What axactly is a template?

Were do I get panal lines and rivets?


P.S. When I turned the aircraft trasparent it turned Pink. So I changed the defult skin, and... well...I cant tell you.

Just kidding, it still turned pink.

The best thing IMO is to go to simmerspaintshop.com and check out the tutorials, for panel lines and Rivets. Try this link,

http://www.simmerspaintshop.co...tep-step-rivets-479/

http://www.simmerspaintshop.co...e-rivet-shading-461/

There are quite a few tutorials to look at to help you get started. Also you should take a look at the Tutorial lessons on "Getting Started" by Vagabond. I hope this helps.

Just to answer the basics:

A template (when it comes to skinning) is a Photoshop (or similar) file in many layers. The painscheme and markings are the lower layers, the layers above has things like the panel-lines, rivets, dirt etc.

Here's an illustration of the basic idea:



To make the file into a skin, the whole stack of layers are saved as an 8-bit index colour TGA-file, and the resulting file is put in the appropriate skin-folder.

Here's a shot of a Mig-3 template showing various paint-scheme layers: