[redko]

It's because it is real metal from a mustang chopped up and put on the the IL2 skin, thats why they call it photoreal.

Its never really been done in IL2 as we tend to go for more war weary looks and the lighting in game isnt Dynamic enough to pull it off.
But for an Airshow skin and to take screenshots it looks very effective.

hum....ok.

I never did skins but i'm shure i will be able to simulate metal relief for any plain using wave effet....i'm very busy with my repainted maps but i have time i will try this.

I would like to see the metal looks like this:



Here an exemple of the wave effet......ok in this pic i used it to simulate the hight temperatures effect caused by fire. But it could perfectly work on a plane skin if the resolution is enough high.... :roll: