HagarTheHorrible Posted July 18, 2018 Posted July 18, 2018 Can't wait for the skinners to get their teeth into this. It was truly one of the joys of RoF seeing all of the user created skins in all their techni coloured glory. 2 1
OrLoK Posted July 18, 2018 Posted July 18, 2018 ditto! I'm not a ww1 air expert but the design ethos seems to be rather extravagant. I can't wait to start skinning!
migmadmarine Posted July 19, 2018 Posted July 19, 2018 I hope, way down the road, that they will bring back something along the lines of the ROF community skin packs, loved flying in career and seeing the paintjobs of each of the Jastas along the front. (Also, it really amused me that they have a von Ricthofen skin, but it is Lothar's not Manfred, way to buck the cliche. XD)
migmadmarine Posted July 19, 2018 Posted July 19, 2018 Really? Hadn't even occurred to me to try, thought there might be enough tweaks to the model to not quite work. More so what I meant was when career eventually comes into FC, I hope that the career mode will be able to recognize community skins and apply them to squadrons accordingly, rather than us being restricted to just the, what, 15 max(?) default ones.
1CGS LukeFF Posted July 19, 2018 1CGS Posted July 19, 2018 TBH, as much as I love all the skins made for ROF, once I saw the Spad and Dr.I in 4K resolution, I forgot about them pretty quickly. 1
HiIIBiIIy Posted July 19, 2018 Posted July 19, 2018 Which one is default skin, which one is imported from ROF? 1
No.23_Triggers Posted July 19, 2018 Posted July 19, 2018 Can't wait to get stuck in to the templates! Missed my chance with RoF...not this time!
J2_Jakob Posted July 19, 2018 Posted July 19, 2018 @HillBilly 1st one is imported from RoF, 2nd is the new one. Correct?
J2_Trupobaw Posted July 19, 2018 Posted July 19, 2018 RoF skins will make a fine placeholder until we re-do them in 4k!
US103_Hunter Posted July 19, 2018 Posted July 19, 2018 Do we just copy/paste the skin files from RoF?
HiIIBiIIy Posted July 19, 2018 Posted July 19, 2018 1 minute ago, US103_Hunter said: Do we just copy/paste the skin files from RoF? Yes, just that simple.
J2_Trupobaw Posted July 19, 2018 Posted July 19, 2018 12 hours ago, HiIIBiIIy said: Which one is default skin, which one is imported from ROF? #1 came from ROF, RoF skins come out darker in BoX.
Dutch2 Posted July 19, 2018 Posted July 19, 2018 (edited) great to see the RoF skins do work in FC. Edited July 19, 2018 by Dutch2
Trooper117 Posted July 19, 2018 Posted July 19, 2018 This is a standard RoF skin... looks perfectly fine to me...
6./ZG26_5tuka Posted July 19, 2018 Posted July 19, 2018 RoF uses a different graphic shader hence why skins appear darker in FC. Also RoF has only 2k skins which does not match FC quality. For simple skins (adding badges & emblems) you could export the official skin and slightly modify it. Else I'd wait for the official 4k template.
scram77 Posted July 19, 2018 Posted July 19, 2018 Can some kind person explain how we can get those skins for FC please?
OrLoK Posted July 19, 2018 Posted July 19, 2018 11 minutes ago, 19RAF_scram77 said: Can some kind person explain how we can get those skins for FC please? I just made the above from the official skin from the Rise of Flight Forums. Premade skins can be downloaded from the RoF site https://riseofflight.com/forum/topic/45373-new-useful-materials-page-official-links/#entry628960 dragged and dropped into the folder: X:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad\data\graphics\skins\Spad13 X=your drive letter 1
Jocassee Posted July 20, 2018 Posted July 20, 2018 where are you guys flying that you have all this beautiful green?
=TBAS=Sshadow14 Posted July 20, 2018 Posted July 20, 2018 The question is with "MODS ON" Can we import the old ROF Plane-set. Model are same, skins are same, game engine is same.
Mitthrawnuruodo Posted July 20, 2018 Posted July 20, 2018 3 hours ago, =TBAS=Sshadow14 said: The question is with "MODS ON" Can we import the old ROF Plane-set. Yes. Launch your favourite hex editor and get to work. It will be somewhat easier than porting ROF to PowerPoint. 1
Danziger Posted July 20, 2018 Posted July 20, 2018 If the RoF skins work, could we not convert the RoF template to 4k like we did with 2k BoX templates? 1
scram77 Posted July 20, 2018 Posted July 20, 2018 6 hours ago, OrLoK said: I just made the above from the official skin from the Rise of Flight Forums. Premade skins can be downloaded from the RoF site https://riseofflight.com/forum/topic/45373-new-useful-materials-page-official-links/#entry628960 dragged and dropped into the folder: X:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad\data\graphics\skins\Spad13 X=your drive letter Many thanks
Garven Posted July 20, 2018 Posted July 20, 2018 6 hours ago, Jocassee said: where are you guys flying that you have all this beautiful green? Likely the Kuban map which is currently my favorite scenery wise. The devs did an awesome job on it.
6./ZG26_5tuka Posted July 20, 2018 Posted July 20, 2018 (edited) ...somebody just had to do it. Edit: This is 4k. Edited July 20, 2018 by 6./ZG26_5tuka 1
Jocassee Posted July 20, 2018 Posted July 20, 2018 5 hours ago, US103_Furlow said: Likely the Kuban map which is currently my favorite scenery wise. The devs did an awesome job on it. Makes sense, since I don't have that one yet. Hope you are well sir, been missing our skirmishes.
J2_Steve Posted July 20, 2018 Posted July 20, 2018 It's just a shame we don't have the same skin management in BoX that RoF has. For those that remember RB3D, there might be a need for a new Flybert's Chateaux
J2_Trupobaw Posted July 20, 2018 Posted July 20, 2018 What we have may be even better: make the skin, publish it, people download it or not, see it or not, delete it if they don't like it. Only thing we're missing is official skinpacks and waiting for approval. I'm going to compile Jasta 2 Dr.I skin pack (historical and personal skins) for us and anyone willing to see us. I hope we may have a maintained, updated community skinpack. Or join one for BoX if it exists.
Garven Posted July 20, 2018 Posted July 20, 2018 I'm not sure if its my graphics setting or not, RoF skins simply don't look right in FC as they look way too dark and shiny.
US103_Hunter Posted July 20, 2018 Posted July 20, 2018 2 minutes ago, US103_Furlow said: I'm not sure if its my graphics setting or not, RoF skins simply don't look right in FC as they look way too dark and shiny. Mine look really dark too. Almost so dark you can't see the markings well.
J2_Trupobaw Posted July 20, 2018 Posted July 20, 2018 18 hours ago, 6./ZG26_5tuka said: RoF uses a different graphic shader hence why skins appear darker in FC. Here's your answer.
unreasonable Posted July 20, 2018 Posted July 20, 2018 (edited) 2 hours ago, US103_Furlow said: I'm not sure if its my graphics setting or not, RoF skins simply don't look right in FC as they look way too dark and shiny. If you really want to use RoF skins I think you need to open then in Photoshop or GIMP and experiment with the contrast and brightness settings, and learn how to re-export them. They will be different in GIMP than in PS. May take a while to find the changes that make RoF skins look good, but once you find them and remember, converting new ones will be quick. No need to open the game all the time: use the viewer to get an idea if the look is right. Edited July 20, 2018 by unreasonable
Garven Posted July 20, 2018 Posted July 20, 2018 3 minutes ago, unreasonable said: If you really want to use RoF skins I think you need to open then in Photoshop or GIMP and experiment with the contrast and brightness settings, and learn how to re-export them. They will be different in GIMP than in PS. May take a while to find the changes that make RoF skins look good, but once you find them and remember, converting new ones will be quick. No need to open the game all the time: use the viewer to get an idea if the look is right. Never done any skinning before but I just downloaded GIMP so I'll have some learning to do.
unreasonable Posted July 20, 2018 Posted July 20, 2018 13 minutes ago, US103_Furlow said: Never done any skinning before but I just downloaded GIMP so I'll have some learning to do. You will: it is not the most intuitive program. You should check out this thread where the OP sets out the basic stages of how to adjust brightness etc and export to the game's required format. https://riseofflight.com/forum/topic/37740-another-guide-skinning-gimp/?hl=%2Bskinning+%2Btutorial#entry575907
OrLoK Posted July 20, 2018 Posted July 20, 2018 (edited) the brightness layer in the RoF templates can now be ignored/turned off to mitigate the "dark skin" issue. Edited July 20, 2018 by OrLoK 1
=TBAS=Sshadow14 Posted July 20, 2018 Posted July 20, 2018 (edited) 12 hours ago, Mitthrawnuruodo said: Yes. Launch your favourite hex editor and get to work. It will be somewhat easier than porting ROF to PowerPoint. Its really not that hard.. hardest part is converting DX9 textures to DX11 (compression) For the most part rest of the file structure naming system are all identical from ROF. After all its the same game / same engine just a different plane set/ different maps and DX11 support. I mean a good modder could probably import 109 into ROF to be flyable within a few days. Edited July 20, 2018 by =TBAS=Sshadow14
OrLoK Posted July 20, 2018 Posted July 20, 2018 8 minutes ago, =TBAS=Sshadow14 said: Its really not that hard.. hardest part is converting DX9 textures to DX11 (compression) For the most part rest of the file structure naming system are all identical from ROF. After all its the same game / same engine just a different plane set/ different maps and DX11 support. I mean a good modder could probably import 109 into ROF to be flyable within a few days. being a tester and without breaking an NDA, I can say, its obviously not "easy" even having all the raw files. 1 1
1CGS LukeFF Posted July 20, 2018 1CGS Posted July 20, 2018 3 hours ago, =TBAS=Sshadow14 said: I mean a good modder could probably import 109 into ROF to be flyable within a few days. Sure, then go ahead and show all of us how supposedly easy it is. 1
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