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Re: Will pay $150 for skin of Witchcraft
« Reply #120 on: October 05, 2008, 03:40:11 AM »
I like the lightened control surfaces.  Can you e-mail me the bmp file, and I'll look at it from various views?

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Re: Will pay $150 for skin of Witchcraft
« Reply #121 on: October 05, 2008, 04:27:40 AM »
I like the lightened control surfaces.  Can you e-mail me the bmp file, and I'll look at it from various views?

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Re: Will pay $150 for skin of Witchcraft
« Reply #122 on: October 05, 2008, 07:20:01 AM »
You know, I started to laugh about the 9-3 markings for the gunners' use.  I was thinking, are his feet tattooed with L and R to match the ones stenciled on his boots?  Then I thought about how modern air forces are using a Left/Right call plus the clock format these days to avoid mistakes (ie: Bandit, right, 2 o'clock instead of Bandit, 2 o'clock).  Seems like an earlier version of this human factors issue at work.  :)
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Re: Will pay $150 for skin of Witchcraft
« Reply #123 on: October 05, 2008, 04:17:53 PM »
Serenity, which program are you using to make the skin -- is it Photoshop?

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Re: Will pay $150 for skin of Witchcraft
« Reply #124 on: October 06, 2008, 12:05:54 AM »
Serenity, which program are you using to make the skin -- is it Photoshop?

No, GIMP.

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Re: Will pay $150 for skin of Witchcraft
« Reply #125 on: November 23, 2008, 10:01:34 PM »
So, any word Brooke?

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Re: Will pay $150 for skin of Witchcraft
« Reply #126 on: November 25, 2008, 12:03:01 PM »
By chance I stumbled across this very thread.  I saw this plane in Eau Claire Wisconsin in July '07.  I hope I can help in any way and please use/copy whatever pictures you want.  I uploaded them onto my website and have 6 outside photos of the plane (2 are panoramic from each side).

Full res pics are here:
http://www.derstuhl.net/images/b24_witchcraft/

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Re: Will pay $150 for skin of Witchcraft
« Reply #127 on: November 26, 2008, 08:06:09 PM »
So, any word Brooke?

Now that BoB 2008 is done, I would normally have time, but now the holidays and other things are crashing in.

This is going to take longer than I thought -- no eta yet.

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Re: Will pay $150 for skin of Witchcraft
« Reply #128 on: November 29, 2008, 05:11:20 PM »
I have finished all of my touches.

However, I'm having difficulty seeing the skin in AH offline.  In "C:\Program Files\HTC\Aces High II\skins\b24j-1", I have the b24j-1.bmp file and a b24j.txt file that has "****Witchcraft****" as its first line.  AH rebuilds its cache, but offline, I don't see Witchcraft in there.  I even select one by one all of the skins for the B-24, and none of them is Witchcraft.

The b24j-1.bmp file is a 256-color (8-bit) Windows bitmap file.

What am I doing wrong?

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Re: Will pay $150 for skin of Witchcraft
« Reply #129 on: November 29, 2008, 05:15:48 PM »
The folder needs to be B24J_1, not -1. ;)
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Re: Will pay $150 for skin of Witchcraft
« Reply #130 on: November 29, 2008, 06:00:43 PM »
The folder needs to be B24J_1, not -1. ;)

Excellent!  Thanks -- that did it.

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Re: Will pay $150 for skin of Witchcraft
« Reply #131 on: November 29, 2008, 06:01:58 PM »
Now another question.  I can see the Witchcraft skin offline in AH, but when I record a film, I don't see the skin in the film (it defaults to another skin).  Any way around that, so that I can see the skin in the film?

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Re: Will pay $150 for skin of Witchcraft
« Reply #132 on: November 29, 2008, 07:59:50 PM »
Now another question.  I can see the Witchcraft skin offline in AH, but when I record a film, I don't see the skin in the film (it defaults to another skin).  Any way around that, so that I can see the skin in the film?

Nope. The film displays skins (If im guessing right) by code. It reads the code for the skin, and matches it with the aces high stuff. (I know what I mean, just not how to say it).

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Re: Will pay $150 for skin of Witchcraft
« Reply #133 on: November 29, 2008, 09:11:01 PM »
Alas, no pics from film viewer then, which would allow me to get much better shots.

Here's how she's looking after some of the tweaks that I wanted to implement.

-- Traced the belly waves from pictures of Witchcraft (pasted onto the skin as a template).
-- Adjusted position and rotation of nose art slightly (such as to position on armor plate).
-- Added outline of cockpit armor plates.
-- Adjusted gray/green boundary on engine cowlings to correspond with what Ray Betcher says they were (when not bare metal).
-- Antialiased edges on white diagonal stripes on tail.
-- Antialiased light patches on control surfaces.
-- Put in olive drab wrapping around wing leading edge (to line up with bottom of deicing boots).
-- Made tail numbering bigger and positioned according to pics of Witchcraft (i.e., where the numbers cross the rudder edge).
-- Adjusted the materials.txt properties to have less specularity (for paint vs. metal).

Here is a link to a page with some screen shots:

http://www.electraforge.com/brooke/misc/aces_high/witch/witchSoFar.htm

It seems to me that 3D and wear could come from other B-24 skins people have done, so I sent out some e-mail inquiring for such things.  I'll post here depending on what I hear back.

Serenity, before investing a lot of time in more 3D and wear, let's see if we can get that and avoid having to re-invent the wheel.
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Re: Will pay $150 for skin of Witchcraft
« Reply #134 on: November 29, 2008, 09:21:57 PM »
Sure! Hey, its your skin, whatever you want to do with it!