C123 repaints continued.

SteveB said:
Then it will be another fictional "under new managment" scheme.
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Super! This will be just perfect for exploring Lao PDR!

Also, not totally fictional, since LPLAAF did use some ex-RLAF C-123 for a time after the war.
 
Steve, I really love the USAF Black Ops livery, allows me to slip in low-level into East Berlin un-detected by the STASI in able to do a supply drop for the oppressed.

Cheers! Mike :ernae:
 
The reflection is based somewhere in the model as I had thought.
If you want to try for yourself apply the TAC or SAC textures to the
model with the jet assist engines....AA or FAV for example.

And you will see that the fuselage will become transparent...which is a neat effect :costumes:
On the model without the jet assist pods (model folder was part of the SAC and TAC paint zips) my own repaint shows up nice and shiny as well.

Cheers
Stefan
 
Philippine Air Force scheme just uploaded.
As for the model shine, out of the box the C123K comes with both matt finnish and high gloss finnish, if you want the paint too appear on the the High Gloss then make sure your aircraft config entry has model= (leave blank). If you want the non shine finnish make model=US on the aircraft config.

Steve
 
Sunny9850 said:
Hi Mick,

...But with the latest version of the C-123 when I apply the usual grey scale alpha layer which is what normally generates the "chrome" effect the texture becomes more and more transparent...

Stefan
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You must be using Vlad's original model file, which does not have reflections enabled.

You can make a reflective model with Ivan Hsu's "Shine" program, or with Jeff D's "Shiny," which is Ivan's "Shine" with a Window's interface. (The original "Shine" is a DOS command line program.) Both "Shine" and "Shiny" are available in the library here at SOH.

Or you could download my SAC or TAC paints and use the reflective model that's packaged with them.

(I also made a model with specular shine; if you need that you can get it with my AFRES Gray paint.)
 
SteveB said:
Philippine Air Force scheme just uploaded.
As for the model shine, out of the box the C123K comes with both matt finnish and high gloss finnish, if you want the paint too appear on the the High Gloss then make sure your aircraft config entry has model= (leave blank). If you want the non shine finnish make model=US on the aircraft config.

Steve
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Ah ha!!!

I've been wondering whether there was any difference between the two K model files! I'd somehow not noticed that one is glossy and the other is flat. I went and made a glossy (or was it flat?) copy when I already had one!

I thought the two model files must account for some difference like the presence of absence of some aerial, or something like that. It never dawned on me that the difference might be the finish of the plane in the sim. Not too swift, since I've been making different copies of the model for exactly that purpose...
 
Mick said:
Ah ha!!!

I've been wondering whether there was any difference between the two K model files! I'd somehow not noticed that one is glossy and the other is flat. I went and made a glossy (or was it flat?) copy when I already had one!

I thought the two model files must account for some difference like the presence of absence of some aerial, or something like that. It never dawned on me that the difference might be the finish of the plane in the sim. Not too swift, since I've been making different copies of the model for exactly that purpose...
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I dont think I have an origional model left in my C123 folder lol, I changed the non gloss finnish to a satin finnish for the cammo schemes using the shiney util and I tried to tone down the full gloss model down a notch as well. :d

But out of the box from Vlad the easiest way to tell the difference is barrels in the back= gloss, Jeep in the back= matt.

Steve
 
Lazerbeak said:
Super! This will be just perfect for exploring Lao PDR!

Also, not totally fictional, since LPLAAF did use some ex-RLAF C-123 for a time after the war.
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I totaly agree but piccies are very rare of post US involvment, so if I label it semi fictional it makes more sense than saying it's a Guestimation :d
 
There is another difference between the "US" and basic K models. The "US" model displays the Willys Jeep (willis.bmp) as cargo while the basic K has the pallet of barrels (tank.bmp) cargo.
 
Mick said:
You must be using Vlad's original model file, which does not have reflections enabled.

You can make a reflective model with Ivan Hsu's "Shine" program, or with Jeff D's "Shiny," which is Ivan's "Shine" with a Window's interface. (The original "Shine" is a DOS command line program.) Both "Shine" and "Shiny" are available in the library here at SOH.

Or you could download my SAC or TAC paints and use the reflective model that's packaged with them.

(I also made a model with specular shine; if you need that you can get it with my AFRES Gray paint.)
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Hi Mick,

I got your SAC and TAC repaints and they do work ...but I have a strange black panel behind the gauges in the VC with the model.br
Do you get that as well or am I missing something else ???

I tried a Google search for the Shiny program you mentioned but it returned way too many results to comb through.

Do you have a link by any chance to the program with the Windows interface ???

Thanks for any help in advance.

Stefan
 
Sunny9850 said:
Hi Mick,

I got your SAC and TAC repaints and they do work ...but I have a strange black panel behind the gages in the VC with the model.br
Do you get that as well or am I missing something else ???

I tried a Google search for the Shiny program you mentioned but it returned way too many results to comb through.

Do you have a link by any chance to the program with the Windows interface ???

Thanks for any help in advance.

Stefan
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I don't get a black panel behind the gages, I get a shiny panel behind them. It can't be helped, as far as I know. It seems to be an effect of making a model reflective that wasn't built that way. This doesn't happen at all on some models; on some models it puts the reflective panel in front of the gages, making the VC completely un-usable. On this model it's sort of in between. There may be a way to fix it, but if so, I don't know how.

Odd that the effect is different in your system and mine. I suppose that might have something to do with different video cards...?

I took a flight in one of the reflective paints and found the effect annoying, but less so than I expected. Still, the reflective paints might end up being used mainly in the AI role, where they are already decorating a few bases in my Flight Simulator 1954 - A Half Century of Flight AI scheme.

I don't have a direct link, but you can find "Shiny" right here at SOH, in the FS2004 Utilities section.
 
Thanks Mick,

I'll search for it here then. The even more odd thing is that my pal in NZ using the same model doesn't get any black boxes with that same model.

I will play around with it some and see what happens. I'll probably switch back to the non reflective as well for non-AI use.
 
Here's some Pics for Stallin of the Cuban DAAFAR stealing beer from Chicago KORD. Hum wonder what happened to the Homeland defense??????? I had to reinstall FS9 afterall it now has its own new HD just like my FSX. Now i really can enjoy both sims in harmoney and even more with Steveb's paints. Now I just have to track down all of stallins and steves cuban paints as all the ones i have are in dds format.
 
I will be uploading two poss three more provider paints throughout today, I have been busy the past few days working up some North Vietnamese MiG 21's for an online group, I still have a couple of South American schemes and the white whale too finnish off on the provider and these will be done over the next week or so.

Steve
 
I have just finnished uploading two paints, the International Narcotics Control Mission scheme pictured on a previous post, and the last of my USAF south east asia cammo schemes.
 
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