SCG_Space_Ghost Posted January 29, 2018 Posted January 29, 2018 This is a f*cking most stupid censorship of historical facts - I wonder why that should even be allowed. What the heck has the Finnish air force emblem to do with the holocaust??? Who - to hell - can have the power to forbid this, when the same people don't even have the power to make intelligent and humanly politics? God, we are still getting terrorised by b*llshit-pilers! Vino - you can post them, when you put them into a SPOILER-container, so people can watch them at their own risk. what risk, you may ask? Well, you might instantly turn into a Nazi zombie, when looking at a swastika totally unprepared! Way of the road, bubs. Way of the road. 2
Wolfram-Harms Posted January 29, 2018 Posted January 29, 2018 Lydia Skin made by PatCartier. So you have gone to the Reds now, Scharfi? "Scharfinova" is great! Perhaps show more from that plane of Lydia Litvyak - other angles?
MeoW.Scharfi Posted January 30, 2018 Posted January 30, 2018 (edited) So you have gone to the Reds now, Scharfi? "Scharfinova" is great! Perhaps show more from that plane of Lydia Litvyak - other angles? My Heart will always belong to the Messerschmitt Bf 109 and the german Team . But I also love to fly all the other planes and to master each of them. Edited January 30, 2018 by MeoW.Scharfinova
Wolfram-Harms Posted January 30, 2018 Posted January 30, 2018 (edited) My Heart will always belong to the Messerschmitt Bf 109 and the german Team . But I also love to fly all the other planes and to master each of them. A good attitude IMHO. I'm still quite busy trying to learn to master the Bf 109 (or better: to make kills in her without getting killed). But when I am beyond the basics of WW2 flying and fighting, I will check all the other fighters out. I wonder how the MiG-3 performs at lower levels (she must be great at higher alts). And the Yak-3, I saw on YOUTUBE, must have been a very good fighter. Edited January 30, 2018 by Wolfram-Harms
Wolfram-Harms Posted January 30, 2018 Posted January 30, 2018 (edited) Vino, I have made one skin for a Finnish Bf 109 G-2 - the craft of Riikihallio. Maybe you want to check it out. Here is the link to my MEDIAFIRE download place. https://www.mediafire.com/#z9a3db15c5kd5 Edited January 30, 2018 by Wolfram-Harms
vino Posted January 30, 2018 Posted January 30, 2018 (edited) You mean Eero Riihikallio? Thanks, I’ll give it a try! Edited January 30, 2018 by vino
CrazyDuck Posted January 30, 2018 Posted January 30, 2018 If not as Zero, can surely masquerade as a Ki-100! Armament, agility, performance, looks - all not that far off!
56RAF_Roblex Posted January 31, 2018 Posted January 31, 2018 (edited) Cool screenshots from my latest diary entry from 'Diary Of A Hopeless Pilot Officer' Edited January 31, 2018 by 56RAF_Roblex
komakino Posted February 1, 2018 Posted February 1, 2018 This is my first post on the forums, so i take the opportunity to greet you all with a screenshot 4
Coleman Posted February 2, 2018 Posted February 2, 2018 (edited) sorry for the vulgarity here. trying to post to a different forum. ignore for now please. Pls check your PMs. [Edited] Edited February 2, 2018 by Bearcat
Jade_Monkey Posted February 2, 2018 Posted February 2, 2018 This is my first post on the forums, so i take the opportunity to greet you all with a screenshot Welcome! 1
CrazyDuck Posted February 2, 2018 Posted February 2, 2018 This is my first post on the forums, so i take the opportunity to greet you all with a screenshot And a fine one it is! Welcome to madness.
Kraftowod Posted February 2, 2018 Posted February 2, 2018 (edited) Edited February 6, 2018 by Kraftowod 1
CrazyDuck Posted February 4, 2018 Posted February 4, 2018 (edited) Edited February 4, 2018 by CrazyDuck
CrazyDuck Posted February 4, 2018 Posted February 4, 2018 (edited) Edited February 4, 2018 by CrazyDuck
Wolfram-Harms Posted February 5, 2018 Posted February 5, 2018 Duck, you chose some story-telling images here - some of them with a funny story even! Did the train in pic 4 still move? What clipped the tail of the Yak in pic 5 - the FW's wing, or the bomb? I have never seen a Panzer advance from so close - you can really recognise the type very well. Thx for posting!
CrazyDuck Posted February 5, 2018 Posted February 5, 2018 Duck, you chose some story-telling images here - some of them with a funny story even! Did the train in pic 4 still move? What clipped the tail of the Yak in pic 5 - the FW's wing, or the bomb? I have never seen a Panzer advance from so close - you can really recognise the type very well. Thx for posting! Glad you like them! Yes, that train was still moving! I just bombed and strafed it, but got hit in return and ditched just by the tracks (you can see the skid mark of my poor IL-2 paralel to the rails). Locomotive continued its journey and simply pushed my tail off the tracks. :D On pic no. 5 - that's a bomb that fell from the IL-2, after a tsunami of my 20mm shells cut it's tail clean off.
Wolfram-Harms Posted February 5, 2018 Posted February 5, 2018 ... that's a bomb that fell from the IL-2, after a tsunami of my 20mm shells cut it's tail clean off. Maybe I should try the Focke-Wulf then. With the Bf 109 I aklways fail to bring them down - they always get my engine killed first.
CrazyDuck Posted February 5, 2018 Posted February 5, 2018 Maybe I should try the Focke-Wulf then. With the Bf 109 I aklways fail to bring them down - they always get my engine killed first. Yeah, the UBT packs a hefty punch, it's the most powerful aircraft mounted heavy machinegun of WW2. Deadly in particular to inline engines, with the vulnerability of finest china! However, I find them dangerous only if you approach them at predictable, dead 6 closing path. If you attack at high speed from the high 4 for example and simply zoom through their formation, guns blazing, they won't touch you most of the times. On MiG-3 I actually prefer the twin UBS over twin ShVAK - they are still weaker than 20 mm cannons of course, but make up for it with large ammosupply and deadly accuracy.
Luger1969 Posted February 5, 2018 Posted February 5, 2018 Great il2 screenshots bring back some memories
Tom_Weiss Posted February 7, 2018 Posted February 7, 2018 (edited) WIP P-40 flown by FAB in 1942 at Natal AFB Edited February 7, 2018 by Tom_Weiss 2
Wolfram-Harms Posted February 8, 2018 Posted February 8, 2018 Tofolo, that is a very beautiful Yak skin - did you make it yourself? Tom, great nose art workout and camo colors on your "Warhawk"!The "national insignia" seem to be too dynamic for my taste, especially as you made the rest of the paint look as if it had been under water for several years. What happened to the gloss? If you found the original Alpha Layer making the craft to glossy, you could still reduce the opacity of that layer; say from 100% to 40% or whatever. But when you leave it out totally, you get a very dull appearance. Seeing it's work in progress, maybe you were not finished with that part?
Danziger Posted February 8, 2018 Posted February 8, 2018 It's actually quite very glossy. You can see reflections of the fuselage markings mirrored on the upper wing surfaces.
Wolfram-Harms Posted February 8, 2018 Posted February 8, 2018 It's actually quite very glossy. You can see reflections of the fuselage markings mirrored on the upper wing surfaces. True. But why does it not "appear" glossy somehow? Other skins really have "gloss lines" and bright reflective parts (often too much though). This one looks to me, as I said, like a craft that had been under water for some years.
Danziger Posted February 8, 2018 Posted February 8, 2018 I'm not sure to be honest. I downloaded all of his P40 skins and they are all this way. I'm not sure about his method for the alpha channel editing. I know I use different shades of grey to give each details the desired level of gloss or matt shine. I think in his thread he was saying he uses a different method so I'm not sure how it works.
Jade_Monkey Posted February 8, 2018 Posted February 8, 2018 This is why I can't wait to get the "minivan" Yak-7b. Two UBS and a ShVAK are going to be savage Plus, you can take the kids to soccer practice after you return from the frontlines.
Tom_Weiss Posted February 8, 2018 Posted February 8, 2018 the markings are weathered as well - but because of color contrast they look cleaner they are as weathered as the rest of the skin the colors are also faded by weathering the alpha contrast is almost constant - as the paint is matt I did not highlight or tone down for Il-2 the way I do for P3D as I am missing some options I am also using a color palette closer to the colors we see in Il-2 so that the skin blends in with the terrain and does not stand out too much, they are a bit different from what I would normally choose. 1
Danziger Posted February 8, 2018 Posted February 8, 2018 Is this the alpha channel? If so those bright grey shades are what makes it super glossy. For more matt finish you want those to be a lot darker.
HR_Tofolo Posted February 8, 2018 Posted February 8, 2018 Tofolo, that is a very beautiful Yak skin - did you make it yourself? You mean the Lagg? Thanks, these are our squad skins with personal markings (they date from the very first versions of the game and they still look pretty good). Must admit that it's the templates that mmake the skins nice, my job was only editing a couple of layers and pasting some logos.
Wolfram-Harms Posted February 8, 2018 Posted February 8, 2018 (edited) ...the alpha contrast is almost constant - as the paint is matt I did not highlight or tone down for Il-2 the way I do for P3D as I am missing some options Never seen such a bright-grey Alpha Layer in use. Maybe you could just try to tune the whole Alpha Channel darker? Or you blend a second one - the sim's original one - into yours and reduce them to one layer then? Just a thought... I am also using a color palette closer to the colors we see in Il-2 ... Good idea. The sim really has quite good colors for the landscape. You mean the Lagg? Thanks, these are our squad skins with personal markings... Oops! I am still not very 'saddle-proof' with the Russian planes - will give them more flight time and closer looks. Must admit that it's the templates that make the skins nice, my job was only editing a couple of layers and pasting some logos. Ah, okay - then the template is really good! Good luck with your squadron! Edited February 8, 2018 by Wolfram-Harms
Tom_Weiss Posted February 9, 2018 Posted February 9, 2018 (edited) Never seen such a bright-grey Alpha Layer in use. Maybe you could just try to tune the whole Alpha Channel darker? it is made to match the skin , it works very well regardless of the color Is this the alpha channel? If so those bright grey shades are what makes it super glossy. For more matt finish you want those to be a lot darker. they are there for contrast I was using Irfranview for resizing which pixelated when resizing , I went back to Photoshop which retains the details Edited February 9, 2018 by Tom_Weiss
Danziger Posted February 9, 2018 Posted February 9, 2018 they are there for contrast No I didn't mean the contrasting shades. I mean the entire thing. If you would like it to be more matt you would have to make all of those quite a bit darker. The contrast between different parts is good but the starting point for all of it is very bright making for quite shiny surfaces. Using the values of different shades of black to white. 0-4 is complete black and makes that part of the model transparent. This is often used to remove wheel covers from Ju87 and LaGG3. 5-10 is pretty matt. I use 5 for exhaust stains and very dirty parts that don't really reflect much light. 10-20 is a slight shine I stay in this range for most non-gloss paints. 20-30 is a good range for glossy finishes. 30-40 is shiny I use this for metal chipped areas. 50-89 is like super shiny glossy waxed polished and wet looking. 90-100 is solid white with complete matt no reflections at all. I don't use this as it doesn't work well with others. It leaves a twinkling borderline between a completely matt part and a not completely matt part. So I stick with value 5 for completely matt parts and do not have that problem. If I had wifi I would show some examples of different alpha effects but I do not
rolikiraly Posted February 9, 2018 Posted February 9, 2018 Dawn 1942 Eastern Front (enlarge is not for the faint-hearted: historical symbols!!) 1943 Eastern Front Horrido! (again, historical symbols...) 1 1
Tom_Weiss Posted February 9, 2018 Posted February 9, 2018 (edited) I understand what you mean , this is the alpha I made as I mentioned earlier , this is tailored to fit the weathering I use. Edited February 9, 2018 by Tom_Weiss
Danziger Posted February 9, 2018 Posted February 9, 2018 Ahh ok. I thought I had read that you wanted a matt finish.
Tom_Weiss Posted February 10, 2018 Posted February 10, 2018 (edited) some of it is matt and some isn't Edited February 10, 2018 by Tom_Weiss 2
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