I'm about 1/3 through my current project, a DeHavilland DH.88 Comet. The fuselage and wings came out great, really sleek. All I have left are the engine nacelles, the landing gear and the decals.
But the decals. ARRRRGH! I hate them. I can get the shapes right for the lettering, but I hate how it sticks out here and there, ruining all the smooth lines of the plane! It's like putting clothing on a shark!
I may have to release a second "no letters" version or something. I dunno. Do you guys ever get frustrated about adding insignias and words on your planes?
All the time my good man! The letter ‘s’ still alludes my decal levels!
@Othawne I'm releasing it later this week. Let me know how I can improve it here
@jamesPLANESii I followed your advice and I think it was a big improvement. Check it out
XD @F104Deathtrap
@GritAerospaceSolutionsLTD Prolly not, never tried it. I just like making my models and geeking out on scraps of history. My wife says I'm too high strung for PVP.
But the multiplayer mod isn’t as well optimized as a official multiplayer setup. @F104Deathtrap
True @F104Deathtrap
@GritAerospaceSolutionsLTD There's a multiplayer mod, and the game supports hexidecimal colors, but it does limit how many at one time.
I think part of the issue is that it was intended to be SimplePlanes and many of us have managed to kinda mutate it into AwesomeButSurpringlyComplicatedPlanes. There's a pretty steep learning curve, but thankfully the people are unbelievably eager to teach and help and support each other.
I hate games with tiny issues like this and this ones no different, arghh I hate you simpleplanes. But really it’s a great game other than the way there are not enough colors, the way you have to “build” liveries and decals and the fact there’s no multiplayer.
@Othawne Thanks
@F104Deathtrap :D Love the font of the text aswell, Good job.
@Othawne In some ways, she kind of reminds me of your car. Simple, not flashy, but with a shark-like sleekness.
Very cool! Can't wait till it's finished.
@ACMECo1940 An interesting idea
I was thinking about a part where you could attach it onto the fuselage and then you could change the font and what not so you could type something in and it would look good and it wouldn’t stick out
@ThunderscreechEngineering Yes, that will be a positively silly amount of pollies devoted to text, or it will mess with the contours. Sometimes people get away with it, tho. The F14 that holds 1rst place this month has a card decal that sits almost a full block off the fuselage at one end, but its such a good build that no one cares.
Oh boy, my BT46 is going to be a huge offender of this if I ever finish it.
@JangoTheMango The best solution I've come up with so far is to break the letters/insignia/whatever into tiny pieces and arrange each piece to match the curvature of the surface as closely as possible. It is incredibly time consuming and it adds a tremendous amount of polygons to the build making it very unfriendly for mobile users. The only time I used that method was on my A/B-26 Invader notice the red lettering on the waist is actually hundreds of tiny blocks.
@F104Deathtrap hehe it’s fine
@BaconRoll I forgot about nudge sensitivity! Thanks
@CRJ900Pilot @Maxwell1 @EliteArsenals24 Thanks for the support, fellas
@jamesPLANESii Yeah, that'll have to be the way for the stripe and the wing letters.
Very nice!
Full of spice. @EliteArsenals24
Very Nice.