28.03.2008, 07:17
FlushMeister Wrote:Hey Klemm, thanks for the feedback on that, I might need some more help with text and what font they might beI'm glad to give feedback on that, since i'm German those little gramar errors really spring into my face. If you look at Olegs cockpits, i think he got all the text right. Looking at original instruments is the best way of course, and someone already gave you a link for that.
I paint the txtures by "hand" in photoshop, with a wacom tablet, so nothing is photographed or anything like that, i ve got some ref from google but theyre way to low res to steal textures from, the main thing I'm doing is to give everything a little bit of colour, even tho metal and paint looks "grey" the colour is reflecting so much more, in the real world there's basically no such thing as 100% white and 100% blak, grey too also the gauges in the corners need to be "shadowed" and it takes a few shots before i get them right, the shadow from the artificial horizon is actually embedded in the panel texture behind it, and so on.
Please let me know if its TOO weathered, I sort of like it, but all the reference I have so far is photos of old cockpits that might be way too rusty
take care!
I didn't think you're doing all the textures by hand, simply amazing.
Textures and gauges you did look great, but weathering is slightly too much *for my taste*. But the current version is fine anyway. It looks like i'd expect it to after some 4 to 6 months use (yes, there were 190 A 8's that survived that long on the frontline). Maybe you could release a version with less weathering, as a "2-weeks-used" version, and this one. This is only a suggestion though.
Really looking forward to release!