How Can I Do This?

[casey jones]

I have the Abacus paint program, can someone tell me how I can paint my planes to show up as highly polished aluminun? I so far have figured that it has to do with useing the Alphachannel? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.


Cheers To All

Casey:salute:

[Tom Clayton]

The darker the alpha, the higher the chrome-like polish. You need a program that can separate the alpha for editing. What I use is DXTBmp from Martin Wright. You can get it from his site:
http://www.btinternet.com/~mnwright/

[bpfowler]

for a basic ref, try
http://www.gjsmith.net/Tutorial/step_6.htm
doubtless there are tons of other ones, and you can always ping OBIO, he's reflecting all day every day! :- )

You might look at the more complex tutorial at calclassic too:
http://www.calclassic.com/repaint.htm

have fun!