December 2012 Desktop Screenshots
Friday, November 30, 2012 by Jafo | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
I thought a 'blast from the past' [12 years old] might be fun....
Date of that was 13 Jan, 2001....
....and I'm still using that same WinAMP ....but now I have a system with more grunt I 'should' have another go at that cursor...
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Reply #84 Sunday, December 23, 2012 6:22 PM
You'd get a sore neck.....that one took about 2 days. So much of the aligning is trial and error....you have to load the WIP onto the plane model in the sim...and see how it looks....tweak...and repeat....
The fuse in that....if the second 25% in length is 'full size', say, then the 1st, 3rd and 4th are at 80% scale..... a real bummer when you are trying to match alignment at per-pixel level...
Reply #85 Sunday, December 23, 2012 8:56 PM
There you go. Top-left is a metal finish 'blank' done by me...the original skins are paint-finish - shiny but not 'metal' [that's an alpha mod]...then you add bits and see how they look...alignment, etc....until finally the one bottom-right is the finished ver...a plane never painted in those colours....but 'might' have been if AA had a Tu-114 in the livery of their Electras of the same period.
The alphas are altered too...as the painted bits [decals] are gloss....not 'metal'...in all 5 bitmaps are altered...along with their alphas ....10 in all. Mapping the bands on the engines was seriously a pain....alerations ended up literally one pixel width at a time....
Reply #86 Monday, December 24, 2012 1:59 AM
Holy crap! That's a lot of work! And I can only imagine the trial and error part. I know just doing the simple stuff I do can be a pain sometimes. I'd still love to watch you do some of this stuff...I just find it interesting. And then to see the outcome and a working product. And you do this all for a simulator. Always wanted to play one of those.
Reply #88 Tuesday, December 25, 2012 12:48 PM
Damn, Jafo. The aircraft is just zupa dupa kuuul 
Jimm, great work with Technix here. WOW.
Reply #89 Tuesday, December 25, 2012 12:51 PM
I´d love to see this as a clip. It must be amazing to see e.g. a 5 minutes shot when it starts up with the first scratch to the ultimate final result. Oh yay 
Reply #90 Friday, December 28, 2012 7:14 PM
Latest skin ....someone asked for a Cuban ver...and since it's a Ruskie plane it's more likely a what-if than most...
Reply #91 Saturday, December 29, 2012 4:28 AM
Nice skin job 
Have you ever thought about taking up WB skinning... 
Reply #93 Saturday, December 29, 2012 9:48 AM
And what precludes you from doing it in the 21st. century? Just curious. Judging by the detail, time and effort put into your aircraft graphics a WB would be child's play for you. IMO
Reply #94 Saturday, December 29, 2012 10:40 AM
I was doing them at a time when there was no Skin Studio. I wasn't even using Builderblinds, instead doing it all from scratch.... the same way I am doing these plane skins now. Besides, there are plenty of quite capable WB skinners doing it well, where-as some of these plane models have very few skins/skinners...
My latest one....
Reply #98 Monday, December 31, 2012 9:22 AM
Made a start button for Start8 I see Andy, nice colours and really nice screenie!
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Reply #81 Sunday, December 23, 2012 3:39 PM
Capsula Xtreme... looks to be the final cut. Great work, Steve!
... and Rennie, obrigado!!!