Pe-2 Series 87 4k Template released. UPDATED MAY 1 2017 - 4k Normal Map added

[ICDP]

Template is now redundant.  Please download official 4K template from official thread.

Edited August 30, 2020 by ICDP

[VBF-12_Stick-95]

Thanks ICDP! 

 

OT - Is the Scale command (in GIMP) the best way to take my 2d layers (or Layer Groups) to convert them to the 4k template?  Seems to work OK but there may be another process that is more efficient.

[ICDP]

In Photoshop I resize to 4096x4096 then sharpen the result a bit.  Where needed replace any layers that don't scale well, such as stenciling and markings.

[216th_Jordan]

Very nice, thank you!  

[Obelix]

Great job!!

 

Thanks for sharing

[DD_Arthur]

Thank you very much ICDP

[=TBAS=Sshadow14]

nice work..

But 4K really needs textures starting at 4K going upto 12K to the be downsampled.

It is Impossible to make a true 4K skin without all 4K textures.
"Edit: Quoting a fool made me a bigger fool  "

you can never turn a 2mp photo into a 4mp photo but you can turn 4 into 2

Edited January 25, 2017 by =r4t=Sshadow14

[Jason_Williams]

nice work..

 

But 4K really needs textures starting at 4K going upto 12K to the be downsampled.

 

It is Impossible to make a true 4K skin without all 4K textures.

Resizing the default 1K skins wont work. (many of the now default 2k skins are already just upscaled 1K skins

 

you can never turn a 2mp photo into a 4mp photo but you can turn 4 into 2

 

No you are wrong. None of our skins are 1K or began as 1K anything. All of our skins are original 2K textures made by our artists.

 

If you are trolling stop it or I'll ban you.

 

Jason

[=TBAS=Sshadow14]

No i was not trolling or being rude ......

Sorry Just repeating what i was told by someone who unpacked the stock skins and textures and i quote
"Thats strange these tail wheels are only 256x256 i can barely make out the tread pattern"

If this is wrong i am Very SORRY

But If that is the case then i might have a display bug
Not being smart or anything trolly but i don't understand whats wrong.

As i look out to my wing with ultra settings @ 1080P and the textures for a fuel cap/filler over 2 meters away i can see the actual pixels or not able to read the writing on the wings. (the german for "no step" is near unreadable for me ) 

But i can clearly read the writing on cockpit gauges when i view them from bf110 rear gunner (same 2m distance)
or the scratch paint on cockpit panel 10cm in front of my face is much clearer than scratched paint on the plane wing 1 meter away.

I take it the game must be on Ultra Preset for 4K to work? or even 2K?

[6./ZG26_5tuka]

Well I can see how asking for 12k textures (which would be around 500Mb per texture) while the current 4k is a well established industrial standard can be reccieved provocating.

[=TBAS=Sshadow14]

hmm ok
So i just downloaded gimp again and loaded up the template i see the entire thing is 4K

So Never mind..i got confused with building the entire project with the smallest part (say a rivet head) at 4K and the rest larger as needed to fit the template so maybe then down sample the entire thing to 4K
so that way the minimum texture used is 4K then when down sampled it would be 4K for the entire plane.??

Eg, If i was to do the wing in 4K (bare metal) i would find a Texture that was large enough to do the entire wing in once piece without repeating the texture this texture would therefore be somewhere around 8kpix x 14kpix given my randomly chosen wing length then later i would downsize this to fit within the 4K template

would that just be to hard way to much ram needed to work with textures that big?
would this not be the highest quality?

Again sorry No offense was intended
I am only Offended by bad smells

Edited January 25, 2017 by =r4t=Sshadow14

[[CPT]milopugdog]

No you are wrong. None of our skins are 1K or began as 1K anything. All of our skins are original 2K textures made by our artists.

 

If you are trolling stop it or I'll ban you.

 

Jason

Jason, could 4K skins ever replace the defaults in-game already???

[Jason_Williams]

When we have Mods On you can without our help, but to make it official we'd need to re-do them all and I don't have the resources at the moment.

 

Jason

[=2ndSS=temkatt]

Great job! But your skin have small errors. He noted on screen. Probably skipped part of the texture. Through a hole in the air intakes, radiators and engine nacelles.

Sorry for my English.

Regards.

 

   

[Obelix]

It comes with your alpha channel, dark black means  invisible on the skin. You must modify the alpha channel and makes some part a little bit lighter

 

Edited January 25, 2017 by Obelix

[=2ndSS=temkatt]

Thank you

[A-E-Hartmann]

Nice Skin Obélix .  

[ICDP]

Thanks guys, I will fix this on the skin.

[216th_Jordan]

When we have Mods On you can without our help, but to make it official we'd need to re-do them all and I don't have the resources at the moment.

 

Jason

 

Hello Jason,

 

This might be the wrong place to ask but: You don't apply that for new planes, correct? The dev teams skins are already marvellous, and I personally think it would be a waste to release them in 2k for new planes just to keep it equal. I Might understand that wrong here..

Edited January 26, 2017 by 216th_Jordan

[Obelix]

Nice Skin Obélix .  

Thanks, just the beginig with ICDP's marvellous template

 

Here my personnal interpretation of the "black waves"

 

 

 

[Bullets]

Got a link Obelix? :D 

[Obelix]

Not yet, still wip, but I will give it asap

[Bullets]

I also notice that that is not a series 87 skin would you do that as well?

[Obelix]

I also notice that that is not a series 87 skin would you do that as well?

 

On this picture (1941), it's a early version

 

[Matt]

Great template like your others, but there's a small issue with tranlucency on the engine nacelles causes by the alpha layer.

 

Edited February 6, 2017 by Matt

[ICDP]

Yes, the shadow alpha is slightly too dark.  I will fix it an upload.

[ICDP]

New version of the template with fixed alpha channel.  If you wish you can download the new alpha layer on its own.

[VBF-12_Stick-95]

+1

[ICDP]

New 4k bumpmap for Pe2 Series 87 uploaded.

 

 

[Swing]

Hi ICDP the link for the skinpack is not good...

[ivanovax]

Hi ICDP, good news , but link to skinpack is wrong. 

[ICDP]

Oops, sorry guys.  Fixed now

[Field-Ops]

Looks like skinpack link is broken again

[mpdugas]

On 1/25/2019 at 10:09 PM, Field-Ops said:

Looks like skinpack link is broken again

 Yup, Media Fire is being difficult...the first two ZIPs came down easily.

[336th_Ripper*]

@ICDPI studied your P-47 alpha for bare metal and tried to apply it to this skin but the best I could come up with is a metallic grey. It would be for a fictional skin. I also referred to the gimp tutorial but that did not help me. Any pointers would be much appreciated. Thanks!

[FoxbatRU]

Playing a career BoK on Pe-2 (Series 110), made my version an 4k skin. Typical colors were taken as a basis.

  

Link (second half of 1943): http://www.mediafire.com/file/kdj9jwj83nfomk1/BoK_pe2s87_new_foxbatRU_4k.dds/file

 

Skins are made on the basis of a template from ICDP.