[Question] Regarding the camoflaugemaking - how do you manage to strap a Lozenge pattern onto a template?

[TG-55Panthercules]

Originally posted on the old RoF forums by Alef_Magnum:

 

As I mentioned before, how people managed in Photoshop to put a Lozenge camouflage upon a texture that is completely... Blank, as in, pure silver. Because that's quite difficult to replicate when I basically have to pick out every pixel by hand with a lasso...

 

 

 

Response by Panther (the forum keeps merging my replies into my original posts if I do things too quickly):

I've always just copied the desired lozenge pattern from one of the skins that already has it and pasted it onto whatever portion of the relevant template that needed it.  I started with just using the developer's patterns in their templates, but later began using some of the excellent patterns made available by some of the other players that were creating RoF skins back in the day (IIRC, folks like Elephant, Fubar etc. made some very good lozenge patterns available, complete with rib tapes, both 4-color and 5-color patterns for some of the different aircraft manufacturers).

Edited May 7, 2023 by TG-55Panthercules