Simviation Forum - My first serious repaint!

Feb 6^th, 2003 at 7:01am

Erez Offline
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I finished my first big repaint, the Israeli Air Force's first fighter jet, the Gloster Meteor F.8.
I hope you like it!!!!

Damn i'm good! 8)

Erez

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Reply #1 - Feb 6^th, 2003 at 8:09am

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great job, just the textures are a little off towards the back whith that white stripe, its better than i can do...

great job, keep at it and get better so you can advance to be one of the best.

very nice

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Reply #2 - Feb 6^th, 2003 at 10:20am

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great job!

for it's your 1st repaint job it's just fine Wink

keep goin'..... congrats!!!
nice scheme btw!

cya!

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Reply #3 - Feb 6^th, 2003 at 12:00pm

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looks really good to me

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Reply #4 - Feb 6^th, 2003 at 7:36pm

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nice...... i like it Wink

great job!!

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Reply #5 - Feb 6^th, 2003 at 8:21pm

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very nice!

Much better then my first repaint. In fact i'm almost ashamed of it Embarrassed

What's worse is that people are still downloading it a year later! Shocked

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Reply #6 - Feb 6^th, 2003 at 9:46pm

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???
sooooo, witch repaint is this??
I'm curious now Wink

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Reply #7 - Feb 7^th, 2003 at 2:15am

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You can find it here on SimV Wink

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Reply #8 - Feb 7^th, 2003 at 2:16am

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You can find it here on SimV Wink

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Reply #9 - Feb 7^th, 2003 at 7:56am

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Thank you all!!!
I am very proud of it....
at first I worked on the first version of the aircraft that didn't had reflective textures, so i tried to play with the colors on the BMP's to make it look more shiny... than I saw that there is a brand new version 2 that got reflective textures, and with my affort with the colors it came out great...
anyhow, thanks... when I done with the work I felt what only parents, designers and repainters feel when they see they're baby ,that they worked really hard on, feel.

Erez

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Reply #10 - Feb 7^th, 2003 at 8:23am

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very nice pics

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Reply #11 - Feb 7^th, 2003 at 10:22am

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Nice repaint erez, looks real good.

What software do you guys find is the best for repainting? Texture convertors etc.

I would love to give it a go but am not sure where to start, I have done repaints in CFS1 but that was a long time ago.

If anyone with any helpful info wants to drop me an email, you can contact me here webmaster@jokersaviation.org or go to the email link on my website, found left or below.

Cheers and keep up the good work all.

Joker 8)

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Reply #12 - Feb 7^th, 2003 at 10:49am

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well pal

I use mainly 2 softwares: Paint Shop Pro 7 and DXTBmp
the 1st one is my painter itself, with lots of fliters (included) and some nice fx. it's not free but U can have a free demo (full functional) for some days.
The second one is for free just make a search here at simv or google and U will find it - this software is the one to work with alpha channel, ie, the "metal, chrome" reflective paintings that we largely use today.
Call me anytime if U need help, ok?

cya!

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Reply #13 - Feb 8^th, 2003 at 2:18pm

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Any of you guys know what happend to Roger Hardy, the guy that made this Meteor? I tried to contact him with Email, but it didn't work. So what can I do? I want to upload it but i can't without his permission... DAMN!!!

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Reply #14 - Feb 8^th, 2003 at 2:30pm

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Erez nice work. You are far better at painting than me!

Ozzy

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Reply #15 - Feb 8^th, 2003 at 2:56pm

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Very nice job, my first through to fiftieth attempts have been unmitigated disasters. Well done Erez.

Will Grin

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Reply #16 - Feb 8^th, 2003 at 4:15pm

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Erez

I could'nt find him too
that's why my meteor was not uploaded, I won't brake any rule, it's better this way.
Hey guys, any sugestion 4 us?

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Reply #17 - Feb 10^th, 2003 at 3:23am

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hi guys.
how do u can repaint? when i open the textures files, I just see a black square.

thanx

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Reply #18 - Feb 10^th, 2003 at 8:04am

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ADI

the reason for this is:

the bmp are not exactly a regular bmp, in fact these bmp are special cos they have 2 diferent layers in it. Let me explain better, in order to have reflective texture, there is a layer called alpha (alpha channel) responsible for the reflective tones and the bmp itself.
So, regular softwares (paint, photoshop, paintshop) don't "open' these layers and everything is black or blank.
The solution? D/l DXTBmp, a software (free) that will open these 2 layers in order to U work with em
Hope I helped! Wink

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Reply #19 - Feb 11^th, 2003 at 2:36am

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Quote:

Hope I helped! Wink

ARE YOU KIDDING? 8)
of course u helped 8) 8)

BTW, where can I download that FREEWARE ( Cheesy

)?
thanx

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Reply #20 - Feb 11^th, 2003 at 7:32am

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here is the link!
C:\Graphics\MWGraphics\DXTBmp\DXTBmp.htm

and..be my guest, question what U will, anytime at all!

cya!

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Reply #21 - Feb 11^th, 2003 at 2:55pm

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here is the link!
C:\Graphics\MWGraphics\DXTBmp\DXTBmp.htm

Here's the correct URL to the website: http://www.mnwright.btinternet.co.uk/index.htm

Wink

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Reply #22 - Feb 12^th, 2003 at 6:04am

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thanx guys!

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Reply #23 - Feb 12^th, 2003 at 7:36am

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whhhhat??

can't believe what I'e wrote!!!
I automatically and inconsciously gave the archive address!!! - I must be crazy!!!!!
Embarrassed

uuuuups!

very sorry! Embarrassed

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Reply #24 - Feb 20^th, 2003 at 4:28am

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Excellent work Erez you made me proud - keep on going!! Cheesy

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Reply #25 - Feb 21^st, 2003 at 7:43am

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Thanks, but you see, I can't upload it...

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Reply #26 - Mar 4^th, 2003 at 1:20am

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That is nice there Erez --> As you can tell i have read your emails in regards to me updating Roger Hardy's Model using FSDS2.
I too tried all one could to contact this bloke, but to no avail.
As the source file for this (& the DH Vampire/Venom) is public domain at www.freeflightdesign.com, it is important to keep all original documentation and credit the original authour. This is what i did with this model.

Now the main reason one released it was the fact that I had actually changed a fair bit on the model (such as the 3d gear bays, part renaming & animation) but at the same time keeping it as original as possible as the original work was very good. This is why i also put the source file with the aircraft.

As for the repaints, there are quite a few repaints that have been released for the Meteor Model, both for my update (see www.gjsmith.com) and for the original (see www.sim-outhouse.com) which was converted for CFS2 use using the source file from FreeFlight Design. Thus considering this I would personally hope that these repaints ARE released so we can ALL enjoy them. And i would like to see your repaints there Foo_Fighter!!

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