Classic British Flight Sim

Beautiful!

Brian

Garry Russell wrote:We are establishing they are silver whIch is not at all like bare metal so will look more grey

Bit by bit with constructive comments is the way forward,trying to avoid the horrors of photo(un)real along the way

Touche, Garry, Touche.

Looking alot less flat now Jason , but if it was my project would play around with 3-5% noise on the grey layer, just to give it a bit of personality and a bolder look, because from experience, no amount of alpha channeling can make grey look silver, and I think this has been proven by developers over past years, especially in the heydey of 16-bit and grey gradients

Have a mess aorund and see what you think.

Rgds

Ben

As Ben points out you need to liven it up with some sort of noise or mottling effect..keep it on seperate layers as an over print plus the transparent blue grey lay to tint it....not so it looks blue but so it doensn't look grey.....in other words you only really notice it when you turn the layer off

As with all effect, keep them subtle, add several but don't over do it strength wise on any layer, build the effect up over several.

For example you could have several noise or mottle layers with different size effects rather than try to do it all in one

A good effect is one that has an effect without looking like the effect has been added as such...if you follow.

As Ben says......experiment and as I mentioned keep every effect on a seperate layer and do whatever you think until you're happy.

As it stands it is beaching too much. A silver will look very much duller on the PSD's. My SIlver City Superfreighter for example looks very dull.

Any overall colour is hard to give life too but silver or any kind of mid grey is about the hardest.

Having said all this...when you do hit the spot you well really feel a sense of pride.

It is certainly worth the effort

Latest shot...

Jason

Thats a bit of alright

Leif

Yup.. I like that too

ATB

DaveB

Thats lovely Jason! More of those please!

Cheers guys

I dont think i will ever get the 'silver' as correct as Meteors are in Flightsim but i will keep at it till feel ready to do the various Squadrons for release. I might have to release her with a tainted silver scheme or as near as i can do.

Having a little play with a 23 Squadron machine.

Looking good Jason. Keep them coming