_YaeSakura_ Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3316840/ VF-143 is now up for grabs~ Once again, will need the CAG(BuNo 159434) downloaded for the additional Mediafire package to function as intended. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fghidalg Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 On 6/2/2021 at 7:57 AM, isoko said: hello everyone, dear Isoko, really all your works are wonderful and fantastic, there is some news with this scheme, thank you very much 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunslinger22 Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 (edited) I'm starting work on what I haven't seen represented yet, the filthy and grimy cats of VF-2's 1987 Cruise. These are just early tests and will need much more detail with salt and sun burn added to them. Edited July 9, 2021 by Gunslinger22 5 "I'm just a dude, playing a dude, disguised as another dude." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomcatter87 Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 On 7/9/2021 at 2:59 PM, Gunslinger22 said: I'm starting work on what I haven't seen represented yet, the filthy and grimy cats of VF-2's 1987 Cruise. These are just early tests and will need much more detail with salt and sun burn added to them. Looking realls awesome! 1987 was quite interesting from a skinners perspective. It seems to me that the tomcat squadrons had quite a mix of paintjobs, some shiny light-grey cats with HiVis markings and also really subdued, battle-worn low visibility schemes. Modules: F-14A/B | M-2000C | AJS-37 | Mi-24P | F/A-18C | A-10C II | F-16C | UH-1H | F-5E | Mi-8 | FC 3 | AV-8B | A-4E | Gazelle | Ka-50 | Yak-52 | CE2 Maps: Syria | Marianas | NTTR | Persian Gulf | Caucasus Setup: Virpil WarBRD Base & VFX | TM Warthog | Arozzi Velocita Stand | Monstertech Mount | MFG Crosswind | Cougar MFDs | VRInsight Panel | JetSeat 908 | TrackIR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunslinger22 Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 Boy is it a challenge to match the TPS Grey tones, all refence pictures naturally paint it in a different tone with each different picture. Nor do I think that FS 35237/36370 work very well within sim to best represent how sitting on the flight deck matures these cats. Anyway, back to more testing and work. "I'm just a dude, playing a dude, disguised as another dude." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LanceCriminal86 Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 The problem is photography, changes in paint mix, weathering, and lighting all combine to influence how our eyes see the TPS colors in photographs. What film was used, how was it processed, were they scanned Kodachrome slides and someone forgot to adjust for the blue tinting, what ISO did they use, was it overcast or full sun, was the jet freshly painted. There's no 100% way to get it perfect, except for everyone to use the same hex values for the colors and then make small brightness adjustments from there. It used to be you needed to take whatever published hex value for a color and drop it by 10% brightness so it wouldn't look washed out. But, a while back I stopped using the adjustment layers in the template and personally preferred the overall color balance. Add to all that they keep changing the lighting in the sim, and the shaders as well. You need to compare a bright, direct summer sunlight photo to similar conditions in-sim to see if it correctly washes out the contrast of the TPS. Another thing, It seems to me most often the corrosion control spot paint used is close to the light ghost gray used on the underside of the jet, so that's usually what I use for my corrosion control layers. If you want to get fancy, you can even add some color variation in the brush by a few %, but that means no two passes will have the exact same color. But it adds that visual variation from panel to panel if that's what you seek. 1 Heatblur Rivet Counting Squad™ VF-11 and VF-31 1988 [WIP] VF-201 & VF-202 [WIP] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSplayer Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 Is the paint kit that is in the first post still up to date? I'm trying to edit the LAU-7 pylon but it only has the Base + UV Guide as layers and doesn't include weathering. -Tinkerer, Certified F-14 and AIM-54 Nut | Discord: @dsplayer Setup: i7-8700k, GTX 1080 Ti, 32GB 3066Mhz, Lots of Storage, Saitek/Logitech X56 HOTAS, TrackIR + TrackClipPro Modules: F-14, F/A-18, JF-17, F-16C, Mirage 2000C, FC3, F-5E, Mi-24P, AJS-37, AV-8B, A-10C II, AH-64D, MiG-21bis, F-86F, MiG-19P, P-51D, Mirage F1, L-39, C-101, SA342M, Ka-50 III, Supercarrier, F-15E Maps: Caucasus, Marianas, South Atlantic, Persian Gulf, Syria, Nevada Mods I've Made: F-14 Factory Clean Cockpit Mod | Modern F-14 Weapons Mod | Iranian F-14 Weapons Pack | F-14B Nozzle Percentage Mod + Label Fix | AIM-23 Hawk Mod for F-14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Entreaken1 Posted September 3, 2021 Share Posted September 3, 2021 Giving it a go with a fictional skin, VF-22 Tridents. Still a WIP. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkJedi_7 Posted September 14, 2021 Share Posted September 14, 2021 (edited) https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3318363/ Edited September 17, 2021 by DarkJedi_7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
==Wiggy== Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 (edited) Made these for a guy... VF-31 1991 Med Cruise. 200 201 205 210 Edited September 16, 2021 by 000rick000 9 Cheers, Rick CSEL\CMEL\IFR Certified Airplane Nut Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackjack171 Posted September 17, 2021 Share Posted September 17, 2021 13 hours ago, 000rick000 said: Made these for a guy... VF-31 1991 Med Cruise. 200 201 205 210 This is awesome! Do you plan to release this? DO it or Don't, but don't cry about it. Real men don't cry! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShinyMikey Posted September 17, 2021 Share Posted September 17, 2021 15 hours ago, 000rick000 said: Made these for a guy... VF-31 1991 Med Cruise. 200 201 205 210 Nice! Hope to see those on the available to download Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
==Wiggy== Posted September 17, 2021 Share Posted September 17, 2021 3 hours ago, Jackjack171 said: This is awesome! Do you plan to release this? 1 hour ago, ShinyMikey said: Nice! Hope to see those on the available to download I made these for someone. But I do plan on making an earlier full color set of VF-31. Probably circa 1988. These are from 1991. 1 Cheers, Rick CSEL\CMEL\IFR Certified Airplane Nut Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_YaeSakura_ Posted September 23, 2021 Share Posted September 23, 2021 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burnie Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 Did anyone manage to nail down where the lod file is that makes all the tomcats go grey at about 1nm? Not the 3 in 1, I've done that, but the one that's for further ranges? i7 10700k @4.8GHz | Aurora GTX 3080 | Samsung NVMe m.2 970 Pro 1Tb x 3 | Corsair 64GB DDR4 3200MHz HP Reverb G2 | Vkb Gunfighter II MCG Pro Stick | Virpil T-50CM Throttle | MFG Crosswind Pedals | Custom built collective | 150 button custom cockpit with 3 x Cougar MFDs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airhunter Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 On 9/16/2021 at 11:59 PM, 000rick000 said: Made these for a guy... VF-31 1991 Med Cruise. 200 201 205 210 These are so good that HB really should include them officially for the Forrestal release. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isoko Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catchforusthefoxes Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 9 hours ago, isoko said: yes!!! great skins!! I'm so exited for when these will finally be released!! thank you again!! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
==Wiggy== Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 On 9/27/2021 at 4:44 AM, Burnie said: Did anyone manage to nail down where the lod file is that makes all the tomcats go grey at about 1nm? Not the 3 in 1, I've done that, but the one that's for further ranges? That is the 3 in 1 Lod file. It's for farther out ranges. The standard mip maps apply for closer in. Cheers, Rick CSEL\CMEL\IFR Certified Airplane Nut Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burnie Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 No, the 3 in 1 only goers out to a mile or so. There's another level after that. Check out the standard white or hi vis skins, and zoom out in F2 view. You'll see what I mean. i7 10700k @4.8GHz | Aurora GTX 3080 | Samsung NVMe m.2 970 Pro 1Tb x 3 | Corsair 64GB DDR4 3200MHz HP Reverb G2 | Vkb Gunfighter II MCG Pro Stick | Virpil T-50CM Throttle | MFG Crosswind Pedals | Custom built collective | 150 button custom cockpit with 3 x Cougar MFDs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LanceCriminal86 Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 The most extreme distance LOD model is untextured, that's why you're seeing that. Past the first LOD the A and B share the long distance LODs, with the final being the F-14B_LOD_Distant.edm. Since it's untextured it has a roughly ghost gray color which is what makes it seem to pop. My question is what are you doing that makes you actually notice this? You have to zoom out extremely far to see this, or extremely far in at a very, very distant jet to see that transition. In any practical situation in DCS you aren't going to see that transition. Heatblur Rivet Counting Squad™ VF-11 and VF-31 1988 [WIP] VF-201 & VF-202 [WIP] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burnie Posted October 11, 2021 Share Posted October 11, 2021 On 10/1/2021 at 2:25 PM, LanceCriminal86 said: My question is what are you doing that makes you actually notice this? You have to zoom out extremely far to see this, or extremely far in at a very, very distant jet to see that transition. In any practical situation in DCS you aren't going to see that transition. I'm not sure why you feel the need to question me. But thanks for the answer none the less! We have a SATAL team, and we use a distinctive livery set to avoid blue-on-blue situations. The issue we have is that the tomcat suddenly changes colour at the 1nm mark, so we're getting false positive IDs i7 10700k @4.8GHz | Aurora GTX 3080 | Samsung NVMe m.2 970 Pro 1Tb x 3 | Corsair 64GB DDR4 3200MHz HP Reverb G2 | Vkb Gunfighter II MCG Pro Stick | Virpil T-50CM Throttle | MFG Crosswind Pedals | Custom built collective | 150 button custom cockpit with 3 x Cougar MFDs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
=Skywarp= Posted October 11, 2021 Share Posted October 11, 2021 On 9/27/2021 at 11:29 AM, isoko said: Fantastic job! When will it be released? 2 RYZEN 7 2700 3.2 GHz / GAINWARD RTX 2070 / 32 GB RAM 3200 MHz / ASUS PRIME B450M / M.2 NVMe KINGSTON 1TB / SSD SANDISK 480GB / HD 2TB SATA3 / CORSAIR CX650 / AOC AGON AG322FCX MONITOR / THRUSTMASTER T.16000M FCS / CUSTOM HEADTRACK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomcatter87 Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 Coming soon to a user files section near you. Just have to work on one or two small details. 2 4 Modules: F-14A/B | M-2000C | AJS-37 | Mi-24P | F/A-18C | A-10C II | F-16C | UH-1H | F-5E | Mi-8 | FC 3 | AV-8B | A-4E | Gazelle | Ka-50 | Yak-52 | CE2 Maps: Syria | Marianas | NTTR | Persian Gulf | Caucasus Setup: Virpil WarBRD Base & VFX | TM Warthog | Arozzi Velocita Stand | Monstertech Mount | MFG Crosswind | Cougar MFDs | VRInsight Panel | JetSeat 908 | TrackIR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben_der Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 (edited) These should ship soon. Edited October 15, 2021 by VFlip 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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