Is there an easy way to line up multiple decals on a model?
Again, this is one that I’m sure most of you have found already, but I found it so painfully, evilly useful, I have to share it. When you’re ready to decal, screen grab your model in wireframe. Import it into photoshop, crop it, then before you do anything, save it back out as a tga. Flip back to AM, create a decal, and import the image you just saved. Because you’re placing a direct copy of the wireframe over the physical wireframe, you should be able to line up the image much faster than lining up a vague colour map or bump map. Once you’ve done that, either turn off, or delete the image from the decal entirely. The position information for the decal will remain. Back in photoshop, create your colour/bump/spec/diffuse maps in seperate layers over the original wireframe. Then for each layer, make sure it’s the only one visible, and choose ‘save a copy’ from the file menu, and save as a tga. This way, you don’t have to save a backup, and then flatten for each layer to get them out of p
