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Hi, today I'm going to show you how to make custom armor for your clone, First of all you will need these things:

GIMP - 2.6.7

If you don’t have just one of them, click the name above.

Part 1. Gimp

Open the tga by right clicking it - open with - GIMP 2.0

It should look like this:

Now let’s make it look like.. A custom clone..

So go to: Colors => Brightness and contrast

And make it look like this:

Now select part of the body with the rectangle select tool, for me it’s the chest. You may want to scroll in a bit by clicking "Ctrl" then use the mouse wheel, or the bottom left there is a "100%" click it and click "300%".

Now go to: Colors => Colorize

Make it a red close to mine.

TIP: Try not to use much saturation, sometimes it makes it look bad..

Click OK when you are done.

Try now to go off and color more of the troop.

TIP: when you color more things and you want the color to be the same, click the presets dropdown box. Then click the first number you see. Aka. #8

Now, Click: File => Save As

And save it as a TGA on your desktop. You will get this:

DE-check RLE compression. The mod tools doesn’t like RLE compression..

Leave your skin open please, for the next part.

Basic Battle Damage

Now that you have made your skin, let’s make battle damage!

Scroll to 1600% zoom at the chest. You need to be this close to make GOOD paint chips.

Click the free select tool

Make a squiggly selected area

Go to: Colors => Colorize

Make it sort of white

Continue to do this on the "other side" and on the rest of the clone, where you feel there needs to be battle damage.

Now let’s "brush" the sides of the color

Reselect the entire skin with the rectangle select tool.

Use the smudge tool and lightly smudge he edges of the color on the skin.

I like it. Save it. Now to the next part...

Part 2. MSH viewer

Okay, so if you don't know how to use it here's how, download it, extract it go into folder double click and open then drag MSH file and drop it into it.

Part 3. Finishing it.

After you have downloaded Unsuported Mod Tools extract the folder and put it in LucasArts program file, then download BFbuilderPro extract if it is Zipped take the program it's self paste it next to the Original BFbuilder program Then open BFBuilder.hta and make a new project. Then click Sides and then Import Retail Side then choose your side, then go into your project folder to Sides and then edit whichever side you put in. Then go back in BFbuilder and open your project then click Munge. Then go in the Addon folder and go into your project, then sides, then get the .lvl file of whichever side you edited. Then put it in Lucasarts/SWBF1/GameData/Data/LVL_PC_/Sides and replace the rep.lvl thats already there but back up the stock one.

- General Penguin