Esper wrote:
very nice racer !
the texture is very cool, looks like rust and soot
how did you make it ?
i found a picture of nothing but rust on line and saved it to my computer...i then started gimp. i open up the picture of the rust and added a alpha channel to the layer....then i found the
chrome links i made with this tut on my computer and open them as a layer(doing one link at a time)...so now i have two layers, one is the rust picture, the other is the
chrome link that i had already saved to my computer....i duplicated the
chrome link layer....i turned off one of them, and selected the
chrome link layer that was still turned on...i right clicked on the
chrome link layer that was still turned on..and selected alpha to selection to highlight the link...then i hit my delete key...while the layer is still highlighted with the alpha channel ,then i merged it down on to the rust picture...then go to select at the top of the page and click on that....scroll down and select "invert" and hit delete again(this should delete the rust background leaving a rusty link)...now you should have a image of the chain link in the color of the rust picture i talked about earlier...now duplicate this layer and select one of them....go to filters>blur>Gaussian blur and enter 25 for both numbers and then hit ok....now select the other rusty link layer and go to filters>Map>bump map and do just like you did to make the
chrome link....but i did not blur the rusty link to smooth like before....now just delete the blurred rusty link and turn the
chrome link back on...at this point you should have two layers and two layers only....place the
chrome link layer below the rusty link layer and just adjust the opacity levels to your liken..i did drop both opacity levels to get what you see in my post above...then i merged both layers and saved as a .png file and then repeated the same steps with the side link and then built the chain the same way you build the
chrome chain....and then just added a background....i hope this makes sense....