#4005039 - 09/04/14 04:51 PM
Re: It's Rick Rawlings' fault. Instead of flying, I'm...
[Re: RAF_Louvert]
|
Joined: Jun 2012
Posts: 7,993
Robert_Wiggins
BWOC Survivor!...So Far!!
|
BWOC Survivor!...So Far!!
Hotshot
Joined: Jun 2012
Posts: 7,993
Lindsay, Ontario, Canada
|
.
You poor bastiges, you can all say good bye to the lives you once knew. With the skinning monkey now firmly planted on your collective backs you're all goners. The middle of the night wake-ups, suddenly jonesing for a new paint, with no choice but to park in front of the computer until it's done; at a party when a new skin idea crawls into your brain and eats away until you are forced to go and satisfy the insipid thing; the tender family moments forever invaded by the harrowing hunger that can ne'er be sated. All this and more is yours now that you've entered the hell reserved for 'skinners'. Welcome.
. Lou, and don't forget that moment when the wife approaches you to design alternating stripes into a new dress for her!! She might even go out and buy you a sewing machine!! OOOch!
Case: Cooler Master Storm Trooper PSU: Ultra X3,1000-Watt MB: Asus Maximus VI Extreme Mem: Corsair Vengeance (2x 8GB), PC3-12800, DDR3-1600MHz, Unbuffered CPU: Intel i7-4770K, OC to 4.427Ghz CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Seidon 240M Liquid CPU Cooler Vid Card: ASUS GTX 980Ti STRIX 6GB OS and Games on separate: Samsung 840 Series 250GB SSD Monitor: Primary ASUS PG27AQ 4k; Secondary Samsung SyncMaster BX2450L Periphs: MS Sidewinder FFB2 Pro, TrackIR 4
|
|
|
#4005055 - 09/04/14 05:17 PM
Re: It's Rick Rawlings' fault. Instead of flying, I'm...
[Re: Slick Wilhelm]
|
Joined: Aug 2011
Posts: 6,739
Olham
Barmy Baron from Berlin
|
Barmy Baron from Berlin
Hotshot
Joined: Aug 2011
Posts: 6,739
|
A tip for those who are getting desperate with distortions: if you can work with layers, you could copy milimeter- or math paper from a web pic, and put it on the wings and fuselage. Either half transparent, or, if you can't do that, you must cut it so, that you still recognise enough of the underlying skin parts.
Over that layer, you work out your paint job. Now make a DDS-file from that, go into WOFF and make screenshots from all angles. Make corrections and repeat that proceedure. When everything is fine, switch off the math layer or delete it. That may help you to aligne the stripes correctly (although with my "Quillfish" Alb I gave up at some point and thought "What the hell...!")
Vice-President of the BOC (Barmy OFFers Club) Member of the 'Albatros Aviators Club' - "We know how to die with Style!"
|
|
|
#4005089 - 09/04/14 06:46 PM
Re: It's Rick Rawlings' fault. Instead of flying, I'm...
[Re: Slick Wilhelm]
|
Joined: Dec 2013
Posts: 424
Rover_27
Member
|
Member
Joined: Dec 2013
Posts: 424
Russia
|
Olham, that's some excellent piece of advice! A real eye-opener.
And yes, you're right that my Nieuport's skin looks a bit "German". I think I was inspired by Udet's red and white Fokker that is now in my loading screen.
i5 2320, 3.3 GHz GTX 560Ti, 4 GB graphics memory 8 GB RAM Windows 7 64x
|
|
|
#4005112 - 09/04/14 08:00 PM
Re: It's Rick Rawlings' fault. Instead of flying, I'm...
[Re: Robert_Wiggins]
|
Joined: May 2012
Posts: 4,879
RAF_Louvert
BOC President; Pilot Extraordinaire; Humble Man
|
BOC President; Pilot Extraordinaire; Humble Man
Senior Member
Joined: May 2012
Posts: 4,879
L'Etoile du Nord
|
. Lou, and don't forget that moment when the wife approaches you to design alternating stripes into a new dress for her!! She might even go out and buy you a sewing machine!! OOOch! No no, you have it all wrong Robert. It is the alternating stripes on the wife's dress that inspire a new paint idea, prompting one to think, "That would look really good on a Camel". Unfortunately, being a skinner and totally absorbed in the new design forming in your head, you unintentionally voice your thought out loud and within earshot of the wife. This results in much slower progress on the new Camel skin due to the distractions of one eye being swollen shut and a mind-numbing ache in your lower jaw caused by several loosened teeth. .
Three RFC Brass Hats were strolling down a street in London. Two walked into a bar, the third one ducked._________________________________________________________________________ Former Cold War Warrior, USAF Security Service 1974-1978, E-4, Morse Systems Intercept, England, Europe, and points above. "pippy-pahpah-pippy pah-pip-pah"
|
|
|
#4005114 - 09/04/14 08:02 PM
Re: It's Rick Rawlings' fault. Instead of flying, I'm...
[Re: Slick Wilhelm]
|
Joined: May 2012
Posts: 4,879
RAF_Louvert
BOC President; Pilot Extraordinaire; Humble Man
|
BOC President; Pilot Extraordinaire; Humble Man
Senior Member
Joined: May 2012
Posts: 4,879
L'Etoile du Nord
|
.
...not that I'd know...
.
Three RFC Brass Hats were strolling down a street in London. Two walked into a bar, the third one ducked._________________________________________________________________________ Former Cold War Warrior, USAF Security Service 1974-1978, E-4, Morse Systems Intercept, England, Europe, and points above. "pippy-pahpah-pippy pah-pip-pah"
|
|
|
#4005116 - 09/04/14 08:05 PM
Re: It's Rick Rawlings' fault. Instead of flying, I'm...
[Re: RAF_Louvert]
|
Joined: Jun 2012
Posts: 7,993
Robert_Wiggins
BWOC Survivor!...So Far!!
|
BWOC Survivor!...So Far!!
Hotshot
Joined: Jun 2012
Posts: 7,993
Lindsay, Ontario, Canada
|
.
...not that I'd know...
.
Case: Cooler Master Storm Trooper PSU: Ultra X3,1000-Watt MB: Asus Maximus VI Extreme Mem: Corsair Vengeance (2x 8GB), PC3-12800, DDR3-1600MHz, Unbuffered CPU: Intel i7-4770K, OC to 4.427Ghz CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Seidon 240M Liquid CPU Cooler Vid Card: ASUS GTX 980Ti STRIX 6GB OS and Games on separate: Samsung 840 Series 250GB SSD Monitor: Primary ASUS PG27AQ 4k; Secondary Samsung SyncMaster BX2450L Periphs: MS Sidewinder FFB2 Pro, TrackIR 4
|
|
|
#4005211 - 09/05/14 12:19 AM
Re: It's Rick Rawlings' fault. Instead of flying, I'm...
[Re: Slick Wilhelm]
|
Joined: Mar 2011
Posts: 3,737
Rick_Rawlings
Senior Member
|
Senior Member
Joined: Mar 2011
Posts: 3,737
|
carrick58 don't forget the click-release-hold-shift line technique from the video!
The older I get, the more I realize I don't need to be Han, Luke or Leia. I'm just happy to be rebel scum...
|
|
|
#4005217 - 09/05/14 12:26 AM
Re: It's Rick Rawlings' fault. Instead of flying, I'm...
[Re: RAF_Louvert]
|
Joined: Dec 2012
Posts: 3,086
MFair
Senior Member
|
Senior Member
Joined: Dec 2012
Posts: 3,086
|
.
...not that I'd know...
. Before I open my mouth around the Boss I try to remember the last meal of cold shoulder and hot tongue that I had to eat.
Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from either end. BOC Member since....I can't remember!
|
|
|
#4005226 - 09/05/14 01:01 AM
Re: It's Rick Rawlings' fault. Instead of flying, I'm...
[Re: Slick Wilhelm]
|
Joined: Feb 2008
Posts: 662
Slick Wilhelm
Member
|
Member
Joined: Feb 2008
Posts: 662
Rochester, MN
|
The breakthrough for me was understanding the "anchoring" of a pic onto a layer. And then using the magic wand to remove the background from an image. That was quite the learning curve, and I spent many days rewinding the tutorial and watching that segment over and over again.
I7-9700k@4.9 GHZ 16 GB RAM GTX 2080 8 GB VRAM 2 x 1 TB SSD 32" Dell S3220DGF curved gaming monitor @ 2560 x 1440p @ 165 Hz Sound BlasterX G6 External USB sound card Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro Headphones Thrustmaster TM16000 FCS HOTAS Logitec Pro Flight Pedals TrackIR 5
|
|
|
#4008566 - 09/12/14 01:50 AM
Re: It's Rick Rawlings' fault. Instead of flying, I'm...
[Re: Slick Wilhelm]
|
Joined: Mar 2011
Posts: 3,737
Rick_Rawlings
Senior Member
|
Senior Member
Joined: Mar 2011
Posts: 3,737
|
Nice! That ought to get some attention...
Last edited by Rick_Rawlings; 09/12/14 01:51 AM.
The older I get, the more I realize I don't need to be Han, Luke or Leia. I'm just happy to be rebel scum...
|
|
|
|
|