My original intention was to produce panel bmp files WITHOUT incongruencies... i.e:
jet age bezels in WW2 vintage aircraft... errors of perspective, etc. Frontal elevation
gauges hanging there in thin air or ON SIDE PANELS...
Now, at the risk of sounding like a crotchety old dude... I prefer my panels be used "as
is"... or if one adds to them... it somehow enhances them rather than turn them into what I term
the "more is better" idea of some of our fellow sim devotees... I think that only "better
is better"... in other words... if one can improve an artist's work... DO IT but... if detracts
from somebody's efforts... leave well enough alone...
Personally, in the example herebelow ... "termed 'I tricked Gaucho's panel'...." I think the
"tricking" does no enhance the original work.... but rather turns it into exactly what I am tryingto do:
panels that do not look like a hodge-podge of bezels every-which-where!
I did a panel - published since - from an actual photograph - of an Italian pursuit plane - with a
lot of effort... even redid the artwork of the gauges... and find it published by the author with gauges
(very correct) but hanging in thin air... added in excess of what was in the photograph...
I think that if one commissions someone to do something... you either say "it is not what I wanted"
and do it as you like... or say "I'd like thus and so... change it"
But doing amateurish corrections to someone's relatively professional quality work..without their consent...
is not the best of things... I AM NEITHER OFFENDED OR UPSET... I just don't like the idea of someone who
pays attention to detail thinking... this old guy preaches one thing and then puts out the same "sh....t" that
he SAYS is wrong in many 2D panels...
I anyone thinks my reaction is inappropriate please point it out...
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