SKIN: Cripes A' Mighty

[Robo.]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DOWNLOAD HERE

Edited May 18, 2012 by Robo.

[TimmyD]

Where can I download this? I love Preddys' plane. 6 kills in under 6 minutes on 6th June 1944. Some record.

[Robo.]

Where can I download this? I love Preddys' plane. 6 kills in under 6 minutes on 6th June 1944. Some record.

 

Sorry I missed the link. It's being uploaded to the userfiles, here is a temp link:

 

CLICK

 

This is the restored Stang, mind you, no wartime weathering. I used many photographs of the ML151BW aircraft which is in superb condition, highly polished and everything. This is in no way attempt to skin real wartime Preddy's Cripes A' Mighty. I've seen these Virtual Horsemen guys flying some sick aerobatics and I hope this modern example could be of some use to them. :thumbup: I am not entirely happy with the result as the 3d model is slightly different (obvious differences are mirrors and aerials) and some details like the kill marks could not be matched with the real life Mustang due to different panel lines alingment (perhaps California / Dallas differences) and I had to make few compromises to get close to the original. I might be able to fix some of the differencies but I need to figure out if I can alter the bump *.bmps somehow.

 

Beautifuly restored aircraft that is!

Edited May 18, 2012 by Robo.

[TimmyD]

I like it regardless, well done Robo.

[-Rudel-]

Looks great Robo. Are you using your own SPEC or a stock one? As you know the stock one sets off a strong blue reflection.

 

I think you either picked great angles to reduce the effect, or you edited the SPEC to reduce the reflection. I'm interested in what the RGB values are for your setup if you did.

 

Cheers

[Blaze]

Nice one mate! Downloading now. :)

[LcSummers]

I cant believe it. Every day a new skin on this forum.

 

Thanks

[cichlidfan]

I knew someone was working on this one. Actually just finished his biography the other day. Good read.

 

Thanks very much.

[graywo1fg]

Beautiful! Well done! :)

[Robo.]

Looks great Robo. Are you using your own SPEC or a stock one? As you know the stock one sets off a strong blue reflection.

 

I think you either picked great angles to reduce the effect, or you edited the SPEC to reduce the reflection. I'm interested in what the RGB values are for your setup if you did.

 

Cheers

 

Hi -Rudel-, thank you very much. I see what you mean by the blueish reflections, I am all new to DCS and specular maps in this engine. I am not quite sure yet what the possibilities are, all I did was I altered the shiny stuff (R and B channels) a bit closer to white to get desired effect (nice shiny mirror-like polished aluminium on the fuselage and flaps). I have kept the G channel as it was as I was happy with the RAF dark blue used on the blue nose and it's mattness in game. I did a bit experimentation with various values but I found that in order to get rid of the blueish tint I had to choose different background colour in the diffuse map - the default 'bare metal' skin has got this darker bluegrey. I am quite happy with the results but it might as well be revised later on. Maybe the shaders will also be changed or tweaked a wee bit in the final DCSW release who knows. Not sure that helped though, but I honestly don't know. In game effect very much depends on the weather and time settings. The models look sligtly different in the model viewer, that does not help either.

 

Thanks for your kind comments!

[_Heater_]

Good job Robo ;)

[-Rudel-]

Hi -Rudel-, thank you very much. I see what you mean by the blueish reflections, I am all new to DCS and specular maps in this engine. ... ...The models look sligtly different in the model viewer, that does not help either.

 

Thanks for your kind comments!

 

Thank you for the information. You and me are in the same boat as far as this engine. I'll try a few adjustments too, and see what I get. I see you also noticed the ModelViewer differenes too. Glad I'm not the only one! :noexpression: