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Panel Work
- Thread starter falcon409
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Nice work Ed! Is there anything you can't do! :ernae:
Matt Wynn
Charter Member
Juggle chainsaws blindfolded while balancing on a large ball and being shot at?
Ed's a real jack of all trades 
keep it up buddy:ernae:
lol, lol, and those are definitely not on my "to do" list either, lol.Juggle chainsaws blindfolded while balancing on a large ball and being shot at?
Bjoern
worst developer ever
Probably, just waiting for PAD to release a paint kit.
Bjoern
worst developer ever
Ah.
Well, I've become a bit hesitant trying to repaint PAD's offerings. I've done two repaints so far (still WIP) for the CRJ and went borderline insane with both the paintkit *and* the texture mapping of the model.
I just wished, developers would pay at least a *bit* more attention to people repainting their offerings...*sigh*
Hmm, ok. . .I did 4 different repaints for the CRJ using their kit. . .what problems have you run into?
Bjoern
worst developer ever
The mapping on the vertical stabilizer in the frontmost area (near the APU intake) is quite dodgy. No biggie if the whole aircraft is colored in one tone only, but as soon as stabilizer and fuselage feature two different colors (see my Lufthansa paints in my thread), the area ends up in a mess. Subsequently, I had to take artistic license there.
Also I'd really like the paint kit to tell me where certain parts are on the model, since it's quite hard to figute out where cockpit windows or the vertical stabilizer are just by looking at a rough outline of the part on the texture sheet.
A UVW render from GMax, say wireframe rendition of the part featured as a seperate layer would really, really help!
And lastly, the windows of the model are off. The starboard side has too many windows and both window rows are too far forward.
I think I should forward this to PAD, despite talking about freeware here...
The area around and including the APU intake was sort of tough to work around for one of the liveries I did and I finally just let it go as is because there was no way to correct it. I would also agree that a wireframe would be outstanding to work from, mainly because the windows on these tubeliners are critical when adding the airline name above them and knowing if you're too high or too low (I compensate for the lack of a wireframe by using FSRepaint to check positioning quickly).
I am afraid that the windows on the Saab are too high. I looked to a Northwest Airlink livery and just judging from an actual image and looking at the liveries of the model, if I put the airlines name above the windows in the correct lettering size, the letters will wrap over the top of the fuselage. Of course I don't know that for sure, but just eyeballing it, that's what it looked like might happen.
I'm just glad they even offer Layered paint kits to be honest. Too many times I've downloaded "so-called" paint kits that ended up just being one flat texture with the panel lines and rivets as part of the texture so there was no way to add shadowing, hilites, etc. . .to me that's not a paint kit.
Bjoern
worst developer ever
I'm using the same method as well. Makes repaining really less of a PITA.
Yep, exactly.
I think repainting and paint kits are crucial factors for the popularity of a model, as is moddability.
A highly accurate "raw mesh layer" generated via Lithunwrap is always used by Eaglesoft as the background layer in the paintkit's .psd files.
I like to copy that layer, paste as a "top layer," then remove the transparent (0,0,0) pixels, leaving only the actual wire-frame. After setting the opacity of that layer to about 50% or so gives me a very accurate way of aligning things... :ernae: