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A big tip of the hat toTim"piglet" Conrad...

Almost done...just the serials and some details adjusting....

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ZF 269 - Actual aircraft is not an Embraer Super Tucano 314, but a Shorts Tucano T1, Royal Air Force Tucano Display Team 2012, RAF Linton-on-Ouse.

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Thank you very much for doing these textures, especially the RAF ones. I didn't realise that the super tucano was used by so many countries.

And as the title says; thanks to Tim for the great aircraft.
 
mattcurry said:
Thank you very much for doing these textures, especially the RAF ones. I didn't realise that the super tucano was used by so many countries.

And as the title says; thanks to Tim for the great aircraft.
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Yep...the Embraer is popular....and when you add up the variations....314...312...Shorts, etc....there are lots of 'em.

Here's an extremely 'early' in progress... Some layouts can be set to a degree by a photo to act as a template....but it gets 'challenging' when the original isn't a 314 but a 312 instead.
It ends up more a guide than anything else...and pilots and their sheilas standing in the way doesn't help either...;)

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Edit....stage 2 ....left side is roughed in...paint layout needs adjusting before cloning to right side...

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Took a while...but the fuse is done...both sides...other than the serial...next issue will be working out what the u/s of the wings looks like....

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Doesn't get any more Patriotic than that....for the RAF ...;)

I think it's done.....

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...and the topside...

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Love these repaints and aircraft (so much so I'm making a video :encouragement:)

But for some reason despite everything been installed fine, swapping aircraft causes a crash to desktop and I cant for the life of me figure out why :banghead:

Any clues?
 
UKVoodoo said:
Love these repaints and aircraft (so much so I'm making a video :encouragement:)

But for some reason despite everything been installed fine, swapping aircraft causes a crash to desktop and I cant for the life of me figure out why :banghead:

Any clues?
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The paints are high resolution...4096x4096...and even in DXT5 format are pretty large and thus demanding on system resources.

The original released skins were 2048 or a quarter the load.

Incidentally....I run them as 8,8,8 bitmaps [uncompressed] and thus 4 times bigger than the DDS textures....;)
 
Jafo said:
The paints are high resolution...4096x4096...and even in DXT5 format are pretty large and thus demanding on system resources.

The original released skins were 2048 or a quarter the load.

Incidentally....I run them as 8,8,8 bitmaps [uncompressed] and thus 4 times bigger than the DDS textures....;)
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I dont think its your textures that are causing the CTD as my system handles both the model and textures at 60fps locked without a problem, its when I try to load any aircraft after flying the A-29 :banghead:
 
'Spose the next question is...does it happen swapping between any other 2 planes [not the Tucano] ?

Meanwhile....on the go....

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...and underside..

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I think it's finished.

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Nope...those yellow wing flashes are wrong.... the display team might have them but not in this paint version.
Gotta change it...;)
 
Jafo said:
Nope...those yellow wing flashes are wrong.... the display team might have them but not in this paint version.
Gotta change it...;)
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Needless to say...just as soon as I'd revised the textures I found a photo with the flashes....
I can't win.
But since the majority of pics don't....then neither shall I...;)
I'll save them for another version.
 
Jason32 said:
Jafo, I believe the yellow flashes are on the display aircraft at present, maybe keep them?
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Yes....after more searching I ended up doing 2 versions...'early and late' as it first had no flashes...they were added later.

So here's a few about to upload...

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And here's another one...still have the wings to do [and the right side] ...;)

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Edit....getting there...;)

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