The glint of the metal texture looks quite believable.
Thanks, man. I stumbled onto something there going over the second of Mus51's skins that I adopted ("Dallas Doll"). I was trying different things and boom. It just clicked. Now I am tweaking it, although the carryover to the B is not a direct one for some reason.
The red spinner paint doesn't seem to have as much sheen as the yellow paint on the tail section; I would've thought these paints would have similar spec and power values but it may be the angle of the sun and the sharp curve of the spinner. The yellow looks just right to me.
Yeah, this has been a struggle. In the high resolution photos I paid to get of Jo-Baby and some other 52nd FG airplanes the yellow on the tail has a lot more gloss to it than the red, which itself varies all the way down to sun-bleached flat. (This could be due to the all-yellow tails being fresher paint.) I dialed back the sheen on the red more than I would have liked in order to hide where the RH, LH, and upper fuselage panels meet just aft of the spinner. The polygon is really obvious unless you make it almost completely flat. It's a concession to the 3D shape. I wanted to make it even more flat so I could completely hide the seam, but I decided not to.
One thing I have started doing for screen shots is running the game at a virtual resolution higher than my monitor supports. I have a 1080p monitor but the Radeon video card I have allows me to run the game at higher resolutions. So I run it 1440p, so my screenshots are 2560x1440 px. When I crop the screen shots I don't have to re-size them as much, and I *think* that helps the clarity.
That's a thought. Mine are pixelating in the upload, though. Do yours do that? They have more clarity on my desktop than they do on the boards.
If I could force them to a certain width like the Skins Page does they would look right.
Its too bad we don't have the birdcage version of the 'B' - that skin would look great with it.
I hear ya. Some of those bird cage airplanes actually look better with the bird cage than the Malcolm hood.
Thanks for the feedback.