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If you need some scans let me know.
Cees
I saw potential with this airplane, so I've been adding necessary layers that will be generic for all paints. These are bump and specular files that are, at this time, works in progress but as shown here the AJ-2 Savage is coming into focus.
I couldn't resist doing this skin...it sets off the lines so beautifully.
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Very nice, beautiful skin. This is a tough one as the transition between the wings and the fuselage is not an easy job, at least not for me.
Looking forward to the bump maps!
Cees
THAT does it...I've had it "up to here" seeing all of these excellent screenshots! I'm going to buy this one....
Kent
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Absolutely Roland,
The paints, bumps and the specular files will be available on this site only. Just to keep everyone up to date, the bumps and specular files will go into the shared folder, so all paints by all authors will be upgraded by installing my mods. If a painter does their own specs and bumps, those will go in the actual texture folder for that specific skin and will override the shared folder.
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I think I've worked out a good generic specular map, as well as detailing out the bumps. The gloss blue looks just about right from what I can gather from source photos.
I went back and tuned up this skin, changed a few details and pointed it at the correct model.
Thought I'd throw in a couple of final shots before I hand the prelim bump files off to Cees and anyone else wanting a set to work with.
Prepar3Dv3.1 | REX TD w/Soft Clouds | ASN Live Weather
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That is a very cool paint scheme. Also, thanks for the texture upgrades as well. I'll definitely be looking forward to it's release.
I provided the specs during development but...
Anyway, "Going into the 1950's, the floors, walls, pedestals, control stick up to grip, and console sides were painted an "Interior Green" color similar to but darker than zink chromite green. All surfaces from the bottom edge of the main instrument panel and up were to be a flat (non-specular) black.
"Navy Air Directive 01.1, March 25, 1954 revised the colors to be used in aircraft cockpits to replace the green with gray. (You can do this easy enough with a color replacement tool to change the green to a gray)
"Navy aircraft go in for a PAR (Paint and Rework) service about every two years. So anything flying by 1956 would have had the cockpit color changes. That said, a directive in 1955 changed all exterior coloring from Sea Blue to the new white and Light Gull Gray (FS17038) scheme. So by late 1956/early 1957 any aircraft that flew would have been repainted to that new scheme. At the same time as the exterior color change to gray/white the gear bay interiors and struts were changed to glossy white to make hydraulic leak spotting easier. Prior to that the bays were the green color (then gray for a couple years) and the struts were the "same color as the nearest fuselage"."
If someone feels adventurous I did some testing before release and changing the green bits on AJ-2_gear_1 and AJ-2_gear_2 in the shared folder will give you the white gear bays that the gray/white aircraft would most definitely have had. (Actually I'll ask Phil for those two masters and do it the easy way.)
With all these repaints I'm thinking of buying the Steam Edition for just $12, and if I like it I can always add the DLC later.
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Cees, I've got a good prelim set of bump, panel and spec files for you. I'll zip those up and send them.
After working with the PK further, I discovered multiple layers of parts files for the various interior parts that might have been green or white, depending on when the airplane was in service. Nice of the Virtavia team to provide those.
Screenshots:
The early Sea Blue with specular files working alongside the texture/alpha setup. The light rendering with DR enabled is extremely effective and really responds to specular/alpha combinations. As the airplane moves in and out of clouds, the color/light thrown by the layered textures change dramatically. Learning this new "canvas" is becoming very inspiring.
Prepar3Dv3.1 | DR Lighting Enabled | ASN Live Weather | REX TD/Soft Clouds
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Looking forward to see what these will do with the repaints!
Cees
i may need to get this now The screen shots on the website didnt make it look so great now the user pictures on here really show how nice the model really looks
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I'm not a painter. Following these posts and looking at the screenshots has me in awe of what you guys are doing. These new skins look fantastic, and your discussions are adding a whole new awareness and dimension of what goes into them. Thanks for everyone's efforts. Much appreciated.
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