New to mapping software

[schuster]

Thanks a lot for your help so far jfrazierjr. I'm working through the tutorial some more and I'm making some progress. Starting to understand why I'm doing stuff and what each thing does.

I'm stuck again at a pretty silly part though. In the second part of the tutorial, he says create a new layer and fill it with 50% grey. I've searched gimp, I've googled, I'm still not sure how to do it. How do I fill the layer with 50% grey?

[Alecthar]

Thanks a lot for your help so far jfrazierjr. I'm working through the tutorial some more and I'm making some progress. Starting to understand why I'm doing stuff and what each thing does.

I'm stuck again at a pretty silly part though. In the second part of the tutorial, he says create a new layer and fill it with 50% grey. I've searched gimp, I've googled, I'm still not sure how to do it. How do I fill the layer with 50% grey?

The gray on the palette that's part of the tutorial is 50% gray, but the meaning of the name is that it's the shade of gray that rests exactly in the middle between pure white and pure black. 50% gray is significant because, when using the "Overlay" layer mode, any shades darker than 50% gray darken the image, whereas shades lighter lighten the image. In an Overlay layer 50% gray is completely transparent, except that filters like bump mapping make it through to the layers below the overlay, thus giving you a good way to keep a bump mapped texture on a separate layer from a color, so that you can adjust texture or color without affecting the other.