Posts by MDIvey

  • Livery addons I made for B787-10 （with download link）

    YOLO... really enjoying these great repaints

    one thing I did notice on the nose cone of some of the repaints there are some dark smudges on the top and bottom joins... something I've encountered when doing repaints myself. I think it's caused by painting too tight to the UV map edge and it draws in colour from the background. If you extend the painting a pixel or two's width that should fix it. The screenshot you posted below should illustrate what I'm talking about.

    Matt

    https://www.aerofly.com/community/gallery/index.php?raw-image/11946-put-a-mask-on-bwa787/&size=large

  • Rivets and panel lines on Airliners more visible maybe?

    For the Record... I was watching some HD video of Airliners the other day which had some very clear and closeup film and you are right Jan... the way you have done the models as a rule is about right. I was wrong. I think I was influenced by how some developers in other SIMS handle this. Your 737 500 which was done by Milviz I believe could be taken as an example. I like it very much but I now see why your Artists chose to do your more recent stuff as they have. Gotta Love Armchair plainspotting :)

    Matt

  • Rivets and panel lines on Airliners more visible maybe?

    Quote from Jet-Pack (IPACS)

    The rivets on older aircraft used to protrude outwards, which causes drag. That's why flush rivets have been invented and our models accurately represent this.

    Hi Jan... aware of that and its been a while since I've been up close to an airliner, but I'm pretty sure you could still see some surface detail. The paint chips and flakes in small amounts with weather and ware even on flush rivets so unless its just painted maybe some subtle visual detail is not out of place?

    Matt

  • Rivets and panel lines on Airliners more visible maybe?

    Quote from ThomK

    The cockpit canopy of your Spitfire looks strange, I mean the bulge at the top. I've just seen a few photos on Google and it looks different. Maybe it's just an optical thing.Otherwise it is a nice plane 👍

    I'll address your observation briefly but lets not get too far off topic here. Everyone is an expert when it comes to Spitfires :). When you make these models you do research, study photos and drawings and then do your best to render what is seen in the real world. This is correct as far as I can see for a MK1a spit with the flat sided hood. When the hood design was changed to bulge at the sides, the top curved side profile was less pronounced as a result of the manufacturing process (I read somewhere). Anyway I like it as is so wont be changing:)

    Matt

  • Rivets and panel lines on Airliners more visible maybe?

    A question for IPACS Artist/Artist producing your airliners. Have you considered making the rivet and lining detail a bit more visible on your Airliners?

    On most of them it is very subtle and hardly ever shows up (on my machine at least). Observing the thread on your upcoming A350 (Very much looking forward to that)... it is evident that you go to a great deal of effort to put the details there in the textures. Why not make them stand out a bit more? I'm not suggesting they be as prominent as the ones on the Corsair (although personally I don't hate that)...

    I'm assuming the Rivet and lining detail is a greyscale layer in layered PSD or other image file. The way your textures are set up in Aerofly allows enormous flexibility in this Regard. When I was doing the spitfire I experimented with quite a few ways of doing this. In the end I found the best way to have them show up without looking too heavy handed was to first of all, blend the greyscale rivet and lining with a multiply factor over the ambient texture (subtly of course) then to do the same on the specular and reflection textures (again very subtly). The Result I've illustrated below. Hope you don't mind me raising this suggestion but I realize you may not agree or there may be some very good technical reason why you have done it as is.

    Matt

  • A Short Hop in a dot dot dot

    I've made a few videos of flying in Aerofly FS 4... for my own amusement mainly but links are here in case anyone else interested. There is no fancy editing just Win-Alt-R (on my PC anyway) game mode recording, mostly of playback in AFS4. Generally just a short hop... taking off, few circuits and then landing. Aircraft featured... some freeware, some IPACS. The Scenery is generally User created freeware... because... well many areas just don't look that good out of the box. I did comparison flights from La Reunion using ApfelFliegers Scenery and the Default Global streaming version... you'll see what I mean. Anyway they are there if your interested... and Steve I apologies for that Apache Landing!^^

    Matt

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    Short flight in freeware Sopwith Snipe for Aerofly FS4 Location Caenarfon, North Wales. The Scenery shown is not the default out of the box scenery, but a HD photo scenery Upgrade for the area, created by Aerofly User Michael (IZ0JUB). Not Currently released.

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    Short flight in freeware Brewster Buffalo for Aerofly FS4 Location Perranporth, Cornwall. The Scenery shown is not the default out of the box scenery, but a HD photo scenery Upgrade for the area, created by Aerofly User Michael (IZ0JUB). Not Currently released.

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    Short flight in freeware Apache Helicopter for Aerofly FS4 Location Perranporth, Cornwall. The Scenery shown is not the default out of the box scenery, but a HD photo scenery Upgrade for the area, created by Aerofly User Michael (IZ0JUB). Not Currently released.

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    Short flight in freeware Spitfire Mk1a for Aerofly FS4 Location Caernafon, North Wales. The Scenery shown is not the default out of the box scenery, but a HD photo scenery Upgrade for the area, created by Aerofly User Michael (IZ0JUB). Not Currently released.

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    Short flight in freeware Sopwith Snipe for Aerofly FS4 Location Wanaka, New Zealand. The Scenery shown is not the default out of the box scenery, but a freeware HD photo scenery Upgrade for the area, created by an Aerofly Community Member GeoffKiwi.

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    Short flight in freeware Bleriot IX for Aerofly FS4 Location Wanaka, New Zealand. The Scenery shown is not the default out of the box scenery, but a freeware HD photo scenery Upgrade for the area, created by an Aerofly Community Member GeoffKiwi.

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    Short flight in freeware Brewster B339E Buffalo for Aerofly FS4 Location Wanaka, New Zealand. The Scenery shown is not the default out of the box scenery, but a freeware HD photo scenery Upgrade for the area, created by an Aerofly Community Member GeoffKiwi.

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    Short flight in Robinson R22 Helicopter for Aerofly FS4 Location Wanaka, New Zealand. The Scenery shown is not the default out of the box scenery, but a freeware HD photo scenery Upgrade for the area, created by an Aerofly Community Member GeoffKiwi.

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    Short flight in UH60 for Aerofly FS4 Location Moorea Temae, French Polynesia. The Scenery shown is not the default out of the box scenery, but a freeware HD photo scenery Upgrade for the area, created by an Aerofly Community Member chrispriv.

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    Short flight in freeware Sopwith Snipe for Aerofly FS4 Location Perranporth, Cornwall. The Scenery shown is not the default out of the box scenery, but a HD photo scenery Upgrade for the area, created by Aerofly User Michael (IZ0JUB). Not Currently released.

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    Short flight in freeware Spitfire Mk1a for Aerofly FS4 Location Perranporth, Cornwall. The Scenery shown is not the default out of the box scenery, but a HD photo scenery Upgrade for the area, created by Aerofly User Michael (IZ0JUB). Not Currently released.

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    Short flight in Q400 for Aerofly FS4 La Reunion . The Scenery shown is the default out of the box Global streaming scenery.

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    Short flight in Q400 for Aerofly FS4 La Reunion. The Scenery shown is not the default out of the box scenery, but a HD photo scenery Upgrade for the area, created by Aerofly User ApfelFlieger.

  • [Released] Loadout Options Pack 1 for Aerofly FS4 F18 Hornet

    FYI everyone interested in F18 loadouts... I removed the loadouts because a bug was causing them to no longer work for me on my setup. This has probably been fixed now but it should be noted that my addon is now superfluous as IPACS have added loadouts and they are relatively easy to add by the user with a text edit to the option.TMC (in each repaint folder). Only attempt this if you are competent to do this and always make a backup of any file you intend to modify. Example below is just for information, to be helpful to other users, but the usual CAVEAT applies...You make any such changes at your own risk

    Example is the option.TMC for Finnish F18 repaint. The Requirements line of code needs editing or in some cases adding...

    Code
    <[file][][]
  <[object][][]
    <[string8][Description][Finnland]>
    <[string8][Type][repaint]>
    <[string8][Tags][ decals ]>
    <[string8][Requirements][ antenna_installed ]>
  >
>

    can be edited like this...

    Code
    <[file][][]
  <[object][][]
    <[string8][Description][Finnland]>
    <[string8][Type][repaint]>
    <[string8][Tags][ decals ]>
    <[string8][Requirements][ antenna_installed load_center_tank load_tip_sidewinder load_fuselage_aim ]>
  >
>

    if you want to add central fuel tank, wing tip winders and fuselage AMRAAMs

    A similar setup allows you to add different types of wingtip tanks to the MB339

    Matt

  • developers diary

    Thanks for sharing Steve. Your secrets safe with me:D That's looks superb. I'm looking forward to seeing this one done and released

    I do kinda miss having a project on the go, but I'm just not up to it at the moment. When its all done and its looking real good, there's a lot of satisfaction to be had... but along the way a lot of frustration and red stop cubes^^

    Matt

  • developers diary

    Nobody who sees your artwork is gonna accuse you of that Steve:) Are we allowed to see what the exterior looks like or are you keeping that under wraps for now? When I was considering it myself, the front end of the fuselage scared me a bit... all those compound curves and angles!

    Matt

  • developers diary

    A Herc in Aerofly FS4... that will be a dream come true! I don't know if its feasible, but to have some Cargo loading visible as an animation would add to the transport immersion. I had considered doing a Herc myself but it was the cockpit that put me off... Brave Man!

    Music in the Apache. I'm intrigued... I shall look out for that.

    Matt

  • developers diary

    Come on Steve what are you up to now? I thought at first you might have been working on a Herc or Transall (which would have been great)... but I'm guessing with your passion for egg beaters^^ its a Whirlybird, though I have no idea which. I confess I didn't get your joke above, but I did notice this when I was flying your Apache recently and it made me chuckle... " no pies left in this vehicle over night"

    Matt