Israeli Air Force Liveries of Barak and netz variants + Template for skin creators

[wolfthrower]

UPDATED 06/04/2020

 

hey folks, all israeli skins are now updated :

 

- changed tail and the tail number displayed on the side of the intake to a different custom font to match real life font (barak versions)

- bort numbers bug is now gone.

- implemented elements from official f16 template made by ED, lines and rivets are now the way they should be.

- changed metallic maps and added elements that were missing.

- changed roughness maps.

-added decals across all parts.

- made some decals smaller and moved the gun safing pin, epu safing and other various decals to their correct position.

- changed colors of the scheme for better representation of the federal standard colors of the IAF scheme ( its a mix between the old and new colors for more visual appeal in dcs light system).

- added dirt, grime and grease wear and tear.

- changed color of the right cheek station of the tgp to the IAF light grey color.

- changed color of the center line station to the IAF light grey color.

- changed fuel tanks labels to hebrew and added grime and dirt.

- created and added better and high def decals for the fuel tank valves, changed roughness maps.

- fuel tanks now have the plane number on the back and fuel tank number on front. ( because it uses the same map for both tanks there will be duplication).

- added plane numbers and pylon number for all pylons and rails.

- missile rails now have "Netz" or "barak" designation and detail plate for each version.

- pylons and rails also painted in lighter grey color, fuel tank pylons now have yellow color for the back part.

- pilot now have israeli shoulder ranks.

- pilot now have IAF name tags and wings patch.

- pilot's patches now have their own custom normal maps.

 

- uploaded another version of the 116 and 101 sqd with different tail numbers, pending approval.

 

specific update to the 115 sqd flying dragons skin :

 

- skins is now correct to the Barak version ( no brown color on the base of the tale).

- provided additional skin with a different tail number for all of you multiplayer folks :)

- pilot now got a hebrew-arab IAF name patch and israeli ranks in red as in the real squadron.

- pilot now got a replica (as closely as i could) of the helmet art for the squadron.

- the centerline 300 gal fuel tank is now red as in the real squadron ( normal color version is in the alternate tail number skin, just copy the grey Fuel_Tank_300Gal.dds over the red if you dont like it).

- even more badass than before.

- Netz version will be reuploaded with updated textures in the next few days.

 

 

i have tried to represent the israeli IAF scheme as close as possible to reality and i truly hope you'll enjoy these.

 

 

 

 

hello good people,

i already posted this at the closed Facebook "Digital Combat Simulator" group but thought it could help people here too.

 

with my IAF skins i have created a working template for skin creators in PSD format ( photoshop 2019).

in the template you'll get :

 

*120 decals placed in their respective real life places,all in vector form as smart objects.

*rivet and panel lines detail layer as a black and white layer you can put in multiply above your base color layers.

*weathering layer.

*guide layer with colored plane parts and marks for better identifying the specific part in the model viewer.

*color correction layer for the wings template file to fix color matching problem with the main body of the plane caused by the wing's normal map.

*an illustrator file with a Numbers pack in vector form for all of the different tail numbers.

 

why i do this ? cause only one livery and no template is meh :doh: and i want to help people do better skins.

 

hope it will help :)

and if you do use the template feel free to ask me if i can help you anyway with it.

 

link to the templates :

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https://www.dropbox.com/sh/cem8by7wxammuk8/AAAdx4dEzypsm_ivOSiBPFu9a?dl=0

 

Links to the skins :

 

116 and 101 sqd

 

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3306560/

 

115 sqd

 

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3306594/

 

110 sqd

 

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3306947/

 

117 sqd

 

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3306572/

 

144 sqd

 

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3306949/

 

105 sqd

 

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3306948/

 

 

 

 

Edited April 7, 2020 by wolfthrower
Liveries Update.

[Rudel_chw]

Beautiful skins, thanks for sharing them .. I'm not well versed on Photoshop, but hope your Template will encourage Chilean artists to create a Livery for Chile too :)

[speckfire]

Very nice skins, thanks for the effort and sharing.

[Stratos]

Beautiful work!

[Akatsuki]

Looking really good!

[Markindel]

Very nice. Compliments and thanks for sharing.

[RyanFlint]

Amazing work, sir and thank you for releasing your template!

 

Did a livery for our little group at Athena.

Edited October 15, 2019 by RyanFlint

[javelina1]

Wow, fantastic work. thank you for sharing!

[sparkchaser2010]

Awesome, much appreciated!

[Strut]

Great skins mate, thanks for the hard work that went into this.

[wolfthrower]

Thank you everyone for the amazing feedback <3

 

i'm gonna update the template towards the weekend, since i found a much better way to extract the panel lines and rivets ( through the alpha channel of the roughmet)

[wolfthrower]

Amazing work, sir and thank you for releasing your template!

 

Did a livery for our little group at Athena.

 

these are great ! thanks for sharing . hope it made working on them much easier :)

[1stBEAST]

really great skins!

are you planning to do the "scorpions" as well ?

[iFoxRomeo]

hello good people,

i already posted this at the closed Facebook "Digital Combat Simulator" group but thought it could help people here too.

 

...

 

Thank you very much!

 

Do you know "Strike Commander"? Reminds me of that game's skin.

 

Fox

[Tuniorez]

Amazing skins buddy but all of them, less the agressor dragon has a problem in the model, is still possible see the us air force label in the back of the aircraft near the tail of the F-16... all of them has thisi problem, less the dragon agressor version... I don't know what you have made in this last one, but do it to the anothers, update them

SKULL:

NETZ:

[wolfthrower]

Amazing skins buddy but all of them, less the agressor dragon has a problem in the model, is still possible see the us air force label in the back of the aircraft near the tail of the F-16... all of them has thisi problem, less the dragon agressor version... I don't know what you have made in this last one, but do it to the anothers, update them

 

sorry to say man, but i just checked with these two skins that were already in my liveries folder and they were fine. the lua file is also correct.

 

just to triple check i deleted the ones i had installed, downloaded the ones from the link and installed them, they were also fine.

also if the lua file was'nt right it would show other stuff as wrong for the Main_01.dds file and roughmet file. it also was ok for my friends who helped me test this in the first place before i uploaded the skins.

have no idea why its like that for you.

 

did you install them in the right place ?

"C:\Users\*User Name*\Saved Games\DCS\Liveries\F-16C_50" ?

did you change something in the lua file ? or the texture files ?

 

maybe its a steam vs standalone stuff or version number, open beta vs stable...have no idea.

might wanna run a repair.

 

[Tuniorez]

I'll download them again and see whats happens

[Tuniorez]

Probably because i've downloaded a old version... its working fine now... btw nice work and keep with the Israeli skins, you got the talent! and even after the update of the new texture model of f-16... really you got talent..

[wolfthrower]

hey Tuniorez, glad to hear everything is working as it should now :)

yeah it took me a day or two to update for the correct lua file so you probably downloaded before i updated it , sorry about that.

 

and thank you a lot ! i really appreciate it :)

[Tuniorez]

Hi, its me, here again asking you to update your skins cause the actual ones is bugging because of the new template after last update. thanks :)

[wolfthrower]

Hi, its me, here again asking you to update your skins cause the actual ones is bugging because of the new template after last update. thanks :)

 

ive seen it, what an headache :( i'm on it, trying to figure out how to solve it

[wolfthrower]

Updating all the israeli skins this week (23/03/20)

details in the first page.

[Cobra]

Is this skin also updated?

 

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.c...files/3306572/

 

 

Updating all the israeli skins this week (23/03/20)

details in the first page.

[wolfthrower]

Is this skin also updated?

 

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.c...files/3306572/

 

not yet. sorry

all of them will be ready on friday (27/03/20). with new decals new roughness maps and new fonts for the tail numbers without the glitches caused by the recent update.

[Cobra]

Ok, I am waiting ;-) really great skins