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Coral and dirt runway textures

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shphawk

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Hi Everyone.

The stock runway textures have been driving me crazy for as long as I remember. I'm not much of a painter, but I decided to give it a shot. So far, I am pleased with the results, but I'm looking for some no BS feedback.. Once I'm satisfied I will gladly upload them for everyone else. I had to increase the size of the textures to get more detail. Unfortunately, they don't look much better from the ground, but the texture would have to be 10,000 pixels squared to accomplish that. Lol. The coral needs more detail, but it's a start. Thanks for taking a look and for the feedback.

ShpHawK
Chuck
 

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shphawk.....I like both, but especially the dirt field. The coral in CFS2 has always seemed too bright to me, but then I've never actually seen a coral strip. It's just that some of the color pictures seem to reflect a grayish/white tint. For all I know there may be a number of color variations at the numerous airfields around the south Pacific.
 
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Looking good -- I'd certainly take them -- now if someone could just do a halfway decent tex for a psp ( pierced steel plate ) runway

baldy
 
Both are improvements, especially the dirt. I would suggest making the worn track down the center of the dirt wider, like 75%-80% of the runway but otherwise, very nice. Like Baldy said, the psp texture is the worst of all of the stock runways, but that one will be a real bear to get looking right.
 
Worthless said:
shphawk.....I like both, but especially the dirt field. The coral in CFS2 has always seemed too bright to me, but then I've never actually seen a coral strip. It's just that some of the color pictures seem to reflect a grayish/white tint. For all I know there may be a number of color variations at the numerous airfields around the south Pacific.
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Thanks Worthless. I agree that they seem very bright. It's difficult to find pics of a coral runway. When I search I found Honolulu which has a coral threshold, or able runway which looks gray. None of the pictures show enough detail. If you or anyone else has better pics, I'll see what I can do. Thanks again.

Chuck
 
If you attach here the PSP bmp....

shphawk said:
Thanks Worthless. I agree that they seem very bright. It's difficult to find pics of a coral runway. When I search I found Honolulu which has a coral threshold, or able runway which looks gray. None of the pictures show enough detail. If you or anyone else has better pics, I'll see what I can do. Thanks again.

Chuck
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I know I can do it... I did it before for someone in CFS 3...

G.
 
baldy said:
Looking good -- I'd certainly take them -- now if someone could just do a halfway decent tex for a psp ( pierced steel plate ) runway

baldy
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I just might give it a shot. There is plenty of pics to go from. Thanks Baldy.

Chuck
 
Captain Kurt said:
Both are improvements, especially the dirt. I would suggest making the worn track down the center of the dirt wider, like 75%-80% of the runway but otherwise, very nice. Like Baldy said, the psp texture is the worst of all of the stock runways, but that one will be a real bear to get looking right.
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Thanks Capt. I appreciate the feedback. I'll see what happens. What do you guys think the absolute max texture size should be? I had to go 1024 x 1024 just to get the detail that I have. For the psp to look right, I may have to double that.

Chuck
 
This is what it should look like...

shphawk said:
Thanks Capt. I appreciate the feedback. I'll see what happens. What do you guys think the absolute max texture size should be? I had to go 1024 x 1024 just to get the detail that I have. For the psp to look right, I may have to double that.

Chuck
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Like I said... if you post the tile... I can make the texture...

to wit:

This shows the PSP superimposed on a grass background... the texture is without grass...

G.
 

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Allen said:
Not likeing the dirt. The coral looks too ruff.
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Hi Allen. Thanks for the feedback. It's difficult to get decent detail The runway is such a big object even with a 1024x1024 texture, I am right on the verge of everything looking pixelated. I'm still working on the coral. I will post more pics soon.

Chuck
 
gaucho_59 said:
Like I said... if you post the tile... I can make the texture...

to wit:

This shows the PSP superimposed on a grass background... the texture is without grass...

G.
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Sorry for taking so long to reply. Thanks to a drunk driver, I spent most of the evening without power. Here you go.

Chuck
 

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shphawk said:
Hi Allen. Thanks for the feedback. It's difficult to get decent detail The runway is such a big object even with a 1024x1024 texture, I am right on the verge of everything looking pixelated. I'm still working on the coral. I will post more pics soon.

Chuck
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Your never going to get the ground/runway to look good at ground level. It is just too large. If you get it looking okay at ground level it will look bad at Altitude.
 
Allen said:
Your never going to get the ground/runway to look good at ground level. It is just too large. If you get it looking okay at ground level it will look bad at Altitude.
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True that. I'm uploading another coral pic. I haven't softened it yet, but I added some detail. It helps, I need to work on the color. I'm attaching a pic of North Field on Tinian. It looks almost gray. After doing this, my hats off to the guys at MS for accomplishing what they did with the PSP texture being only 256x256.
 

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Can you make it available for download?

shphawk said:
Sorry for taking so long to reply. Thanks to a drunk driver, I spent most of the evening without power. Here you go.

Chuck
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Your attachment, I am afraid I am too dumb to kow how to download it...
can you make a zip file of it and place like you did the picture? As it is,
I cannot even see it full size... The detail in my version would still be
the same or nearly the same at 256 colors... it really does not use too many colors at all...

I am really interested in producing something nice... the stock PSP textures in the sim suck!
BTW... your coral job really looks good!


Thanks in advance...
G.

P.S.: also, please mark somehow what each of those perforated looking represent... I see a long longitudinal and 2 small horizontal...
what are they.. also.. the grey background... what does it do? I can produce a relatively, HIGHLY detailed 256 color tile...
am pretty good with PSP x8 and Photoshop...
 
gaucho_59 said:
Your attachment, I am afraid I am too dumb to kow how to download it...
can you make a zip file of it and place like you did the picture? As it is,
I cannot even see it full size... The detail in my version would still be
the same or nearly the same at 256 colors... it really does not use too many colors at all...

I am really interested in producing something nice... the stock PSP textures in the sim suck!
BTW... your coral job really looks good!


Thanks in advance...
G.

P.S.: also, please mark somehow what each of those perforated looking represent... I see a long longitudinal and 2 small horizontal...
what are they.. also.. the grey background... what does it do? I can produce a relatively, HIGHLY detailed 256 color tile...
am pretty good with PSP x8 and Photoshop...
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Thanks Gaucho. I will zip it and post it as soon as I am on my computer again. That might be this evening. I can't wait to see what you come up with. I'll explain everything in a text inside the zip.

ShpHawK
Chuck
 
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Here you go shphawk. This is the best I could find.
 
Looking great guys,

I attempted many years back and gave up, The steal mesh
will be something that is much needed.

Thumbs up to all of you helping with this project.

Dave
 
Worthless said:
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Here you go shphawk. This is the best I could find.
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Thanks again Worthless. The first time I saw the color, I thought people would complain if I went that dark. I think I'm going to make a couple of different versions. I actually thought that replacing some of the runways wouldn't be that hard. Then I could add a few more different textures. I'll keep posting screens. Thanks again for the photo.

Chuck
 
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