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General Forums => Custom Skins => Topic started by: CGAR on April 08, 2010, 11:24:11 AM
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Please please help this ugly duckling! Current skin needs a breath of fresh air!
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Hurricane_IIC_PZ865.jpg/800px-Hurricane_IIC_PZ865.jpg)
(http://www.wwiivehicles.com/unitedkingdom/aircraft/fighter/hawker-hurricane/hawker-hurricane-mk-i-b-01.jpg)
(http://img1.photographersdirect.com/img/12849/wm/pd209429.jpg)
ohh and a nice find, some pics of other aircraft cockpits:
http://www.militaryfactory.com/cockpits/index.asp
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Are you asking for something skin-related?
Or are you asking that HTC redo the entire plane?
:headscratch:
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Are you asking for something skin-related?
Or are you asking that HTC redo the entire plane?
:headscratch:
The first one I would think, but I'd be happy with that skin on a re-done bird :aok
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A re done bird, i.e cockpit etc... The plane needs a make over, skins will come in good time, but this bird needs some love.
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A re done bird, i.e cockpit etc... The plane needs a make over, skins will come in good time, but this bird needs some love.
so very true!!!!!!!!! :aok
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Eskimojoe: You can't really just re-skin the cockpits of these older planes. I redid a P-40E with updated instruments, dials, etc... and in the end had about 50-60 files in the submission. HTC rejected it.
On top of that, these old files split cockpits up into 2-3 parts because they were originally 256x256 resolution. Now we do everything in 1024 resolution, so when you submit you're suddenly using up to 15x the resources just for a single cockpit.
256x256 x 3 files: 196,608 pixels
1024x1024 x 3 files: 3,145,728 pixels
They don't like redoing the old files because of the way it's set up. Newer cockpits they seem to accept (ones where the entire cockpit is all in a single bitmap, like 109s, 190s, etc), but these older ones they seem to frown upon because just the act of reskinning them increases the hit on system resources.
cgar: We don't really do that work. That's all on HTC's end. They do the modeling and skin setup. We (the skinners) just take that and work within that limitation, within how it's already set up. Nothing we can do to change the 3D shape.
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I have the agree that the Hurricane could use an update, but I can thing of one plane that I wouldn't mind getting an update first.
(http://www.warbirdalley.com/images/Zero.jpg)
(http://www.j-aircraft.com/walk/dave_pluth/blayd/cockpit12.jpg)
(http://www.j-aircraft.com/walk/dave_pluth/blayd/cockpit3.jpg)
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Eskimojoe: You can't really just re-skin the cockpits of these older planes. I redid a P-40E with updated instruments, dials, etc... and in the end had about 50-60 files in the submission. HTC rejected it.
By skin, I wasn't referring to the inter-workings of the cockpit, I was referring to the skin on the aircraft itself (see: Paint job).
Apologies for seeing your post as such, I didn't think you'd mean the skin of the cockpit in the custom sounds & skins forum.
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i got some lovely pictures of that plane and was half way through skining it,there
is trouble tho because it is a old skin and streching and mirroring doesnt help it