Megalax

I'm so wrong about PBR... Especially this comment. You can create it. You're a texture artist expert after all, shouldn't be too hard for you to do.

See this is the issue with doing roughmets as a colour map rather than working individual channels separately. Sure it looks okay, but it doesn't follow conventional PBR as it is meant to function within DCS. You can whine all day about its practicality, but I didn't come up with the convention and its how all the models that use roughmets work in DCS. When you work this way you have texture information in channels where it doesn't belong, such as the AO (Ambient Occlusion) channels All that artwork shouldn't be there. AO is for shading. At the very least it should be the addition of what Aqil has done with the rivets plus the AO found in the template. plus this which is already in the template ..slightly edited of course as there are things in there that should also not be there. null

Here is the template converted for Gimpers. https://mega.nz/file/C183CBjJ#AB-qN7pp3UGQbMhjH0IeFHqGVuJdHvkBcjX7cR74uWM FYI Gimp 2.99 supports .psb format. Its just in beta and they still say its unstable.

Now I remember why you were banned from the LAG Discord.

@Reflected I'll answer you here regarding your question on roughmets. In order to "trick" the game into accepting roughmets for spec skins, you need to create roughmet textures for them. You don't need to over complicate anything, you just need to create them with the proper naming convention so that the game activates PBR rather than SPEC. So the way to do it is to figure out what the default diffuse/albedo texture is called, and then to create roughmets for it it you will need to use that same name and append "_roughmet" to its name. So if the default aldedo's name is in this example b-17g_fuzelage_1_d.dds then you need to create a roughmet that will serve as a base and call it b-17g_fuzelage_1_d_roughmet.dds. If you want this trick to pass IC you need to create a new folder named just like the zip found in the textures folder to dump your base roughmets in. Doing this forces the game to ignore all spec maps for that part from now on. The only issue with it is that it messes with old user made skins that were created using spec maps. In this example here I used Bandog's Texas Raiders skin with the roughmet I made for D-Day Doll, which is the current default livery: So the workaround here is to create a matte paint default roughmet that will serve as a base for old liveries while allowing new ones to move to the roughmet standard. In doing this now the default livery D-Day Doll will need to supply it's own roughmets in order to get the metallic shine. So worst case user "metal" skins will look like the current default livery: ...until users update their stuff to the new standard. This issue isn't something new, there are tons of Mustang, Sabre and other liveries in the user files that were abandoned by their makers that no longer work properly after the textures were updated to roughmets.

Not sure why you're speaking about roughmets in terms of colours, they are not a colour map. They are 4 distinct material maps placed across the 4 available channels of an image. Each colour channel affects a different part of the PBR. "Red" is not what a roughmet needs for glossy paint, its near fully black on the Green channel, which means that Green is nearly completely omitted. In order to work on roughmets properly you need to split things into the 4 channels and work each one individually.

The default skin looks 10x better with roughmets :

He doesn't need anyone's guidance lol.

Mach3DS knows what he's doing, don't worry Urbi.

Did it get updated to roughmets?

Duuuuude.

Silver paint.

Update looks great but the wing roundels are still wrong.

Its the Kil numbers From DGambo

Did you try not dashing out the bort number lines and actually assigning something to them, along with the args values? Seems to be another difference I have in mine.

Hm.. mine just say [27] not [0027] and it works.

What does your description.lua look like?

No, because it would largely depend on the names of the texture files. Some people change them, some don't. You'd still end up with a huge chunk of liveries that don't work. Your best bet is to start over and dump all your liveries that don't work and redownload them if the original author took the time to update them. Is there a USN livery being loaded into your mission at the same time?

The wing is upside down. SR version of the Concorde?

Like I said in the original post, we have Australian borts, and they were A models too. So it doesn't matter.

Bumping this since we just had Bort number additions to the Hornet. Give me a reason to make my RCAF Hornet skins into a new version.

I increased the scale of the base template in PS. Then used it in Gimp and started to revamp everything. I redid all the stenciling, redid some of the details. Its a lot of work to do. Unfortunately I will not share my template publicly. Its far too large by now and it is completely impractical to share.

All my Hornet Liveries in the User Files have been updated to fix the bort number issue that showed up with the last patch. Cheers!