First Repaint Help

[slick204]

So I decided to give repainting a shot. I followed Marleyman's tutorial and with a few missteps got something into the game.
I chose the RWA RS1 and changed the color of just the part 1 texture however when in the game the color is mottled, for some reason.

RWA RS1.jpg

Any idea what's going on here? Alpha channel?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[slick204]

OK, this is what the alpha channel looks like:

RS1 Alpha.jpg

I know the alpha channel deals with transparency but why would you use a pattern like this?

[Sibell]

Create a new layer above the imported level. Choose from the new layer and place your color where you need it. If you have colored everything, reducing visibility to a low value, such as 15 or 25.
Then you have to combine together both levels. Then you go on as you know it, so save it as a DDS, import with RSBin as TgPcDx and save it in the engine. I hope this helps, but I don't know anything of this engine, I don't own this one yet.

[slick204]

Thanks for the replies. I think that's pretty much what I did. I was concerned about the mottled look but when I looked closely at the original model in the game it has it too, but to a much lesser extent. I have since found out that there was a repaint kit available for the RS-1 (thanks Rick!) and have restarted using it. I only got part way last night. I hope to get it into the game tonight and see how it looks.

[slick204]

Here's my first attempt. It looks OK to me but I'm no expert. I haven't tried to make the trucks silver yet. Also the bottom door louvers are still grey even though I painted the textures. I'm not sure what's going on there. From the pictures I can find it looks like these had numbers on the front, back, sides and under the logo. If I understand correctly I would have to make it a static number to do that.

RS1CRIP.jpg

Comments?

[slick204]

Thanks Mike! But it has to be one of the easiest repaints. It's only one color! Anyway, I messed with the trucks. Do you think they are light enough?

RS1CRIP2.jpg

[DrewG]

Good job! Based off a quick Google search the trucks seem to be a bit brighter in real life, but all the photos look different so it's really what you think looks best.

[imnew]

Very sharp work

[slick204]

Thanks for the words of encouragement! Here's the how it stands now.

RS1CRIP4.jpg

RS1CRIP5.jpg

I think the front and back numbers might be a bit too large. They're just painted on now. I might take Rick up on his offer for custom number placement.