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CV-32 Leyte - beta textures?

OK - did some testing tonight ... and for me, the winner was the medium grey wood. Bravo Grady for the choices - it took a while to decide - dark grey wood was good too! Who knows, I might change it yet ...

My only concern was a funky issue that's best left to pictures rather than words. The weird "circularization" of the timber panel lines, the further away from the sight point, the worse they get.

Does this have to do with some weird mapping issue? I tried changing various graphic settings, and to no avail. Very strange.

thoughts?
 
delta_lima said:
Thought so, Michael;

In fact, some other older post-war carriers (I'm thinking either Hancock or Orikany) had wood too. I have pictures at home of Crusaders being positioned on decks that I'm pretty sure were wood.

Anyway - can't wait to try these new textures tonight ... :)

dl
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Hancock and Oriskany are Essex class carriers :), same hull, only difference is enlarged flight deck with angled section, relocated elevators, enlarged superstructure and bow enclosed (hurricane bow), but fundamentally an Essex carrier under the hood.

Best

Michael
 
delta_lima said:
OK - did some testing tonight ... and for me, the winner was the medium grey wood. Bravo Grady for the choices - it took a while to decide - dark grey wood was good too! Who knows, I might change it yet ...

My only concern was a funky issue that's best left to pictures rather than words. The weird "circularization" of the timber panel lines, the further away from the sight point, the worse they get.

Does this have to do with some weird mapping issue? I tried changing various graphic settings, and to no avail. Very strange.

thoughts?
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Not mapping but graphics card struggling with lots of close lines I suspect, I get it a lot with pictures of locomotives that have close set vents and grills, not really a lot you can do, a fully mapped deck with several 1024x1024 covering would probably help but with the small swatch we have it'll be present for quite a few folks.

Best

Michael
 
I think it is called a moiré pattern, caused by the difference in frequency of the dots in the picture to the dots in the screen resolution. The dots in the distance are a progressively higher frequency to the close dots and the screen dot frequency is constant so the pattern will occur. Only solution is a video card and monitor with infinite resolution. Time for that neural implant :)

Dave
 
gradyhappyg said:
I believe you HD the only WW2 era deck I have actually seen for myself is BB-55 in Wilmington that before the recent repaint/repair and then it looked much like my deck out back weathered sun baked light grey. In any case the textures are uploaded and I included 5 with screenies so folks could decide which one they like the best. Personally I like the faded grey myself.
Thanks again Michael for the great boat and permission to play with the textures.
HappyG.
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Wikipedia has a nice photo of that, would this be correct colouring?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/USS_North_Carolina_BB-55-2.jpg
 
michael davies said:
Not mapping but graphics card struggling with lots of close lines I suspect, I get it a lot with pictures of locomotives that have close set vents and grills, not really a lot you can do, a fully mapped deck with several 1024x1024 covering would probably help but with the small swatch we have it'll be present for quite a few folks.

Best

Michael
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Thanks MD and Skieggie,

Bummer news - but all technology has limits, and no less so than in this hobby. Well, the net result is still an improvement - certainly at a distance.

Many thanks,

dl
 
Yes a real bummer, sorry some are having issues. I had it but didn't look so distracting on my rig. Let me play around with the textures a little more and see what I can do. Maybe a redesign/recolor of the cleats will help. Or saving in a different format w/mips. Doubt if I can totally remove the wavy lines but perhaps lessen the impact.
 
Here is a quick rework both the cleats and color of the cleats,looked better on my rig see if you have less wavy lines and let me know. If it looks good I can do some color variations and upload these in another pack.
 
gradyhappyg said:
Here is a quick rework both the cleats and color of the cleats,looked better on my rig see if you have less wavy lines and let me know. If it looks good I can do some color variations and upload these in another pack.
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Looks much better...no wavy lines.
 
gradyhappyg said:
Here is a quick rework both the cleats and color of the cleats,looked better on my rig see if you have less wavy lines and let me know. If it looks good I can do some color variations and upload these in another pack.
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10/10 - no curves to be seen. Well done - many thanks!!

dl
 
Sieggie said:
I think it is called a moiré pattern, caused by the difference in frequency of the dots in the picture to the dots in the screen resolution. The dots in the distance are a progressively higher frequency to the close dots and the screen dot frequency is constant so the pattern will occur. Only solution is a video card and monitor with infinite resolution. Time for that neural implant :)

Dave
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Thats the word I was looking for LOL, moire, its been a bane for texture artists for years and not just FS, train sim had terrible issues with the track bed stretching out in front of you, in some respects mips are supposed to reduce this by decreasing the closeness of pixels (read less definition) further away, a sort of automatic blurring to prevent moire patterns being seen in the distance.

Best

Michael
 
CV-32 model updated, seperated the flight deck from the other decks and adjusted the tiling size to give more accurate deck tie down sizing, collect the new model and revised texture from here http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mickoo/files/CV-32.zip .

Note, I have renamed GradyHappys texture for the deck only, you will need to reapply the original deck texture for all other decks, or simply use the two enclosed.

Have not got a clue how to update the download in the file library, so if anyone wants to oblige, feel free, its only CV-32 at the moment, thats the one that seems to get the most interest.

Best

Michael
 
CV 32

Thanks Michael, my new F9F Panther is enjoying your great creation. I among many thank you for your work.

Regards, Tom
 
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