CoD screenshots (merged)

[Jaws2002]

Originally Posted by speculum jockey

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

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.