GIMP Texturing Questions

[laguardia528]

I'm using GIMP as my texturing program and have a question about the bucket fill tool:

can you place a custom texture (like an azteching pattern) in the pattern fill selection?

[Armondikov]

I haven't used GIMP for years but I can imagine it's possible. It's probably something along the lines of saving the pattern (probably as a specific file type) in a directory for them rather than anything simpler.

I had a quick look around, I think this covers some of it: http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-concepts-patterns.html

[Dalek]

Now, since this is a GIMP question asking session, can I ask something?

Can you add glows to ship textures? And if you can, how? And if you can't, what program to use?
Some of you may know of my "USS Arcadia" Century Class Ship and glows is one of the remaining problems that needs sorting. So if glows are possible with GIMP, some really detailed instructions would help.

[Kirk]

Ship glows are added via the alpha channel. GIMP does allow you to look at and edit the alpha, however IIRC, GIMP translates the alphas into transparency, not glows.