Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Custom Skins => Topic started by: Greebo on October 13, 2012, 04:29:12 AM
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Twinboom asked me to create an update for the 39th FS P-47D-11 skin his squad uses. This aircraft was originally skinned by Rogerdee. Lacking a PC he is unable to update his skins at the moment and said it was OK for me to skin a replacement. I've been able to apply the latest bump, specular and environment mapping effects to the skin, which show up well on bare metal aircraft.
This aircraft was flown by the CO of the 39th FS Colonel Lee Grosshuesch in the Phillipines in 1945. Colonel Grosshuesch flew P-47s and later P-51s for the 39th and also the 41st FS from November 1943 until the end of the war scoring 8 kills and sinking a destroyer. He remained in the USAAF post war becoming a staff officer eventually retiring in 1973.
There is a bio of Col Grosshuesch including photos of this aircraft here (http://www.cobraintheclouds.com/colonelleegrosshuesch.html).
(http://www.gfg06.dial.pipex.com/screenshots4/39th_FS_P-47D-11_SC1.jpg)
(http://www.gfg06.dial.pipex.com/screenshots4/39th_FS_P-47D-11_SC2.jpg)
(http://www.gfg06.dial.pipex.com/screenshots4/39th_FS_P-47D-11_SC3.jpg)
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Looks like I'll be flying the D11 a lot more in the near future! :aok
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TY Greebo absolutely Stunning, You have a great artistic eye, she is beautiful.
Colonel Lee would be proud of his skin.
The 39th thanks you. :aok
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Awesome! Great job Greebo! I'm sure RogerDee would be proud of your tweaks! I give it a big thumbs up!
(http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii253/maddogjoe_photos/big_thumbs_up.jpg)
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:rock
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Sweeeet! :aok
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Sigh.. his talent is beyond words.
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Sigh.. his talent is beyond words.
QFT! What a gorgeous skin!
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Breathtakingly beautiful! :O
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Very Impressive. Could use that in FSO right now.
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Love the bare metal effects Greebo, very nice
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Very nice ...again, in fact the last few are getting better :salute
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:banana: now that looks sweet
much better then I ever could have done.
hope twinboom likes it i sure do :D
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:O wow! :aok
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Wow, is that the bump mapping that makes it look like shiny metal so much or are it your awesome photoshop skills?
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The shiny metal effect is down to specularity mapping. Until recently a skinner could only alter the overall specularity of the whole skin using the material file. So he could make the whole thing shinier or duller. Now by using a specularity map it is possible to alter the shininess of each individual pixel of the skin. So in this case I was able to make the bare metal areas much shinier than the painted areas.
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The shiny metal effect is down to specularity mapping. Until recently a skinner could only alter the overall specularity of the whole skin using the material file. So he could make the whole thing shinier or duller. Now by using a specularity map it is possible to alter the shininess of each individual pixel of the skin. So in this case I was able to make the bare metal areas much shinier than the painted areas.
I noticed that, that looks excellent!
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That is the sweetest looking Jug in the game.
Very nice Greebo. :aok
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Amazing Greebo :aok
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THats beautiful :aok
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Absolutely beautiful :aok
One would think that since I've retired , I have photoshop X, I would learn how to use it.
Guess not.
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:aok :aok