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lol nah this is all you Darkwanderer, thanks again! This is very cool. Rep inbound. And to you too urze for pointing me in the right direction.

yea what's a glow amraam....a defective missile? The point of an amraam is to have low visability, that's why its usually smokeless. But a glowing amraam- now that's a cool guy lol.

yea if you guys could find any good vertical pictures like that, I'm all open to ideas. Even though ace combat is an arcade game, you have to admit, they come out with some pretty nice artwork. So if you find something similar, send them my way.

I can put that together for you Hitman, you want it in version 2 of the main screen? Just to clarify, there's 2 hogs in pairs (the first one and the last one) And theres 2 Su-25T over the river, the 2nd one and the last one. Which one do you want?

Ok here was the list of pictures I chose for the quickstart pictures Tell me which one was the best. Keep in mind, I chose some particular pictures because it looked good in its borders. Plus it goes well with the other pictures to make the overall look good. Also, if you have a picture that you want me to put in, feel free to send it to me. The higher the res the better so I have more room to work with. The very minimum picture resolution has to be 239x161.

One thing I probably need to fix is the color font on the main background. It's kinda hard to read it since the background isn't dark enough. Does anyone know how to change the menu font only without changing the in-game HUD colors. Because from the looks of it, mine is the same mint-color green font as my HUG.

I need some help looking at this code again, because it looks looks like its more than just the 4 lines at the bottom of each file. There's about 12 versions of different sky color modes in the SkyColorMod1.2. There's Summer, winter, cloud front, rain (3 version), snow (2 version), and thunderstorm (3 versions) For the ones that has more than one versions, the code stays the same but it looks different in game (therefore, some other values must have changed) All I want to achieve is a slightly darker sky like the screenshot in my previous post. The stock values are (standard blue) dp3 r0.x,r1,c10 dp3 r0.y,r1,c11 dp3 r0.z,r1,c12 min r0,r0,c9.z mov r0.w,c9.x summer - light blue dp3 r0.x,r1,c11 dp3 r0.y,r1,c12 dp3 r0.z,r1,c13 min r0,r0,c9.z mov r0.w,c9.x Winter (still blue) - same as stock values? and Cloud Front? dp3 r0.x,r1,c10 dp3 r0.y,r1,c11 dp3 r0.z,r1,c12 min r0,r0,c9.z mov r0.w,c9.x All the rain are these values (grey) Rain Grey dp3 r0.x,r1,c11 dp3 r0.y,r1,c11 dp3 r0.z,r1,c11 min r0,r0,c9.z mov r0.w,c9.x Snow (white) are these values Snow (white) dp3 r0.x,r1,c12 dp3 r0.y,r1,c12 dp3 r0.z,r1,c12 min r0,r0,c9.z mov r0.w,c9.x and Thunderstorms (dark grey) dp3 r0.x,r1,c10 dp3 r0.y,r1,c10 dp3 r0.z,r1,c10 min r0,r0,c9.z mov r0.w,c9.x So as you can see, the values remain confined within c10-c12- RGB conversion, not sure how to make dark blue out of this. :helpsmilie:

Ah ok sorry for the mix up joker.

@Lotham, feel free to post this thread and link over at the C6 forum. I would do this myself but my high school French is a bit rusty haha. (All I know is that my name Michael is apparently a girl’s name Michelle over there) @Cosmonaut, I may one day take a look at a 4:3 ratio screen but this is going to be a while because the template I made was designed for widescreens only. So to change it, requires reworking the entire thing. @HitchHikingFlatlande, technically any .dds file you make as a main screen would work. The question is whether it would look correct or not. Since I made it for a widescreen, trying to compress it into a 4:3 ratio monitor might make it look a bit stretch. Cosmonaut showed me his conversion of my screen to 1024, although it looks fine to most people, I see it slightly stretching and that kinda bothered my eyes. I’m really picky about these things, but that’s why I’m on the beta teams because I am picky about details. @shamandgg, yea I was going to put the Soviet Union Flag on the side instead of the current Russian Flag but it didn’t look good on the side. But that’s a good idea on a NATO flag instead of the American flag. So I might need to look around for a flag that’s “wavy” And yea, that MiG-29 is the wrong one but I believe it’s a German MiG-29, and since that particular quickstart was a MiG-29G, I thought it was more appropriate. Plus I couldn’t get another good picture lol. I’ll later post up a series of pictures that I was considering and let the public decide which was the best one.

Yea sure but right now this is the beta phase to work out any potential problems, like the one shown in 159th_Viper screen. Note sure why that's happening. Are you on an ATI card? Because I remember before for some cards, it HAS to be res 1024x1024, so this might be one of them. But then that just goes in the face of high resolution. =/

These were put together for widescreens only (16:10) Although the menu was created in a 1600x1600 resolution, these were increased to 3000x3000 to minimize jagged edges in the pictures so that explains why each one is about 30 mb. Hope you enjoy it! Please report back any problems. **download link expired** but you can download the template and get a more personal version of the mainscreen http://www.virtual-jabog32.de/index.php?section=downloads&subcat=13&file=938&lang=en&PHPSESSID=3048d90f67bcec582e9e212f1cadc6bd Further note: I don’t think I would be creating 4:3 ratio screens since Cosmonaut seems to be heading in this front. But big thanks to him for telling me to use uncompressed version. How to Install: 1.) Check the previews on which one you like the best 2.) If you found one, simply remain it main-screen and throw it into your Eagle Dynamics\Lock On\FUI\Common folder As always: back out your original file first, and I'm not responsible for anything that may go wrong. Thanks to various sources like Ace Combat for the photos and screenshotart. Here's a small preview version 1 version 2 version 3

yea for some reason, on the widescreen, going higher won't give you jagged edges.

actually the 30 mb one is still ok (res 3000x3000), the 100 mb one with resolution 6000x6000, lol, now that took just a bit longer.

It has been mentioned. http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=31935&highlight=ruggbutt

oh cool, good to see you back mitch. If you ever have the time to figure out what you did to the parameters in those 4 files, let me know. I would really like to get the sky darker. btw, how is your F-5 project coming along?

EXCELLENT SHOT HITMAN. i would give you rep points but you left your NAV lights on while fighting so I'm not going to haha. JK, gotta spread some around before I get back to you.

Happy Bday man!

Nice, happy bday man. You are a good man!

Thanks this is a start, now i need to find the values for the color I posted above.Going to be hard without knowing what each values represents.

only race I'm interested in are AIR RACES: RED BULL AIR RACE lol wooo lol now I feel like one of those nascar idiots in the stands that doesn't have a shirt on

I know this thread is indeed old, and Mitch probably no longer plays lock on, does anyone know how mitch was able to change the colors of the sky. Like what do I have to alter within the files. It seems possible to be done through notepad.

I do admit on other aircrafts it looks good, like the F-14 with the jolly roger colors, it also has the black outlines. But on the flanker, I think it kinda makes it to western-like. But whatever, the Flanker design is beautiful nonetheless.

no it doesn't, that picture was from Yeniceri a long time ago, almost as old as when the Sky mod first came out (so the HDR mod was not installed, maybe mitch's cloud mod). It's the same picture, he just used photoshop on the other side to ask if anyone could tweak the colors like that. It was never done, so I'm asking again.

Can someone help me alter the colors of this mod? I want my sky color similar tot he right side of the pic

since this changes the meint, thomas might have to put out a compatibility meint for this latest skin to CAW, however, it would be easier if deadman pointed out the changes he made, like highlight them. And we could edit it manually. @deadman, it would be cool if you added the list of suggestions that I made previously in your PM, I think that would really refine the look of these skins. Maybe in a future pack?