[REL] DragonRR's Worn, High Resolution, Russian Airbase Textures. THE COMPLETE SET!

[flanker1]

woooooooooooooooow, amazing. . . i want to be the first! :-)

 

i love to seee the effort and that you are still work on this beautiful mod. can you please do it for the parking areas too? i don´t like the "version" on the of right side of your pic very much. . . and the parking areas has this "hard edge" or "gravel" too. . .

 

what do mean with aging or the white lining "KRAY"? which one is it?

Edited March 9, 2009 by flanker1

[DragonRR]

The right side is from V2.0 (the one you probably have!) the left is the new version.

 

The parking areas. I can't do much with these because ED use different bits for different airports.

 

I could move the white line edging on the taxiways to the edges although it doesn't look TOO bad atm ;) I might look at this.

 

The KRAY lining I refer to is the main white markings on the runway. Basically I decided (in v2.0) that the airbase staff would maintain the markings on a regular basis. Whether this is fair or not.. well I'm not sure....

 

Overall glad you like my current (WIP) change flanker1!

[flanker1]

ahhh, ok - thank you for explaining. . . maybe it is a good idea with "KRAY". :-) it would be nice if you can show us your legendary before-after pics. . .

 

maybe - for a new work/mod (i pray to god i had your talent :-() i like th very special and realistic "feeling" of this mod´s surface. . . http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=35500

 

and for a maximum of realistic - i would very happy to see/if you can do this (yes, ask it for the second time ;-)) - see my last pots at this topic. . . :

 

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=34524&page=2

 

thanks and regards,

 

flanker1

[crazysundog]

I like the way the white lines look now, they definately look repainted!!

 

The new edge looks good as well!

[DragonRR]

I like Necoscope's work. However my personal opinion is that it only works from a distance. Close up it is too "chequer board" for my liking.

 

Flanker. The tile matching only works in certain places, ED change the placement, nothing I can do to correct that.

 

A little dickie bird tells me that ED will probably be looking at this in the not too distant future!

 

Latest wip:

 

 

[ACUTech]

Looks great as always man, rep inbound :)

[flanker1]

very very nice. . . keep up the good work.

 

and many thanks for explainings. :-)

 

the "front"edge looks a little, little bit to hard maybe?? ;-)

[flanker1]

hey dragon, any news about your fantastic work at your modifications? :-)

[DragonRR]

Been a bit busy in the last few days Flanker. I'm also struggling a bit with "aging" the main runway lines, can't quite get them right. The method I used on the side lining doesn't quite work on the thicker/wider areas.

[Distiler]

So how is this mod compatible with SIMMOD Loreload Terrain Mod? any trick to not end messing it all?

[DragonRR]

So how is this mod compatible with SIMMOD Loreload Terrain Mod? any trick to not end messing it all?

 

This should answer your question:

 

http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=647926&postcount=5

[DragonRR]

Still WIP, and not totally happy with my method for weathering the KRAY lines although I'm fairly happy with the edging. The problem I'm having is that the method I use for the edging just doesn't work as well for the much larger KRAY lines. Ah well.. Thoughts anyone? I should point out that I haven't touched the white landing lines yet, I have weathered the center runway lines which aren't very visible in the screenshot below.

 

[DragonRR]

More WIP, landing marking done although same method. I need to decide whether to leave as is and continue with the taxi roads or shelve it until I can come up with another method. I guess the question is do you guys prefer it to the original?

 

[flanker1]

dragon, once more. . . fantastic work. extremely nice looking.

 

maybe i m to stupid today or i had a drink too much last night, but what exactly is the difference between your latest 2 screens?? :-)

 

after a seventh look - the second pic seems to be having more weathered markings. . . i prefer, no question. please, work with that one for an upcoming mod.

 

are there any furher questions from your side?

[SuDepp]

Great looking!

 

Leave it as it is - and continue with the taxi lines. Weathering looks (from those pictures) very nice indeed.......

Release a test version so peeps can have a closer look in real li.. *ehm* sim.

 

Greetings

S@uDepp

[Duke49th]

Great Work!

 

Mirrored: Black Shark Texture Mods

[DragonRR]

Thanks for the mirror Alexduke, I've added the links to the main downloads on the first page of this thread.

 

Thanks for the comments flanker and soul. OK will try and get a non-modman test release done in the next few days.

[Duke49th]

Thanks for the mirror Alexduke, I've added the links to the main downloads on the first page of this thread.

 

You're welcome:)

[DragonRR]

Well these are near finished. There's a slight issue with the landing lines overlay which I've now fixed. There are some issues all really relating to the taxi roads:

 

As you may notice I've moved the outer lines right up to the outer edge of the road.

 

1. ED don't always use all of the texture and the line gets cut off early in a lot of cases. I can't fix this but I could move the lines back in again.. Personally I think it looks better even cut off.

2. The parking area overlays the taxi road (on this runway at least) this means that the white line is under the parking area texture.

 

I'm debating about the parking area and thinking of just darkening the lining rather than make it looks as "bad" as the taxi road and runway. That way there is variation in when the workers painted different areas.

 

 

 

 

[VMFA117_Poko]

I like it very very much. Outstanding job GragonRR :thumbup:

[JaNk0]

Too bad this isn't compatible with LO:FC.

[DragonRR]

Beta:

 

NOTE: I've lightened the runway main texture. Opinions please :)

 

 

Oh... and for those of you that would like to try it now while it's hot here's a link to the beta.

 

Readme:

Install my current V2.0 textures using modman.

Copy the files from the rar into your temptextures folder.

Something like:

C:\YOURPATH\Eagle Dynamics\Ka-50\Bazar\TempTextures

You shouldn't find that anything is overwritten unless you are using the simmod terrain or my non-modman version.

To remove - delete the files from the temptextures folder.

 

MODMAN FINAL VERSION NOW UP - SEE PAGE 1

DON'T USE THIS LINK UNLESS YOU WANT A NON-MODMAN VERSION (and bare in mind that this is an older version too)

http://www.xeos.co.uk/Dragons_Airbase_Textures_V3.0_BETA.rar

 

EDIT: The files are actually dds files renamed to bmps and tgas. They aren't currently optimised but don't represent a massive video ram overhead.

Edited April 23, 2009 by DragonRR

[flanker1]

very impressive to see the pictures from tady. . . wow. it´s nearly perfect.

 

regarding the lightning. . . i m quite unsure - any other opinions?

 

mabe you have to lighten all of the textures. . . and do 2 modes: the real dragon mode and a yellowish/ivory tarmac mode. . .

 

maybe an idea. . .

[VMFA117_Poko]

Yeah, little bit ivory/cream color would be great and maybe about 15% less of contrast on the worn out effect. Skidmarks on the touchdown are wonderfull.

[SuDepp]

Hy DragonRR!

First of all - special THX :thumbup: , although we donґt keep staring at the runways that much, it makes this sim ( damn! Its NOT a simple GAME!) looking better and better....

Last decision concerning the different line intention within the parking areas was the right one!

Lighten the main runway looks more realistic to me too.

 

Looks like the next finalis ready to go!

 

Thx for sharing the beta & keep up the good work :thumbup:

 

Greets

S@uDepp