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Thank you for the I-16 skins

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HouseHobbit

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Ndicki, I wish to Thank you for the great I-16 skins..
I can fly several different looking I-16 on the eastern front and in Spain now..
Thanks for the efforts..

<<<S>>>

HouseHobbit

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My pleasure! Glad you like them! There are one or two more to come when I get a moment...

All I did though was fiddle around with Jon's template, so the credit should really go to him, in any case.
 
3 more from me.
I've also noticed a small mapping issue on the right wing over the canon.
this has been fixed and a new model with new FM will be uploaded at some point.

Jon
 
WOW Jon,
These skins are Great..
I am going to have all kinds of I-16's to play with thanks to your efforts and others..
Thanks to all..


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lewis11777 said:
Can you explain to me what are LOD's exactly and what are these for?
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LOD means "Level of Detail". Briefly, the closer you "stand" to a model, the better you see it, so LOD100 means you see 100% of the detail on the visual model. But as you move away, both in reality and in real life, you can make out less and less detail, until finally, you have only a speck in the sky. Models with LODs reflect this, in that you will have sub-models which actually have less detail: LOD80, LOD50, and so on. The final LOD may be little more than a few polys to form a cross-shape.

That means that as you are rarely close enough to the model to see it at 100%, you use less processing power, and you can therefore have a greater number of models visible at any one time.

If you've ever flown CFS2, you'll have seen this; some models you can have fifteen or twenty of in view and still have decent FPS, while with others, two or three in your field of view and you've got a slideshow. That generally means that while the first aircraft model has LODs, the second - often FS converts - does not, and so the computer is straining to reproduce every poly of the original 100% model even though all you can see is a fly-spot.

Equally, you may have noticed that as you zoom in or out on a model in "flight" view, things like propellors suddenly disappear. That just means that you've switched from one LOD to a lower one, in which the prop is no longer modelled.

In theory. Transitioning seamlessly from high LODs to low LODs is a skill only the best modellers do perfectly...
 
there were only 2 LOD's.
100 and 20 and in LOD_20 I never made the horizontal stabilizers until lastnight.
now that doesn't happen anymore.
also I added the prop and spinner to the lower LOD.
give me some time to work on the vc and LOD's and I'll update it.

Jon


ndicki said:
Talking of LODs, Jon, the tailplane disappears a bit early... :isadizzy:
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Thanks for continuing to discuss this model publicly Jon. It helps us learners learn more! :ernae:
 
Great news, Jon! :salute:

Actually, while I remember - did they have one with skis?.....
 
that they did Nigel and I happen to have a pretty good pic of the skis.
been kicking around the idea of modeling them for sometime now.
but that would mean I have to finish the gears and I am not looking forward to that since they are all animated now...I guess I should map them too.

ndicki said:
Great news, Jon! :salute:

Actually, while I remember - did they have one with skis?.....
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