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General Forums => Custom Skins => Topic started by: nickf620 on January 06, 2007, 02:43:35 AM
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im wondering if anyone can help me out
i am thinking about doing my first skin i want it to be on the me bf 109 f4
and i would like it to be a winter skin
i know some of you have a boatload of books with various skins and what not
so i was wondering if yall had the time if you could find one of those winter skins and maybe just give me the fs/fg names of the plane
and i could just google it
thanks in advance
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In a VERY brief search I pulled up these:
III/JG54 (http://wp.scn.ru/en/ww2/f/231/2/0/1)
or a more typical winter camo:
I./JG54 (http://wp.scn.ru/en/ww2/f/231/2/2/28)
Basically, look for units that served in Barbarossa. JG54 is one of the more prominent units (or perhaps just the more well known units).
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thank you very much krusty
btw where do yall find these
i know some have books
but is there somewhere some online plethora of pictures of ww2 planes?
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and if i can get more info on it i really want to do the first one that is so cool
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Krusty pointed to this link
III/JG54 (http://wp.scn.ru/en/ww2/f/231/2/0/1)
What year is this skin?
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i dont know
but i am still digging up info on it
if i had to guess i would say either was made in 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943 , 1944 , or 1945
but heck thats just a guess
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Well if you replace the brown with the color green. You can call it a III./JG54 Winter of 1942.
Do you want an all white version? Just ask.:)
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Originally posted by Kermit de frog
Krusty pointed to this link
III/JG54 (http://wp.scn.ru/en/ww2/f/231/2/0/1)
What year is this skin?
No info supplied on it. Which is a major drawback for a website that simply takes from other webpages. Not the most reliable of sources.
Like I said, a very brief search.
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well it is III/JG54
DAMOSER, Rudolf
is possibly the pilot
this pilot was MIA
14 of march 1942
with his plane he flew for this same squadron that was a yellow 5
thats about all i know about this plane and all that is probably wrong
ive been digging for this thing but cant seem to find a place with info
is there any site that has a butload of info on 9 Staffle III/JG54?
btw froggie you better not be thinkin about stealin the skin im makin :mad: :mad:
:p :p
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You better hurry up then.
:D
J/K, I'm just trying to help ya. I want to help you. You just have to ask the right questions.
edit: BTW, did you confirm your info with that specific picture?
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the info that i am sure of
just by insignias
9 staffle III gruppe Jagdgeschwader 54
as far as pilot im not so sure it seems very likely
but apparently there where a whole lotta yellow 5's
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hey krusty do you have a layer of panel lines and rivets for the 109f4?
just wondering i dont need it in any big hurry it will probably be a while before this thing is even close to looking like the real plane
dont tell anyone but it looks like a cow skin
experimenting with colors right now
although i was told that it looked good for someone having only spent about an hour on it
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I just hand-copied the defaults. I didn't look up historic rivet patterns or anything.
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rgr thank you
btw
what software do you use
im using gimp cause im cheap
if you do use gimp is there a trick to getting the camo lines to look smooth will this?
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I'm not very familiar with gimp. I use Photoshop 5. The thing with camo is to use a softer brush or to blur that layer after-the-fact.
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rgr ill try that out thank you
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ok here is the progress on the skin(if it could be called progress)
this is a view after realizing that it wasn't a brown or black with white but a green
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last one
now guys please keep the skin bashing to a minimum this is my first skin
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krusty i just got photoshop 6 and im having a problem with the panel lines and rivets
how do i get them to curve a bit whenever i try to make them curve with the plane they start to do a little stair step thing i guess is the only way i know how to describe it
any thoughts
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Nick, I've going to start skinning my first skin this week.
I've been told that you need to try to blur that layer to smooth out the stairstep jagged edges you are getting.
Also, make sure your skin size is 1024x1024 and it may be best to have your game set to 1024x1024 texture size so you may see your skin in it's finest quality in the game.
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awwwww
crap-ola
forgot about that
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ok have to say just figured out how to blur the image and
omg that looks alot better
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do you guys know of any freeware that can do the stuff that photoshop can do i am working on a trial version and not only is it a limited time it is limited as far as tools go
of freakin course
its a big company and god forbid they give you a what you get if you purchase version like the smaller company's do
and i dont have the 600 bucks to throw out for photoshop (even if i did i would spend it on a new power supply since mine is crapping out and with the extra upgrade my pc) i digress
sooooooooo.....
any thoughts
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getting something weird going on here i make most of the skin in gimp cause it has layers
and then i blur the lines on the cammo in the trial photoshop and once i save it when i am done i try to go into offline to see what it looks like and every time i modify it in photoshop i get this bug that makes the skin invisible
what the heck
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Originally posted by nickf620
getting something weird going on here i make most of the skin in gimp cause it has layers
and then i blur the lines on the cammo in the trial photoshop and once i save it when i am done i try to go into offline to see what it looks like and every time i modify it in photoshop i get this bug that makes the skin invisible
what the heck
No need to take it out of GIMP for a blur. Under the filter menu of GIMP, there's a Blur and Gaussian Blur options. Play around with it to see what a good setting is. I typically use a 2.0-5.0 gaussian blur for mine, depending on the effect I'm looking for.
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i know that there is a blur in gimp but it never worked for me i click it and i can see no effect
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not only does it not seem to blur
but the program doesn't even recognize what i am doing
when i try to undo it dosent say blur or anything
need help please post your thoughts
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anyone at all
i really need the help
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Make sure you either have the layer or whatever object you want to blur selected before you apply the filter. Otherwise, it will do nothing. I recommend going to http://www.gimp.org and working through the tutorials they have to learn how to use it.
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In photoshop I used the pencil tool, set to size 1 brush, spacing set to 400% or more likely 500%. I then click once, let go, hold SHIFT and click again elsewhere. Photoshop fills in between the two points with a line of dots. I then use smaller shift-clicks to make compound curves. It looks convincing enough in the end result, but is really multiple (shorter) straight lines.