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Originally Posted by UKPsycho
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Things like how you redraw the riveting especially on diagonals
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Ok, here's what I do to draw diagonal rivets: don't use pencil tool since it's only suitable for straight - horizontal and vertical rivets, use brush tool instead.
Infact, I use this technique to redraw all rivets to give a smoother look IMO.
Settings: 1 px brush (2 px for large rivets/screws), 0% hardness and 350% to 450% pixel spacing (up to 650% for wider spacing between rivets).
Here's some quick screenshots (sorry for the size, folks
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Brush size, hardness and spacing settings:
Start working on a new layer above the void (use it as riveting guide)
Start drawing. Click on a rivet and hold [shift] while clicking on the other end of the rivets line. Repeat as necessary to other rivet lines as well. If you're doing it right it will looks like this:
Continue drawing by following the void's rivet lines. Dont worry if it looks messy. We'll solve that in the end. Use different brush spacing for wider spaced rivets.
Hide the void reference layer to see the result:
For further comparation, I copied a portion of the void file layer and moved it below the new rivets layer:
Finally, to make the "messy" rivets look "cleaner", just adjust the opacity of the new rivets layer (in this case, to 20%). Here's the result:
No more jagged rivet lines
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Originally Posted by UKPsycho
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how you make your metal effect - that sort of thing.
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I'll make some other screenshots about this later. But in short, my technique is to use the gradient fill with shades from dark grey to very light gray/white.
Hope this helps
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