Author Topic: British B17G (Graphics Warning) (Read 2540 times)

Lord ReDhAwK · « **on:** April 29, 2006, 12:25:17 PM »

Huge Salute to Kev and Guppy for helping me find and implement her. This is a 17G from 214 Squadron. Standard RAF colors. Letters BU-G, # identifier HB817. Lots of fun making this one

Have not completed Oil drips or smoke stains. Any and all helpful critiques most welcome. Historic photos and skin follow:

ReDhAwK

Krusty · « **Reply #1 on:** April 29, 2006, 12:30:19 PM »

Ooh! Not half bad!!

Kazaa · « **Reply #2 on:** April 29, 2006, 12:31:37 PM »

Wow, nice work man !

Would you think it would look better with A bit more dirt ?

Lord ReDhAwK · « **Reply #3 on:** April 29, 2006, 02:45:05 PM »

More dirt is no problem ur Kazaaness. Let me see a little more feedback and I will make all the changes at once.

I guess "not half bad" from Krusty should be taken as a compliment

Thx gents,
ReDhAwK

Greebo · « **Reply #4 on:** April 29, 2006, 03:20:41 PM »

That's looking really nice, it will be a great skin when it's dirtied up. Its always good to see more RAF skins.

I think the green/brown camouflage matching where the wings join the engine nacelles could be improved, despite the awkward nacelle mirroring. There may also be another camouflage mismatch on the top of the inboard nacelles.

Krusty · « **Reply #5 on:** April 29, 2006, 03:26:59 PM »

Quote

Originally posted by Lord ReDhAwK
I guess "not half bad" from Krusty should be taken as a compliment

As was intended!

Lord ReDhAwK · « **Reply #6 on:** April 29, 2006, 04:31:18 PM »

Thanks Greebo. Yes, the camo is fubared because of the mirroring issue on the engine joining the wing. I have it down to the pixel before the stretch occurs. Any idea or a visual representation of something "proper?"
Personally I cant stand the joint of the two. I guess I tried to fake it till it felt right before putting it up for you guys to critique.

More dirt coming up

ReDhAwK

Lord ReDhAwK · « **Reply #7 on:** April 29, 2006, 04:35:11 PM »

lol. The "not half bad" from you has made my day Lord Krusty

Thnky sir.

ReDhAwK

Guppy35 · « **Reply #8 on:** April 29, 2006, 11:32:32 PM »

Looks great RedHawk

Nice to see something different for the 17. Thanks for taking the time to do that for the rest of us

Krusty · « **Reply #9 on:** April 30, 2006, 12:03:35 AM »

Heh, can we impose upon you to do a white coastal command version next?

Kev367th · « **Reply #10 on:** April 30, 2006, 12:56:53 AM »

Nice -

Can see maybe three errors (maybe a texture issue),

1) The NIVO on the undersides of the engine nacelles should come up level with the upper/lower camo demarcation on the wing leading edge.

2) The NIVO on the tail should start a lot further forward

If you look at the tail, NIVO curves down from the tail (fwd of the fin flash) to the fuselage just behind the 'W' of the sqn code.

3) Spinners should be NIVO not camo.

As for the mirroring, post it in the Bugs forum, there isn't supposed to be anymore mirroring used due to problems it causes.
The P51-D had a texture screwup on the leading edge when first released, I posted pics showing the problem, was fixed the next patch.

Kev367th · « **Reply #11 on:** April 30, 2006, 01:16:58 AM »

May have a work-around for your mirroring prob

If you base the wings on this Lancaster all the engine nacelles are Dark Earth, therefore no mirorring problems.

Kazaa · « **Reply #12 on:** April 30, 2006, 04:58:28 AM »

Good point there Kev.

Lord ReDhAwK · « **Reply #13 on:** April 30, 2006, 02:25:06 PM »

Thx for all the input guys.

Kev, I have made the corrections to the spinner and the tail section as you pointed out. I have also made correction to the engines but am still running into a stretching issue. You will find two pics attached.

#1

you will notice the funky stretch (this is painted one pixel above the next pic break line.)

#2

no stretch indicated

I cannot believe that this stretch is gonna be the only thing to keep me from submitting this...please god no!

Ur Krustyness, I'd be happy to do the coastal for you sir. Let me get this one finalized first

ReDhAwK

Lord ReDhAwK · « **Reply #14 on:** April 30, 2006, 02:27:53 PM »

One more thing Kev,

I noticed on the Lanc pic that there is dark earth on the nose. Should I duplicate that paint onto the 17? I cant tell on the period pic

ReDhAwK