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PostPosted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 7:17 pm
by JonARNZ
Hi everyone, a quick heads up and sneek peek at two of the next 5 skins coming soon.

These two..

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Another C172(Air Discovery), Mooney Bravo (Massey) and Robinson R22 (North Shore Helicopters). I am planning on releasing all 5 in one hit hopefully the end of next week.

PostPosted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 8:44 pm
by ZK-Brock
Awesome Jon, I'll look forward to it.

PostPosted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 8:53 pm
by Zöltuger
as will I, looking sharp :D

PostPosted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 5:46 am
by JonARNZ
I'm not sure who makes the aircraft models for MS, but they map them in quite strange ways.

I discovered that the 321 engines do things in such a way that you can line up straight lines ok, but try and line up a logo like the freedom sun and forget it. The engine casing and reverser source their textures from different parts of the skin, so one part of the sun was always upside down :angry: Talk about frustrating.

In the end I had to settle for the sun being on the reverser as far forward as I could get it, it was never going to sit across both which is frustrating :(

PostPosted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:35 am
by Jimmy
yes MS certainly don't make it easy too paint there aircraft. Youd think they dont want us doing it, I had a play with the A321 textures a few days ago, was not much fun. Well they did a good job getting an entires aircraft textures in to one image!

PostPosted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:40 am
by JonARNZ
I emailed one of the developers with my 'complaint' well see what comes of that.

PostPosted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:51 am
by Zöltuger
you think that's bad? check out the tail end of the default 747

here's what it looks like in flight sim: (far from perfect, I know)
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and here's what the texture looks like:
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i mean seriously, what ever happened to just doing straight lines? honestly...

PostPosted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 11:02 am
by JonARNZ
Yeah, couldn't have been a repainter who made them me thinks, or they would have understood that

PostPosted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 12:23 pm
by moeraki
Sorry to ask the obvious Zoltuger but are you doing that version for FSX
ie maybe there ia name but the Blue and Green strip colour scheme is by far my favourite over the current scheme.

Cheers looking forward to flying it on FSX
Moe