Northorp F-5A
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Manos,
I feel unease to read you like that.
I felt, you were looking for solutions to unwrap your aircraft, while your picture posted at 16:18 today does not shows an aircraft 85% unwrapped, just an automatic render of an unwrapping process, but I may be wrong, if so, I’m sorry for my assumptions.
Of course, you can do what you want, I have no right to ask you anything, and I didn’t asked you to follow my recommendations.
I was more interested to understand your workflow as you looked more to be experimenting with unwrapping from the picture I was referring above rather than being close from a completed uvw map.
Anyway, I wish you good luck with your project.
Radium
to tell the truth i was experimenting Until i found the “box-unwrap” that Lazy is saying above then all was easy and… I work a lot of time to this so i can probably post a pic of an unfinished model and after 3 hours will be ready… believe me most of my free time goes in this…
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Manos,
for whatever unwrapping methode you use, just keep in mind
that the more unwrapping parts you have, the more drawcalls
are needed to draw that model insim.So from a performance POV, try to use less as possible unwrapping parts
for an object, the fuselage in this case.For example Unfold mapping of the whole object into one piece would
result in one drawcall, (for unwrapping/texmapping) but would be a PITA to paint, IMHO.BTW. to save more drawcalls, your model should have all vertices
welded and not more than 4 differently smoothing groups (1-4) set.Again for unwrapping/texmapping I suggest to place the parts on the
texture “in logical order” for easier rivets- and panel lines- painting.
That’s why I place my parts often among one another.But I use “box- mappping” like Radium, which results in something like:
- left view
- top view
- bottom view
- right view (mirrored vertically compared to left view)
In this order on the texture I can paint one straight (panel-) line
from top to bottom, which will surround the whole AC body, for example.All just my 2c, but I hope it helps a little to make your model(s) even nicer.
Cheers,http://i.imgur.com/F5nLr2S.gif
LSMost of the model is welded. I wanna finish with the details and stuf so i can make the whole model in 1 piece besides of course the moving parts. That helped me a lot before to make lower lods and static models as well, therefore i will have to make a clean up again as many parts will seem weird in sim but ok i will handle it i guess. Thank you for your recomendations as well As you can see im trying to cover as much as i can in a single texture (though i would love to have 4 as i have in Phantom) and have an alpha texture for lights/serials and afterburner.
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Unwrapping is done. Also added the gear,gear door,gear extension dofs. A little bit of editing on those needed but im in a good way
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Unwrapping is done. Also added the gear,gear door,gear extension dofs. A little bit of editing on those needed but im in a good way
https://image.ibb.co/jx4qvm/F_5_wip15.jpgThis strange normals on the rudder is deliberately committed?
Cheers
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This strange normals on the rudder is deliberately committed?
Cheers
EGHIAs i said is still in wip i saw them in game to tell you the truth. no it needs still some edits as many things are not shown very well in 3ds or in Lodeditor u have to actually put the model in the 3dworld to see whats needs to be edited! There are some on the lower fuselage as well. Probably its cause of the welding of the vertices.Will fix it soon! cheers
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First tests in game initiated
Looks good this far
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Already looks sexy!..
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Partially textured…
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Just found this, does single seater used this livery?
Regards,
Radium
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That F-5 looks awesome!!! Can’t wait to see the final result.
Hellenic F-5s has very different (and awesome) paint schemes throughout their careers.
Like the camo above but also Aegean blue and grey on grey. -
That F-5 looks awesome!!! Can’t wait to see the final result.
Hellenic F-5s has very different (and awesome) paint schemes throughout their careers.
Like the camo above but also Aegean blue and grey on grey.You are rifht. We had US sea camo. Aegean blue. Norwegian camo. Ghost camo and jordan. And Jordan camo for some time had both countries roundels
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Unfortunately, by the time I visited Greece all the F-5s were already turned to junk. Here’s what was “stored” at Larissa. My hosts were very nervous about me taking these photos.
Can someone spot the rare RF-5A?
There were heaps more dumped F-5s and F-4s around the base but most of them in a lot worse condition than these (which is why I only took these quick shots of them). I was a little bit distracted with the “main event”, which my hosts didn’t mind me photographing at all!
But these are sadly gone too now…
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https://i.pinimg.com/originals/10/74/2f/10742fe141f1134433cb792917218033.jpg
Just found this, does single seater used this livery?
Regards,
Radium
Yes Radium… I used to have an 1/72 single seater in theese colors…
Unfortunately, by the time I visited Greece all the F-5s were already turned to junk. Here’s what was “stored” at Larissa. My hosts were very nervous about me taking these photos.
https://s20.postimg.org/f0b0x5h0t/IL2_Z9122.jpg
https://s20.postimg.org/gfcllvxjh/IL2_Z9123.jpg
https://s20.postimg.org/5freaaeu5/IL2_Z9124.jpg
Can someone spot the rare RF-5A?
There were heaps more dumped F-5s and F-4s around the base but most of them in a lot worse condition than these (which is why I only took these quick shots of them). I was a little bit distracted with the “main event”, which my hosts didn’t mind me photographing at all!
https://s20.postimg.org/un2aa2cnx/RF-4_E_71765_Larissa.jpg
https://s20.postimg.org/uaaw3vmod/RF-4_E_71765_Larissa_landing.jpg
https://s20.postimg.org/qdxk7wh4d/RF-4_E_71765_Larissa_take_off.jpg
https://s20.postimg.org/6jbilq4gt/RF-4_E_7495_ex-_GAF.jpg
https://s20.postimg.org/wev94xtfx/RF-4_E_7496_ex-_GAF_Larissa_with_71763.jpg
https://s20.postimg.org/rsz4wlv25/RF-4_E_7586_Ex-_GAF_Larissa.jpg
But these are sadly gone too now…
Spotted its the “01618” but why rare? I think also in the 1st Photo the first from the left is ex-jordan plane… Oh! also we had some from Iran and Netherlands… So imagine the variety in camouflage… A real headache to a scale modeler… Also another headach was the ejection seat… U had to be very careful witch serial you will choose. Some planes had the original Northorp seat, others had the MB dq-7 (i think i wrote it right…) and others later the MB MK-10…
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Greece only ever had 17 RF-5s, compared to a total of 114 (N)F-5A/Bs (11 were ex-Dutch NF-5A/Bs, 60 surplus NF-5A/Bs went to Turkey) and you don’t find many RF-5s preserved today.
Taiwan and Singapore still fly Tiger Eye models… sigh, I should find some cash to go there some time soon.Such a great looking F-5A/E can also come in very handy in the Nordic theater (80s campaign, Norwegian Air Force) and also in Korea as a F-5E!
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Some more in game test screenies…
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Although they didn’t had LAU-129’s those days (hahaha), a pure beauty if I’ll imagine it with some exotic skins!
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Although they didn’t had LAU-129’s those days (hahaha), a pure beauty if I’ll imagine it with some exotic skins!
Well by default the lau-129 was in sorry i didnt change it . Im starting to think to change a bit the UV mapping to get it more user friendly
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Any Skinners willing to help making this???
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Any Skinners willing to help making this???
Go ahead, Manos. Do this model by yourself, paint your skin from scratch and don’t forget make lower LOD’s too.
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Go ahead, Manos. Do this model by yourself, paint your skin from scratch and don’t forget make lower LOD’s too.
Ill try… at least… Its not an easy job. I made the Mapping a little more “Friendly” with the main fuselage parts alligned (as much as i can for now) but working with Photoshop isn’t my strongest point. To make the skin for AUP phantom it took too much time and a lot of research and help from other people here as well (Ranger for example witch actually he gave me his Psd of what he wanted to make for me). I dont have anything to loose of course… it would be nice to have a little help though … And this with the lower lods still remains a thorn for me. But i guess this is quite “light” model with only 24.500 (if i remember well) tris so it wont be difficult to make some lower lods i guess…