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FA-18C project "new level of depth"


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In response to many requests, i started the F/A-18C skin project.

 

I tried not to make hornet skin. Navy is very few livery and low VIS and F / A-18C have great textures and already great skins by users, there is few paint scheme.

long time ago I tried improving hornet, but it failed

 

I looked at the hornet once again. Finally found the problem and improved it

Stock Hornet is great, but has no contrast ratio. This makes the plane look like a plastic light-weight object.

 

So I did Heavy-AO for hornet. DIFF AO layer and ROUGHMET AO (red) have been enhanced. GREEN channels have been adjusted to the current F-16 level.

 

result is successful and the aircraft feels very heavy-weight.

 

Of course, NORMAL was also newly created.

 

 

ok talk too much

lets see pics (reshade)

 

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Heavy dirt

 

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compare stock (no reshade )

 

 

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These certainly have a much more authentic feel. Always prefer a skin that looks like its got a few hard hours under its belt, not something that looks like its on its first day trip to the boat!

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These certainly have a much more authentic feel. Always prefer a skin that looks like its got a few hard hours under its belt, not something that looks like its on its first day trip to the boat!

 

 

:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

 

results are very good.

 

 

Damn nice!

 

:thumbup::thumbup:

 

Spot on.

 

This looks terrific. Can't wait to put my hands on it!

 

Is true :thumbup::music_whistling:

 

 

Great work, I agree the last image is pretty indistinguishable from an actual photo. I can't tell from any of the pictures, have you also gotten rid of the pylon shadows that are present when you have a clean wing?

 

Are you referring to the pylon arounding shadow on the under wing? You will need to remove the shadow from Roughmet's AO :book:

creator of ED's official F-16C liveries (WP,OS, 132nd, 152nd, 174th)
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What a great work. It will be a dream come true in VR. Very eager to try.

Thank you so much for doing this to the Hornet, my fav.

 

Best regards,

F.

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wow, but you could tone it down a bit...some nations take great care about their planes :)

 

ED! HIRE THIS MAN!

 

 

 

 

 

Yes there are great already "down a bit" ED stock texture

 

 

VFA pics

 

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Yes there are great already "down a bit" ED stock texture

 

Guess he meant your roughmet paired with clean livery.

We already have the "kinda weathered" but plasticky textures from ED.

Soon we will have your dirty masterpiece :smilewink:

I guess the next logical step is to make a properly enhanced clean skin=)

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Guess he meant your roughmet paired with clean livery.

We already have the "kinda weathered" but plasticky textures from ED.

Soon we will have your dirty masterpiece :smilewink:

I guess the next logical step is to make a properly enhanced clean skin=)

 

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Guess he meant your roughmet paired with clean livery.

We already have the "kinda weathered" but plasticky textures from ED.

Soon we will have your dirty masterpiece :smilewink:

I guess the next logical step is to make a properly enhanced clean skin=)

 

yes :)

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Guess he meant your roughmet paired with clean livery.

We already have the "kinda weathered" but plasticky textures from ED.

Soon we will have your dirty masterpiece :smilewink:

I guess the next logical step is to make a properly enhanced clean skin=)

 

+1! :)

 - "Don't be John Wayne in the Break if you´re going to be Jerry Lewis on the Ball".

About carrier ops: "The younger pilots are still quite capable of holding their heads forward against the forces. The older ones have been doing this too long and know better; sore necks make for poor sleep.'

 

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Is there a link to d/l it or did I miss that somewhere in the post?

 

Down below

 

Haha I totally feel you! This color looks different on each photo of Hornet :lol:

 

But I think you've almost nailed it on the last two pics - it should be bright, not dark.

 

My thoughts on the DCS skins

 

1. stock texture is great, but the bright roughmet and bright texture levels on the dirt layer are odd to see. so get rid off 2d fake dirt

 

2. Photoreal is super awesome , but its too strong texture looks strange. combination of photo texture and game graphics is odd

 

 

 

 

My purpose is to see a good combination of roughet and texture level in game graphic more suitable fit for current DCS

 

 

 

 

 

This is my PDS download link

I want livery to study rather than instant enjoy.

 

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1FlpnNGzqdTdBJMJKrvRq1iEX5jmJOSoe

 

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creator of ED's official F-16C liveries (WP,OS, 132nd, 152nd, 174th)
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lee1hy,

 

 

It looks awesome! thank you and keep up.

 

Eager to see future navy Hornet liveries :)

 - "Don't be John Wayne in the Break if you´re going to be Jerry Lewis on the Ball".

About carrier ops: "The younger pilots are still quite capable of holding their heads forward against the forces. The older ones have been doing this too long and know better; sore necks make for poor sleep.'

 

PC: I7 4790K 4.6ghz | 32GB RAM | Zotac GTX 1080Ti 11Gb DDR5x | Water cooler NZXT AIO Kraken x53 | 3.5TB (x4 SSD´s) | Valve Index| Andre´s JeatSeat.

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lee1hy,

 

 

It looks awesome! thank you and keep up.

 

Eager to see future navy Hornet liveries :)

 

:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

 

 

fixed side pixtel shadow

In the final version I will delete or clean up the diff AO

 

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1GuK0bQv3Cg81quTvkPcSsygGotKRtMtI

creator of ED's official F-16C liveries (WP,OS, 132nd, 152nd, 174th)
AH-64D livery contest winner 😅
kim_123456#3214

My user files https://shorturl.at/cdKV5
 

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