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Sep 16^th, 2009 at 6:05am

jrbirdman Offline
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FS9 repaints of Alan Devins Bell 407 in KOMO 4, and KIRO 7 textures! I have asked over at hovercontrol but I think they are dead over there since no one ever responded. Grin

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Reply #1 - Sep 22^nd, 2009 at 11:43am

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just want to second that. It would be great if someone could do these.

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Reply #2 - Sep 22^nd, 2009 at 1:29pm

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I think it's do-able.

Give me a week or so to get started on it.

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Joe

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Reply #3 - Sep 24^th, 2009 at 12:27pm

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First stab at the KOMO4 skin unearthed some texture mapping issues. Disregard everything in this shot except how the stripes line up at the doors.

Not much I can do about this as what you see under the red arrow is mapped to the same part of the texture sheet as what's under the black arrow. Cry

Kind of a Catch-22 situation. I could flatten out the angle of the stripes to make them look better close up, however it would be obvious they don't line up with the stripe continuing on the other side of the window when zoomed out.

The further away you view what you see here, the less obvious it is.

So give me some feedback, can you live with it, or should I bag it?

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Joe

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Reply #4 - Sep 25^th, 2009 at 8:11am

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If I may, and this is a serious labor of love suggestion, I ran into this similar problem on the Gmax A109.

Create a 'grid' layer on the paint kit, and apply it in game so that you can get a good shot like the one above with the grid showing.

Once you have the shot, you will know where on the paint kit, to offset the lines that go across the door, to where it looks 'off' on the paint kit, but when it is applied in game, it looks correct.

It's a pain in the butt to do, but the results are worth it.

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Reply #5 - Sep 25^th, 2009 at 9:09am

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If you can't do what Shane suggested, I can live with it.

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Reply #6 - Sep 25^th, 2009 at 11:45am

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You mean like this...

If you look in the red oval it is clear that there is a repetition of the 3 and the 5. Changing 1 changes both, nothing I can do about that. In fact the outline of the doors pretty clearly doesn't match up with the fuselage.

Such are the woes of a flight sim repainter.

I shall continue on, though my free time is limited right now so don't hold yer breath. Wink

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Joe

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Reply #7 - Sep 25^th, 2009 at 1:20pm

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I love your grid system! Cool

You're right, not much can be done there. Embarrassed

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Such are the woes of a flight sim repainter.

Don't I know it. Grin

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Reply #8 - Sep 25^th, 2009 at 1:45pm

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ShaneG wrote on Sep 25^th, 2009 at 1:20pm:

I love your grid system! Cool

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It's called Panelfinder, there are 2 varieties. You can find them at this great resource for painters - http://www.simmerspaintshop.com/forums/dlcat-general-12/

Happy stroking (of the paint brushes),
Joe

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Reply #9 - Oct 5^th, 2009 at 9:27pm

jrbirdman Offline
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Just wanted to see how things were progressing with the project.

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Reply #10 - Oct 6^th, 2009 at 12:18am

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jrbirdman wrote on Oct 5^th, 2009 at 9:27pm:

Just wanted to see how things were progressing with the project.

Slowly, haven't been blessed with a lot of free time to paint and my video card took a dump.

But I haven't forgotten about it.

Joe

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Reply #11 - Nov 1^st, 2009 at 7:54pm

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Here's an update...

About as good as it can get. Can only do so much when the same pixel is displayed twice, in different areas.

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Joe

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Reply #12 - Nov 29^th, 2009 at 11:04pm

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Just an update, if your following this topic.

See - http://205.252.250.26/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1259109196

and - http://205.252.250.26/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1259378234

If you want the textures, drop me a PM with your e-mail address I can send them to.

cheers,
Joe

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