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General Forums => Custom Skins => Topic started by: nopoop on September 11, 2004, 05:05:35 PM

Title: Maj Eagleston 353rd FS/354thFG submit
Post by: nopoop on September 11, 2004, 05:05:35 PM

Reflective skins are a beeeeach. HT's adversion to blue, flat colors when viewed out the cockpit
etc. etc. What you end up is shades of flat grey.

I downloaded a beautiful IL-2 skin of the this subject and pasted the wing on to see how it
looked out of the cockpit. It looks blah in shades of blue and grey. Prolly does in IL-2
also, I don't know.

All one see's when flying is what's out the canopy. Blue DOES NOT work so HT's adversion
is well founded. Too much grey doesn't either.

Messing a reflective  skin up and making it look beat up didn't work for me either. The flat color
out of the cockpit is the cross to bear in that case also.

I like it, it's clean, it's mean. On top of that I lost my PSD file for the fuse on the last adjustment.
What a dope.

If it wasn't the last, I would have seriously hurt myself. Post up at the Skin site and submit tomorrow.

(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/474_1094938325_quarter.jpg)

(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/474_1094938361_side.jpg)

Title: Maj Eagleston 353rd FS/354thFG submit
Post by: Guppy35 on September 11, 2004, 05:38:37 PM

Absolutely gorgeous.  You really do some fine work nopoop.  Thanks for putting all the time in for the benefit of the rest of us.

Dan/Slack

Title: Maj Eagleston 353rd FS/354thFG submit
Post by: oboe on September 11, 2004, 11:45:32 PM

Best jug skin evar..., IMHO.    Deep thanks, NP.

Glad to hear someone else goofs up saving those PSD files too - the same thing happened to my bare skin P-51B fuse psd - accidentally saved it as 'indexed' rather than RGB with layers.  For the number of times I saved and go check how a skin looks in game, I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often.

I'd like to try your bare metal technique on the 51B if you're willing to share it.   Also, I found Mechnix's P-51B skin to be a good example of weathering bare metal.    He did a real nice job with scuff marks on the panel lines and uneven, shadowed surfaces.

Title: Maj Eagleston 353rd FS/354thFG submit
Post by: nopoop on September 12, 2004, 12:09:12 AM

Thanks guys.

Oboe I'll post it at the skin site tomorrow. What I found is that less worked out better. It's just very light greys with a hint of blue. Artificial highlites on the fuse and wings. The fuse skin shows alot of blues but what is actually shown ingame has very little of it.

If you look at the wing skin you'll see it's pretty much light grey and white blended with a hint of blue. With the squiggly stuff faded off quite a bit.

What steered me in that way is looking out the cockpit at the wing. It's still pretty blah, but if you get "fancy" with the colors it doesn't look good looking out the window :D

Glad you like it !!

Title: Maj Eagleston 353rd FS/354thFG submit
Post by: Heiliger on September 12, 2004, 01:37:36 AM

Hey, I don't really fly P-47s, but with that skin, I will have to start!  Awesome work man!  :eek:

Title: Maj Eagleston 353rd FS/354thFG submit
Post by: nopoop on September 12, 2004, 10:49:06 AM

Either do I Heiliger, either do I.

Go figure.

Title: Maj Eagleston 353rd FS/354thFG submit
Post by: Wadke on September 12, 2004, 12:10:42 PM

Yep Nopoop is a little Prissy Spitty Pilot:rofl :p :rofl :p :lol

Title: Maj Eagleston 353rd FS/354thFG submit
Post by: nopoop on September 12, 2004, 02:58:10 PM

Wadke ya basssstage !!! Copying what we talked about at work, no matter what I do I can't get it done
at home no matter what I try :confused:

Spent 3 fuggin hours through trial and error...error..error to have a yellow spinner WITHOUT the yellow
showing in the edge of the flaps when lowered..

I got as close as I care too :D

(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/474_1095018884_post.jpg)

Title: Maj Eagleston 353rd FS/354thFG submit
Post by: Wadke on September 12, 2004, 08:24:17 PM

She's Beautiful Nopoop. Geez I'm worse though. I can only fly a big Fat blue plane and a P-40

Title: Maj Eagleston 353rd FS/354thFG submit
Post by: AaronM2 on September 12, 2004, 09:24:55 PM

Nice nopoop good work

Title: Maj Eagleston 353rd FS/354thFG submit
Post by: Nomde on September 13, 2004, 02:03:48 AM

Very nice nopoop... i'd scuff her up a bit, but that's just me, very nice work.  :)

Hammer n tong man here.... joystick don't work ya say, let me get my 2lb maul hammer and fix it right up, hehe  :D

Title: Maj Eagleston 353rd FS/354thFG submit
Post by: slimm50 on September 15, 2004, 03:38:13 PM

Bee-yew-tee-full NP:D   Thanks for all your hard work.

Title: Maj Eagleston 353rd FS/354thFG submit
Post by: Citabria on September 15, 2004, 03:49:24 PM

nopoop tail numbers in USAF serial style? they look a bit odd.

also can you make the rivets more transparent on the wings on future planes?

the il2 style of having lugnuts for rivets looks very cartoonish to me. on all the planes ive flown even raised rivets dont stand out that much when viewed from the cockpit. they are ussually visible but do not draw attention to themselves.

on the fuselage is fine the way they are because that cant be seen from inside.

Title: Maj Eagleston 353rd FS/354thFG submit
Post by: nopoop on September 15, 2004, 04:39:52 PM

Yes they are Cit, I'll try putting stencil spaces in them, let me fiddle.

I'll fiddle with the rivit thing also, I agree with you. For some reason skinning always tends to focus on rivits for some reason. On the drab wings it looks ok, with natural I'm searchin for a balance.

Title: Maj Eagleston 353rd FS/354thFG submit
Post by: nopoop on September 15, 2004, 08:28:18 PM

Ok backed way off on the rivits on the wing. Exterior shot puts them at the same transparancy as the fuse rivits. I like it.

Noticed I have to rework the horizontal stablizer...

Jeez..

(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/474_1095297856_citabria.jpg)

I've got two ready to submit but RL has left them zipped and ready. So I can still mess with them.