New paint with bumpmapping added

[Leen de Jager]

Hi

Did some experiments.

I added bumpmapping to the Stinson Sentinel.

What do you think?

[X-Plane Australia]

Looks good well done ;D

[Kesomir]

Can you detail the process you used to do it?

[Leen de Jager]

I`ll try to explain in a nutshell.

I opened the paintkit for this model and excluded all layers having color,decals,registration etc.

This leaves us with a blank model only having lines and rivetlines.

I save this as a png ( placed in the sim it would result in a white airplane)

Now I opened this png in a program like Photoshop or Gimp ( in this case I used Gimp)

This program has a filter wich enables us to make a bumpmapped png.

Then the real work starts as this bumpmap has to be edited by hand to achieve an optimal result.

I made this bumpfile in light blue transparent  based on color 128.128.255

After this I added an alphalayer to the file.

This greyscaled alpha enables us to play with the dynamics of the gloss on the model.

And the obj file must be edited a bit.

Thats it

[-TheoGregory]

Thats how i used to do it. Now I do more or less what jack describes in his tutorial. Though for such an old and beaten up plane, I would be inclined to do it the way you describe as you get those great little bumps and nic's from the UV map. Well done! Looks great.

[Leen de Jager]

Can you give me a link to Jacks tutorial?

Regards

Leen

[X-Plane Australia]

The link is here http://forums.x-pilot.com/index.php?topic=863.0

[Leen de Jager]

Thanks pal.

Very instructive.

A good tutorial helps , see.....