Camouflage

[Sgt.Crocodile 0]

I love to use the Adrenaline Camouflage v1.01 plug in for PS, but is there any other program or plug in to create camo patterns?

I just want to try something new.......

[ShoT 0]

Unfortunately, there's not, you could try using the sponge filter, its under artistic. Then, there's always the never-failing lasso tool...

[Marcinko 1]

fortunatly there is, on a project Whisper_44 and i worked on, we (he ) made some nice plaid patterns, from a real life pic, shouldnt be too hard to do the same with a real pick of camo

[supasniper 0]

so what is this mystery camo making tool then?

[OsM_Prodigy 0]

does this said plugin work for PSP as well? cuz thats what im using at the moment. but im getting PS soon.

[ScarfaceSAS 0]

Back before the old GR.net forums got hacked, I had posted pretty much the same topic. I also posted a tutorial on how I made seamless camo textures from scratch and from actual pics of camo, without any plugins. A few other members had contributed there ways of making their own camo, too. I will dig around my HD and see if I saved the pics and text. If I did I will post it again. If I can't find it, I might try and make the tutorial again. Depending on if I have time.

damn hackers

[supasniper 0]

When you modders (like BJB, Argyll, Ruin and all others i can't remember) make camo patterns that are true to the real world ones how do you do it?

[Avey 0]

I think they go onto websites with examples of camo on and then resize etc in PS

[ScarfaceSAS 0]

For me the easiest way is to get a good pic of the camo shirt/pants. Cut out a section of the camo. Try and cut out a section with no shadows. Then make it seamless(the hardest part) In PS you can use the offset filter and put in the values as half the width and height of your camo cut. This divides the cut out in four sections. Use the rubber stamp tool to make the four sections look like one.(don't use the stamp tool on the corners, leave them be). Once that is done select all and define as a pattern. Now you can fill any shape with that pattern and the camo will like correct.

[ScarfaceSAS 0]

Ok made a mini tut. for ya since I couldn't find it on my HD. This tut show how to make a quick seamless texture. Under 5 minutes if you are good with the stamp tool. If you are not good with the stamp tool then just open up any pic and play around with the tool until you get the hang of it.

First, find the camo pattern you want to use:

I'm using a British Desert DPM:

(Notice the red square is the section i'm going to cut out). Cut out the section that you want to use to make the seamless texture. Create a New image and paste the cut out.

My new 68x78 image looks like this:

Now Click on filter->Other->Offset. You will see this image:

The Horizontal is set to half the width of my image: 34 And the Vertical is half of the height of my image: 39. Make sure "wrap around" is selected.

Now your image will look like this:

Now you have to get rid of the lines and make it look like one image, instead of four. Like I said above, don't mess with anything on the borders of the image. Notice in the progessive pics now around 2-4 pixels around the border stay the same. This is so the image will stay seamless.

Use the rubber stamp tool to do away with the lines and make it look like the original pic of the camo. Notice in the pic below how the middle line of the left hand side is gone.

Once all of the lines are gone it should look something like this. This takes some imagination. Determining what the camo should look like based on the original pic.

Now you can select the whole image and goto edit->define pattern. give it a name that you will remember. Once you have define the pattern you can select the area you want to be camoed and then goto edit->fill and pick pattern from the Contents:USE dropdown box. Then pick your pattern you just created from the Custom Pattern dropdown. It should be the last one.

For example here is a shape filled with the seamless texture:

You cannot see any lines.

Just remember the smaller the seamless image the more repeation the pattern with have once filled. Repeation is not a good thing when dealling with camo/nature. But if you make your patterns small, don't worry too much the character will hopefully have a lot of other gear on that won't allow you to see the repeation as much.