Phoenix skins

[chemicalbro]

As the title suggests
heres some skins i did for various helis
Knight 3d x2
Raptor 50 x2 (1 of them is a little patriotic )
Trex 700 x2
Trec 600 x1
Vibe 90 x1

8.9Mb rar
Extract to "My Documents\PhoenixRC\Schemes\"

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[Si Goodchild]

Nice one. Are these things easy to design and implement in Phoenix? I bet you need additional software, but is that freely available? Is it possible to generate other flying sites from panoramic photography? If so I'd love to build one for my club.

Any advice warmly received!

[chemicalbro]

yep these skins i did in Adobe photoshop. but any half decent editing software will do.
you can also make your own flying sites from panoramas (i've done quite a few actually)
you need phoenix creator and a LOT of patience
http://www.phoenix-sim.com/downloads.htm

[robgt]

Alan,
What software did you use to take your panoramic photos and stitch them into a cubic panorama to be used in phoenix creator?

Cheers,
Rob

[machasm]

Thanks for those.
The Trex 700 looks a little better now.
Cheers

[chemicalbro]

Alan,
What software did you use to take your panoramic photos and stitch them into a cubic panorama to be used in phoenix creator?

Cheers,
Rob

rob most of the ones i've done i didn't take the panoramas for..... just made the collision models. (mostly from here....http://www.szenerien.de/HELI-X-Szenerien/)
heli x scenes are already in cubic format jpgs. SO its just a matter of importing them to creator and adding the collision models. (i think im up to about 18 converted so far.... and if i can get permission from Harald I'll make them available here)

I've not done a phoenix scene from scratch yet (I'll do one of my clubs field when i get time to do the photos)

i have done flying fields in the past for G3.5 and the stitching software i use is PTGui and panorama tools. (its amazing software.... a little complicated but once you get the hang its superb)

http://www.ptgui.com/

[heliTV]

Hi Alan
How do you get the image file into Photoshop?

I have some carbon upgrades for my Blade 400 and would like to do a colour scheme to match... I can open a copy of the Blade in creator but would like to do the bitmap editing in Photoshop which I'm pretty familiar with...

Am i missing something simple?

[Si Goodchild]

Dude,

How do you extract your skins file without winzip?

[chemicalbro]

Hi Alan
How do you get the image file into Photoshop?

I have some carbon upgrades for my Blade 400 and would like to do a colour scheme to match... I can open a copy of the Blade in creator but would like to do the bitmap editing in Photoshop which I'm pretty familiar with...

Am i missing something simple?

the export function doesn't work on creator v2
but theres a way round it...
just start a new model project. and select the heli you want to do the skin for.
once its loaded select file/export.
call it something like helidefault

this will save the default skin to my documents/phoenixrc/schemes

you can then use that as a template in photoshop

easiest and fastest way is to paint just one side of the canopy in photoshop...
jump back into creator then use the import from external editor tool to import your half painted canopy.
then mirror it over to the other side... (the edges usually don't quite match and colour bleeds from the default scheme for some reason)

file/export again, overwriting the half painted canopy and touch up the edges in photoshop (clone brush works best.... just clone a few pixels around the edges) ... rotating the model in creator will show you where its needed...

the files must be saved with the correct naming..... you'll notice when you exported originaly that creator named the file for you
example..... Knight3d#helidefault.bmp

the name of your texture comes after # so you could edit it to be Knight3d#newskin.bmp

but do not change Knight3d# as this tells phoenix which heli to apply the texture newskin to

[heliTV]

Thanks Alan - I'll have a play!!
All the best
Graham

[chemicalbro]

Dude,

How do you extract your skins file without winzip?

winrar?

[Si Goodchild]

Aha! Top man, thanks!

Nice skins!

[heliTV]

Alan
I'm trying to put a carbon tail fin on the blade - the holes in the carbon are showing as solid even though in the template they're white... There doesn't appear to be an alpha channel in the template, so how can you make bits transparent?

Many thanks

Graham

[chemicalbro]

The blade 400?
the tail blades , main blades and glass windshied are not paintable on that model...
when you load a model into creator the objects panel shows all the objects that make it up
at the bottom theres a checkbox to show paintable objects only
there are no alpha maps in any of the models in phoenix.
so i assume you can only make stuff transparent per object .. (ie the glass windshield..) I don't think those parameters are editable.

[heliTV]

Oh dear - looks like I won't be able to mod the Blade 400 then!

Never mind...