[Poltava]

WOW!!!

Thanks a lot! Poor Sentai 19 (they got really chewed up down in the Philippines) will fly again!

But you don't have to make all those the Sentai 17 skins, just a few. (They did operate together during the last desperate days, and those joint missions, before they were pulled out, will of course be portrayed as well.)

Again: mighty grand of you!!!

I am of course perfectly happy to wait until you are ready with your skins. The construction of the campaign won't be delayed by that.

[Billfish]

Well, this has turned into a MASSIVE undertaking now.

After darkening the rivets again and again I realized it just was not producing the results I wanted. Either the rivets just looked too light so that detail was easily lost having turned off the rib/spar shading and highlighting, or looked too dark so fake.

It then struck me what the problem was.....Roughly 3/4 of the rivets were missing from all of the templates out there, that why the areas looked so light and required the excessive shading.

Unfortunately I use a very old version of Photoshop (basically B.E.1.1/Photoshop home 4.0) and am not comfortable using 7.0.....So it is a single pixel at a time add......This is going to delay things by a few days at least.



K2

[Billfish]

Well this IS going to take me a good week, in that as you can see from these pics (all I have done so far the top the stock template the bottom new rivets) how many are missing......This was a quick shading of intensity and so on so not how they'll look when done, just to give an idea as to the number off....and worse still I have to place them one at a time manually.



K2

[Billfish]

Okie Dokie;

On this days edition of "Can the skin tard figure it out", we're looking at how rivets look when close to panel lines.

The wing main spars I discovered are NOT tapered as shown in the old template yet are straight. That good, yet they also contain and are flanked by a tremendous number of rivets so an excellent place to discuss this. The problem is where panel lines meet often the rivets are very close to the edge.

Now we have a choice simply due to the bmp size constraints. That being in cases where to be to scale I would need a "half pixel difference", I need to choose if I should place the rivet flush to the edge of the line losing the gap between them.....OR.....Offset them one pixel placing them a tad too far away.

Look at the starboard top wing spar.....

Test H has the correct spar and "internal" rivet spacing to it....However it has the 1 pixel gap on the external flanking rivets. Test I has an incorrect internal spar so disregard it....However it shows how the external rivets look when placed flush so representative of that condition.

http://www.speedyshare.com/740990330.html

Feedback appreciated.

K2