Bf109E-3, 6./JG26 Squad - Skin Pack (brown 1-12)

[5./JG27.Farber]

Thanks EZ, good stuff!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLg10V4U_ME

[David198502]

thx Ez!
wonderfull work, and made especially for us
so thank you.
there are a few details though, which i personally would change according to pictures weve found.plus a more pronounced weathering would be great, as the ingame weathering looks horrible.but thats only personal taste.

btw, i see you didnt include the Wnr. for number 1....i guess you didnt find any for this particular aircraft just like we werent able to find it...?
S from 6./JG26!

Edit: ive seen that you took Brown4 as Walter Schneider's plane?are you sure about that?from what sources to you take that info from? cause to my information, Walter Schneider was flying Brown 1.

[SlipBall]

Thanks EZ!...excellent work

[acred99]

5./JG27.Farber
Hey mate8 that music you posted had me laughing non stop
What a F... classic.
thanks for the share

[JG26_EZ]

Well I'm back from my mini-holiday.

@Acred... Tried to minimize the file size and can't. Maybe some computer guru can answer this one for us.. I tried changing compression value from 1 to 3 with no changes.. I tried to change the number of paint colours from 16 million to 64,000 and that seemed to add .05mb to the download..

@David... I could only find Wnr numbers for 5 of the 9 aircraft I had photos of. And I'm not a master of weathering ...yet.

@Farber... Great choice of music to celebrate the release of the pack

@All the rest... Thanks.

[Robo.]

Originally Posted by JG26_EZ

@Acred... Tried to minimize the file size and can't. Maybe some computer guru can answer this one for us.. I tried changing compression value from 1 to 3 with no changes.. I tried to change the number of paint colours from 16 million to 64,000 and that seemed to add .05mb to the download..

Save as *.jpg, set quality to 10 (in Photoshop) which gives you good balance between size and quality (around 550-600 kB). In other programs, like IrfanView you can use optimizing plugins to get rid of unwanted information or even set the desired size in kB and save it like that.

What I would start with is removing the layer with internal parts - it's hard coded anyway and it really adds up to the final size due to amount of colours used. If you are using Photoshop, just experiment with the default save as settings, they're good enough and you'll find some settings that will give you reasonable size (for me that is around 1MB) and no dithering or too much pixelation.

[JG26_EZ]

Good find Robo..

I never thought about that, and the fact that it's not needed anyways (I didn't think about the file size and just thought it looked cool ).

I've reduced the size from 3.20mb to 2.34mb by getting rid of this layer. Unfortunately with this skin, the rivets I used was from that layer, so to fix this on all 12 planes will take some time.

**Edit, PS.. I don't use Photoshop.. I use Paintshop Pro.

[Robo.]

Originally Posted by JG26_EZ

Good find Robo..

I never thought about that, and the fact that it's not needed anyways (I didn't think about the file size and just thought it looked cool ).

It does look nice, that's right. The files shouldn't be that big even with that layer if you chose good compression.

Originally Posted by JG26_EZ

I've reduced the size from 3.20mb to 2.34mb by getting rid of this layer. Unfortunately with this skin, the rivets I used was from that layer, so to fix this on all 12 planes will take some time.

**Edit, PS.. I don't use Photoshop.. I use Paintshop Pro.

You can keep those rivets easily, just 'select' the background area and 'invert' the selection, then delete.

I am not too sure about PSP, haven't used it for a very long time, but I suppose the saving options for jpeg format must be similar for PSP, PS, GIMP etc. Try irfanview, small viewer and editor, very powerful. D/L the plugins, too - you get all sorts of jpeg size optimizing options. Very easy to use.

[JG26_EZ]

It wasn't until I began skinning for IL2:ClOD that I realized the options when saving, and discovered "lossless format". I left the compression value at 1 (default), and have been using that ever since. I have set the compression value to 5 now and have reduced the size to 1.23mb from 3.20mb with very little loss.

I will be sure to keep the file size down from now on, thanks.

***Edit... This is without removing the internal parts, just noticed.

[checkmysix]

Hi EZ
Great work Buddy.
Top Quality as usual
Regards
Keith