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    Repaint requests (A330)

    in Repaints \ Liveries \ Livery Manager

    Posted

    10 hours ago, Wise87 said:

     

    Guess where the last 2019 Friday Night Ops (FNO) on Vatsim is? Hint, hint  😉

    Doing one.....buy sadly it won't be fully ready for Tonight's Vatsim event. :(

     

    You guys will be flying it when I'm done....but despite how good you think it looks in this pic....its not that good...needs a LOT of work...No release date at this time.

      Sorry guys....but you know I do quality work and this can't be rushed. (not to mention I have read world commitments) 

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    Repaint requests (A330)

    in Repaints \ Liveries \ Livery Manager

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    Pecking away at the many elements of this paint.....

    • Got the engine color and logo size and position where I like them.
    • Added the winglet color and logo...and the mid fuse is looking good. 
    • The wing root is going to be tough...have to pass the silver stripe through it...always a tricky alignment task. :(

    So many things to do on a paint. 

     

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    Repaint requests (A330)

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    I'll link the page to the upload when I finish up some last things (it'll be on the default Aerosoft Downloads page).

    This will be version .90.   I have many little things still to do to her to make her what I feel will be a complete paint...but she is certainly flyable in her current condition...and I KNOW some folks are really wanting to fly this bird Christmas morning. :) (no way I'll have all the little touches done by then, I'll make the final updates and include a change log so you know what I updated later after the holidays)

    ....some of you may not even notice the changes as on most of them...you can't see them using the normal external views...you need a camera utility (or know how to move the default camera) to move in close to see the many enhancements I made to this paint.

    I used some special techniques that are unique to metallic paints to try and replicate how they react to the sun's glint at certain angles...within flightsim (extremely difficult to do).

     

     

     

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    Repaint requests (A330)

    in Repaints \ Liveries \ Livery Manager

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    Guys....I will get to Hawaiian....Hopefully other painters are monitoring this forum and have see the many requests for it and are ready to release one for you....mine is next after...well...you know. :)

    You will see a "version" of my American paint before Christmas....I will release an "almost done to Steve's standards" version when I clean up the tail and tweak the custom sparkle I've added to the alpha layer to emulate AA's custom silver-mica paint.

    In the screenshot below you can see the mica flecks between the "c" and "a" in American.   Its only visible close up (as it is in the real paint).

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    As I mentioned above...the paint effects are extremely difficult to get right, and you have to try all sorts of custom layer and channel and map editing to replicate this special paint.

     

     

     

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    Repaint requests (A330)

    in Repaints \ Liveries \ Livery Manager

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    American Airlines...oh how I hate your paint!

    So the bottom line is that this is going to be a gradient paint.

    After trying many flat paint variants....I was never completely satisfied with outcome in the sim...even if I felt I nailed the color (which you never can with a metallic paint using a flat color BTW)

    Anyway.....

    This series of screenshots shows you the stark difference between a flat and gradient paint.

    1st up....the madness that is my paint shop when working on countless variations of colors, hues, brightness, gradient patterns and such...here I am adjusting a gradient...the notepad shows just some of the colors I tried to match (7 on this list...many others that I didn't even bother to log after seeing them in the sim) what see see in the real world.

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    Notice the bottom fuse (left side of the plane) is slightly darker than the right (I'm playing with the best brightness level now that I'm happy with the color...for now)

    Depending on your monitor settings....it may not even be noticeable to you (hence the issue we have when someone claims a paint is too dark or light...sometimes its just monitor settings....or in-game settings, or Nvidia settings, or HDR settings, or time of day, season, cloud coverage, angle of view, etc....)

     

    Now see the difference in flightsim....

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    Pretty amazing contrast in the sim vs what's on my paint screen huh?  Of course the light source in the sim is heavily influencing this effect as well....but you see the challenges painters face to get all the various paint settings just right (or as close as we can)

     

    Finally....this next pic clearly shows how superior a custom gradient looks against a flat color selection when it comes to replicating a metallic paint in flightsim.  The mid-fuse texture map (on the right of the screen with the "n" in American near the border between the 2 texture maps) as you notice is a flat color...one of the many grays I tried after going thru my blueish phase....which I found is only relevant on an overcast day after looking at 100s of photos.  I may add just a tinge of blue to the final color to get a best mix scenario...as the in-sim color rendering engine does not faithfully reproduce the different hues you see in varying overcast conditions (Trust me I tried every type of overcast and saw no appreciable difference in the fuse color)

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    I KNOW you guys are anxious to fly an American paint...and trust me I'd like nothing more than to release one now for you guys to fly....but it would be a flat-color version that I would not be happy with...and neither would you after seeing a properly painted, gradient version. :)

    Give me some time....in the midst of the holiday season when I'm not painting full time as you can understand....and I'll give you the best American Airlines repaint I can.....After all...I've done a few good ones in the past...hehe.

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    Okaayyyyy.....that is the OLD AA paint in bare metal (with PBR effects)...but you get the idea...I like to produce very good paints. ;)

     

     

     

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    Repaint requests (A330)

    in Repaints \ Liveries \ Livery Manager

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Dhood320 said:

    I would like to request Hawaiian Airlines N380HA

     

     

     

    51 minutes ago, scottie2950 said:

    +1 for a hawaiian bus pretty please!

    I think someone is doing Hawaiian....I thought I saw something just a page or 2 back....

    Last update for this weekend....need to get ready for a busy work week.

     

    I'll work more on this one when I can, and wrap up Cathay and Qantas.

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    Repaint requests (A330)

    in Repaints \ Liveries \ Livery Manager

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    On 12/13/2019 at 11:58 PM, Wise87 said:

    Anyone know if a American Airlines version is in works? 

     

    4 hours ago, samwise7 said:

    Kinda of sad that there's only one US registered livery at this time.  We have Delta,  I know Hawaiian will be available down the road.  But I'd really like to see American Airlines in the hangar. 

     

     

    4 hours ago, xj143x@yahoo.com said:

    i agree with the need for a American Airlines repaint. 

     

    1 hour ago, RALF9636 said:

     

    Great, thanks a lot!

     

    And +1 for American and Hawaiian, please.

     

    3 hours ago, steve dra said:

     

     

    Considered....decision to follow shortly.

     

    Considered...approved....now in process

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    Repaint requests (A330)

    in Repaints \ Liveries \ Livery Manager

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    9 minutes ago, xj143x@yahoo.com said:

    i agree with the need for a American Airlines repaint. 

     

    31 minutes ago, samwise7 said:

    Kinda of sad that there's only one US registered livery at this time.  We have Delta,  I know Hawaiian will be available down the road.  But I'd really like to see American Airlines in the hangar. 

     

     

    On 12/13/2019 at 11:58 PM, Wise87 said:

    Anyone know if a American Airlines version is in works? 

    Considered....decision to follow shortly.

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    Repaint requests (A330)

    in Repaints \ Liveries \ Livery Manager

    Posted

    24 minutes ago, AndiWob said:

    First of all Aerosoft should fix the Livery Manager, in "Aerosoft A330 Professional\Livery Manager" is only a wrong "Livery Manager A318-A319.exe" - but no version for A330. Nobody else noticed this yet?

    Yep noticed.

    Its also noted in the release notes that its not fully ready yet.  For now we  just have to manually install the liveries.  Not a big deal...I'd rather be flying (and painting it) now, than for them to hold the release of the plane until the livery manager was done.

    I'd still be waiting to paint this one if they held the release for the livery manager.....and now its just about done! ;)

     

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    Repaint requests (A330)

    in Repaints \ Liveries \ Livery Manager

    Repaint requests (A330)

    in Repaints \ Liveries \ Livery Manager

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    4 hours ago, moyung said:

    Cathay Pacific B-LBB "We are flying the 1000th Airbus A330"

    https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/9309631

     

    TransAsia Airways B-22103

    https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/8432692

     

    Skymark Airlines JA330A

    https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/8821119

     

     

    Hmmm....Cathay special liveries...I have done special Cathay liveries before.:)

     

    1st Boeing converted Freighter...

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    I really like Cathay!!

     

    In fact Mapping out Cathay in new colors...

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    I may register this one as LBB and then make the 1000th version afterwards.  We'll see.

     

     

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    Repaint requests (A330)

    in Repaints \ Liveries \ Livery Manager

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    1 hour ago, Wise87 said:

    Waiting on SteveDra Delta repaint is the reason I haven’t installed the A330 yet. 

    Waiting on a few approvals on the Delta paint to come back before I can continue, but she may be ready to "test" this weekend.

     

    In the mean time....continuing work on the 'Roo" (need to get his leg on the fuse as you can see).

    Slapped on some other elements of the paint and took her on a photo shoot past a rather famous landmark of Sydney :)

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