[DogEater]

Little notice: it is better to place objects near the wall as close as possible. At the center of the map distance to wall is too big, and the fog in the air make walls much brighter then sky/ground, and thus keying much difficult.

[Fisneaky]

Just a note that I've made a "blue_load.ini" and a "green_load.ini"

Changing the airfield tga textures to "all alpha channel" renders them (colourless) invisible , so no need to swap files if you're using either blue or green maps during a session

[DogEater]

Just a note that I've made a "blue_load.ini" and a "green_load.ini"

Changing the airfield tga textures to "all alpha channel" renders them (colourless) invisible , so no need to swap files if you're using either blue or green maps during a session

Sorry, i feel myself like a stupid, but i still can't understand about "all alpha channel'
Where exactly I have to use the mark "-"? Should I rename runway texture files?(I see no way to control runway textures from load.ini)

[Fisneaky]

I applied alpha mask to whole skin , making it transparent so useable for either map.

I renamed the blu.load and green.load to "blload.ini" and "grload.ini"


and made these entries in "all.ini"

Green_Dog Empty1a/grload.ini
Blue_Dog Empty1a/blload.ini

[biltongbru]

Hi Fisneaky and DogEater;

You guys did fantastic work, thanks!

I got going with your first green chroma map and it is working very well.

I am struggeling to get the later version running (blue and green map)

Is it possible to enable a more "user friendly" version where you have a "blue chroma map" and a "green chroma map" appear on the full mission builder map menu?

thanks

biltongbru

[Fisneaky]

Is it possible to enable a more "user friendly" version where you have a "blue chroma map" and a "green chroma map" appear on the full mission builder map menu?

thanks

biltongbru

Thats what I did in the preceding post, (can send the clear runway files if needed.)

[biltongbru]

okay, thanks, will try it out tonight

[DogEater]

I applied alpha mask to whole skin , making it transparent so useable for either map.

I renamed the blu.load and green.load to "blload.ini" and "grload.ini"


and made these entries in "all.ini"

Green_Dog Empty1a/grload.ini
Blue_Dog Empty1a/blload.ini

OK, transparent airfields works fine, but i can't find any all.ini in my mods/files folders. Is there any packs, contains this file? (or it was obsolete an thus removed from recent packs?)

And, i think, for "user friendly" version we have to find out how to make IL2 engine take transparent textures not exactly from game-root\Mods\MAPMODS\3do\airfield\ground, but from separate folder.
This is useful than you don't want to use different copy of a game folder and allow not to overwrite any modded or original textures.

[Fisneaky]

Should be in "#:\'46 root folder\Mods\MAPMODS\maps

just delete any custom maps you're not using


[all]
Ardennes_S Ardennes/sload.ini
Ardennes_W Ardennes/wload.ini
Balaton Balaton/load.ini
Balaton_winter Balaton/load_w.ini
Berlin Berlin/load.ini
Burma Burma/load.ini
Chichi Chichi/load.ini
CKY_Atlantic_summer Coralsea/Atlantic_summer_CKY_load.ini
CKY_Atlantic_winter Coralsea/Atlantic_winter_CKY_load.ini
CKY_Berlin_autumn Berlin/Autumn_CKY_load.ini
CKY_Berlin_winter Berlin/Winter_CKY_load.ini
CKY_Lvov_winter Lviv/winter_CKY_load.ini
CoralSea CoralSea/load.ini
CoralSeaOnline CoralSea/Online_load.ini
CoralSeaOnline2 CoralSea/2_load.ini
Crimea Crimea/load.ini
Green_Dog Empty1a/grload.ini
Blue_Dog Empty1a/blload.ini
Empty1a_Winter Empty1a_Winter/load.ini
Empty1b Empty1b/load.ini
Empty1b_Winter Empty1b_Winter/load.ini
Empty2a Empty2a/load.ini
Empty2a_Winter Empty2a_Winter/load.ini
Empty2b Empty2b/load.ini
Empty2b_Winter Empty2b_Winter/load.ini
Empty4a Empty4a/load.ini
Empty4b Empty4b/load.ini
FinsGulf FinsGulf/load.ini
fly_Z_BOB_A fly_zo_BOB/fly_Z_normA_load.ini
fly_Z_BOB_S fly_zo_BOB/fly_Z_normS_load.ini
fly_Z_BOB_W fly_zo_BOB/fly_Z_normW_load.ini
fly_Z_Crimea_desert Crimea/fly_Z_d_load.ini
fly_Z_Net5_autumn Net5Summer/fly_Z_A_load.ini
fly_Z_Net5_winter Net5Summer/fly_Z_W_load.ini
fly_Z_norm_A normandy/fly_Z_normA_load.ini
fly_Z_norm_S normandy/fly_Z_normS_load.ini
fly_Z_norm_W normandy/fly_Z_normW_load.ini
fly_Z_Normandy_autumn normandy/fly_Z_normA_load.ini
fly_Z_Normandy_summer normandy/fly_Z_normS_load.ini
fly_Z_Normandy_winter normandy/fly_Z_normW_load.ini
fly_Z_Norway_winter Norway/fly_Z_w_load.ini
Guadal Guadal/load.ini
GuadalE Guadal/eload.ini
Hawaii Hawaii/load.ini
Iwo Iwo/load.ini
IwoOnine Iwo/Online_load.ini
KhalkhinGol KhalkhinGol/load.ini
Kiev Kiev/load.ini
Kuban Kuban/load.ini
Kurland_Autumn Kurland/load.ini
Kurland_Autumn_online Kurland/load_online.ini
Kurland_Winter Kurland/wload.ini
Kurland_Winter_online Kurland/wload_online.ini
Kursk Kursk/load.ini
Kyushu Japan1/load.ini
LAL_Crimea_autumn Crimea/LAL_crimeaautumn.ini
LAL_Crimea_mud Crimea/LAL_crimeamud.ini
LAL_Crimea_summer Crimea/LAL_crimeasummer.ini
LAL_Crimea_winter Crimea/LAL_crimeawinter.ini
LAL_FinsGulf_autumn finsgulf/LAL_FinsG_autumn.ini
LAL_FinsGulf_spring finsgulf/LAL_FinsG_Spring.ini
LAL_Kuban Kuban/LAL_load.ini
LAL_Kursk Kursk/LAL_load.ini
LAL_Lvov_autumn Lviv/LAL_Lvivautumn.ini
LAL_Moscow_summer Moscow/LAL_sload.ini
LAL_Prokhorovka Prokhorovka/LAL_load.ini
LAL_Smolensk Smolensk/LAL_load.ini
LAL_Stalingrad_Summer Stgrad/LAL_sload.ini
Lvov Lviv/load.ini
Lybia_N-E Lybia_N-E/tob2_M_load.ini
Manchuria Manchuria/load.ini
Marianas Marianas/load.ini
MarianasOnline Marianas/Online_load.ini
Midway Midway/load.ini
Moscow Moscow/load.ini
Murmansk murmansk/load.ini
MurmanskSummer MurmanskS/load.ini
Net1Summer Net1Summer/load.ini
Net1Winter Net1Winter/load.ini
Net1Winter_mountain Net1Winter/W1_load.ini
Net2Summer Net2Summer/load.ini
Net2Winter Net2Winter/load.ini
Net3Summer Net3Summer/load.ini
Net5Summer Net5Summer/load.ini
Net6Island Net6Island/load.ini
Net7Islands Net7Islands/load.ini
Net8Islands Net8Islands/load.ini
Net8Islands_v2 Net8Islands/load_v2.ini
NetIslands NetIslands/load.ini
NetMountains Netmountains/load.ini
NewGuinea NewGuinea/load.ini
Normandy1 Normandy/load2.ini
Normandy2 Normandy/load.ini
Normandy3 Normandy/load1.ini
Norway Norway/load.ini
Norway_winter Norway/wload.ini
NWEurope NWEurope/load.ini
Okinawa Okinawa/load.ini
OkinawaOnline Okinawa/Online_load.ini
OnlineDesert desert/load.ini
OnlineItaly Italy_DF/load.ini
Palau Palau/load.ini
PalauOnline Palau/Online_load.ini
Prokhorovka Prokhorovka/load.ini
SandsOfTime SandsOfTime/load.ini
Singapore singapore/load.ini
Singapore2 singapore/load2.ini
Smolensk Smolensk/load.ini
Stgrad Stgrad/load.ini
SummerMoscow Moscow/sload.ini
SummerStgrad Stgrad/sload.ini
Tarawa Tarawa/load.ini
vp_Balaton Balaton/vp_load.ini
vp_Lvov Lviv/vp_load.ini
vp_SandsOfTime1 SandsOfTime/vp_load.ini
vp_SandsOfTime2 SandsOfTime/2vp_load.ini
vp_SandsOfTime3 SandsOfTime/3vp_load.ini
SR_ILAM_Chroma SandsOfTime/GrScr_load.ini
Wake Wake/load.ini
WinterFinsGulf FinsGulf/load_w.ini
Slovakia Slovakia/load.ini
Slovakia_Online Slovakia/load_online.ini
Bessarabia Bessarabia/load.ini
Iasi_Online Bessarabia/load_Iasi.ini
Odessa_Online Bessarabia/load_Odessa.ini
MTO MTO/load.ini
mrz_Malta mrz_Malta/mrz_load.ini
mrz_Malta_medium mrz_Malta/mrz_load_medium.ini
mrz_Malta_high mrz_Malta/mrz_load_high.ini
//
Kt_eastafrica Kt_eastafrica/load.ini
The_Slot_08-42 Slot/load_0842.ini
The_Slot_10-42 Slot/load_1042.ini
The_Slot_12-42 Slot/load_1242.ini
The_Slot_07-43 Slot/load_0743.ini
The_Slot_10-43 Slot/load_1043.ini
The_Slot_01-44 Slot/load_0144.ini


[Fisneaky]

If it's the only custom airfield texture you have just add the "-" to it's folder name.

[DogEater]

Should be in "#:\'46 root folder\Mods\MAPMODS\maps

just delete any custom maps you're not using

Thx a lot again. (Well, i' just have to use may brains and just list all my maps)

If it's the only custom airfield texture you have just add the "-" to it's folder name.

I mean that I want to use the airfield transparent textures and original texture simultaneously (accordingly, for the color and regular maps) so that users of the mod will not have to rename any folder.

[DogEater]

Hey, Joe90!
We are (the russian movie makers) closely following at your competition!
At least two of our guys want to take part in the competition(as i know).
Anyway, we wish you luck in your competition!!!!

The only thing i wish - is an inspire for all movie makers and freedom in video mixture process.

[Joe90]

This looks like a great movie-making tool. Thanks for all the effort Dogeater. I haven't tried this, but I'm sure I'll have a crack later.

I'm looking forward to what biltongbru comes up with :wink:

Any other aspiring movie-makers from this community should think about doing something a little different for the upcoming IL2 movie making competition!

viewtopic.php?t=5169

PS, thanks Don for liaising between the communities. I don't get into this forum much so your occasional winks are good for a heads up that new tools are being developed.

[Joe90]

Hey, Joe90!
We are (the russian movie makers) closely following at your competition!
At least two of our guys want to take part in the competition(as i know).
Anyway, we wish you luck in your competition!!!!

The only thing i wish - is an inspire for all movie makers and freedom in video mixture process.

I am not entering a movie for the competition because I am a judge.

Glad to hear you are entering the competition. Have you made any other movies before this? Have you ever posted any at UBI moviemakers forum?

What do you mean 'freedom in video mixture process'? There is freedom in the movie competition, all you have to do is start with IL2 and after that you can do whatever you want to be creative.

[DogEater]

I am not entering a movie for the competition because I am a judge.

I mean, that I wish success to all initiators of the competition (Judging Panel)

Glad to hear you are entering the competition. Have you made any other movies before this? Have you ever posted any at UBI moviemakers forum?

Hmm, not me but two of my firends tell me that they are wants to participate in competition.
I've got created some movies (this, for example), but don't have enough time to create some
competitive movie this year. MB later...

What do you mean 'freedom in video mixture process'? There is freedom in the movie competition, all you have to do is start with IL2 and after that you can do whatever you want to be creative.

We've got a lot discussion at fly-movies.ru forum about movie making and find out, that just IL-2 engine isn't enough for creating a good video. Now it's clear that you have to use lot of visual effects, some screenplay, nice cutwork, music, 5.1 sound etc.
But if you creating some ground scenes, the cubed ground objects will destroyed nice look(do you remember gunners). The way is to blend planes from il-2 with any sim with more realistic ground view. And chroma mod helps you to grab any objects from Il-2 engine without lot of tricks (do you know about rotoscoping, for example?). And this method with chroma key i called "freedom" - freedom to use even footage of real scenes and people. And that's was idea of chroma-mod.
I know, that it is temporary measure before SoW coming. But it can helps to make Il-2 movie making much longer, than it could be.