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I made this a couple of years ago: http://forums.eagle.ru:8080/showthread.php?t=134953&page=19 Its also on YouTube https://youtu.be/5pGwCyaqOxc

They look good Joey ! Passion fruit and Chocolate fudge is good too !::drunk:

Good on you Fenrir, thanks for posting it up.

I have had some great info sent to me from an engineer at Dowty Propellers that absorbed ROTOL way back when. Heres 4 pages of relevant info from 1942 in colour to :

Works well thanks Auto!

That would be much appreciated Kizir, id like to see what you have come up with, thanks mate.

You blokes must be flat out busy, another great mod, thanks.

Great job Kizir , im almost finished re-editing all mine for release soon as well. I would just wish that we could see some ability to adjust the specular layers, it would help greatly.

Thanks Auto il check it out!

Nice job Ref, they certainly are realistic, well done. Im avoiding looking at my old ones until 2.1 consolidates what its going to do skins wise.

I thought i would run a "little exercise" just for info, so i thought i would post what i have found here, i dont think its "New news" but it might help some people understand. Any way i thought it would be interesting and something to discuss.

Ive messed around with the pilot skins and come up with some less shiny ones, il put them into my skins, they will be out soon as i did a bit of a revamp by changing the Exhaust stack and some of the finer detail. Ive improved the Khaki uniform colour i think, and i have gotten close the RAAF uniform Blue, and as you can see the RAF Blue is different. Also gave the RAAF models some new gloves. RAF pilot RAAF Tropical / European/ Africa / Desert RAAF European / Africa Theatre

Hiya Shaggy, i did a quick search on Google and it brought up a lot of info, id say you have and its a bit of info overload by the looks, but if your making a hangar - good luck, it will be good to see.

That looks very good Jocko, well done !

As for the gamma slider, people will be different in their settings, so i generally have my setting on about 1.7 hoping that most people are similar. And as for your last question, i dont know, i suspect it is, but cant say for sure.

Auto, the only way i have seen so far to adapt to the two main options ( as i see) Deferred shading and HDR, is what Tom Weiss over at Lockon files ( http://www.****************/?_fromLogout=1) is doing, he makes skins with two specular textures , so you have to replace one or the other depending on if you use DS or HDR. It works but basically you have two skins versions of everything - HDR and DS. Im messing around trying to see if there is a setting that will serve both options, not having much luck though.

Hi Auto, finding the right settings for the specular textures to work well are so far a bit fiddly, each skin is different so the spec settings are a bit different, im messing around at the moment with all my Spit skins , its a bit of a trial an error at the moment, the point is you have to find that "sweet spot" for each individual skin. Thats what i have found anyway.

Thanks George :), that makes it really easy, and thanks to Uboats who makes bloody great mods , as usual.:thumbup:

Ive looked around the files, i cant find anything, its probably buried in a dll file or something somewhere, i also looked at the model viewer but that only shows the texture names.

Im not totally sure, but i think "pilot_P51_body" is the material name used by DCS to connect to the texture file , in this case "Pilot_P51_01_MA" , im probably right off the mark.

+ 100 good stuff !

Great work again Hawkeye and Co, what we reall y need now is one of these :

Thanks Hornet, i must have been on my 5th or 6th stubby when i was doing that one, il fix asap. Sorry about that !

Yes your probably right Jocko, it wasnt as uncommon as may seem, i have seen quite a few RAF, RAAF and others with similar markings. The bottom line is they aint put on to make the plane look pretty !:thumbup:

Your right, a few years ago i was approached by Chiz about my "Australia" Mod to add into the country's list with all the medals, flags and military units etc. It has been done. It was donated, and i was happy to do it.