De-shining the IRIS P-40: Help needed!

[Wild Bill Kelso]

Hi, folks!

The IRIS P-40 appeared a little too glossy in my eyes, at least for worn warbird repaints.

So I pulled all my courage together and installed Ivan Hsu's MDLC (v117beta) and Morton's Windows GUI (into the same directory, of course!). After backing up the (no bombs) P-40E_1.mdl, I tried to set the specular RBG value to 0.1.
This is what I got:

http://i603.photobucket.com/albums/tt112/wildbillkelso_berlin/Kittyhawk/mdlc1.jpg

Has anyone an idea what went wrong?

Tried the same with another model which seemed too shiny too (Hawker Typhoon), but ended up the same way...

Any help appreciated!

Thanks in advance,
Markus.

[Z-claudius24]

Hi,

Downloading and will test :)

[Z-claudius24]

Hi,

Work for me ....

http://i39.tinypic.com/of4j5x.jpg

[OBIO]

Marcus

Give it a go with MDLC V190. I find that V190 works better for shining and deshining newer MDL files.

OBIO

[Wild Bill Kelso]

Thanks for your answers, gents!

@ Obio:
Got any source for this newer version?
Google is not my friend in this case...

[Z-claudius24]

Hi,


Got any source for this newer version?

Check the name Archisoft in archives !

[Wild Bill Kelso]

I did.
Only 4 files available - MDLC V190 not included...

[OBIO]

Marcus

Will send it to you via e-mail.

OBIO

[Z-claudius24]

Hi,

This file work for me :

by archisoft (http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/page.php?lloc=downloads&loc=downloads&page=downloads&FileUploadName=archisoft)(2007-11-17 05:47:18) http://www.sim-outhouse.com/site/images/blank.gif How to build CFS2 weapons using MDLC (http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/page.php?lloc=downloads&loc=downloads&page=info&FileID=8977) (2) CFS2 Utilities (http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/page.php?lloc=downloads&loc=downloads&page=downloads&FileType=cfs2-utilities) http://www.sim-outhouse.com/site/images/blank.gif http://www.sim-outhouse.net/soh_ftp/cfs2-utilities/MDLC.jpg (http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/#download) mdlc_190_weap.zip (http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/#download) (1.5 Meg) (downloaded 857 times) How to build CFS2 weapons using MDLC An easy way to build CFS2 weapons without SCASM coding, to use the MDLC /P command will support this way now.
by archisoft (http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/page.php?lloc=downloads&loc=downloads&page=downloads&FileUploadName=archisoft)

[johnh_049]

Where can I find the mk_mdl file? i used to have it, but lost it .
:wavey:

[OBIO]

johnh

Are you taking about Morton's Windows interface for MDLC (at least I think it was Morton who wrote that handy dandy little gadget)? If so, shoot me a PM with your E-Mail address and I will send it to you.

OBIO

[Wild Bill Kelso]

Thanks for your help, OBIO! :salute:

Installed it again and failed miserably - again.
Then I took an other glimpse into the readme file and installed it into a 8-characters filepath (was "C:\Programme" before). That did the trick!

No shine anymore:
http://i603.photobucket.com/albums/tt112/wildbillkelso_berlin/Kittyhawk/3072_10.jpg

Now I know what readme files are for... :redface:

@ claudius:
Thank you for the HU. I simply ignored that file, because CFS weapons were mentioned...

Going to ask IRIS for permission to upload the de-shined model file.

Cheers,
Markus.

[Fauville]

Nice Markus, looks even better now:applause:

[Z-claudius24]

Hi,

Waiting to fly it :)

[Flyboy208]

Nice Markus, looks even better now:applause:

I could not agree more! Mike :wiggle:

[johnh_049]

johnh

Are you taking about Morton's Windows interface for MDLC (at least I think it was Morton who wrote that handy dandy little gadget)? If so, shoot me a PM with your E-Mail address and I will send it to you.

OBIO

Thanks, Tim. I'll put it someplace where reformatting can't get rid of it...

[brad kaste]

....Thanks Markus for going through this effort in 'de-shining' the IRIS P-40. It looks too phony otherwise....