[Jadehawk]

Awww, I liked the jade stripe.

Can we convince you to do the GTVA/SOC variants in the same color scheme as the Artemis/DH variants? Like, white with pink, and teal with white?

Humm....I'll have to study them and give it a try. Might work.

[Hellstryker]

HOT DAMN!  Would you be willling to texture for the TotT team? Or BWO, or TAP for that matter, since We're just younglings to the forum and hold little authority really. Do what you like, but put those skills to good use. 

Hey Hellstryker, I guess my PM to you didnt work? Sent one last week  just as I was starting this stating I would give it a go. I also would be helping out Pecenipicek if I can.  Like I said to him, I'll do what I feel I can help out with and I'm still trying to get my bearings on how all this works out. Just so you guys know that! 

Also, I'm off until this evening (Pacific Coast time zone). So no replies until then.

How odd, I did not get that PM. I'll have bengal give you access on the freespace mods for as soon as you make an account. http://www.freespacemods.net/forum/

Edit: Also, I liked the teal stripe better than the red one as well.

[Jadehawk]

Have been signed up there for awhile now    Did all the intro stuff as required too.

[Hellstryker]

Alright, I told bengal. You should have access by later today 

[Jadehawk]

Thanks for that Hellstryker!
I'm at work on my lunch break and was looking at my current progress...
Since this is my first reskin, I'm gonna make some of you happy. I'll bring back the Teal stripes for you all to enjoy.

Now, now, don't go "wishy-washy" on me just because I have heart! 

I'll also add some weathering to the SOC version later tonight. Any more comment replies will have to wait until I get home.

Also, I want to modify the CG model or whatever I need to change to add a place where the user can add their Squadron logo on the sides of the ship. Has this been done before? What do I need to do?

Thanks again all!

Jadehawk

[Galemp]

That could take a little work. Reconverting models is no simple task, sadly, and neither is converting insignia.

Still, with the work you're doing, it's definitely worth it.

[Hellstryker]

SOC Version shouldn't have much weathering, IMO. Make it nice and shiny.

[Jadehawk]

Ok Finally back online. These have service markings applied and also some new medium darkened panels. The SOC version got new Reactor and Buzzard Glow panels

Here's the latest Purdy stuff:

[General Battuta]

Very pretty. Looks like a big step up!

What mod is the Ezechiel from again? INF?

[Droid803]

INFSCP uses it, but not INFR1.

[General Battuta]

Gotcha.

Love the little warning label under the cockpit. For some reason I notice that stuff in combat a lot, little flashes of detail.

You should put more touches like that on there!  (Also, I really appreciated your attention to detail with the thrust-vectoring ceramic flap stuff earlier.)

[Jadehawk]

Thanks again
That warning label is the Emergency ejection placard and in this case, is the actual panel that is pushed in to reveal the Red cable ring that when pulled, twisted to the Right 90 degrees and will fire the canopy off Five seconds later.

If any of you modders can take a look at the Il2 Flight sim, there is a feature where you can add Pin-ups to the side of your airplane for the American versions. I was hoping that we could have something like that for adding Squadron badges of our own. I realize this could very well be wishful thinking. But as least I did think about it.

[blowfish]

The 01 plate on the side should probably have been a squadron logo.   I don't think the model is set up correctly for that to work though.

The FS engine definitely supports squadlogos though.

[Jadehawk]

Your right! I completely forgot about that! I turned if off as it was bugging me while working on it. Maybe I can play with it and see what happens.

[Jadehawk]

Nope. There's a bug on the Left side of the ship where that 01 goes. I think the texture for it is not on the surface of the CG model. But partly embedded as sich as part of the number does not show.

But I did go back and made this. Just added a layer to the texture. Note, this is not gonna be part of the SOC texture (So far) when I release it as it's just to check and see if it's workable.

[TrashMan]

Making squadron insignia is easy. I've been adding them to several craft so far without a hitch.

[Galemp]

Could you edit the POF and forward it to Jadehawk, then?

[Turambar]

you know, it would be pretty easy to throw some of the older layers of this texture into a heightmap and generate a very good normal map from it.

[TrashMan]

Could you edit the POF and forward it to Jadehawk, then?

I can add insignias whenever you want. It's easy. Heck, I imported the Media VP Perseus and added insignias to it. IT's easy:

What you do is import the model in Ts.

Get rid of EVERYTHING except the main mesh body + light.

Than create two(or more) planes, UV map them, texture them with some insignia (doesn't matter which..as long as it's a texture that lets you see where the top and bottom of the insignia go). Move them around till they hover just a tad above the hull surface where you want the insignia to be, scale them. Union them into a single object. Attach it to a light and name it InsigLOD00.

Save that object as Shipname_Insig.obj

Use PCS1 to convert it, save the model as shipname_Insig.pof

Use PCS1 to open the original ship .pof, go to insignia, hit import and select the insignia.pof. Save and you're done.

[blowfish]

PCS1?