Originally Posted by skorzeny (Post 197626)

Mr Maddox,

This is my first post although I have followed IL2 developments since 2001. I have been heavily dissappointed everytime something else came out, i.e. MSCFS3, etc.

No matter how old the IL2 engine is, nothing frome any other source has been able to compete remotely for many reasons, primarily the dedication of you and your team.

The updates for SOW (or whatever it will be called) show that you are the Michalaengelo of the development world and no amount of marketing by others can change that.

Salute.

Originally Posted by luthier (Post 197636)

2048x2048.

But, it's complicated.

We have split up the paintscheme, the actual colors, from the rest of the texture - the rivets, the panel lines, the weathering, etc. The user texture is just the colors, i.e. your experience as a texturer is like simply coming up to the finished plane with some paint and a paintbrush, not actually re-riveting it or moving panels around.

So the user texture can actually be a smaller resolution, 512, even 64x64 and still look all right-ish since the riveting and the weathering on top of it are 2048x2048.

Originally Posted by 322Sqn_Dusty (Post 197639)

Can the weathering layer be altered slightly to get varations on the skins or must those be added to the scheme layer?

Originally Posted by luthier (Post 197644)

I don't know yet what we'll give the user access to. I don't see the need to alter the weathering per se, and the disadvantages probably outweigh the benefits.

We just got really tired of seeing the offensive or the really, really ugly user skins on Il-2 servers. And if we open up the riveting and the weathering and all the rest, then we doom the rest of the community to the same.