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DCS: AH-64D Livery Competition

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Using the official template found here, we are holding a DCS: AH-64D livery contest. The top ten submissions will have their skins integrated into DCS world and their name will also be included in the official manual. 

Here are some of the requirements and details:

  • The skin must be created using this template. 
  • The livery must be based on current or historic schemes from any AH-64 variant.
  • The livery must be associated with one of the countries currently present in DCS.

Here are instructions for saving textures with MIP levels using NVIDIA Texture Tools for Adobe Photoshop.

After submitting your file to User Files, please post in the DCS: AH-64D Skin Competition forum topic with a screenshot and link to your file from the ED user files.

The contest will run until the 29th of May. All ten winners will receive a free copy of DCS: AH-64D, or any other Eagle Dynamics module, that can be also given as a gift to any DCS account.

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Sorry for the question. Some countries does not employ AH-64D, such as mine (Italy), is it still possible to add a skin in the competition to allow these countries to have a default one w/o the US markings?

I'm asking cause one of the rules is "The livery must be based on current or historic schemes from any AH-64 variant."

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1 minute ago, chromium said:

Sorry for the question. Some countries does not employ AH-64D, such as mine (Italy), is it still possible to add a skin in the competition to allow these countries to have a default one w/o the US markings?

I'm asking cause one of the rules is "The livery must be based on current or historic schemes from any AH-64 variant."

you can still add your entry, what we are looking for is liveries that are real world like and not complete fantasy ones. 

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I know you're look for real world liveries but I'd really like to see a USMC livery for flying off the Tarawa. I know those already a good one in user files. Unfortunately the vast majority of real ones are just OD green with a different unit patch on the side.

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Nice work ZedTank. Maybe if I get interested enough into the Apache (I got the module, haven't touched it yet) I'll download a few of yours.

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Not to rain on anyone's parade, but you all realize that the second criteria in the contest is the livery must be of a current or historic AH-64 paint scheme? From reading the OP by BigNewy, it is my understanding that liveries of countries or services that have never operated the AH-64 don't qualify. Don't get me wrong, these liveries are awesome-looking, but not all fit the criteria for the contest.

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32 minutes ago, Aqil Huseynov said:

I think you mean Azerbaijan. Because I don't understand what other country you're using the "all" sentence for here (like politic) BIGNEWY knows about it and they let me participate in the competition, it's okay to worry.

I didn't mean just Azerbaijan.  Others, like Australia (although they are getting AH-64's in the future), Spain, France, Marines (assuming USMC) never existed.  I wasn't saying anything against the liveries, they are all very well done, but I was simply trying to clarify.

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2 minutes ago, Megalax said:

You're also not ED team. BN did clarify in his second post that they want real world like liveries. To me that means no anime, neon, or beans.

Alright, calm down.  I never said I was ED team, and I wasn't targeting you or anyone in particular.  I missed that little nugget, I was only trying to help.

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1 hour ago, Megalax said:

You're also not ED team. BN did clarify in his second post that they want real world like liveries. To me that means no anime, neon, or beans.

Calm down.

BigNewy did a bad job of conveying the requirements and his second post hardly helped things. It needed clarification and Raptor9 clarified it.

 

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Hello everyone,

This is my skin from Indonesian Army Aviation Command - 11th Squadron/Serbu. and i would like to submit and participate in this livery competition.😁

note: This skin based on real livery from current Indonesian Army's AH-64E "Apache Guardian" Version.

Enjoy!

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3321867/

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On 4/15/2022 at 11:15 AM, Mainstay said:

 

Based on heavily weathered AH-64A workhorse pictures i bring you this livery.

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https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3321702/

To install navigate to C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\CoreMods\aircraft\AH-64D\Liveries\AH-64D_BLK_II\
Unrar/unzip the folder in there and voila your good to go.

Enjoy 🙂

Did you use the original template to make this skin? I ask because the file size in relation to the others is very low. I would love to see you win to have this skin inside the DCS. Good luck!
 

On 4/12/2022 at 4:11 PM, BIGNEWY said:

Here are some of the requirements and details:

  • The skin must be created using this template. 
  • The livery must be based on current or historic schemes from any AH-64 variant.
  • The livery must be associated with one of the countries currently present in DCS.

Here are instructions for saving textures with MIP levels using NVIDIA Texture Tools for Adobe Photoshop.

After submitting your file to User Files, please post in the DCS: AH-64D Skin Competition forum topic with a screenshot and link to your file from the ED user files.

The contest will run until the 29th of May. All ten winners will receive a free copy of DCS: AH-64D, or any other Eagle Dynamics module, that can be also given as a gift to any DCS account.

 

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5 hours ago, ThorBrasil said:

Did you use the original template to make this skin? I ask because the file size in relation to the others is very low. I would love to see you win to have this skin inside the DCS. Good luck!
 

 

Hey Thorbrasil. Yes I used the original template from ED, saved everything in DXT5 + 8BBP + mipmaps. Filesize is probably because compression of winrar. When you extract the folder it’s much larger.

Thank you for your kind words 😁

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