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Offline macleod01

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« on: May 17, 2007, 09:04:30 AM »
Ok, Its taken me a long time, but Ime finally finished. Or thought I was until I decided to open it up to the boards lol. Here are some screenshots of it, Let me know what you think, should I submit or do a litle bit more to it? Thanks guys.


Let me know what you think needs doing to it, if anything. Thanks again skinners. Special thanks to Larry who gave me the rivets for it and Kusty, who has been helping me out on Squad forum throughout the skinning
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« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2007, 12:26:22 AM »
What a coincidene, I'm currently building  a model of that :O

Nice job.
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« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2007, 10:22:34 AM »
Any comments at all?
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« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2007, 11:38:38 AM »
wtg mac, it's really good! especially since it's your first proper skin!

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« Reply #4 on: May 19, 2007, 12:10:07 PM »
Well, gee... Since none of the other skinners are going to say anything, I guess I'll take a crack at it.

You've added a lot of "paint chipping" (I'm going to call it that, not sure if you call it that) with a light grey-ish color. This chipping all seems to use the same size brush, and on the side of the fuselage you can see perfectly round dots where you clicked onces. Paint won't chip in perfectly round circles for no reason.

I would start out in a harder brush, with a smaller brush size (half the size of what you used). If you want to cover the same size as the other brush, just use twice as many brush strokes to fill it in.

Then, when you're done with that layer I suggest duplicating it, hiding the original, and blurring the frak out of it. Say, a guassian blur with a 3.0 value.

Just for kicks and grins. You might like how it looks. Try different values.

It looks too uniform, too much like brush strokes right now.

Also, consider using a "cloud" layer. This is basically creating a new layer, selecting a dark color and a light color (forground/background -- try black/white) and filter > render > clouds. Take this layer, put it on top of every other layer, and reduce the opacity and play with the blending. You want the end result to just barely be visible. You want it to break up the solid patches of color you have with the "cloudy" variations.

Weathering is the tricky part. Even I am limited in what I can "pull off" so to speak. I was hoping the folks that are way better than I would chime in.
« Last Edit: May 19, 2007, 01:50:04 PM by Krusty »

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« Reply #5 on: May 19, 2007, 12:59:14 PM »
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wtg mac, it's really good! especially since it's your first proper skin!


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« Reply #6 on: May 19, 2007, 05:40:37 PM »
That light grey colour didnt work. It was ment to be bare metal :( Oh well. I will change that, but wont bother reposting screenies. Its just going to take up too much space and time, but consider it done. Anything else at all?
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« Reply #7 on: May 19, 2007, 06:57:52 PM »
The shade itself wasn't bad. I've used that myself. It's the brush you used that makes it more obvious. Same color, different tool, might be better.

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« Reply #8 on: May 19, 2007, 06:59:46 PM »
Ok..I didn't want to be the first to criticize, since I'm pretty new at this. Over all it looks very nice.

But the panels and rivets look too flat. If you have a layer for the lines..try to duplicate them and turn them white. Then offset (move) them a pixel or two, then adjust opacity. This will make the lines and rivets appear 3D.

Also the panel lines on the tail are to strong.

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« Reply #9 on: May 19, 2007, 07:44:38 PM »
Panel lines all over the plane are on th esame layer. Maybe it just contrasts a bit more against the Lichtblau, but I can assure you, the opacity of the tail panels is the same as the fusalage panels. I'll make the second lair of panels tonight, and then once a few more comments have been made (Im sure you guys can find stuff) I will post more screenies.
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« Reply #10 on: May 19, 2007, 08:04:51 PM »
Gausian blur the black spots to soften the edges.
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« Reply #11 on: May 21, 2007, 05:27:07 AM »
I like it,would definatley fly that, well done.:aok
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« Reply #12 on: May 26, 2007, 10:29:16 AM »
Here we go, Updated. The screenshot along with the pictures I had to go by.


What you think? Any more comments?
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« Reply #13 on: May 26, 2007, 10:38:55 AM »
Looks like the 3 needs to be bigger and closer to the cross.  Check your font too.
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« Reply #14 on: May 26, 2007, 05:13:22 PM »
I agree about closer to the cross, but it looks the right size (Both line up with the top of the horizontal bar) and font looks darn near identical as well. If you have another suggestion as to the font, please let me know. I would re\lly love to see this in game, and want it to be as close to identical as possible
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