Easy to repaint?

[Trainguy76]

Hiya, would any of you give a few examples of (mainline) locomotives that are easy to repaint? I need to re-map one of my engines, and would like to know what is the easiest layout for re-painters.

[thecanadianrail]

have you tryed repainting a boxcar first? you should do that before.

[Trainguy76]

I have no intention of repainting.

[PapaXpress]

I heard the new GP9 is easy.

[thecanadianrail]

oh thats right, you are making layouts for you locomotive! completely forgot who i was talking to

[PapaXpress]

oooooo some SD70M goodness!

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=1090540

[g_nash]

I'll show you some renders and the templates for some of mine if you're interested ..

[Kali]

Try and avoid cutting it in half, the join can do funny things to mips and it's not fun to paint. Problem is I seem to remember there was an issue with not-square textures and bumpmaps? in that case I guess as long as all the parts are exactly the same size and hopefully mapped in divisions of two or four from the edges - so if there's any compression involved it won't make one half look different to the other - then we can cope. One thing I really hate though is when people map little random parts way off in some unrelated corner of the texture and you end up spending a whole day looking for a couple of nuts. One other thing I hate is when you reference textures in the default folder too. And if you can get the sides and the ends ( and the cab ends ) all the same scale, that helps.

I rather like Derek's latest unwraps, and actually the default ES44/F7 aren't bad either.