F14 Skinners thread (Paintkit in 1st post)

[Reflected]

That VF-1 jet looks fantastic. It's almost a shame Heatblur's Tomcat collection won't also include a Block 70 or 75 model.

 

Thank you, you helped so much with these, answering my 1000 private messages about colors and schemes :D I’m glad you approve of the final result.

[Reflected]

VF-41 hi and lo viz, 1989:

 

 

 

 

 

[ben_der]

Hell yeah, Black Aces :thumbup:

 

Tophatters, 2001:

 

[bennyboy9800]

Excellent skin VFlip! Love the 2 tone grey.

[Uxi]

Hell yeah, Black Aces :thumbup:

 

 

This is amazing.

[ShinyMikey]

Those skins look outstanding! It would be really better to have those skins available for both the A and the B. I can't imagine that I or others will use the A much (especially in MP), but I'd still love to have every squadron's colors. Please consider releasing these skins for the B as well so that we can enjoy them as much as possible. Thanks for your great work!

[ebabil]

Can you point me to a decent sundowners hi-vis skin please? :)

[Jack]

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3303892/

 

Tapatalkkal küldve az én S40 eszközömről

[ebabil]

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3303892/

 

Tapatalkkal küldve az én S40 eszközömről

 

this skin color is maroon istead of red. is it ok?

[Nealius]

VFlip: How did you blur the background like that?

[Reflected]

Some VF-2 love:

 

[Tomcatter87]

Really nice skins y'all got in the works - can't wait to try them out.

@Reflected: What era is that Bounty Hunters livery from? Late 80s, I suppose? Lookin' great :)

[ben_der]

VFlip: How did you blur the background like that?

 

Photoshop :smilewink:

[Reflected]

Dave "Bio" Baranek's F-14A, VF-2, 1987

 

 

 

[Swordsman422]

Loving the VF-2 jets!

 

If I might make a suggestion/request, these Bounty Hunter jets from 1989 and ODS would be cool:

 

 

 

[Reflected]

Help please! When I save the EXT4 file as a dds, it has these "holes" in the texture that were not visible in the pdf format. However, when I load the skins in model viewer, these holes are not present. WTF? Any advice please?

[Jack]

Check the alpha channel ;)

 

Tapatalkkal küldve az én S40 eszközömről

[Reflected]

Check the alpha channel ;)

 

Tapatalkkal küldve az én S40 eszközömről

 

Ah that was it! Thanks! Thoughts of having to redo my template completely already started haunting me :D :doh:

[Marc_Origins]

Issues with my first skin

 

After re-doing and almost finishing again my skin (first one) i still keep getting the same problem, the wings paint is darker, same for the tail, both stabiliser paint is much darker than the fuselage

 

the phoenix pylon, wing pylons and the fuel tank template arent working either (yes for the whole skin i used the template in the first page of the thread and i used assets within different liveries from the template to make and edit my skin and yes im using the intel plugin for ps)

[Marc_Origins]

After re-doing and almost finishing again my skin (first one) i still keep getting the same problem, the wings paint is darker, same for the tail, both stabiliser paint is much darker than the fuselage

 

the phoenix pylon, wing pylons and the fuel tank template arent working either (yes for the whole skin i used the template in the first page of the thread and i used assets within different liveries from the template to make and edit my skin and yes im using the intel plugin for ps)

 

and i think my issue is more when i try to export it and make it into the livery as in the photoshop the mipmaps load (finished state of the template) and they all look in the correct colour with no degrading of it

[Redlinebuzz]

LOD texture ?

 

Been searching for ages but cannot find an answer, I managed to figure out how to skin the F14 but for the lige of me cannot figure out how to do the LOD file, so it keeps jumping back to a different skin at distance, is it even possible ? Because I don't see an LOD file in the paintkit, thanks in advance.

[LanceCriminal86]

After re-doing and almost finishing again my skin (first one) i still keep getting the same problem, the wings paint is darker, same for the tail, both stabiliser paint is much darker than the fuselage

 

the phoenix pylon, wing pylons and the fuel tank template arent working either (yes for the whole skin i used the template in the first page of the thread and i used assets within different liveries from the template to make and edit my skin and yes im using the intel plugin for ps)

 

Pay attention to what format you export in. I noticed that depending on what I selected in the Intel DDS export window in Photoshop the texture would come out super dark. It depends whether you select SRGB vs whatever the other option was.

 

Also the tail texture does seem to apply differently, I had to do extra work on it to have it match the rest of the aircraft whenever I used non-standard colors like dark sea blue or ww2 Blue-Gray. You may need to add extra color layers or play with the brightness/darkness/contrast manually to have it match the body of the aircraft more closely.

[Marc_Origins]

Pay attention to what format you export in. I noticed that depending on what I selected in the Intel DDS export window in Photoshop the texture would come out super dark. It depends whether you select SRGB vs whatever the other option was.

 

Also the tail texture does seem to apply differently, I had to do extra work on it to have it match the rest of the aircraft whenever I used non-standard colors like dark sea blue or ww2 Blue-Gray. You may need to add extra color layers or play with the brightness/darkness/contrast manually to have it match the body of the aircraft more closely.

 

thanks i will try that and see if it fix my problem

[Zaku]

Working a few real MBU-14 color variations into my squadron skins. It's pretty easy to find the two-tone pattern using the normal map:

 

[Uxi]

Changing the flight suits and helmets is a manual process of copy and overwrite though isn't it? Hopefully that could get a couple pull down menus in the Mission Editor or rearming page.