M2000C blue grey cockpit

[jaguara5]

Could anyone retexture the cockpit with the (early) blue - grey (airbus like) color? (have no idea how to do that myself). 

[jojo]

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[RockMyRoot]

Hello,

Begginer here, work in progress

If you have further pictures of the real blue cockpit, i'm lookin some to be as accurate as possible

Edited February 29, 2024 by RockMyRoot

[jaguara5]

On 2/29/2024 at 1:02 PM, RockMyRoot said:

Hello,

Begginer here, work in progress

If you have further pictures of the real blue cockpit, i'm lookin some to be as accurate as possible

 

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMF5YHk6JeYTo7tC6pF2GzsdjWKi7FVRapcoElfm4jIbK1iihsu5wkQPtYdbeLvcA?key=SHZ3czJNYVNaRnRZOHBYcWFwN0NEZUFWQm40eVl3

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[RockMyRoot]

Funny coincidence, I joined the CAEA (Conservatoire Air et Espace Aquitaine) assoication two days after my message here. They own the very Mirage 2000B-01 of your first pic.

I did not notice that the cockpit was blue, you can see it brey/black/blue depending on the light conditions. I'll take more pics to work to get the same effect in DCS, now I have access to a real one

Edited March 11, 2024 by RockMyRoot
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[jaguara5]

Indeed the color looks different with various light conditions. If you want you can check also my own photos (in some you can see the direct effect of the light and the shadow on the color). 

 

Edited March 12, 2024 by jaguara5

[jaguara5]

But i think the base of the color is ''Airbus like (light) blueish''.  https://www.modellingnews.gr/el/νέα-μοντελισμού/mirage-2000-under-skin-ioannis-lekkas-ilias-gkonis-eagle-aviation

[RockMyRoot]

Hi jaguara5,

Thanks for those documents, this helps much ! 

I noticed that the B01 is painted differently, I'm trying to get some information ont this particular model but I'm continuing working on the blue cockpit.

Currently mapping all the cockpit liveries files using a yellow image if you want some details : 

(found the screws & swithces file !)

[RockMyRoot]

Work in progress but I miss something

Now my board generates light at night... I have some research to do before uploading anything, thanks for your patience

[RockMyRoot]

I made it ! I found the issue and made huge progress in comprehension on how DDS livery files are packed.

I wanted to update one file with FR&EN languages but it was 400Mo, too heavy for the DCS user files. I had to make concessions on the EN language, you will notice that you can see french shadows in certain light conditions, this is due to an absent normal map.

FR : https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/fr/files/3336662/

EN : https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/fr/files/3336661/

Please share if you notice something wrong or have any improvement suggestion.

Edited April 3, 2024 by RockMyRoot

[Rudel_chw]

On 3/29/2024 at 11:36 AM, RockMyRoot said:

Now my board generates light at night... I have some research to do before uploading anything, thanks for your patience

 

Hi,

Lovely work you are doing here, maybe you could contact @Devrim as he has a lot of experience re-painting cockpits and maybe he would be willing to give you advice.

Best regards,

 

eduardo

[RockMyRoot]

6 minutes ago, Rudel_chw said:

 

Hi,

Lovely work you are doing here, maybe you could contact @Devrim as he has a lot of experience re-painting cockpits and maybe he would be willing to give you advice.

Best regards,

 

eduardo

Hi Rudel_chw,

My problem is gone, I found that the default DDS texture files for screws and main panel contains colors + alpha chanel for the lights, I had to disassemble the cannels and recompose the file, It works properly now  

[Rudel_chw]

12 minutes ago, RockMyRoot said:

My problem is gone,

 

Glad to know, I look forward to trying out your cockpit, as I have done with almost any cockpit that I've found .. they do add variety to our flight 

 

 

Best regards.

[jaguara5]

Good work! I appreciate your effort! IMO it should be looking more blue than grey. Like that in the wip picture you've posted before the final version.  I think you were there very close to the blue color, at least as it appears on the various photos of the real cockpit. 

Edited April 3, 2024 by jaguara5

[Rudel_chw]

16 hours ago, RockMyRoot said:

I made it !

 

Hi, thanks a lot for sharing these, I added them to my DCS:

 

 

and they both look really good:

 

 

Thanks again, and cheers!

 

Eduardo

 

 

[RockMyRoot]

5 hours ago, jaguara5 said:

Good work! I appreciate your effort! IMO it should be looking more blue than grey. Like that in the wip picture you've posted before the final version.  I think you were there very close to the blue color, at least as it appears on the various photos of the real cockpit. 

 

Hi Jaguara,

I voluntarily change the color to a slighlty more grey one, while working on the details based on the originally blue windscreen strucutre and these google files :

On 3/5/2024 at 9:32 PM, jaguara5 said:

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMF5YHk6JeYTo7tC6pF2GzsdjWKi7FVRapcoElfm4jIbK1iihsu5wkQPtYdbeLvcA?key=SHZ3czJNYVNaRnRZOHBYcWFwN0NEZUFWQm40eVl3

Under different light conditions, you can see it more blue than on the previous picture :

I'll be at the museum this saturday, maybe i'll find some people who worked on the 2000 repaintings, I'll ask a few questions and make corrections

[RockMyRoot]

UPDATE : to get rid of the french label shadows in EN cockpit, I included a tutorial in the package I'm sharing here : 

EN blue cockpit normal maps.pdf

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