• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Server side Maintenance is done. We still have an update to the forum software to run but that one will have to wait for a better time.

Merry Christmas - Sibwings Birddog is Ready to Go!!!!

jeansy said:
is it me or the 3rd psd (the fus psd) in the paintkit has a few layers merged into the background?
Click to expand...


Yeah, its strange that only wing PSDs have separate detail layers. Also upper cowl locks have to be copied from tile number 3 to tile number 4 for them to appear in the final paint.
 
Several psd files have baked in shading, rivets etc. I made a multiply layer of them and did an auto contrast enhancement, that way I got a shaded layer from close to white to close to black. Better then the gray. Alternatively use the enhancement on the layer as a normal layer and apply your own paint layer as a multiply above it. This works for me and I'm pretty used to how Andrey does his psds.

Thanks
 
Dag said:
Several psd files have baked in shading, rivets etc. I made a multiply layer of them and did an auto contrast enhancement, that way I got a shaded layer from close to white to close to black.
Click to expand...

Yeah I also did some duplicates of the background and use layer transparencies to make my own detail layers.
 
Civil Air Patrol uploded to SOH and "Bunny II" to aussiex.org:salute::salute:

bdbunny_fin.jpg
 
G-PDOG paint uploaded to SOH:salute::ernae:

I can tell you, aligning those checkerboard patterns was very interesting operation
bdgb_fin.jpg
 
I bet it was! Thank you, just waiting for it to show up. :salute:

I was flying VH-SCB in multiplayer earlier this afternoon, you may just want to check the registration number on the panel Pekka, it's still showing the French registration. Is this because of the the shared textures?
 
Nick C said:
it's still showing the French registration. Is this because of the the shared textures?
Click to expand...

Yep, all paints use shared VC textures. It would be simple to replace the reg in VC, I just wanted to leave the VC textures alone since they are not part of the paintkit.
 
Nick C said:
I bet it was! Thank you, just waiting for it to show up. :salute:

I was flying VH-SCB in multiplayer earlier this afternoon, you may just want to check the registration number on the panel Pekka, it's still showing the French registration. Is this because of the the shared textures?
Click to expand...


Base on the birddog repaint VH-FDS it looks like 01_Texture08_C.dds has the panel registration number in it he added this to his paint texture and shows the correct Number in the VC??? it looks like anyway
 
There's also a corresponding night VC-texture which you have to tweak, or else when the night comes, the reg in VC magically changes.
 
Actually, I tested the panel in the A-model, that one has a night texture as well and it seems that that one uses the "day" panel for night as well. All mine have different "radio call" signs and I replaced the green panel with one in dark gull grey like the ones the RNoAF used to use.
I did new bumps for the main external textures as well as I did not like the colour pixelation of the originals around the riveting.
Finally mine are DXT5 1 MB instead of the original 4MB 32-bit, so I guess I'm the odd man out here, not surprisingly:kilroy::kilroy:

Thanks
 
Can some kindly SoH mod with access to the library, please move G-PDOG to the top of the authorise list please? :engel016:
 
Perfect Pekka, thanks for your very speedy turnaround on the G reg.

Couple pics of Bjorn attached, taken as we hunted down an elusive strip (well for me anyway, it turned out my Aus freeware wasn't active in the library, nor was AU blue!).

Cheers mate. :salute:
 
Very nice Nick:wavey: G-PDOG is actually E-model, but I assigned it by default to F-model which has similar hubcaps with G-PDOG:running:.
 
Had some decent stick time yesterday and got the t/o and landings susssed ....starting to really like this and feels like a REAL tail dragger (my CH pedals have been put to some good use) ..some nice touches such as the rockets etc....10/10 from me.

fsx2010-01-1122-28-06-33.jpg

fsx2010-01-1122-38-04-51.jpg

fsx2010-01-1122-41-12-91.jpg

fsx2010-01-1122-46-26-01.jpg
 
If you want to be really impressed, switch to vc view, and then to observer view.. Make a few turns and prepare to be blown away! Awesome plane!:medals::isadizzy::guinness::icon29::applause:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top