Heavy metal experiment - P51

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Heavy metal experiment - P51

Post by :FI:Sneaky_Russian » Thu Dec 20, 2007 2:08 am

Started playing with metal finish after a request at Ubi.

Here how it's looking with the planeshine mod.

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Post by :FI:Falcon » Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:37 am

Snee,

I haven't done the planeshine thing yet, but so far your fiddyone is looking good.

The single most effective thing I do to get a half-way decent metal effect is to:

- copy the rivet layer
- invert it to white
- blur it to gaussian blur=1 (or blur 'til the rivet is blurred to three pixels wide)
- reduce opacity to get that shiney dimple effect.

There's tons of other tricks and then the whole highlight thing.

good luck, it can get frustratin'


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Post by :FI:Noter » Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:58 am

Lookin' good Sneaky.

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Post by :FI:WillieOFS » Thu Dec 20, 2007 4:18 am

WOW!!! :shock:

I impressed. :beer:
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Nice!!!!

Post by :FI:Heloego » Thu Dec 20, 2007 4:48 am

Looks very reflective! :D
...and wear your feckin' mask!!!!! :x
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Re: Nice!!!!

Post by :FI:Sneaky_Russian » Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:12 am

:FI:Heloego wrote:Looks very reflective! :D
thats the mod ;)

:FI:Falcon wrote: copy the rivet layer
I usually do 4 rivet layers : black, white, white blurred,black blurred - and offset layers for 3D.
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Post by :FI:Igor » Thu Dec 20, 2007 11:32 pm

Sure is shinny...purrrdy.


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Re: Heavy metal experiment - P51

Post by :FI:Sneaky_Russian » Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:54 pm

OK - no mods in screenshot

Fi green and go faster stripe


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and with shine
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Re: Heavy metal experiment - P51

Post by :FI:Sacktime » Wed Mar 19, 2008 11:50 pm

That is amazing Sneaky!
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Re: Heavy metal experiment - P51

Post by :FI:Sneaky_Russian » Thu Mar 20, 2008 12:24 am

Ty.

Well second set of pics is with "Avalas" planeshine mod; which is what really set me off on this . It seemed to me that a lot of the available metal skins were too light, especially when using the mod. Wanted to do something that would look good using standard or modded il2.

Template was extracted from void , 4 layers for rivets and panels - light, dark, highlight and shadow. and Mech layer from Goodwood.

Just a few details to touch up now
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Re: Heavy metal experiment - P51

Post by :FI:Falcon » Thu Mar 20, 2008 1:02 am

Good design decisions Snee!

Yeah, with some of my metal skins w/perfect settings, all my metal work washes out to white sometimes.

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Post by :FI:Sneaky_Russian » Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:56 pm

With Historic scheme

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Re: P51 - Updated Internals

Post by :FI:Sneaky_Russian » Sat Mar 22, 2008 10:53 pm

Last edited by :FI:Sneaky_Russian on Sat May 10, 2008 5:17 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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Re: Heavy metal experiment - P51

Post by :FI:Wardog » Sat Mar 22, 2008 10:57 pm

Very Nice Sneaky very nice ;) Especially the No22 one lol. My 11 year old daughter says she really likes the pink My Little Pony one too :lol: :lol: :lol:

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