Soryu AG D3A1

[Skuzzy]

Did you try 3f3f3f?

[Devil 505]

My first go, I figured 63 must be a decimal value based on 0 for black and 100 for white.  My RGB max value is x'FF' or decimal 255.  So I took 63% of 255 and converted the result to hex, giving x'A0'.   I used x'A0A0A0', and as you might guess, it looked awful.   I did try x'636363' also, but to me it looked more glossy than the B5Ns cowl, so I figured that wasn't right either.

I'll keep working at it.

In the color selector window, you should see the values for RGB for any given color. Those should be in editable text boxed. Just set R,G, and B to the same number to get a grayscale value

[Greebo]

I have never used hex to describe colours, I can read a numerical RGB code and visualise what colour it will be but not with hex. So the values I gave were the RGB values for the grey shades, where 0/0/0 is black and 255/255/255 is white. As all three numbers are always the same for a grey shade I shortened it to say 63 rather than 63/63/63. I greyscale my working spec, env and power map files before editing them, as it saves having to greyscale the bmp every time I make a change to one of the files. So as there are always just 256 shades of grey in these maps the precision of hex isn't needed anyway.

For the D3A the RGB values I used on the camo paint are as follows, divided by 256 to get the percentage of white, i.e white is 100%. I turned the environment down a bit for this skin after viewing it in-game.

Specular: RGB 58/58/58 (22.6%)
Power: RGB 32/32/32 (12.5%)
Environment: 22/22/22 (8.6%)

The black paint used on early war Japanese cowls was quite glossy, so I used lighter shades for these areas.

Specular: RGB 80/80/80 (31.2%)
Power: RGB 47/47/47 (18.3%)
Environment: 42/42/42 (16.4%)

[oboe]

Thank you for the clarification Greebo; I apologize for my misunderstanding.

I think the finish on the black cowl would be too glossy for the U.S. olive green paint.