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[vpmedia]

Nice job could you also do same upgrade for YAKs

I already started work on Lavochkins and Yaks, they will be ready in 1-2 days.

[Pursuivant]

... I agree with FlatSpinMan, the 109 must be the only AC that shows such enormous holes in its fuselage, and I would not bet that in real life a 109 could fly in such a state ...!! 

The thing that bugs me is that the original texture artist didn't know what s/he was doing. There is a frame under the Bf-109's skin which isn't modeled at all, and big, perfectly round "bites" out of the fuselage and wings aren't realistic for most types of bullet/cannon shell hits.

 I played around with trying to produce better looking damage textures for the Bf-109 series a few years ago, but I could never get it to look right. In the hands of a better skin artist, it would be the work of a few moments to alter the alpha channel to get the right "shredded aluminum" look, as opposed to the "swiss cheese" look that the current damage textures have.

[vpmedia]

can you point me out that hole in the Bf-109 damage textures?
imho you can not make holes using damage1o or damege2o.tga...

[Schutze]

thanks to people like you and the other modders who keeps this great game alive. This is just some amazing work.

[Dakpilot]

Thank you for updating these original damage layers, its little (Big!) things like this that keep IL-2 alive 

IMHO the giant shark bites out of the Bf-109's really could do with a look at, this would greatly increase immersion

Cheers Dakpilot

[Alex T.]

awesome! I tried to download the psd but no luck :-(
Would you mind if I used your files as a template for my take on the damage layers?

Alex

[Birdman]

You can also edit the alpha channel of default skin (skin1o.tgb) to change the alpha holes. That way you can fix the large holes in tail.

[Alex T.]

mmmh yeah I'm working on it now.

[vpmedia]

You can also edit the alpha channel of default skin (skin1o.tgb) to change the alpha holes. That way you can fix the large holes in tail.

I know that, I just wanted to know if he knows

To be honest I just did not want to make my mod incompatible with FBDSM and my own existing default skins + I dont feel like redoing 50-60 default skins because one hole + they would increase download size to a few hundred megabytes.

[vpmedia]

mmmh yeah I'm working on it now.

working on what?

[Alex T.]

just fiddling with the tga to see how it works really. As many others here I always thought the big shark bites on the 109 are totally OTT, so maybe some different damage textures could make things a tad more realistic? Just an idea really.

[vpmedia]

just fiddling with the tga to see how it works really. As many others here I always thought the big shark bites on the 109 are totally OTT, so maybe some different damage textures could make things a tad more realistic? Just an idea really.

Imho you need to produce your own default skin set (at least summer,winter,eto,desert,mto) for a mod which would make the holes disappear and that would result in a ~600Mb download just to do the stock 109 types.
Plus you have to edit each alpha channel manually in these skins which would mean at least 400-500 files...and after you finished you would be stuck with these default skins for forever unless you wanna repeat the whole procedure again...but good luck. Also I can be wrong and you may figure out a better method.