Skin Adoption Request/Notice P-51D 55FG/343FS

[oboe]

I think I recall Greebo telling me he leaves a little bit of the "baked in" effects in the diffuse map, but has the majority of the effects coded in the appropriate map.  Is that OK?

And I think it was Devil505 in one of Vraciu's threads who talked about the Normal map not being able to handle very fine, shallow depressions - that these show up as blocky areas on the skin in game, and that he was going to continue to show fine, shallow depressions in his diffuse maps.    I think the example used was the B-29 skin.
I also think you said it was caused by a bug, and its on the list to be fixed?

If all the depth effects are handled by the normal map, what will a skin look like for a player who turns off bump mapping to maximize his frame rate?  Will he basically see a flat skin?

[Skuzzy]

The normal map artifacts are a side effect of texture compression.  We would like to correct that one.  I would not do anything to attempt to work-around those artifacts.  Just ignore them, for right now and assume one day it will all be beautiful.

Yes, disabling bump mapping does disable the normal, power, and environment maps.  It will disable specular too if the skin has an alpha channel.  That should not make any difference to the skinner.

[Vraciu]

If you think you are going to simply be able to add a couple of maps to an existing skin and be done with it, you are setting yourself up for some disappointment.

Many of these older skins have baked in effects which need to be removed.  In most cases, it is going to take a lot of work to clean them up and get them fit for AH3.

I am still wanting to give it a try.  It will take some work but I can get it done I think.   <S>

[Vraciu]

Bump.   I can do it.   Am I still in the D-League? 

[Vraciu]

Bump.   I can do it.   Am I still in the D-League? 

Hmmmm...

Well, if I am not allowed to adopt (half a dozen respectful requests have not been acknowledged so I make an assumption that may be wrong) I will ask the question: Can you dump some of these to open up slots for active players?   Maybe your data shows that certain skins are never used--so nobody would complain if they're retired. 


I think I can make a difference with some of the orphans (like this one) if given the opportunity.  They'll look better when I am through than they do now any way...and it costs you nothing. 

[Skuzzy]

I am trying to get the 'adopt an orphan' function up and running in the skin admin utility.

I believe I mentioned that before.

[Vraciu]

I am trying to get the 'adopt an orphan' function up and running in the skin admin utility.

I believe I mentioned that before.

Okay.  Last I heard was you wanted a direct request on an individual basis.  My mistake.  Standing by.