to alpha. Remember to save with RLE Compression off. Frequently save your Alphastuff.tga and never copy over your camo .tga twice in a row without undoing the previous paste. Then just add the skin ingame as any other custom side! :D

Re: Tutorial: How to add Camo to BF2 Troopers

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 7:58 pm
by Snork
Good tutorial man :)

Re: Tutorial: How to add Camo to BF2 Troopers

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 8:12 pm
by RevanSithLord
Very useful! Thanks! I'll definitely be using this to improve my camo adding techniques.

Re: Tutorial: How to add Camo to BF2 Troopers

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 8:37 pm
by CalvaryCptMike
Cool!!! Nice job :thumbs: This is a really good tutorial. It should be added to the FAQ thread.

Re: Tutorial: How to add Camo to BF2 Troopers

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 9:54 pm
by Dakota
i will be using this (u will get a nice spot in the credits :D )
i have known how to skin but i never really knew how to add the camo and the color to alpha thing always kinda freaked me out :runaway: Thanks alot for this

(wow i favorited this thread)
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Re: Tutorial: How to add Camo to BF2 Troopers

Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 8:46 am
by ACEwithSPADES
Thanks for the comments guys, my first tutorial (didn't know what people would say) ask if you have any questions! :D

Re: Tutorial: How to add Camo to BF2 Troopers

Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 9:03 am
by Vuler
Very usefull tutorial! I'm planning to make JO skin. I was wondering how to do this kind of thing! Thanks! :thumbs:

Re: Tutorial: How to add Camo to BF2 Troopers

Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 9:13 am
by ACEwithSPADES
I should be able to help, whats a JO skin though, sorry ive never heard of JO :runaway:

Re: Tutorial: How to add Camo to BF2 Troopers

Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 11:25 am
by [Padawan]Helkaan
Thanks for the tuto, I'll found some camo idea for my skinpack :thumbs:

Re: Tutorial: How to add Camo to BF2 Troopers

Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 11:37 am
by naru1305
very cool tutorial bro, it is realy helpful, i will use it quite often :D

Re: Tutorial: How to add Camo to BF2 Troopers

Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 4:37 pm
by modmaster13
OMG I am so gonna use this Tut. ! :runaway: :faint:

Re: Tutorial: How to add Camo to BF2 Troopers

Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2011 2:09 am
by RevanSithLord
ACEwithSPADES wrote:Thanks for the comments guys, my first tutorial (didn't know what people would say) ask if you have any questions! :D
It's no problem, but I really do appreciate the tutorial on this, dude! It encourages me to redo my Pacific-style camo skin I made on Icemember's DDay trooper (hint hint on possibility of future side/map?? :D).