About kill markings

WarWolfe · #1 (**permalink**) 17th September 2005, 08:33

I'm using PSP8 and have been working on creating US killmarkings for US planes, such as bomb shaped markings. What do you find that works best, Make them large then resize or make them small to fit the scale we work in? I'm doing both and most look like blury mass of nothing

, The bomb marking I spent an hour on today when resized looked like a 3 pixel by 1 pixel line (I wont be doing that again). What a shame really as I've spent alot of time on some of these markings

. If you know of any ready made kill markings let me know.

Thanks for you thoughts.

Serval · #2 (**permalink**) 17th September 2005, 18:44

Did you try the trick of resizing in steps and then sharpening the image?

I prefer to make them big and then resize them. But sometimes it depends.
Maybe for bomb markings a one or two pixel line is enough. That has no detail left, so I think you'd bette paint that in the size you need it.

adlabs6 · #3 (**permalink**) 17th September 2005, 19:56

I would often paint my markings at one or two pixels in size, as Serval suggests. This has less detail, but allows you to prevent the "blurry mess" effect, while also creating a sense of detail at the small size.

WarWolfe · #4 (**permalink**) 21st September 2005, 03:42

Thanks guys. I've tried resizing in steps, and it did no good

. To see that it was bomb's they'd be to large for the amount I had to put on the skin, 60 of them. Oh well. once again thank you.

WildBat · #5 (**permalink**) 22nd September 2005, 20:21

I always draw them by hand.

A bomb one could look like this:

Snake · #6 (**permalink**) 24th September 2005, 16:31

Paint Victories

http://www.altitude.us/missions/snak...ctories0_4.zip

WarWolfe · #7 (**permalink**) 25th September 2005, 09:00

Thanks Snake, those will come in very handy.

Stratobat · #8 (**permalink**) 23rd October 2005, 13:39

	Quote: Originally Posted by WarWolfe
	Thanks Snake, those will come in very handy.

What WarWolfe said, thanks, Snake

Regards,
Stratobat

JayWest · #9 (**permalink**) 2nd January 2006, 01:09

after I paint my skin...how do I transfer it back to the game to use?

Vigilante · #10 (**permalink**) 2nd January 2006, 01:54

This here's how we do kill markings:

Sorry, I couldn't resist!

@ JayWest - You need to save the new skin as a BMP and then reduce the color depth back to 256 colors - it's best to use a program called "Bright" for this, the results are much better. Then open the "skins" folder - it should be something like C:\Program Files\Ubi Soft\IL-2 Sturmovik Forgotten Battles\PaintSchemes\Skins. Find the subfolder corresponding to the plane you just skinned, copy the new skin to that subfolder, and you're ready to fly.