Friday 2010-11-12 Dev. update and Discussion

luthier · #1 11-12-2010, 01:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Col.Flanders

I'm not sure if this has been asked or if it's common knowledge yet but could anyone tell me what resolution the aircraft skins are going to be? I think skinning for this new sim is going to be something special!

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.

Col.Flanders · #2 11-12-2010, 01:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by luthier

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.

Thanks for the info, luthier. That sounds like a clever way to do it. Previously, re-riveting was always a job in itself.

322Sqn_Dusty · #3 11-12-2010, 01:57 PM

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

luthier · #4 11-12-2010, 02:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 322Sqn_Dusty

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

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.

322Sqn_Dusty · #5 11-12-2010, 02:07 PM

Point taken.

Richie · #6 11-12-2010, 02:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by luthier

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.

I know what you mean. There are great skinners and not so great skinners.

Rodolphe · #7 11-12-2010, 05:08 PM

...

Quote:

Originally Posted by luthier

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.

Thanks Oleg and Luthier for these amazing videos.

Some questions about the benefit of coloring/riveting/weathering of the future BoB skin.

1. Will the static planes available in the future BoB Full Mission Builder (FMB) be "skin-able" ?

This is the point.

Now that the internal structures of some of the player/AI aircraft will become available, like on this screenshot.

2. Will it be possible to represent some partialy or fully boned static aircraft ?

This nice opportunity will add some atmosphere/immersion to an airfield scene if aircraft worked in maintenance or damaged due to combat became visible as on the pictures below.

...