Paint It Golden - DIY Skin Modding Tutorial || World of Tanks
Paint it Golden! or any color that fits your fancy! Special thanks to Rich2k13 for the tutorial. Original forum thread: http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/topic/478155-how-to-make-any-tank-gold/ Original Version (when the old computer couldn't render golden shading well): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuhWEQ6LZ8Y Awesome skins from Milkyman: https://modshop.milkym4n.com/ Photoshop DDS file addon: https://developer.nvidia.com/gameworksdownloa #?dn=texture-tools-for-adobe-photoshop-8-55 GIMP 2: https://www.gimp.org/downloads/ GIMP DDS file addon: https://code.google.com/archive/p/gimp-dds/downloads 7zip: http://www.7-zip.org/download.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Simple Instructions 1. Download the required software tools 2. Find vehicle DDS files (res folder's package, wotmod archives, etc.) - Make an editing copy on desktop 3. Edit the AM files (GMM for 'glow') using Photoshop or GIMP 4. Place edited copy into corresponding folders in res_mod 5. Voilà (Hue/Saturation for Gold color is 'colorize' hue-50, saturation-100 for AM DDS files & 'colorize' hue-50, saturation-100, lightness-15 for GMM DDS files) (Hue/Saturation for Black color is basically lowering the saturation to whichever level you like) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- World of Tanks is a massively multiplayer online game developed by Belarusian company Wargaming.net featuring early to mid-20th century era fighting vehicles. It is built upon a freemium business model where the game is free-to-play, but participants also have the option of paying a fee for use of "premium" features. The focus is on player vs. player gameplay with each player controlling an armored vehicle, which may be a tank, tank destroyer, or self-propelled gun. World of Tanks debuted as an eSports game at the World Cyber Games 2012. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Intro song: Arkada's static noises Outro song: RichaadEB - Lunar Dial cover [Touhou - Sakuya's Theme] Desktop computer specs: ASRock Fatal1ty Z170 Gaming K6 Quad Core - Intel Core i7 6700K (4.0GHz) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4GB GDDR5 2x8GB DDR4-3000 RAM 256GB SSD 2TB hard disk Laptop computer specs: ASUS G751JT - 17" Gaming Laptop Intel Core i7 4710HQ (2.5 GHz) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 3GB GDDR5 16GB DDR3 SDRAM DUAL HDD 1024 GB SATA If you appreciate my videos and want to support the channel, please consider support my Patreon page at: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sahmlockhart PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr... Follow me on: Google+: https://plus.google.com/1102483018403... Twitter: https://twitter.com/SahmLockhart Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/sahmlockhart Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/sahm.lockhart.7 As always, please support: The modders for tank inspector @ http://tankinspector.sinaapp.com Aslain's XVM mod installer @ http://aslain.com/ Milkyman's skin mod blog @ https://modshop.milkym4n.com/ Tanks.gg Developers @ http://beta.tanks.gg/ Data collectors @ http://www.vbaddict.net/statistics.php
Paint it Golden! or any color that fits your fancy! Special thanks to Rich2k13 for the tutorial. Original forum thread: http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/topic/478155-how-to-make-any-tank-gold/ Original Version (when the old computer couldn't render golden shading well): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuhWEQ6LZ8Y Awesome skins from Milkyman: https://modshop.milkym4n.com/ Photoshop DDS file addon: https://developer.nvidia.com/gameworksdownloa #?dn=texture-tools-for-adobe-photoshop-8-55 GIMP 2: https://www.gimp.org/downloads/ GIMP DDS file addon: https://code.google.com/archive/p/gimp-dds/downloads 7zip: http://www.7-zip.org/download.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Simple Instructions 1. Download the required software tools 2. Find vehicle DDS files (res folder's package, wotmod archives, etc.) - Make an editing copy on desktop 3. Edit the AM files (GMM for 'glow') using Photoshop or GIMP 4. Place edited copy into corresponding folders in res_mod 5. Voilà (Hue/Saturation for Gold color is 'colorize' hue-50, saturation-100 for AM DDS files & 'colorize' hue-50, saturation-100, lightness-15 for GMM DDS files) (Hue/Saturation for Black color is basically lowering the saturation to whichever level you like) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- World of Tanks is a massively multiplayer online game developed by Belarusian company Wargaming.net featuring early to mid-20th century era fighting vehicles. It is built upon a freemium business model where the game is free-to-play, but participants also have the option of paying a fee for use of "premium" features. The focus is on player vs. player gameplay with each player controlling an armored vehicle, which may be a tank, tank destroyer, or self-propelled gun. World of Tanks debuted as an eSports game at the World Cyber Games 2012. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Intro song: Arkada's static noises Outro song: RichaadEB - Lunar Dial cover [Touhou - Sakuya's Theme] Desktop computer specs: ASRock Fatal1ty Z170 Gaming K6 Quad Core - Intel Core i7 6700K (4.0GHz) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4GB GDDR5 2x8GB DDR4-3000 RAM 256GB SSD 2TB hard disk Laptop computer specs: ASUS G751JT - 17" Gaming Laptop Intel Core i7 4710HQ (2.5 GHz) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 3GB GDDR5 16GB DDR3 SDRAM DUAL HDD 1024 GB SATA If you appreciate my videos and want to support the channel, please consider support my Patreon page at: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sahmlockhart PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr... Follow me on: Google+: https://plus.google.com/1102483018403... Twitter: https://twitter.com/SahmLockhart Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/sahmlockhart Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/sahm.lockhart.7 As always, please support: The modders for tank inspector @ http://tankinspector.sinaapp.com Aslain's XVM mod installer @ http://aslain.com/ Milkyman's skin mod blog @ https://modshop.milkym4n.com/ Tanks.gg Developers @ http://beta.tanks.gg/ Data collectors @ http://www.vbaddict.net/statistics.php