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How to -- Make a SLAB6 palette

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How to -- Make a SLAB6 palette

Postby Paratrooper » Sat Mar 24, 2012 5:50 am

Are you ever tired of the colors listed in SLAB6? Have you ever wanted a desert-theme but just can figure out how to modify colors? This thread will show you how to make a different palette selection that you can use for your mods.
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Steps:
Open SLAB6.
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Load/open any of the shellcasing models. This can be done through Menu Bar > File > Open > Ace of Spades folder > .kv6. Browse through the AoS folders and you should see the three models (namely, semicasing, smgcasing, and shotguncasing) that we need.

Open the slice editor. This can be done by going through Menu Bar > View > Slice editor or by simply pressing enter.
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Open a sample picture in paint. For this purpose, I'm loading an M4A1 with desert camo.

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Use the color picker to pick a color that you want in your weapon. Zoom in for a better view.
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Go to "Edit Colors".
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Look closely at the very bottom-right. You will the the three values, Red, Green, and Blue.
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Get a calculator. You will need to get the values of these numbers and divide them by (256/63). You may use 4 instead, though it may not be as accurate. Copy these values. Round the to the nearest whole number.
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Go back to SLAB6.
Hover your mouse over the color palette at the bottom-right. Keep it in that area.
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Right-click the color that you want to edit. You may replace any color. For the sake of making the example, I will use the bottom-right most color (ID = 255).

Make sure your keypad is unlocked. You will now use the values you got (Red, Blue, Green).
Press Keypad4 to increase Red and Keypad 1 to decrease Red.
Press Keypad5 to increase Red and Keypad 2 to decrease Green.
Press Keypad6 to increase Red and Keypad 3 to decrease Blue.

Adjust it to match the RGB values that you want.

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Viola! You now have new colors!

You may observe that the shading on the models are a little bit off of what you expected.
Do not worry. In-game, the models should look much better.

HOW TO MAKE AN ARRAY OF SHADES FROM COLOR PALETTE.

First, select a color.
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Second, Hover your mouse over another color. DO NOT CLICK.
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Press "." or period to make an array of colors. Be wary that this would overwrite any colors in-between.
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Questions? Clarifications? Ask away.

Sample Palette: http://www.mediafire.com/?znajjfrgqveeqa9

Replace the palette by going to Menu Bar > Tools > Replace Palette. Select the file above. Colors will be distorted so it is recommended that you repaint the gun with the current palette.
To a Physicist, white and black is the presence and absence of color.
To a Fine Artist, white and black are just shades and tints of color.
To a Painter, any paint that you could get into a can is a color.
THIS color, on the other hand, is #b4d455.
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Re: How to -- Make a SLAB6 palette

Postby TheGeekZeke101 » Mon Apr 09, 2012 8:24 pm

Do you know how to get the original colors from the palette back?
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Re: How to -- Make a SLAB6 palette

Postby ChaosTLW » Mon Apr 09, 2012 9:08 pm

TheGeekZeke101 wrote:Do you know how to get the original colors from the palette back?


When I modify my Palette I usually have another skin with the default Palette, so I can check the values and get the color back.
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Re: How to -- Make a SLAB6 palette

Postby USABxBOOYO » Mon Apr 09, 2012 9:12 pm

What if you have a laptop that doesn't have a keypad?
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Re: How to -- Make a SLAB6 palette

Postby Paratrooper » Mon Apr 09, 2012 11:21 pm

USABxBOOYO wrote:What if you have a laptop that doesn't have a keypad?


I believ most laptops have the Fn ("Function") key.
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TheGeekZeke101 wrote:Do you know how to get the original colors from the palette back?


Yes. From the menu bar, go from Tools > Replace Pallete, and then open anything that used the default palette (The default semi, smg, shotgun, playertorso, all of the objects that aren't shellcasings).
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THIS color, on the other hand, is #b4d455.
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Re: How to -- Make a SLAB6 palette

Postby Priok » Mon Apr 09, 2012 11:56 pm

nice guide, I was always just trying to change the color values without doing any math, so it would end up not even being able to go to a certain limit, then I got sort of discouraged and stopped modding. keep up the good work with your mods and stuff, you are getting very good at it.
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Re: How to -- Make a SLAB6 palette

Postby MrHaaaaaaxFF » Thu Apr 19, 2012 1:26 pm

Heh, GIMP calculated it for you. BTW, nice guide, now i can do my fav crowbar.
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Re: How to -- Make a SLAB6 palette

Postby L1J1N » Fri Apr 20, 2012 8:20 am

Thank u so much this helped so much with mod pack that comming thanx so much
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Re: How to -- Make a SLAB6 palette

Postby ChaosTLW » Mon Apr 30, 2012 3:50 am

Does this method works with Paint.NET?
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Re: How to -- Make a SLAB6 palette

Postby MrHaaaaaaxFF » Mon Apr 30, 2012 4:24 am

ChaosTLW wrote:Does this method works with Paint.NET?

It's made by Paint.NET user(Paratrooper). UMAD?
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Re: How to -- Make a SLAB6 palette

Postby Paratrooper » Mon Apr 30, 2012 5:10 am

Any program that could tell you the RGB of a color.
To a Physicist, white and black is the presence and absence of color.
To a Fine Artist, white and black are just shades and tints of color.
To a Painter, any paint that you could get into a can is a color.
THIS color, on the other hand, is #b4d455.
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Re: How to -- Make a SLAB6 palette

Postby calmchowder » Thu May 03, 2012 11:42 pm

Wooh, nice guide!
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