I had just woken up, had a little coffee, was lazily checking through several daily sites like I normally do when I saw the topic of this thread popped up after clicking New Posts. My eyes actually opened a little more, excited that we might get to check out (cough)Utah(/cough) today until I realized it was from the last big geo patch they did. (sigh)
Well, I'm awake now...LoL
I'm using the Oculus CV1 and the reviews of the VR experience are the reason I decided to give it a shot. It is the *only* VR flying sim that I can find that is 'realistic.' Of course, there are plenty more things to add to make the immersion even better, but there's nothing like those couple of seconds where you have your goggles on and you've made all of your selections in the main menu and you're waiting for the scenario to load into memory then....BAM - you're sitting in the pilot's seat of your favorite plane and are able to look around 360 degrees at everything.
I always find myself just sitting there for a moment taking everything in before I even start to click any switches.
I can't wait for what's to come with this game and I hope IPACS is thinking big in the long run.
The only time I load it up in 2D now is when I want to look at a livery I made in-game and maybe take a screenshot. Even then it feels like I'm playing it on a tablet. No comparison.
Immersion is the perfect word. Anyone that owns a Rift or Vive owes it to themselves to try it out, even if you wind up wanting a refund. I have a friend who loves his Rift but wasn't interested in "flying games" until I showed him FS2. Now, he's googling everything and wanting to learn how to fly properly. So great...
Delfinpm, there will never be a "perfect" headset and there will always be a better one on the way. If you're interested, dive in. I had your opinion before I purchased, and since I did I haven't regretted it yet. Oculus even threw us an amazing freebie just recently that's mind-blowing called Robo Recall, if you have the Touch controllers. Wow!
Yes, very welcome news! Thanks for the update.
Sorry guys for delay, I was insanely busy at work.. Just uploaded my State Partol to Jeff.
Hope you'll enjoy chasing speeding drivers:D
Grabbed it. Nice job! Very clean.
@ Zer0Squared
Man, you are an artist in dead.. I found one really cool real repaint of 172 with something like US flag "thrown" over the plane and I thought "I could NEVER reproduce this". You just did it:) Don't tell me you drawn this by hand.. did you?
Thanks!!
By hand, though? Not really. I mean, I did the wheel stripes and belt. The tail graphic is a Superman cape PS-edited from a Google image of him flying. The top of the wings was red-flowing material that I edited as well as adding the logo. The door logo is obvious.
Glad you like it!
I think I asked about that in another thread and never got an answer, but yes...I have to delete the preview image files each time I render before it will create a new one. Makes sense that would apply to the other generated files. We need an overwrite function and an Undo of some kind?
I made a Super-Cessna just for fun. Haha
It's posted and ready for download. You are sure keeping me busy I'm here to serve (Torsten promoted me from cook to server)
Congrats on your promotion! Haha. And sorry to keep you busy, just really having fun with the liveries at the moment. Blame that ipacs team for giving us the tools to do things like this.
Looks great !!!
Hey - just finished....I think. There is always something else that can be done with things like this and you have to just stop yourself at some point.
Anyway, I sent the ZIP of the livery to the upload email (always Jeff?) so you should see that soon.
Happy Flying!
Thanks! Ok, I'll be able to finish up the little touches this afternoon then I'll send it to Jeff.
Well, this is what I threw together so far. Any changes need made or are you good with this? 
If not, anyone else want it?
I haven't looked at the other models but while I was looking at a livery in-game, I noticed that the last section of windows on the 747 are not transparent like the others. Is this normal?
ZerO, you refer to Qantas? or which one.
and:
you mentioned you can do it in no time,
if that's the case, throw them all up,method: go from large to small airlines, main livery to special liveries, big aircraft to small aircraft.
Do you read my thoughts?
LoL - no, I just thought you were asking for the basic Qantas 747 livery, which I can do. Any of those others.... yeah, that would take a LOT more time.
Sorry for replying so late but.. I can do this one. No problem.
I should be able to start this afternoon. Actually, the layout/colors are very similar to the Northwest Airlines I just did - I can probably modify that one enough so that it shouldn't take long.
I'll let you know when I submit it.
Zer0
Hoping for a download section soon or a Workshop section in Steam. In the meantime, here are a few liveries I've made so far.
I'm hanging on to the files in case anyone else may want these. I'm still tweaking them so hopefully I'll have some finals when we're ready to share them here.
Thanks!
Zer0
You can not map the autopilot NAV button with a keyboard key all the rest of the buttons
On the autopilot work fine
Ok, whew. I thought it was just me or I was doing something wrong. I noticed that too.
Dear colleagues,
this is the missing tutorial. Hope it helps!
Regards
Rodeo
WoW! 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.
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!
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
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!
Zer0
