[Abel6669]

hi there. i bought this Il-2 a while back, and i gotta say, its a great game,....but since i still cant land the bloddy things i thought i would give skinning ago. Now im a cheapskate and cant afford Photoshop, so i use the gimp, and i was just wondering if i needed a specific palette for the skins as everytime i try to do anything it comes out a brown colour....or a hell of a lot darker than i wanted..if anyone could help that would be great.


Note: this is my first visit to this site, so apologies if this is the wrong place to post this question

[Bearcat]

Simmers Paintshop is your friend. Go to the site navigation section on the upper lef6t.. look for Gimp. Also look in the IL2 section.

[KG64_Cnopicilin]

1st: Wrong section, no download, not to download section.
2nd: Welcome to the community!
and 3rd: Sorry but I cant help you with GIMP, other people can...

[Abel6669]

Thanks, il have a look.

[nzwilliam]

While you're at simmerspaintshop - go to utilities downloads and get BRIGHTER. It's a free image format converter and will convert the skins you make into 8 bit BMP required for IL2 and they'll look better than most converters can make them.
Export skin from Gimp as 24 bit BMP, start BRIGHTER, find exported file, choose where you want skin to go and click on GO....you're done! (keep file names simple when exporting from Gimp, some characters seem to prevent Brighter from working, you can always change the name later). Brilliant program and it's free :wink:

[eow_jones]

hey a tut that i made
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eM_JHAPFzU

[GunZeeLad]

Hello lads, i have a little bit of a problem, i use gimp as well and have been making some skins here and there, the problem is....i don't know where to piant !!!!!!! all i see is a bunch of lines and bolts, say i would want to paint part of a wing, i can't tell where the wing ends because its all white, is their anything out there... a program or something that tells me what is what :???: if anyone could help me or give me some clues of what to do, would be very greatful.

Cheers,

[ebz7350]

Hello lads, i have a little bit of a problem, i use gimp as well and have been making some skins here and there, the problem is....i don't know where to paint !!!!!!! all i see is a bunch of lines and bolts, say i would want to paint part of a wing, i can't tell where the wing ends because its all white, is their anything out there... a program or something that tells me what is what :???: if anyone could help me or give me some clues of what to do, would be very greatful.

Cheers,

hello,
Panel finder tool I think is what your looking for :wink:
Try over at www.mission4today.com (sign up) the place
to be for all IL2 goodies & excellent advice for the M4T Pro's
etc..
Regards
David aka ebz7350

[617 Bomber]

i allso skin with gimp but find none of these problems EOW bomberjones has a youtube tutorial and i found that it is best to go slightly over on the wings

[nzwilliam]

Hello lads, i have a little bit of a problem, i use gimp as well and have been making some skins here and there, the problem is....i don't know where to piant !!!!!!! all i see is a bunch of lines and bolts, say i would want to paint part of a wing, i can't tell where the wing ends because its all white, is their anything out there... a program or something that tells me what is what :???: if anyone could help me or give me some clues of what to do, would be very greatful.

Cheers,

www.simmerspaintshop.com and www.flying-legends.net are awesome sites to download skin templates, they're well worth registering with. Templates are a great way to learn where everything goes and how to use layers effectively as well as you can makes some pretty cool skins in no time. Don't forget - if you use someone's template don't erase their credits from it, they put in all the hard work, if you want to put your name on it for the work you've done squeeze it in somewhere else aye :wink: Good luck