Chimango Posted June 13, 2020 Share Posted June 13, 2020 (edited) A couple of WIP "Balalaika" skins we are making with my teammate ECV56_Duco -the real artist here- from two iconic units. VVS 115° GIAP "Советская литва" ("Soviet Lithuania") - Afghanistan 1980s 100% made by Duco VPAF 921° IAP "Sao Do" PS. the drop tanks on VPAF 21s screenie belongs to 000rick000 textures, if allowed i will include it (with credits) in the skin, otherwise they are gonna have default ones. Edited June 13, 2020 by Chimango 666GIAP_Chimanov - My Tomcat tribute video, type on youtube browser=> "DCS F-14 Tomcat Symphony" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Rudel- Posted June 13, 2020 Share Posted June 13, 2020 These look great Chimango, however I hope you're testing the liveries in a 2.2 gamma setting. Your screenshots seem really dark, and all RoughMets are tuned for standard PBR lighting at 2.2. https://magnitude-3.com/ https://www.facebook.com/magnitude3llc https://www.youtube.com/@magnitude_3 i9 13900K, 128GB RAM, RTX 4090, Win10Pro, 2 x 2TB SSD i9 10980XE, 128GB RAM, RTX 3090Ti, Win10 Pro, 2 x 256GB SSD, 4 x 512GB SSD RAID 0, 6 x 4TB HDD RAID 6, 9361-8i RAID Controller i7 4960X, 64GB RAM, GTX Titan X Black, Win10 Pro, 512GB PCIe SSD, 2 x 256GB SSD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
==Wiggy== Posted June 13, 2020 Share Posted June 13, 2020 @Rudel? Can you elaborate on 2.2 gamma? Cheers, Rick CSEL\CMEL\IFR Certified Airplane Nut Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chimango Posted June 14, 2020 Author Share Posted June 14, 2020 (edited) Thx Rudel and also thanks for your work, your templates are great. The thing with gamma is if i go beyond 1.5 is way too bright, almost blinding and unfllyable in my settings. I use gamma in 1.4/1.5 BTW, do you have any idea where can i get the real VPAF fonts? I need those numbers, some guy has done these skins in the past so probably they can be found somewhere, i haven't been lucky with my search. If unable we will draw them in Adobe Ilustrator but we rather avoid that time demanding task. Edited June 14, 2020 by Chimango 666GIAP_Chimanov - My Tomcat tribute video, type on youtube browser=> "DCS F-14 Tomcat Symphony" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Rudel- Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 General PBR workflow is in Linear space for RoughMets and sRGB for albedo textures in the DCS environment. The shader and your display device will calculate the gamma, and usually the industry standard is 2.2. Hence the default 2.2 setting. Colors on the albedo texture tend to be brighter because there is no shadow information, and to compensate for gamma correction. If a user creates textures in a gamma 1.4 settings, the colors would need to be super bright to make up for the darkness. As for the font, you'll have to create it. I don't know any font for that military branch. But German WW2 numbers come close. https://magnitude-3.com/ https://www.facebook.com/magnitude3llc https://www.youtube.com/@magnitude_3 i9 13900K, 128GB RAM, RTX 4090, Win10Pro, 2 x 2TB SSD i9 10980XE, 128GB RAM, RTX 3090Ti, Win10 Pro, 2 x 256GB SSD, 4 x 512GB SSD RAID 0, 6 x 4TB HDD RAID 6, 9361-8i RAID Controller i7 4960X, 64GB RAM, GTX Titan X Black, Win10 Pro, 512GB PCIe SSD, 2 x 256GB SSD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
==Wiggy== Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 Oh super interesting. I didn't know that. I've been making everything in 1.8 at the brightest. Everything looks washed out otherwise. Cheers, Rick CSEL\CMEL\IFR Certified Airplane Nut Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucas_From_Hell Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 Great choice of liveries, can't wait to see the end result! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flanker1 Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 amazing skins!!! thank you very much for doing this, and please - do some more soviet era/cold war mig-21 skins! i would be pleased to see the camo ones of mig-21bis related to soviet 16va based in damgarten (eastern germany) during the 80ies. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basco1 Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 Wow !!!!......fantastic skins in the making there Chimango,looking forward to these,I too love the Cold War era skins,but without doubt,these two are beauties Chillblast Fusion Cirrus 2 FS Pc/Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake CPU/Gigabyte Nvidia GTX 1070 G1 8GB/Seagate 2TB FireCuda SSHD/16GB DDR4 2133MHz Memory/Asus STRIX Z270F Gaming Motherboard/Corsair Hydro Series H80i GT Liquid Cooler/TM Warthog with MFG 10cm Extension/WINWING Orion Rudder Pedals (With Damper Edition)/TrackiR5/Windows 11 Home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chimango Posted June 19, 2020 Author Share Posted June 19, 2020 Thanks guys. We plan to finish them by next week, we have already drawn the oficial VPAF numbers, so one step closer. S! 666GIAP_Chimanov - My Tomcat tribute video, type on youtube browser=> "DCS F-14 Tomcat Symphony" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pitbull1979 Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 Hello, any news with VVS 115° GIAP skin's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theGozr Posted July 30, 2020 Share Posted July 30, 2020 Monitor 2.2 VR ~1.8 Fly it like you stole it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer86 Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 I am in pursuit of VVS 115° GIAP "Советская литва" ("Soviet Lithuania") - Afghanistan 1980s. cant wait Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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