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Offline Citabria

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P-38 needs a new skin
« on: May 09, 2004, 03:11:29 AM »
its one seriosly mirrored cut up skin on it with patches everywhere, all the maps are rescaled and different sizes.
 this is fine for a 256 skin with no heavy detailing, but with the unchangable colors on the nose and spinners and mirrored nose and wings and nacels, this is a fixed skin with no room for changes or variations and it may get skinned in 1024 and have its 1 high res skin but with the patches and confusiontheres no chance for metal refelction effect, individual plane markings. basically nothing you will see on the p51 by the players will happen to the p38 until its got a straightforward adaptable texturemap.

and with 2 1024 x1024 bmps to work with this is double what IL2 uses to skin their entire aircraft.

simpler is better, no details no fixed colors and no mirrors or repeats to allow the plane to be done in an olive drab camoflage repaint or in any squadrons or pilots markings.

or leave it as it is and it will be very likely get left as it is by the skinners the way the 109g6 was till it had its tulips plucked.



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« Reply #1 on: May 09, 2004, 03:24:24 AM »
its an excellent 3d model and for the few polygons it uses its incredibly well done in capturing the look of the 38.

but it needs a good skin thats adaptable
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« Reply #2 on: May 09, 2004, 11:05:43 AM »
That's something we'll take a look at redoing post release.  The best time for us to remap the texture and do some fixup on the model is when we add some other 38 variants.

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« Reply #3 on: May 09, 2004, 11:15:07 AM »
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... is when we add some other 38 variants.


the p38 fans are gonna pee their panties when they read this.

imo - the more big fat ugly targets the better :)
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« Reply #4 on: May 09, 2004, 02:22:38 PM »
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That's something we'll take a look at redoing post release.  The best time for us to remap the texture and do some fixup on the model is when we add some other 38 variants.



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« Reply #5 on: May 09, 2004, 02:30:02 PM »
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« Reply #6 on: May 09, 2004, 02:39:05 PM »
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That's something we'll take a look at redoing post release. The best time for us to remap the texture and do some fixup on the model is when we add some other 38 variants  .



OHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I CANT TAKE MUCH MORE OF THIS!!!

Muhahahahahha  Pea38 Variants!!!!! :D
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« Reply #7 on: May 09, 2004, 02:49:06 PM »
PYRO can you pweeeeeez tell us more??:D

Like.... mmmm maybe what other Variants you MIGHT have in mind? Nothing writen in stone here but just like an off the top of you head thing....
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Offline B17Skull12

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« Reply #8 on: May 09, 2004, 03:00:41 PM »
p38F im sure of it.
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Offline WilldCrd

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« Reply #9 on: May 09, 2004, 03:28:40 PM »
if u go play/test ah2 and pyro or HT are in there they are much more informative whn asked stuff. i got more info in 30min than 3 months of reading the boards
Crap now I gotta redo my cool sig.....crap!!! I cant remeber how to do it all !!!!!

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« Reply #10 on: May 09, 2004, 04:47:15 PM »
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Haven't been more thrilled about Aces High than I am right now:D :D :D :D
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« Reply #11 on: May 09, 2004, 04:54:33 PM »
Ki-100 please! :cool:

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« Reply #12 on: May 09, 2004, 05:30:28 PM »
Amen Mitsu :)

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« Reply #13 on: May 09, 2004, 06:03:26 PM »
its seems to me so incredible to get something new after that loooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooonng

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« Reply #14 on: May 09, 2004, 09:19:27 PM »
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p38F im sure of it.



I hope not.  That's the crappiest P-38 of the lot.  Slow, crappy vertical performance (any plane that can do a high yoyo can rope it) and it doesn't have combat flaps.  It's only saving grace is that it's the best turn fighter of all the P-38s.


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