Bf109E-3, 6./JG26 Squad - Skin Pack (brown 1-12)

[JG26_EZ]

Thanks everyone. Your feedback means alot and helps to fuel further projects. It was a fun project.

As for the size of the file... I save as jpeg in lossless format so that it looks the same as when I create it. I'm not sure why it's bigger unless maybe the colour count has something to do with it. I'm away from home until tomorrow. I'll give it a look when I get back tomorrow.

[5./JG27.Farber]

Thanks EZ, good stuff!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLg10V4U_ME

[David198502]

thx Ez!
wonderfull work, and made especially for us
so thank you.
there are a few details though, which i personally would change according to pictures weve found.plus a more pronounced weathering would be great, as the ingame weathering looks horrible.but thats only personal taste.

btw, i see you didnt include the Wnr. for number 1....i guess you didnt find any for this particular aircraft just like we werent able to find it...?
S from 6./JG26!

Edit: ive seen that you took Brown4 as Walter Schneider's plane?are you sure about that?from what sources to you take that info from? cause to my information, Walter Schneider was flying Brown 1.

[SlipBall]

Thanks EZ!...excellent work

[acred99]

5./JG27.Farber
Hey mate8 that music you posted had me laughing non stop
What a F... classic.
thanks for the share

[JG26_EZ]

Well I'm back from my mini-holiday.

@Acred... Tried to minimize the file size and can't. Maybe some computer guru can answer this one for us.. I tried changing compression value from 1 to 3 with no changes.. I tried to change the number of paint colours from 16 million to 64,000 and that seemed to add .05mb to the download..

@David... I could only find Wnr numbers for 5 of the 9 aircraft I had photos of. And I'm not a master of weathering ...yet.

@Farber... Great choice of music to celebrate the release of the pack

@All the rest... Thanks.

[Robo.]

Originally Posted by JG26_EZ

@Acred... Tried to minimize the file size and can't. Maybe some computer guru can answer this one for us.. I tried changing compression value from 1 to 3 with no changes.. I tried to change the number of paint colours from 16 million to 64,000 and that seemed to add .05mb to the download..

Save as *.jpg, set quality to 10 (in Photoshop) which gives you good balance between size and quality (around 550-600 kB). In other programs, like IrfanView you can use optimizing plugins to get rid of unwanted information or even set the desired size in kB and save it like that.

What I would start with is removing the layer with internal parts - it's hard coded anyway and it really adds up to the final size due to amount of colours used. If you are using Photoshop, just experiment with the default save as settings, they're good enough and you'll find some settings that will give you reasonable size (for me that is around 1MB) and no dithering or too much pixelation.