Author Topic: Shiny Skins? (Read 728 times)

TBolt A-10 · « **on:** June 04, 2004, 04:23:33 PM »

question for the skin gurus here:

Is it possible - in AH2 - to have a shiny skin like we see below? I've seen snake skins, leather skins, etc. Wondered if maybe you guys could recreate the shiny chrome look somehow?

Pyro · « **Reply #1 on:** June 04, 2004, 04:34:39 PM »

It's possible, but since we don't have chrome planes, we don't put a chrome finish on them.

TBolt A-10 · « **Reply #2 on:** June 04, 2004, 04:37:22 PM »

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Originally posted by Pyro
It's possible, but since we don't have chrome planes, we don't put a chrome finish on them.

Pyro,
I humbly request a chrome (or, whatever material it is) plane - preferrably a Jug. ~~That would look amazing in a massively multi-player arena.~~

Pyro · « **Reply #3 on:** June 04, 2004, 06:30:44 PM »

Doesnt' exist. The planes weren't chrome, they were natural aluminum which looks nothing like the above screenshot. Take a look at a book on the subject with a lot of color photographs in it(Warren Bodie's book on the P-47 has a ton of color photographs in it). Thumb through one at a bookstore if you don't have one and reference a picture that looks anything like that pimpmobile above.

It's cool looking, but has no basis in reality. I guess it's the flight-sim equivilent to all those petite big boobed babes in RPG's. You'd think cosmetic surgeon would be a player class in those games.

oboe · « **Reply #4 on:** June 04, 2004, 06:36:48 PM »

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Originally posted by Pyro
...Thumb through one at a bookstore if you don't have one and reference a picture that looks anything like that pimpmobile above.

It's cool looking, but has no basis in reality. I guess it's the flight-sim equivilent to all those petite big boobed babes in RPG's. You'd think cosmetic surgeon would be a player class in those games.

I've seen polished aluminum P-51s at air shows, which are pretty bright and shiny, but I agree, they prolly weren't like that on the front lines in WWII.

SFRT - Frenchy · « **Reply #5 on:** June 04, 2004, 07:38:19 PM »

A polished P51 is cute, a polished Thunderbolt is like Mike Tyson in a tutu.

Plus, as Pyro said, not WW2 style.

SFRT - Frenchy · « **Reply #6 on:** June 04, 2004, 07:40:59 PM »

... Or play Il2

that's about the best rendering you can do of polished alluminum.http://il2skins.com/skins/screenshots/4133.jpg

Mak333 · « **Reply #7 on:** June 04, 2004, 09:40:25 PM »

I never knew MTV's "Pimp My Ride" was coming to AH2!?!

MTV: PIMP MY PLANE!!!

TBolt A-10 · « **Reply #8 on:** June 04, 2004, 10:49:27 PM »

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... Or play Il2

that's about the best rendering you can do of polished alluminum.http://il2skins.com/skins/screenshots/4133.jpg

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TBolt A-10 · « **Reply #9 on:** June 04, 2004, 11:03:47 PM »

I think I pissed off the Pyro.

Pyro · « **Reply #10 on:** June 05, 2004, 11:09:49 AM »

That's hardly something I'd get pissed about. I just think it's anachronistic at best and completely bogus at worst. Polished aluminum can be made pretty shiny, but I don't think it can be made to reflect with that little diffusion.

nopoop · « **Reply #11 on:** June 05, 2004, 11:36:21 AM »

I agree it is a pimp mobile.

I want my planes looking rode hard and put away wet. Oil streaked, chipped paint, replaced panels of a different shade, dirty, oxidized, scratched and a step away from spare parts..

That being said.

That pimp mobile sure makes purty wallpaper

RTSigma · « **Reply #12 on:** June 05, 2004, 01:24:09 PM »

Yeah, besides, who wants to draw attention?

SunKing · « **Reply #13 on:** June 05, 2004, 01:51:52 PM »

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Originally posted by RTSigma
Yeah, besides, who wants to draw attention?

LOL its AH you know!

RTSigma · « **Reply #14 on:** June 05, 2004, 01:57:56 PM »

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Originally posted by SunKing
LOL its AH you know!

On that note, any chance for a very flamboyant P-51 with feathers and blinking lights?