Nordic Skins
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I found this on a forum site posted which helps explain the hi-vis markings we see on peacetime-training period Swedish paint schemes:
“Friend or foe markings took several forms. During a large exercise in 1968 they got checker patterns of red or yellow dayglo tape. Later on, the most common one was geometric shapes like triangles, and rectangles on top of the wings, painted in white winter camouflage colour.”
I want to do a bit more research but I think I am coming to a consensus that the hi-vis checkers and large numbers are not meant for wartime/tactical identification and so I am going to ensure that our the stock skin sets for our aircraft are set up for wartime. I plan to include some “optional” skin sets in the extras folder for hi-vis and winter. Players can access that folder and copy those skins and overwrite their skins in the terrdata\objects\KoreaOBJ folder until we figure out a way for patching skin sets for season specific campaigns.
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Some additional research on snow skins:
A-10:
BAC Lightning (notional):
RAF Harrier:
RAF Jaguar:
Su-57:
F-35A Swedish (notional):
FGR-2 (notional):
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@Ranger:
and on my little own, I’ll second your speech - it sounds logical, to say the least.
Nice skins those, BTW.With best regards,
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I have started on the J-35 Draken . . . may post up WIP later tonight if I am not busy with other things.
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ccc sent me fixed LODs for texmapping of B-52D/G/H for left and right side of tail. So, now a/c can have proper skin. I just finished redoing tail skins and matching fuselage skins - somebody else can do better skin later - right now it has simple skin+. I also set bomb door animations to proper angle.
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Work on Draken has begun - WIP tonight
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Still playing around with some things - but rivets are next.
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For those who have begun to download Nordic V2.0. If you look in the DOCs subfolder you will find a folder with alternative skins . . . specifically, there is a pair of summer and winter skins for the Saab SK60B and SK60C, hi and lo visibility skins for the Saab Lansen A and B. My intent is to provide some alternative skin choices for users. Just copy the set you want and then overwrite the Nordic\Terradata\Objects\KoreaOBJ subfolder. If you want to change back use the other skin folder. In the future, I plan to issue new skins for various aircraft listed at the start of this thread.
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So the ‘good’ became ‘better’… so nice touch, Tony.
Bravo!
With best regards,
Gianni.
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I am closing in on completion of a skin set for the J-35 IRST Sweden. If you have enjoyed the Lansen and SK60 skins, I think you will like the Draken skin as well. I am spending a little more time on this one for several reasons. I continue to enjoy the challenge of these low-poly models which tend to surprise me when I compare the initial “simple skins” we assigned as placeholders versus the hi-resolution skins. I have deliberately held off from adopting a texture size larger than 2048x2048. I think more detail could be added but truthfully, the lack of polygons/triangles tends to be the bigger limiting factor for these models as you can only paint a certain amount of visual illusion into these models. If you don’t look too close the aircraft look nice. But, if a user is going to routinely inspect the aircraft in orbit view and count rivets that isn’t how I am painting these skins - they are meant to be seen at the closest by your wingman at typically safe distance in flight - in those instances the skins should be agreeable to all users. If not, I invite users to offer a substitute.
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Here is the Swedish Draken: after test flying - I want to add a few more rivets and then I think it will be done and move on to the Finnish skin. I forgot to mention that I will be posting up the all grey scheme for Sweden next (after the rivet frenzy is finished). The intent for V3 is to replace the current model with one with at least two skin choices.
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“Lazy”, did you say Tony?
Figure when you’re pretty busy, then…
Well done once more!
With best regards,
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From my little own,
thanks a lot for your kind appreciation, dear LS.
With best regards,
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Swedish Drakens are done . . moving on to the Finnish and Danish . . . hopefully by the end of the week. Will figure out the best way to post up some updates for DB, skins . . . then post up some links. Want to have a package worth downloading.
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We too!
Big thumbsup to you, Tony.
With best regards,
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Finnish Draken is done (two skins one for early with big roundels and one for later period with small roundels.) Too late last night to hassle with Photobucket . . .will post up something tonight. Next up is the Danish Draken . . .
If anyone has a better way to host pics besides Photobucket please advise, I would appreciate it. I tried IMGUR but seems you have to have some kind of twitter/facebook accounts which I don’t do. I don’t even have a smart phone. I just need a spot where I can upload pics and link to without spending 20 minutes clicking advertisements to get to what I want to do.
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Nice skins.
Btw the aim-4 needs green skin in nordic, not red.