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[Friendly_flyer]

Originally Posted by Foo'bar

I think to recall Oleg mentioned that standard skin sizes will be 2048² max for online and that they think about even larger sizes 4096² for offline. But I could be wrong.

I seem to remember the number 1024 x 1024 (like now) being mentioned. I would be very surprised if there isn't a "markings off" option, allowing for making marked skins. Basically, the art of skinning from now on will probably be about adding subtle variations in the paint and equally subtly ad shading and highlights to emphasize the hard-coded rivets and panel-lines.

[Extreme_One]

Originally Posted by Friendly_flyer

I seem to remember the number 1024 x 1024 (like now) being mentioned...

Originally Posted by Col.Flanders

I'm not sure if this has been asked or if it's common knowledge yet but could anyone tell me what resolution the aircraft skins are going to be? I think skinning for this new sim is going to be something special!

Apparently 2048x2048

Originally Posted by luthier

2048x2048.

But, it's complicated.

We have split up the paintscheme, the actual colors, from the rest of the texture - the rivets, the panel lines, the weathering, etc. The user texture is just the colors, i.e. your experience as a texturer is like simply coming up to the finished plane with some paint and a paintbrush, not actually re-riveting it or moving panels around.

So the user texture can actually be a smaller resolution, 512, even 64x64 and still look all right-ish since the riveting and the weathering on top of it are 2048x2048.

[JG53Frankyboy]

perhaps with "mods on" it will be possible to use totaly new skins , read all layers are made by 3.party skinners.
with "mods off" only the 'color layer' v´can be edited...

and sure , over all, the 'skin on/off' have to be selected

soon we all will know