Holy crap you're already doing tank skins!!! :shock::grin::grin::grin:

Rodolphe - where can we download and use your fantastic skins?

Many have asked that question none have received an answer ;)

It's just a minor miracle that nobody has started negatively speculating that Rodolphe has been fired and moved on to painting the fourth bridge leaving somebody else to pick up the pieces, or started to threaten him because he hasn't produced the skins he promised ;)

IIRC things did start to get hairy but luckily nearmiss (again IIRC) stepped in and informed everyone that contrary to there stated facts signing up to the banana forum doesn't mean signing your soul away or anything you create as well ;)

OMG! I'm speachless. Beautiful game made even more attractive with your beautiful work, Rudolphe.

Honestly, any one of you can make any of these skins in less than 15 minutes with Photoshop.

Really...

Interesting...

...thank of Maddox' genius layered skin technology. Today everybody is lucky about it - months ago everybody was complaining.

Nice work though.

There are different layers for the rivets/panel lines and the weathering/wear. All you have to do is drag lines across the aircraft body, use the fill tool, and "VOILA" new skin. If you want to get fancy, you can add your own grease/oil/smoke smears and use gradient fill to add different tones. All Randolph is doing is straight fill, and his look good. It's not hard.

There is a bit more to it than that, finding the right colours is not simple.

You got a site we can view all your work on mate, sounds as if it will be stunning

Just load up a 3 way view of your favorite aircraft, replicate it on the template, and "voila". You can even change the tint and hue of each section you painted after the fact.

Just saying that you don't need to wait for someone to create your ideal skin, just fool around with it in Photoshop or Gimp. I'd fire up photoshop and make some, but I'm at an LSIL/HPV seminar all week and don't have it on my laptop.

Edit: You obviously know what I'm talking about since you're advertising skins in your sig.

Personally I think and we both know he's calling you out on your blatant BS... yes its takes a few mins to make a skin, but a lot more to make a good one!

I don't know why you guys think that it's hard to make a decent skin. It's even easier than the original IL-2 since it has integrated layers that take care of the panel lines and weathering for you now. No more using the smudge tool to create oil stains.

Here are two of my old IL-2 ones that happened to be online on another forum. They're obviously not historical, but the gray one is based on a modern aircraft (bonus points for identifying which one) The fire one isn't really anything special, but both of them retain their panel lines which is the hardest part of creating a skin for IL-2 in my opinion.

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http://i.imgur.com/y2p7ns.jpg http://i.imgur.com/1k1xss.jpg http://i.imgur.com/VHxkcs.jpg http://i.imgur.com/xjLsus.jpg

Creating a historical skin is even easier as you can have the skin you are making overlay a "3 view" drawing of the original aircraft, and just trace over it and fill. So you're essentially just tracing over an already finished example. When the seminar is over I might make a tutorial and post it on youtube. It's honestly really easy to do, and you only need to use a few tools to give it the right blending and look. Those of you that have airbrushed models would find the method quite familiar as well (except you can skip the primer coat ;).

Edit: Here is a good example of a source. You're obviously going to have to pick the exact colours from an exemplar online, but you take this image, add it as a transparent layer to your photoshop project, and just start painting over it on your working layer. That way you can follow the panel lines exactly, do some blurring/smudging if you want, add decals and markings, and even custom oil/smoke stains that are not included in the stock weathering options. I find that scale modeling sites and forums are a goldmine or finding correct colour examples and very detailed "3 view" drawings. Good luck!

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http://i.imgur.com/zuU7cs.jpg

Hmm... think you just proved my point, thanks.

In il2:1946 some ppl were willing to share there panel lines, and take a look at the weathered one ppl use for the Cliffs Hurri its fantastic.

Is this even English? I'm not sure what you are trying to say.

Well I can appreciate the historical accuracy of some of them. that in itself will take more than the 15 minutes you project. In the case of the Ju 87 above, I liked the total composition as well as the skin.

The few screenshots (of the model box art mock ups) I made a few pages back show that just because anyone has Photoshop doesn't mean they are proficient with it. But knowing my way around it a small bit does make me appreciate the efforts of those who do manage to make beautiful art with the tools availible.... so I offer my thanks and "ooooh n aaaaahs."

The ones that I posted are obviously not real attempts at making a detailed/realistic skin, just something to dick around with in CO-OPs with friends a few years ago in IL-2 1946. I was not a photoshop expert in any sense, but my wife gave me a short demonstration and that was it, able to master all of the tools to create a high quality skin.

Clod takes care of the weathering and panel lines for you, all you have to do is trace the paint job onto the skin. Oleg mentioned this over a year ago and everyone was falling over themselves because it was so easy. The game does the hard work for you.

I guess me posting a tutorial for interested people is out of the question because "regular forum users" could never do this according to you guys. Only a few "enlightened artists" could ever hope to paste a decal or nose art onto a skin or make a few curved lines and then fill between them.

Ask Randolph or the other skinners, they'll tell you exactly how they do it.

Cheers!

p.s. some other skins acquaintances of mine have made for our online jaunts. None of these people claim to be experts, and historical skins are not a priority in our non-historical furballs, but making skins is not hard in 1946, and even easier in CLOD. Some of them even took the time to add weathering/stains. It's not rocket science.

http://i.imgur.com/pkGRYl.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/0O5X6l.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/nLaItl.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/TjUBml.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/EvXQVl.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/KdY2Sl.png
http://i.imgur.com/U7Kpwl.jpg

This might explain why I can't focus on flying.
http://i.imgur.com/8Sjztl.jpg

Nobody I know has bothered to make CLOD skins since playing online isn't really an option at the moment.

I like the P-39. Nice!

It looks so majestic. . . flat-spinning into the ground. :grin:

LOL Been there, done that..... many a time. LOL What do they call that? Falling with grace?

A grammar attack, always a clear sign of someone admitting they were in correct... Dear oh dear quite pathetic.

No seriously, what were you trying to say? I cannot parse that sentence you posted above.

"In il2:1946 some ppl were willing to share there panel lines, and take a look at the weathered one ppl use for the Cliffs Hurri its fantastic."

- "Some people were willing to share their panel lines". . . ok, what does that have to do with CLOD? Panel lines are already another layer, so sharing them are unnecessary, but still possible.

- "There are nice weathered ones for CLOD". The weathering is done "in game" but there is still opportunity to add additional touches.

- "Hurricane is Fantastic". . . ok? And?

That's was not a sentence, and has nothing to do with why (according to you) only "enlightened artists" can make decent skins and the rest of the plebes on these forums shouldn't bother trying.

So you can't give a real reason why you're right and instead pout? "Dear oh dead! Quite Pathetic".

The point wasn't that people shouldn't try, but that you suggested that people's work was something that could be easily done in 15 minutes, therefore belittling their efforts. Have some respect for work that people have put time and effort into, if you think it is too simplistic, feel free to make your own instead of being negative.

Damn. Now you tell me.:(

I remember pulling my hairs trying to line up the teeth on the cowling of this bloody Noop for many many hours.:-x

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...__22_11_41.jpg

Congrats Jimmy you understand English and curtosy unlike a certain someone I could mention ;).

Where did I say enlightened artist are the only ones that can make skins in fact I am saying the opposite, so don't try and turn this around to make me look like the twat.

I responded to your criticism of someone else's work, Christ another poster like AOA take a paragraph split it and turn it on its head, like I said pathetic.

That's was what you were trying to say in that sentence? Really?

That's Rise of Flight, which doesn't have the same features for making skin weathering and panel lines that Clod does. Go back in this thread, all of the skins posted here are not difficult to make, not to take anything away from the artists, but the IL-2 ones that I posted above take much more work and time to get similar results. Weathering has to be applied by hand, and panel lines have to be maintained intentionally. For CLOD, all you have to do is drag the "weathering/wear" slider.

Look at the skins posted in this thread again. They look nice, but they are actually pretty simple to make. I've already described the steps earlier, but look at the individual sections of colour. There are no gradient fills, no real smudging or blurring, just straight colours overlaid over the skins. The only skin that I've seen that would require an real time invested is this one...

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showpos...postcount=1150

Its not that simple. I just downloaded the template for the spitfire and you are making it out to be a lot simpler than it is. It makes you come across as either trolling or jealousy if you are willing to attack other people's work but haven't made anything yourself.

No, actually it's easier to make great skins for rise of flight, since they release very good layered templates.
I'm no skinner. I played around with photoshop a few times and with my limited experience, I can tell you are either trolling, or not really know what you are talking about.
If you just draw random lines wherever it's convenient on a skin, it's easy. If you try to make the skin match a speciffic aircraft, things get a bit more labour intensive.
The skins posted here match certain historical aircraft, and even tanks. There's a quite a bit of work involved to get things right.
I'd like to see you do a skin for a historical aircraft in 15 minutes.

When you have access to photoshop and have time, we can try that. We'll post a profile here for a random aircraft and you provide even a half decent finished skin, to match the profiles, in 15 minutes.

A page or two back, I explain how to use layers and "historical 3 View Drawings" to quickly and easily make exact replications of historical skins by using them as transparent layers and tracing over them. I even explained the best places to find source materials for proper colours and these three view examples.

I'd make a few right now for you guys to judge, all you'd have to do is post some examples of the skins you would like, but like I said before, I'm at a seminar for the next 6 days and I doubt that my colleagues would appreciate me downloading Photoshop and working on planes while we're supposed to be learning about LSIL and HPV.

Maybe if there is interest I could be persuaded to make a youtube tutorial that shows you how to make historical skins, adding custom weathers, and even unique panel lines to represent repair work or field mods.
If anyone was interested,

speculum jockey, since you keep posting IL2 stuff-which has no relevance to CoD Ill just ask have you ever attempted to make a GOOD skin for CoD? Specifically the 109?

I ask because I have seen people try to use they method you describe, and it looks like total poo. I don't think you quite understand what your talking about.

Less discuss and more screenshots :cool:

I agree.

And Not from IL2 46, but from CLOD

I belive they have a simulair thread over, where you can post your IL2 46 photo. They do not belong here. Please delete them.

Now dat is nice. ;)

Gone West Damage Model.
This target/victim was on a recent mission.Not bad... but one has to wonder how long it would remain puttering along straight & level:

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...3-22_00007.jpg

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...3-22_00006.jpg

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...3-22_00005.jpg

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...3-22_00004.jpg

You can see your pilot reflection on the AH glass cover pretty cool
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/54...DAA40FAA0C452/

ATAG in the morning:)
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...he_morning.jpg

Eeehm... this is not realy original water i think!?:confused:

Now thats more like the water I see of the coast...dirty, big waves and full of turds

Great Pix dude

S!

Great shots from all :)

http://www.webcam-steamate.com/cookies/42/b/happy.gif

So I really want to take a screenshot of the last mission, where I get to hang the soviet flag over the reichstag, however I can't seem to find the screenshots anywhere.

The screenshot key is mapped to f12, and when I press it, there is a tiny pause so I know something happens. But when I go to look in the waw folder, I can't see any screenshots or any folder which suggests there are screenshots in it.

Where are screenshots saved to by default? Why can't I see them?


Also while I'm at it, the introduction to missions seem to lag for me. The video plays fine, the the audio often pauses for a second of two a few times in each briefing, sometimes repeats, etc. This is the only time it lags. Does anyone know what would cause this? It's very strange.

In your user folder in the C:\Users\your nic or name\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover

"and you have a crush on Katie Couric?"

I have found my screen shots sometimes get saved in odd places like the game root directory. Try doing a search for Screenshots. That should winkle them out.

S!

Always liked the desert camo Bf109E's :) Looks good Rodolphe!

Out in the Tall Grass....as a result of some bad throttle decisions on final:
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...3-31_00003.jpg

Back at base after more then an hour long escort mission over the channel
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7057/6...9a16167c_b.jpg

Take a good look now ;)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ns/Oh_OneB.jpg

S!

EZ..Caption the photo competition? Pilot looks a bit WTF ;)

Is that Cliffs of Dover?? Seems more like il2 1946.

Not a bad idea Flanker :) ----> EZ's Caption the photo competition


And Avro, it is COD.
The pic was taken with the camera as close as it would let me be (FOV+Mouse Zoom), then cropped, and then enlarged by me, and then shrunk by photobucket heh
It's lost some quality through the steps.

And I did photoshop the face. (just to be clear)

Beautiful. Desert skins are my favorite Rodolphe. Especially JG27's. Some day we'll get down to Tobruk :)

Last shot before the Big Patch, for the history books. A little gamma correction and cropping are the only edits...

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d6...od-4132012.jpg

Defiant Phalanx ...

http://i738.photobucket.com/albums/x...antPhalanx.jpg

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SMAA: Real size cut from 1920x1200, full size attached below along with full size with no AA enabled and the cut with no AA enabled.

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/9509/534523.jpg

Defiant in trouble ... (look at the quality of that engine bay! .. and landing light!)

http://i738.photobucket.com/albums/x...tInTrouble.jpg

.. and now in more trouble!

http://i738.photobucket.com/albums/x...oreTrouble.jpg

Sounds effects are AWESOME! sputtering engine so realisitc ..

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SMAA: Real size cut from 1920x1200, full size attached below along with full size with no AA enabled and the cut with no AA enabled.

http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/9958/63463.jpg

Lovely shots guys. That SMAA really makes a difference. This sim will look so great once they get some ingame AA working. I have an ATI card so I have to wait.

WOW great detail on the Defiant. That's why this sim is awesome. No other WW2 sim has that kind of damage detail.

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Golly, look at the location of those houses. Haven't they heard of coastal erosion? :-(

In California, the houses are even closer (some even overhanging) I'm not surprised.

warships?
 

A channel fight without warships? how about armng the bi planes so you can swoop down on a train at 40 mph and really enjoy this awesome scenery?

Did Tigermoths carry any weapons during the BoB? I'd like to do this as well. I've flown one a few times and was disappointed you couldn't arm it with anything.

You've never heard of Operation Suicide that was planned for Tiger Moths should a German invasion have arrived.

Best Regards,
MB_Avro.

Microsoft Flight has produced a Desktop background pictures theme .. not bad but i'm sure CLOD patrons could do alot better! Anyone with a 2560 x 1600 monitor + Uber system?

In windows 8, right click on screen, click 'Personalise', click 'get more themes online', find Microsoft flight theme.

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a couple of shots,

http://dangerdogz.com/forums/uploads...7_5_774259.jpg

http://dangerdogz.com/forums/uploads...07_5_68586.jpg

:cool:

Aww that last one is wicked looking (aswell as many others here).

Nice share(s)!

Hurricanes 32 sqn.
 

hi folk`s !

Hurricanes 32 sqn.
 

...another ones

Screens from movies by Ph0b0s95 and BinaryOrchestra
 

These are taken from CloD Movies on YT made by Ph0b0s95 and BinaryOrchestra.
all credits go to them...
A bit pixelated but anyway...

From 'Pulse':
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...aneburning.jpg

From 'Imagination battle':
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...Wellington.jpg


and another one from 'Wings of affliction', by BinaryOrchestra:
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...ghsettings.jpg

Wonderful movies some guys create, really.

Shots from an older version. Looks like we'll. get the golden hour back.:-P

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...418_180822.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...418_182437.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...418_182416.jpg

Hope that the fog/haze line will be fixed.

Excellent pictures.

I'm collecting 2560 x 1600 or 2560 x 1440 screen shots for a CLOD Windows background theme. So if you have some excellent 'clean' (no screen data) pictures ,please post them on my other thread titled - CLODs windows theme. I will pick the 10 best to add.

Thanks

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I have seen that fog/haze line several times in real life. Early mornings, no wind/breeze and cool ground with warm air above. Mostly over water or wet ground, as after an evening rain. It is rare but very possible. I think it looks very authentic and am amazed that it is there.

Waiting on final of the patch to install CoD on my new machine.

The problem is you get the line inside the cockpit as well.:(

It's a bug, stop trying to excuse issues with the engine as once in a blue moon facts.

Much appreciated! ;)

Death of a Gladiator
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Rodolphe, all your skins that you have made a incredible. I just have a few questions regarding them:

1. On average, how long does it take to create one of your skins?

2. How are you able to skin ground vehiciles since I can't seem to find the files for those?

3. Is there a particular reason why you are just keeping your skins to yourself and not sharing? I'm fine if you don't want to publish your skins, I'm just curious if there was a reason behind that.

Thanks for all the great screenshots you have posted.

S!

Rodolphe is the few worded skin artist here. Just pops in and posts one and then again dissappears :D Those skins look great!

Israeli skins
 

Hello all (and Rodolphe),

Can you make a spit & 109 skin of the IAF (both of them operated from 48 to the early 50's, though not the exact models or by the same manufacturers we have in COD), I think they can be of interest.

Best Regards,

DesertOwl.

I can't help but think that the pilot puppet just looks so out of proportion and disproportional in general. :( They just look all like Goering lateral size-wise with a small pin head

nah i think the life vest is just too thick/big or he's too fat... so i guess i agree.

No disrespect, but that Bf108 will have taken about 20 minutes to make, tops.

Why not leave that answer for the person that was asked?
I love it when people try to "downgrade" the time it took someone to do something creative for the community.
How you can judge that by one photo is beyond me.


It's nice looking. Thanks for the share.

Because you'll most probably don't get an answer from Rodolphe ;)

MG's genious layered template technique makes it easy for everyone to produce stunning skins within minutes. Because all you have to care about is to choose the right colors. Weathering, panel lines, riveting is all part of the engine an will be added automatically.

That's why creating good skins is just a matter of minutes.

Although Rodolphes skins are stunning!

Rodolphes skins as a rule are delightful, however as pointed out the 108 would take a couple of minutes to do, but thats besides the point isn't it?

Starting with a 'blank' canvas it can take hours to line camo scheme's/patterns etc up, and without a ready made template even longer (as I found making Wellington/Anson/Blenheim and Defiant templates)

So to get to the 'couple of minutes' can in fact take many hours or days.

Sorry to raise a slightly heated off topic debate in here. I am very new to skinning and can someone post a thread in the skin index on how to use the templates that were given to us please?

Thanks,
Eagle

WOW! Can I use this image in my CLODs Windows background image theme?

.. PLEASE! :grin:

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James, these shots would be great in high res -1900 x 1080

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He-111 how do I do that...these are the stndard screenshot format I believe...?

increase the res you are running the game to the res he mentioned.

I'm currently running 1920x1080 there's only one notch higher : 1920x1201 I'm not sure that would fit my screen but I can give it a try.Of course I'm a little worried about its effect on FPS...until the patch finally comes the sim plays a little slow already.

hmmm, then your screenshots should be in high res ie 1920x1080 automatically.

They might be being reduced by whatever you are using to host the pics on the web. are the screenshots 1920x1080 before you upload them?

EDIT, i see you are using photobucket, make sure you set the upload settings like this,

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y29...1Apr231645.jpg

As long as the image is under 1 meg, it will not resize.

To reduce bandwidth the images hosting sites size down the images sometimes, or even they reduce the image quality so when the image reached a certain number of downloads it is showing pixelated due the low quality.

A good site to upload files and link here for the public view is http://www.imageshack.us/ , under my experience they don't cut the image quality and you can select a no resize option.

Also attaching the good screenshots to the post it will be uploaded and saved in the forum and available for members.