Vonrd

Congratulations Loopy... Ace in a Day! Well done! Butzz and Luft... your families will be proud of your selfless sacrifice 😪 I'm honored for the Max and will gladly accept it but I feel I had a bit of an unfair advantage over the other 2 seat pilots. I've been flying exclusively as a bomber puke for the last many missions (I forget for how long) where there is the opportunity to rack up lots of kills in one session as opposed to those doing recon, spy, prison rescue or General capture. Those are pretty much one point missions with a great amount of risk. It also helps to have flight members who are Flak magnets who will sponge up the AAA while I get to waltz in for the kill (thanks Butzz 😉). I'm really in awe of those who got the Max in air to air... That being said... Thank You! I will wear it proudly. Salute! To the O Club for beers all around (enlisted ranks are welcome for tonight) 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷

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Looks great! Gonna take a bit to get used to though. Us old geezers are always resistant to change...

For me the only item that changes is my throttle so I just have "joy1" "joy2" etc for throttle in BOx and I have all the differences saved in ROF controls "import" / "export". In BOx I just load whichever conf.ini is needed and in ROF I just import the saved file in the controls menu (I wish they had kept that option in BOx).

Start at the beginning and get the baseline

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No issues here. ASUS Maximus IX Hero Motherboard here and I'm very happy with it. I've only had ASUS MBs for many years and haven't had any problems (but I basically know nothing... went with PC Gamer recommendations ).

Goat had a question about alpha layers: hey Vonrd just had a quick question for you? well I hope it'll be a quick one. I painted my p47, flattened it, and them masked it with the alpha channel and it came out beautiful and shiny... but so did all my painted markings. was wondering if there's a way to erase portions of the alpha mask so my markings and everything looks like it's over the shiny bare metal instead of a part of it? thanks for showing me the right directions for everything else I've worked on. I just figured the jg1 paint God might know of a way First off, I'm certainly not a god... perhaps a demigod? "a being with partial or lesser divine status" ​Here's what I do though there may certainly be easier ways to do so: Select only those layers that you want to modify in the alpha... insignias, numbers, stencils, personal graphics... anything that is painted on the bare aluminum. Go to the "layer" tab and select "flatten image". Use the "magic wand" tool to select the area outside of the graphics then use the "select" tab and select "inverse". This selects the graphics regardless of color variations. Go to the "Channels" tab on the "layers / channels / paths" window. Select the Alpha channel and de-select the RGB, Red, Green and Blue channels. Adjust the gray scale of those areas by selecting the "image" tab, "adjustments" and "brightness / contrast". Adjust the brightness (remember, darker is flatter and lighter is shinier). Save this as a .bmp with a particular name... i.e. Bf109G2_insignia alpha. I use DXTbmp to open the regular skin file (.dds) or (.bmp) and use the "import alpha channel" tab in the upper right then save it as a .dds skin. You could also just import the modified alpha .bmp into your master .psd but be sure to back-up your original file. It will be trial and error and the skinviewer is a good first check but be sure to actually check it in-game. Once you get it to your liking, save the alpha layer in your main .psd file. (be aware that changes in the graphics... different balkenkruz or personal graphics or numbers will need a different alpha though). It sounds more complex than it actually is. Happy skinning!

Historical Fiction...

Yes, very good books and well researched. The WWII books are also excellent. His father Michael Sharra has also written some excellent historical novels. "The Killer Angels" is an excellent Civil war novel. Recently I've been reading Max Hennessy's RAF Trilogy. They're entertaining and all of his historical references are correct but a bit... over emphasis on the Brit class system (though for the time period, probably correct). And, of course the love interests have to be a part

He's the spitting image of you What was the Black Watch? Sounds like GOT

No, the shine or matt is a function of the alpha layer. Here's an explanation for Gimp but it's basically the same in PS: https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/15420-custom-alpha-channel-tutorial-for-gimp-advanced-skinners/

Couldn't resist this in response: https://youtu.be/U21SbvQL6kQ EDIT: thanks Brit... that tip did the trick

Dick Dale would've liked this. Klai, I keep trying to delete the etc but whenever I save it it comes back.

Noice! Is that a bottle of Jim Beam by his thump foot?

This has been posted before but, nonetheless super enjoyable. I counter with: Getting this to work is such a PITA... I'm a caveman and give up.

Community Built Cooperative Event: Look here: https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/44837-community-built-cooperative-event/ DID: Players have only one plane, once you're dead or have crashed, you're out. But it conflicts with JG5 BA...

Thanks and big congrats to Lee! And everyone else!

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/yrvn8ibmykrc8kn/AAD1X8yoX2w0dG3B4BWp6_-ua?dl=0 More to come

For me it's the 70s surf movie "Pacific Vibrations" with Cream's "Tales of Brave Ulysses"... starts at 2:30:

I think that maybe Heinrich is talking about the "alternate hakenkruz" that we have on our skins as well as the full swastika: "Not even the silhouette versions of it." I also certainly respect his decision to not have any representation of a swastika on any skin he uses but I don't think it is an option in the default skins. I can certainly remove them on his squad skins. Would you like me to make some personal skins for you without any representation of swastika Heinrich?

When you get back from your vacation and when you have the time, maybe you could do a before and after of a Youtube example. I tried editing the URL but no joy.

An entry for Music Poker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPkM8F0sjSw Of the time and still appropriate today (maybe even especially appropriate today).