Can anyone help or advise on the best way to add 'lines' in UK style Battenburg? I understand the basics of photoshop but never really used it until i came across LSPDFR and wanted to make skins to suit my gameplay. I would be really thankful if some helped or showed me on how to do the Battenburg's properly to add or remove the Battenburg around doors, archers and badges etc

 

Thank You

Jay

hello there I'm jay, just wanted to know if you are doing generic? if not then you can use a the met logo to make this not generic and adding the callsigns to the back left and top hope this helps.

sorry mate 

 

8 minutes ago, the reaper1242 said:

hello there I'm jay, just wanted to know if you are doing generic? if not then you can use a the met logo to make this not generic and adding the callsigns to the back left and top hope this helps.

sorry mate 

 

I make skins local to me, Durham Constabulary and Cleveland Police mainly, I've never been able to understand how to get the outline around doors and handles etc and make the Battenburg corners round like real life vehicles 

i think you need the car template for it bc it shows all the corners

Yeah i always use template but is it basically copy the template with the line or lasso tool? then to know how to round the corners, I've searched everywhere but no one has done a video explaining, only shows people doing US skins

Hey there......yeah, that is a tough one to recreate accurately!  In real life, I think a lot of the lines/breaks in the battenburg pattern are because of contour lines on the vehicle itself, right?  Either concave or convex to the main body.   Or, outlining around door/handle/compartment/etc edges.  I would think that is mainly done because those contours and breaks in the body would be weak points for the decals to adhere well over the lifetime of the vehicle - that would be where the decals would first start peeling.  These lines create flat edge for the decals to stick to, and prevent early peeling.  Same idea as to why - if you look closely - most decal applications won't have sharp, pointed corners........usually slightly rounded everywhere - which again, prevents early peeling.

You will see the lines on US vehicle decals as well - although certainly not as pronounced as the UK style!

As for your main question and how to recreate it.......

I think the template can both help and hinder you.  Yes, the template shows all the corners on the model.......I guess sort of like a topo map?   But, templates also seem to have a lot of other random lines eveywhere, right?  I think one of the hard parts would be choosing the right template line to follow?

I use GIMP, not Photoshop........not sure how much of a difference that would make.  Two quick thoughts I would have, once you figure out the lines you want to use on the template........

First - I wonder if you could create a duplicate layer of the template each time you want to create one of those line breaks in your Battenburg livery.  Then........maybe "shrink" the template a tiny bit?  That would give you a new position of that line to follow - allowing you to maybe select and highlight the area you want to delete?  I think you would have to do that may multiple times in multiple areas on your livery - as shrinking and repositioning in one area won't translate everywhere.

Another option, maybe easier........?  Again, after choosing which template lines to follow - what about just drawing a path that follows that line, whether it is straight, curved, or whatever........then using the "stroke path" (or whatever it is called on PS), making it 5 or 10 pixels wide, and use the underlying car body colour (white, or silver, etc)?  Make sure that stroked line layer is above your Battenburg pattern layer.  That should create those lines........hopefully?