Classic British Flight Sim

5.5 was the last full version I had and over v5.. 90%, perhaps more was it's plug-in support. I binned it in favour of Elements v1

One thing..
Are you happy with what you've just done?? OK. If you are.. look at it again next week having fiddled some more. Welcome to the world of almost total unhappiness. Grumpy old men were invented for it

ATB

DaveB

DaveB wrote:

5.5 was the last full version I had and over v5.. 90%, perhaps more was it's plug-in support. I binned it in favour of Elements v1

One thing..
Are you happy with what you've just done?? OK. If you are.. look at it again next week having fiddled some more. Welcome to the world of almost total unhappiness. Grumpy old men were invented for it

ATB

DaveB

No I'm NOT happy with it already!! The registration doesn't slant up the fuselage quite the same on both sides, the location of the airline name on the door makes it look a bit like a minicab, and it needs something on the fin!

That's a nice start, and a great idea to keep it simple.

One observation... Try making the anti-glare a tad less black and see what you think, I reckon it'd add to the whole, but then you are free to disagree, it's your aeroplane after all. Not sure it needs a great deal more, but a nice curly KAS with interlinked letters in the same red on the tail would look fine. How about adding the registration to wing surfaces too.

All little jobs, but add to the whole in the end. I'm impressed with what you've done though, a simple scheme is always very effective.

In support of Gary's comment above........

Generally don't go blacker than 20 20 20 or whiter than 238 238 238

FS loses at the extremes and if you use pure balcks or pure whites the result can be cartoony with the detail bleaching off on the white

Garry

Darned good numbers those and ones I religiously keep to I think it was you who gave them to me in the first place Garry. Now there's a surprise

ATB

DaveB

Indeed Dave .I gave you those

I arrived at those by trial and error over a period of time

Then, after about a million paints the penny dropped .....that is 16 off the top end and 32 off the bottom and somehow the way computers work I don't think that's a co-incidence.

Garry

Fodda wrote:That's a nice start, and a great idea to keep it simple.

One observation... Try making the anti-glare a tad less black and see what you think, I reckon it'd add to the whole, but then you are free to disagree, it's your aeroplane after all. Not sure it needs a great deal more, but a nice curly KAS with interlinked letters in the same red on the tail would look fine. How about adding the registration to wing surfaces too.

All little jobs, but add to the whole in the end. I'm impressed with what you've done though, a simple scheme is always very effective.

Yes, the anti-glare is a bit dense, so I'll adjust it using Garry's RGB numbers. White roof and fin, wing registration, and some kind of logo to come. Now I've tried it, I want to learn more, but thats as much about understanding all the technical terms in graphics editors as anything else

Okay, changed the anti-glare panel to 30 30 30 and tidied up the edges a little. It certainly looks better with those RGB values and though you can't see it in this picture, from directly above the air intake is more distinct now against the cowling below it.

Question: this anti-glare panel is a separate layer. Is there anyway I can reduce the shine on it ( i.e. give it a matt effect ) while keeping the polished bare metal effect on other layers like the fuselage skin ?

Hi Paul

Shine

You need to take the shine out of the alpha

The way I have my alphas is as a group

So in photosop make a new group and call it ALPHA...put the group at the top of the layers

Call in the alpha so it is a layer of your main document and then drag that into the alpha group. make a new layer of pure white and have that below the alpha image...turn off the alpha group when not making alphas and the psd appears as normal

Then select the anti dazzle and copy the layer. Turn the alpha group on move the copy into the Alpha group so it is ontop of the alpha itself and using CTL U put the saturation on zero and the britghtness on 100 so you have a white out the same as your panel.

Save as ...name alpha

Turn off the alpha group and save the BMP

Call in the alpha using DXT.BMP

The advantge of doing it this way is whenever you want to take someting out the alpha you can make it easily using a copy of the actual layer......so it has to be right.

If you make the take out a tint instead of white that is different to the alpha tint then you would have that ara in a different degree of shine.

Garry

I'll print that out and give it a stab, cheers Garry!