Fw 190 A8 Sturmjager armor

[JG1_Vonrd]

ICDP, please don't take this wrong... your template is great! I'm not even sure if you had any input on this issue of how the UV map was laid out.

 

I'm having a hell of a time trying to get the Sturmjager armor to line up to the existing fuselage graphics. Why was the armor UV map rotated and rescaled from what the fuselage is? It seems to have been rotated about 10 deg and scaled down to about 90%. This makes it a major PITA to get graphics (especially things like our squad's individual personal markings) to line up. Making it even more difficult is that you can't see the armor in the skin viewer and have to continuously load / exit and re-load the game in order to see if your corrections are right. Maybe (quite possibly) I'm missing something and would love to be enlightened.   

[JG1_Vonrd]

After literally hours of trial and error (made much more time consuming because I didn't see a way to have the Sturmjager option show in the skin viewer) I managed to get it pretty damn close. I don't think I can get it any closer due to the distortion affect when resizing / rotating. If the original modeler had paid more attention to correctly adding the armor to the UV map there would not have been this problem. (Maybe I'm missing something... entirely possible. I've only done a few UV maps in Blender but all of the tutorials that I've seen emphasise to NOT change sizing of each cut in relation to the others). OK... rant over.

Here are the results:

 

You can see that the panelfinder showed that the original cut size (which was the size of the wireframe from the armor area) was too small due to having to resize / rotate the cut / copied area. The final iteration has a larger cut area on the fuselage.

 

The solution has the cut area first resized to 92% width and 103% height. It is then rotated +3.2deg.

 

I made a psd with the cut and paste areas as layers and it has instructions included. Download here:

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/y8jjyfdn35ygynv/fw190a8 armor alignment.psd?dl=0

 

 

 

Edited December 26, 2020 by JG1_Vonrd