How to retexture things easily.

[Josh Mertz]

I don't know if many people know this, but if your retexturing a track, and don't want to lose the "wall" or whatever your making texture, but you would like to recolor it, heres what you do.

~~Step 1~~
Open up what you want to edit. For this example, I'm going to open up wall_02.bmp

~~Step 2~~
Now that you have your texture open, go to Layer>New Layer.

~~Step 3~~
Add a a transparent layer, above the base texture. Color it whatever you want, patterns etc.

~~Step 4~~
Go to the Layers box, if you don't have that open go to Windows>Dockable Dialogs>Layers.

~~Step 5~~
Select the transparent/colored layer you made. Click Mode, go down to Multiply. Make sure the "base" layer is set to Normal. That's it!

If this tutorial is too hard to understand, I may put pictures. I just didn't have the time to now.

Happy Editing!

Josh

 

[David Brown]

Overlay also works sometimes. Multply is the best for shading always, but when recoloring, I'd recommend trying both cause depending on what color you want and what colors you use to get to that color, overlay might work better than multiply at times.