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Title: B-29 Inchcliffe Castle (and a question)
Post by: Dragon Tamer on May 02, 2014, 03:42:45 PM

This was the first skin that I made and as I look at the skin more and more, I realized how much I could have done better... So I fixed what was wrong with it!

Things I changed:
-Spectacular of the standard skin (the non-bump mapped skin) was way too shiny. It no longer looks like it's made of chrome.
-Cut way back on the paint wear and grime along the length of the aircraft.
-Added bump map and spec map support.
-Fixed the text on the nose of the aircraft to actually match the real thing.
-Added the mystery word (was a word shown in the photo but I couldn't figure out what it said last time).
-The line along the length of the aircraft where the black begins is now no longer straight, it has more of a "hand painted" look to it.
-Other technical stuff you guys don't care about.

The paint wear on the bottom was very light this time around. Last time I showed this skin the point was brought up that the ground crew would have worked hard to keep the amount of paint wear to a minimum. I don't know what kind of paint the would have had but I suspect that it would have been an off color black that they used. I tried to mimic that this time around leaving very small sections exposed. Did I do this correctly or did the ground crews have access to the actual colors used on the aircraft?


(http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/ad258/DragonTamer1X/Planes/B29rework1.png)

(http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/ad258/DragonTamer1X/Planes/B29rework2.png)

(http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/ad258/DragonTamer1X/Planes/B29reworkbombs1.png)

And just because that's what it was meant to do...

(http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/ad258/DragonTamer1X/Planes/B29reworkactionshot.png)

Title: Re: B-29 Inchcliffe Castle (and a question)
Post by: Volron on May 02, 2014, 04:25:01 PM

 :x

Title: Re: B-29 Inchcliffe Castle (and a question)
Post by: Seadog36 on May 02, 2014, 05:58:02 PM

That's the 29 skin I fly- you made a good one way nicer  :cheers:

Title: Re: B-29 Inchcliffe Castle (and a question)
Post by: Dragon Tamer on May 02, 2014, 06:06:49 PM

Can't submit it right now, but as soon as the submission page supports updated skins it's in!

Title: Re: B-29 Inchcliffe Castle (and a question)
Post by: Lucifer on May 03, 2014, 06:42:58 AM

This updated skin is gorgeous, wd !  :aok

Title: Re: B-29 Inchcliffe Castle (and a question)
Post by: Latrobe on May 03, 2014, 04:42:15 PM

I love this skin. I will be using it whenever I take my B29s into gunship mode.  :devil

Title: Re: B-29 Inchcliffe Castle (and a question)
Post by: Greebo on May 04, 2014, 01:55:14 AM

Great update Dragon.  :aok

Title: Re: B-29 Inchcliffe Castle (and a question)
Post by: Seadog36 on May 05, 2014, 02:46:56 PM

That skin brings me luck~

(http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n83/Urbanflotsom1/29_zpsd182aebc.jpg) (http://s110.photobucket.com/user/Urbanflotsom1/media/29_zpsd182aebc.jpg.html)