Colors & patterns

Using patterns (camo, battleworn, and 76 more)

78 built-in patterns render procedurally on the section — from tiger stripe to the comic/toon family — using the section's color slots.

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   Select a painted section and open the Finish tab.

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   Pick a pattern — it applies immediately using your color slots (add more colors in the Colors tab; most camos want 3).

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   Adjust Pattern scale and angle with the sliders; Shuffle re-rolls the random layout until you like it.

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   Shift ↔ / ↕ slides the pattern across the part (line a stripe up exactly where you want it), Mirror flips it, and Edge softness goes from crisp taped edges to a soft freehand spray. Rotate colors cycles which color is the base; Reset puts the adjustments back.

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   Distressed finishes (Battleworn, Light Wear, Stonewashed) automatically add edge wear along the part's real contours.

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   Cel Shade (Comic) reads the photo's real lighting: a flat base, a bold ink outline along the section's edges, a hard-edged shadow zone screened in halftone dots or hatch lines (or sprayed solid in a 4th color), specular highlights in the 3rd color, and inked detail lines on the part's own creases and hardware. Its sliders set ink weight, shadow depth, highlight amount and how simplified the shapes are; Speed lines adds anime-style tapered strokes, and Light direction lets you set the light manually when the photo was shot in flat light — swap base and ink with Rotate colors for the negative (light-on-dark) version.

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   Four more comic styles use the same engine and controls: Toon Bands (posterized flat bands — each extra color slot is one band, light to dark, outline in the darkest), Pop Art Dots (a Ben-Day dot screen over the whole part, dots swelling in shadow), Noir Ink (hard two-tone — shadows flood to solid ink) and Engraving (parallel lines that swell with darkness, woodcut-style). All of them export to the laser/stencil tool with their real shapes.

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   Custom Stencil… lets you upload your own tile image — dark areas become the second color, repeated across the section.

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   Sheen (under Surface shading) sets how glossy the coat reads — flat hides the surface's speculars, gloss brings them back. It defaults to the base color's published gloss level (Flat, Matte, Satin, Gloss…); drag to override, or click Auto to go back.

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    Oil Slick is an iridescent effect preview, not a Cerakote color — use it to show a customer why the real answer is a fade or a metallic.