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Melvin
Ground Crew Joined: 05 Dec 2012 Location: Australia Points: 82 |
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Posted: 06 May 2015 at 12:50am |
What is listed as a feature of the F27 is " A professional standard paint kit", my interpretation of "professional" certainly is different to Justflight. Yet another aircraft designer has chosen not to include a full fuselage profile in their paintkit to make livery texturing easier for re-painters. I should be thankful though, it's not as bad as other popular manufacturers. 7/10 for the aircraft, 4/10 for the paintkit.
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Scotty
Just Flight Staff Joined: 01 Apr 2008 Location: Oxford, UK. Points: 314 |
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Please tell me exactly what your disappointment in the paint kit is aside from the full fuselage point?
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Melvin
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Hi Scotty,
Thanks for your reply Files Friendship_FuseB_t.psd and Friendship_FuseC_t.psd lack fuselage outline definition in the details layer as shown in Friendship_FuseA_t.psd (albeit very basic) - a rough guideline is provided by the shadowing layers in these files . A more pronounced outline could be provided in Friendship_FuseDright.psd and Friendship_FuseDrightleft.psd to allow continuation of the fuselage as a whole. When I attempted to construct a full fuselage template and guide layer from the dds livery files included with the F27 - texture.Ansett, the provided paint kit Friendship_FuseB_t.psd and Friendship_FuseC_t.psd do not align correctly with the dds(converted to psd) files. ie. Friendship_FuseA_t.psd in the paint kit does not align with Friendship_FuseA_t.dds in the texture.Ansett folder, which makes it hard to construct a full fuselage template In essence, it should not have to be necessary to add/convert/manipulate files provided in a paint kit to be able to effectively use it. In it's current form, the paint kit is very frustrating and time consuming to use. Then again, I may have missed the whole method of using it. Perhaps a manual could be included instructing the use of the paint kit as used by the author of the the kit, at the very least a full F27 fuselage template for ease of livery transformation would be appreciated. Please consider. |
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luxair_ca
Check-In Staff Joined: 06 May 2015 Points: 3 |
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hello there
while i also would like to have a full fuselage paintkit, including a guide on how to do it, i did Experiment a Little bit, and managed to get this within one day. i am just looking for some advice, as i am experiencîng some Problems with the repaint, where the textures are not always really sharp? any advice on this maybe? many thanks Marc |
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MoPlanes
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I agree on the option of having the wiremesh available to see where all the different parts are. I've been using panelfinder to try and sort out a few details, but this surely is not the easiest way to do it...by far.
Also I'd like to point out 3 bugs that I have encountered so far. 1) the "bulging air-intakes" at the rear end of the fuselage are a little off compared to RL pictures. Maybe not the biggest thing in the world but it is noticable when you have paint/liveries that expose the flaw. Personally I can live with it. 2) the smaller vents (below the bulging air-intakes) are mapped to the same coordinates to the right side of the fuselage. Wouldnt be a problem if the vents had been mirrored in 3-D space. But it's not, one of the vents is further back on the fuselage compared with the other. This causes some serious misalignments in paints because they share the same UV map coordinates. 3) and under the fuselage, the vent roughly same location as the two mentioned in 1) and 2) but on the belly of the fuselage. This one's also UV mapped a bit out of synch with the rest of the fuselage. |
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Crankpin
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Can anyone tell me on which .psd sheet I can find all the antennas, drain masts etc under the fuselage ?
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