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Ok, so I'm getting somewhere with the textures, now I have this question. Here is my template for the fuselage:

MS-Template-optimized.jpg


Now, I have the extra space in the corner of this that is going to go totally unused. If I put another part's paint job here (say, the wheel nacelle) and use the same template when texturing that part, will that work? If it does, is that going to save me a texture or cost me because I am only using a small portion of such a large texture?

For instance, here I have the nacelles, prop, and elevator textures added.

MS-Template-optimized-2.jpg


Or is that how it's supposed to be done in the first place?

I hope this makes sense, it's 2:30 am and I'm a little fuzzy...

Kevin
 
Use every stinking pixel you can on that one texture, Ryan... :D
 
Ryan/KEVIN,

This is why your wings arent high resolution in pixels.. Same with your fusealge.

Make the wings a seperate texture, expand them to full width. Same with the fuselage.

If you really want better quality mapping, you need to increase the pixel area of each part.

Another point. You have your panel on one little postage stamp of wood. I put my panels on one full sheet so I can see hair like scratches, scuffs, etc. Extreme realism and high detail can then be achieved with no fuzziness. That would only increase your textures from 1 to 3; panel, fuselage, wings.


Also, you might learn to incorporate shading on your parts, such as your panel. Learn to see how things (in real world) handle light and shade. For instance, on the panel, you will have a shadow zone along the top curved edge where it meets the inner fuselage surface. That surface also on the cockpit area will have a shade zone where the panel is against it. Do that to all parts in the VC and you will recreate texture baking and shadow high realism without having to use 3DS Max.


Bill
 
Here is an example of my own mapping on the Kodiak, WIP.

RH Wing texture, and LH panel side. (Panel is split into two sections, mainly because I wanted the small font on the panels to be readable clearly as possible).

Also, I make my textures at 2048 size, then burn a BMP off of the PSD stack files, take the BMP and compress to 1024, and compile to FS format.


Bill
 
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lionheart said:
Here is an example of my own mapping on the Kodiak, WIP.

RH Wing texture, and LH panel side. (Panel is split into two sections, mainly because I wanted the small font on the panels to be readable clearly as possible).

Also, I make my textures at 2048 size, then burn a BMP off of the PSD stack files, take the BMP and compress to 1024, and compile to FS format.


Bill
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Thanks, I did increase my size to 2048, and that helped quite a bit. The panel is not on here. The wood you see is for the prop, but has been replaced by a metal texture. I was hoping to keep the exterior on one bmp, and the interior on another. I'll get to the bumpmapping as soon as I figure out my current exporting problems and I can see the thing in FS. Here's the final map. I had to reduce it in size and compression killed the quality...
 

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