Display MoreA 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
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 👍