September Desktop Screenshots
Wednesday, September 1, 2010 by Jafo | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Here's me still 'at it' skinning the controls/cockpit of a Republic F105...buzzing over Melbourne at mach 1.5 and scaring the pants off the locals.....there's one of 'em just to the left of the HUD....he's the blip front/center of the head-up radar.
Not just altering xml....but hunting down photos of the aircraft to add 'bits' of detail to make things a little more realistic....things like the throttle quadrant and main radar cowl....are borrowed from various photos....re-skewed/sized/rotated/etc to suit.
The 'skinning' involved is about as 'complicated' as it gets.
If I get REALLY eager I'll start from scratch and make it all fair-dinkum exact. [there's poetic licence as is...to suit screen proportions/resolution.]
This is about how SKINNING differs from wallpaper making.....the result can be interfaced with.....buttons move....gauges read [all those gauges actually work]....
SKINNING's FUN .....
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Reply #2 Wednesday, September 1, 2010 11:23 AM
Nice one, Rick! Love that Robo-Def, Harley!!!
Mine? Ethan! 
WB- Aero Station - Mg
WS- Aero Station - WebGizmos
OD2+ - Aero Station - RedneckDude
Wall - SydneySiders 
Reply #3 Wednesday, September 1, 2010 12:20 PM
Reply #4 Wednesday, September 1, 2010 12:52 PM
Jafo, that is awesome! Are you sharing in wallpapers?
Come on, man. Share with us....
Reply #5 Wednesday, September 1, 2010 1:38 PM
Here's mine. A little this, a little that.
Edit: The wall and DX theme by RedneckDude.
Reply #6 Wednesday, September 1, 2010 1:47 PM
Come on, man. Share with us....
Jim...that's a screen shot, and were Jafo to make a wall of it, I think he'd need a permission from the folks who put out the software for the game.
Reply #9 Wednesday, September 1, 2010 4:49 PM
Copper Deck has always been one of my favorite themes since finding WinCustomize. 
Reply #10 Wednesday, September 1, 2010 5:47 PM
Quoting RedneckDude,
reply 4
Jafo, that is awesome! Are you sharing in wallpapers?
Come on, man. Share with us....
Jim...that's a screen shot, and were Jafo to make a wall of it, I think he'd need a permission from the folks who put out the software for the game.
Doc, I meant the controls/cockpit. Why not put those on a wall and upload? I would most definitely use it!! 
Reply #11 Wednesday, September 1, 2010 5:49 PM
Do you mean Copper Deck on 7? Or for 7?
Reply #12 Wednesday, September 1, 2010 7:13 PM
I rebuilt Copperdeck II a couple of years ago for Vista. A complete rebuild in sks6 (the WB5 version of copperdeck was screwing up my system so I decided to rebuild it from scratch). So it was a cinch to do a couple of tweaks to make it work in W7.
I was unfortunately never able to obtain permission to upload, or I would have done so then.
Reply #13 Wednesday, September 1, 2010 7:27 PM
I call this shot "Parallel Worlds (Remix)".
Reply #14 Wednesday, September 1, 2010 8:29 PM
About 50% of that cockpit is graphics from/by Alphasim. It's been 'altered' extensively to suit a widescreen monitor, with the 'scale' revised from 1024x768 to 1680x1050....correcting resolution/proportion distortions [the round bits are still round]. The other 50% is drawn [by me] and/or is photograph 'parts' altered to suit.
Most of the xml gauges are 'original', but several are modded to function differently/correctly and others are from entirely different aircraft/sources.
If/when I start from scratch and do a photo-real and accurate version.....that'll be appropriate to distribute.
Game screencaps are often/always[?] publicly distributed/shared but as wallpapers here on Wincustomize....we don't accept them as 'ours to distribute' contributions to the wallpaper gallery...
Reply #15 Wednesday, September 1, 2010 8:35 PM
Reduced 35%
Original 1680 x 1050
Thanks for the plu....oh, nevermind. 
Reply #16 Wednesday, September 1, 2010 8:37 PM
Doc, I meant the controls/cockpit. Why not put those on a wall and upload? I would most definitely use it!!
About 50% of that cockpit is graphics from/by Alphasim. It's been 'altered' extensively to suit a widescreen monitor, with the 'scale' revised from 1024x768 to 1680x1050....correcting resolution/proportion distortions [the round bits are still round]. The other 50% is drawn [by me] and/or is photograph 'parts' altered to suit.
Most of the xml gauges are 'original', but several are modded to function differently/correctly and others are from entirely different aircraft/sources.
If/when I start from scratch and do a photo-real and accurate version.....that'll be appropriate to distribute.
Game screencaps are often/always[?] publicly distributed/shared but as wallpapers here on Wincustomize....we don't accept them as 'ours to distribute' contributions to the wallpaper gallery...
Reply #17 Wednesday, September 1, 2010 9:27 PM
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Reply #1 Wednesday, September 1, 2010 10:22 AM