daddyairplanes

Trying to reach out ot you about an old project

yeah, with the lod viewer at most you have to load the game once (and depending not even then) for every new skin you add into the aircraft folder. in my case this weekend, since i knew i was making a dozen skins i created the folders, edited the textureset inis, fired up the game and prompltly exited. boom, all dozen skins were now visible in the LOD viewer you could just copy and paste into the aircraft ini, but unless youre only adding one skin thats time consuming when you already have to make your edits within the skin folder

are you using Mue's LOD viewer? makes life so, so much easier as you can check your skin progress just by refreshing teh skin choice. also works to view decal work

slobberin' ......

i am most familiar with GIMP. i used Photoshop in the past, but got in after it went subscription based. therefore i utilize GIMPs greatest feature, its cost! i ask because i can give expert advice on GIMP, educated guesses on Photoshop, and couldnt tell you a thing about paint.net

do you know how hard it was to find good pics of the lettering on this one? new peetition: all US military units that use anything other than stencils on their equipment be required to disclose what font they used! upcoming F-15A MSIP units....

no worries, im in there. so you'll appear a little bit speedy

Mort par chu'd Shawnee Pilote D'Aigle

good to hear! just remember, like anything its a learning process, and your always learning or rediscovering stuff if youre doing it right. are you using Photoshop or GIMP?

Air Guard is getting there....... circa 1990

no worries personal opinion, if you can skin you can work tga. i find it pretty easy, once i set up the template for each project. from there its a matter of fitting the new pieces in, and adjusting opacity.

when i say "nation_insig" im using a generic name for your tga. it wont do you any good in the flight folder put that in whatever folder the other decals are going into. in the case if my Eagle work, i put the insignia tgas in the overall F-15A folder, and have unit specific stuff in each of hte unit folders (01_27, 01_71, 5FIS etc) in the case of the C-130 packs ive been doing, i put the insignia in each nations folder (Spain, Egypt, Libya etc)

From the Airtime book on the Century Series

i forgot about one of the places you can put stickers on.......

one day soon we might upgrade and get the Slamm-ahs

ok, for the decal.ini set the decallevel to 0. brief reminder 0 is nations, 1 is units, 2 is serial numbers, and 3 is kills]. the easiest way on a new insignia (or even common one in new skin) is just to name it "nation_Insig" or something similar and the game will force it in. Im doing that right now with F-15s , naming the insignias insigNB (the early no border version) and insigBlack (the later subdued version). add copies into my decal folder and its done as for nations in game keeping it simple, you then want to extract a copy of the nations.ini into your flight folder. the nation entries will look roughly like this ------------------------------------------------------------ [Nation002] Name=USAF DisplayName=United States Air Force Alignment=FRIENDLY PilotNameList=NamesUSAF.lst RankList=RanksUSAF.lst CallsignList=CallsignsUS.lst Formation.Fighter=USFighter Formation.Attack=USFighter Formation.Bomber=USBomber Formation.Transport=USBomber Formation.Tank=USTank Formation.MobileAD=USAD PilotTrainingStandard=EXCELLENT GenderRatio=0 DebriefSuccessMusic=DebriefSuccess.wav DebriefFailMusic=DebriefFail.wav DebriefKilledMusic=DebriefKilled.wav SpeechFile=USAFSpeech.cat SpeechTextFile=USAFSpeechText.cat Medals=MedalsUSAF.ini MedalTextFile=MedalsUSAF.str UseFAC=TRUE ActiveDate=1948 AlternateDecal=USAF_OLD --------------------------------------------------------------- if you want to add a new nation then set it for the next entry in the bottom of the ini. for example if i added a new one to mine the sample might look like this [Nation258] Name=Atropia DisplayName=Atropian Air Force Alignment=FRIENDLY PilotNameList=NamesRussian.lst RankList=RanksRussian.lst CallsignList=CallsignsUS.lst Formation.Fighter=SovietFighter Formation.Attack=SovietFighter Formation.Bomber=SovietBomber Formation.Transport=SovietBomber Formation.Tank=SovietTank Formation.MobileAD=SovietAD PilotTrainingStandard=NORMAL GenderRatio=0 DebriefSuccessMusic=DebriefSuccess.wav DebriefFailMusic=DebriefFail.wav DebriefKilledMusic=DebriefKilled.wav SpeechFile=USAFSpeech.cat SpeechTextFile=USAFSpeechText.str AlternateDecal=Pineland other values can change, but he ones in bold are the most common if you dont have the 3W cat extractor, look around at the mods, many include a nations list ini (all of my airliner mods should) due to things the modders have done with them. they also often have some commonly missing nations like US Army, Dhimar and Paran

H(i)ANG ten brah

you know, i could sorta hurt you for the HANG skinpack. but i did make it fit within TKs Eagle decal layout so i got that going for me which is nice yes, i have realized mistakes in there since posted. it is a WIP thread.

recycle TW tga? who does this? Homefries released a pack many moons ago to. could be some stuff in there for the lo viz skins i find it odd that for a game based in the 60s and 70s essentially, TK had the Alaskan Eagles reporting to Pacific Air Forces rather than Alaskan Air Command

last one for the night

Spittin Kittens doin what FIS's do

Stock-ish TW A....

lookin good!

im sorry, ill rivet count here the labels are white labels with black lettering, usually all caps going across. basically its a sticker going across an pad on the front. once the factory given sticker wears off, we just use cheap white labels. it all comes off after one or two washings anyhow, hence the cheaper ones more frequently. but the factory labels do look nicer. much like the very first pic i posted of them last page

for anyone else reading this, talks are underway on a newer model. a couple have sent me copies of the model and SF2 update for it and i thank you. still looking for newer but as i like to say; cant find it, make it yourself. again, thank you for the help you have given, and no need to send me the older stuff anymore. Wrench, when you find them, that would be a good release even for the planes that have since been updated.