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The First User repaint for the Cessna 172 provided by Rodeo - Ascend Skyhawk N172UC
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Reminds me of a J3 Cub
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Great modification Ray,
I love the information your supplied. Many thanks!
By the way, the repaint may still be reworked within the next few days. But at least I know now, that it works and you can use it.Regards
Rodeo -
With his tutorial, Rodeo also inspired me to do a couple of mods myself.
I'm currently trying to modify the Cessna but I can't seem to get the livery stripes from the 'blank' to vanish. I know how to use Photoshop and understand layers - I actually removed the layers that had the liveries in them from the Specular layers - but I can't figure out where they're coming from. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!
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Love the Star Wars 747.
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To do a repaint... how long is it taking start to finish
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Thanks!
It all depends on how much you want to do and your graphics skill level. The Star Wars 747 didn't take long at all - while the LJ took some time to do, but I'm usually watching movies while I'm working so....maybe 2 hours, because I'm having to figure out what goes where on the templates at times.
You paint a section (or more), render, look at the preview image it generates and go make changes.
Here's my latest - a Metallica tour jumbo. This one also took about 2+ hours.
Zer0
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Exactly my problem.. I'm working on this Cessna skin and those damn reflections are coming from nowhere!
I manually erased them from every layer I could find but they are still there. Can't wait for Rodeo's tutorial;)Yep, same here. I would hide a layer, render - still there. Kept going until I rendered just the blank itself and they were *still* there! LoL
Crazy Cessnas!
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Just a short note from me:
The reflections are probably on different layer groups like _specular.
As long as you do not replace the original _specular.ttx, they will stay there.Process:
Open the layer group specular (or specular_alpha, just similar groups). Edit the content and save it to a _specular.BMP.
While doing this, all other layer groups have to be switched off.Do the same for the other layer groups reflection and ambient and save the files respectively.
Now the converter does create not only the _color.ttx, but also the _specular.ttx and so on.
You only need to save layer groups where you changed something.I see already, that you are artist in repainting, good luck to your results!
RodeoScreenshot from specular. You may switch off the black backdrop layer during work, but for saving the BMP it has to be on!
Screenshot from tutorial: The layer groups of the PSD correnspond to the .ttx files of the aircraft. -
Dear colleagues,
this is the missing tutorial. Hope it helps!
Regards
Rodeo -
Fantastic - I'm inspired to have a go myself, even with v.little photoshop experience
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Dear colleagues,
this is the missing tutorial. Hope it helps!
Regards
RodeoWoW! Nice tutorial! Thanks so much for this. This explains those reflections on the Cessna that we couldn't get rid of and So much more.
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Absolutely great and very impressive,
I'm happy I could help!Rodeo
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I'm sure it will come shortly.
Next step would be the registration number in the cockpit, Ray mentioned this here in the forum:
http://www.ipacs.de/forum/showthre…rs-to-the-Panel -
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Very nice work !
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I'm sure it will come shortly.
Next step would be the registration number in the cockpit, Ray mentioned this here in the forum:
http://www.ipacs.de/forum/showthre…rs-to-the-PanelMaybe drhotwing1 will also look into this one.
Ray
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Dear colleagues,
this is the missing tutorial. Hope it helps!
Regards
RodeoI just converted your tutorials into the new Wiki. I'm sure that I can speak on behalf of the Aerofly FS 2 community here, your contribution is one of the first kickstarters to user interaction and user based modifications; A very important step in the success for the future of Aerofly FS 2. Great Work !