Clean slate

[wc71046]

How do I repaint locomotives without the previous scheme showing up? It would be great to know.

[buzz456]

Did you rename the thing or just redo the textures? If you just redid the textures it should show up under the old name. Otherwise we need to go further.
Buzz

[ATSF3814]

If you mean how to go from this:



To this:



Then what I did was use DXTBmp to export the alpha channel. That has all the colors and logos cleaned off so you have a nice "clean slate" to start with so to speak. Although as you can see, there's still a little clean up you have to do but it isn't too bad.

[Kali]

Then what I did was use DXTBmp to export the alpha channel. That has all the colors and logos cleaned off so you have a nice "clean slate" to start with so to speak. Although as you can see, there's still a little clean up you have to do but it isn't too bad.

That's all very well if someone's made the alpha channel by cloning a colour channel, but I really wouldn't rely on that happening ( especially if someone's taken the time to paint it properly ).

The other way would be to find paint with the least logos and colours, patch over any existing logos, and desaturate it/use a black + white filter. Sometimes you might want to copy a piece of a different livery ( if it's got more visible detail, or if it's a blank spot where your starter has a logo ), desaturate that and then use that as a patch too. At the end of it all, set your new layer to "multiply", and you can fill blocks in in the layer underneath.