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Anybody have advice on livery mirroring?

12.5k Eggplant  6.5 years ago

I know if you mirror it will be backwards on the other side but is there an easy way to reverse it?

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    Whenever I have to make words or some kind of design (flags, logos, whatever) I make it as a separate subassembly, that way if I mess up I can reload it, if I want to paste it to both sides I can, put it on multiple planes, whatever.

    Usually I start by measuring how wide it needs to be, then make a thin stick of fuselage blocks (one for each letter to attach) , once all the letters are done, I attach an anchor block and save it as an assumbly.

    Usually I have twist and nudge the letters around when I stick it to the plane so they dont stick out too far.

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    12.5k Eggplant

    I’ll try the whole subassembly thing for both sides, getting the y and z values the same

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    On pc, you can use a mod called "Fine Tuner" to multi-edit your text in place. However i do not know of a good way of doing it on IOS.

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    35.6k Delphinos

    also @RailfanEthan 's works too, that is a more faster way ;-)

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    35.6k Delphinos

    Good question, this may need more steps go get it right :

    • start from right, paste your words there,
    • then, mirror those words to the other side, which is left.
    • then take the part(s) with whole words on it from the left side, rotate it horizontally 180 degrees, then put it on the right side
    • then simply mirror them again ;-)
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    take the logo, attach it to a piece like 0.01 long, save as subassembly, take sub, apply where needed

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