Night Texture

[bridon bear]

Firstly, I have repainted some aircraft before but not for a couple of years. I use Photoshop 7 and DXTbmp.

All well and good....I was thinking of repainting an Auster in which the designer has included night textures of the whole aircraft.the problem I do have is when I do a new wing for example (wings_T) all is ok but when darkness falls....you know what I am going to say....yes the old paint shows up through the new one...I know what it is, it is the wings_L the night textures coming into play.

Having identified the culprit what is the method to generate the texture wings_L from my newly created wings_T....?

Is there a quick and easy way in Photoshop....?

It would be a great help if someone could enlighten me on this one.

Thanks in advance

Brian. (Dorset UK)

[AGNT_Matt]

wings_L is usually on GA aircraft set to pure black so as to be completely darkened when night falls, however if you use wings_T and simply rename wings_L then it'll display day colours, simple trick is to overlay a pure black layer on the top and add any lighting above that using the original wings_t as a guide as to where the lights go. hope this helps....

[bridon bear]

Thanks for the prompt reply AGNT_MATT....your idea has solved the problem.....so darn easy when you know how

Regards

Bridon