Top Jockey Posted November 21, 2020 Posted November 21, 2020 Hello everyone, Would appreciate your insight / opinion please: - what's the correct procedure, to see if a given livery get's repaired ? That livery is in DCS Store user mods, I'm not its author (neither do I know how to make them), but neither does its author reply either. Which it's a pitty, as it really is an outstanding livery but it does have a texture bug, so I'm trying to see if it can be repaired. So what's the procedure here, without stepping on anyones toes ? Thank you. Jets Helis Maps FC 3 JA 37 Ka-50 Caucasus F-14 A/B MiG-23 Mi-8 MTV2 Nevada F-16 C MiG-29 F/A-18 C Mirage III E MiG-21 bis Mirage 2000 C i7-4790 K , 16 GB DDR3 , GTX 1660 Ti 6GB , Samsung 860 QVO 1TB
ST0RM Posted November 21, 2020 Posted November 21, 2020 Contact the owner via PM. I've edited, corrected or used several skins and before I made anything public, showed them what I had done and asked permission for release. Most were ok with it, given proper recognition.
Top Jockey Posted November 21, 2020 Author Posted November 21, 2020 Contact the owner via PM. I've edited, corrected or used several skins and before I made anything public, showed them what I had done and asked permission for release. Most were ok with it, given proper recognition. Thank you for your reply @ST0RM. I've done that twice, sent the first PM some months ago, also posted a comment here at the forum and at the Livery page in DCS store, but I have no reply from him... (I believe the repair might be somewhat 'easy' to those who know about this stuff - merely the livery textures get corrupted when zooming out a bit.) Any alternatives ? Jets Helis Maps FC 3 JA 37 Ka-50 Caucasus F-14 A/B MiG-23 Mi-8 MTV2 Nevada F-16 C MiG-29 F/A-18 C Mirage III E MiG-21 bis Mirage 2000 C i7-4790 K , 16 GB DDR3 , GTX 1660 Ti 6GB , Samsung 860 QVO 1TB
Top Jockey Posted November 24, 2020 Author Posted November 24, 2020 So, anyone ? Jets Helis Maps FC 3 JA 37 Ka-50 Caucasus F-14 A/B MiG-23 Mi-8 MTV2 Nevada F-16 C MiG-29 F/A-18 C Mirage III E MiG-21 bis Mirage 2000 C i7-4790 K , 16 GB DDR3 , GTX 1660 Ti 6GB , Samsung 860 QVO 1TB
==Wiggy== Posted November 24, 2020 Posted November 24, 2020 Who's the original Author? There are many "artists" here who know the author's of other works, as people seek help from the community many times. Might help to get a name out there. Cheers, Rick CSEL\CMEL\IFR Certified Airplane Nut
Top Jockey Posted November 24, 2020 Author Posted November 24, 2020 Who's the original Author? There are many "artists" here who know the author's of other works, as people seek help from the community many times. Might help to get a name out there. Thank you Rick. It's an outstanding livery of VF-154 from @Strut. Right here: https://forums.eagle.ru/forum/englis...25#post7147125 Essentially, when zooming out a bit the textures get corrupted. Jets Helis Maps FC 3 JA 37 Ka-50 Caucasus F-14 A/B MiG-23 Mi-8 MTV2 Nevada F-16 C MiG-29 F/A-18 C Mirage III E MiG-21 bis Mirage 2000 C i7-4790 K , 16 GB DDR3 , GTX 1660 Ti 6GB , Samsung 860 QVO 1TB
==Wiggy== Posted November 25, 2020 Posted November 25, 2020 NM...I looked at that post. That is from the 3 in one LOD file. is my guess. It's not been updated, or it came out of alignment. YOU, could technically fix it. Just open up every single texture that is in the folder and resize them all to and then fit them overtop of the locations for each texture. It's time consuming. I hear there is a tool that will to it automatically for you....not sure who made it or where to get it....I've never used it. It is an "easy" fix as fixes go. As long as STRUT can pull up specific paints in his paint kit correctly....or you can simply use the method described above by using the .dds file and dragging them into PS as a new layer, resized and then snapping them overtop of the old textures. 1 Cheers, Rick CSEL\CMEL\IFR Certified Airplane Nut
Top Jockey Posted November 25, 2020 Author Posted November 25, 2020 NM...I looked at that post. That is from the 3 in one LOD file. is my guess. It's not been updated, or it came out of alignment. YOU, could technically fix it. Just open up every single texture that is in the folder and resize them all to and then fit them overtop of the locations for each texture. It's time consuming. I hear there is a tool that will to it automatically for you....not sure who made it or where to get it....I've never used it. It is an "easy" fix as fixes go. As long as STRUT can pull up specific paints in his paint kit correctly....or you can simply use the method described above by using the .dds file and dragging them into PS as a new layer, resized and then snapping them overtop of the old textures. Thank you for your time Rick. I'll try for myself then, it seems a specific program is needed to open the .dds files. I'll find one and see hoew it goes... then I'll post here if succeded or not. Jets Helis Maps FC 3 JA 37 Ka-50 Caucasus F-14 A/B MiG-23 Mi-8 MTV2 Nevada F-16 C MiG-29 F/A-18 C Mirage III E MiG-21 bis Mirage 2000 C i7-4790 K , 16 GB DDR3 , GTX 1660 Ti 6GB , Samsung 860 QVO 1TB
Top Jockey Posted November 25, 2020 Author Posted November 25, 2020 Finally found a freeware program which does open the .dds files, paint.net. And found the file you mention: 3 in 1 LOD. It shows some 40 small "tiles" with all the other textures and more, but what exactly do I do now ? Thank you. edit Comparing this LOD to other aircraft's liveries, I believe I can now understand you. In this specific 3 in 1 LOD: - the tiles aren't in the same order / orientation; - there seems to be 2 different LODs for the same wing; - and one missing for the fuselage... I mean some of the small tiles in the 3 in 1 LOD don't match with its individual texture that is. Jets Helis Maps FC 3 JA 37 Ka-50 Caucasus F-14 A/B MiG-23 Mi-8 MTV2 Nevada F-16 C MiG-29 F/A-18 C Mirage III E MiG-21 bis Mirage 2000 C i7-4790 K , 16 GB DDR3 , GTX 1660 Ti 6GB , Samsung 860 QVO 1TB
Top Jockey Posted November 25, 2020 Author Posted November 25, 2020 Success ! The VF-154 textures are now appearing without any (visible) corruption when zooming out. Merelly resized and copied each of the individual textures to its place in the tile board (3 in 1 LOD). Tried to align each of them visually with the other tiles, and I have no idea of the effect of this on the aircraft in game - but so far noticed nothing out of place... Thank you again Rick ! 1 Jets Helis Maps FC 3 JA 37 Ka-50 Caucasus F-14 A/B MiG-23 Mi-8 MTV2 Nevada F-16 C MiG-29 F/A-18 C Mirage III E MiG-21 bis Mirage 2000 C i7-4790 K , 16 GB DDR3 , GTX 1660 Ti 6GB , Samsung 860 QVO 1TB
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