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Old 27th December 2005, 13:26
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Re: My first post

No. all you can do is testing. Adlabs panelfinder on the tools page might help.

It is a 'skin' you put in the folder of the aircraft you want to find things out about. By watching the colour and numbers, it identifies which part of a bmp goes where on the aircraft.

You can also look at skins from other people. If they allready invented things, why search for it yourself. If you need to find where to draw the yellow leading edge, load another skin into your template and follow it's shape drawing it.

Starting skinning is looking a lot at the work of other people.
And skinning is a matter of a lot trying and testing. You'll have to do it to get the hang of it.

When you've made a couple of skins you get some feeling for figuring out where edges are and how to make patterns fit.

I allways start drawing hard edged patterns. When the camouflage patterns fit quite good I start adding sprayed edges.

There simply is no program that can find out how a 3D model in FB is mapped.
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