[REL]SKIN: SH5 Type-VIIC - North Atlantic Grime - by TheBeast

[ShoCkwaVe]

nice..

do you do reQuests?

do U-997

I have yet to find a good U-997 skin

[TheBeast]

Here is the Tarnmatte Anechoic Coating I am currently working on.

An anechoic coating is able to reduce the enemies ability to detect you using Radar and or Sonar. Improving a submarines Stealth by adding avoidance of enemy detection.

Tarnmat:
Radar profile reduced by 25%
Improved Alberich:
Sonar ability to detect you reduced by 25%

[The General]

This is a very nice looking skin The Beast, probably my favourite ever

[Zedi]

I wanna THANK YOU for this mod. I'm pretty picky on graphics mods, but this one is damn good and add like 200% realism to the game. Is bookmarked and on my "must have" mod list

I don't wanna push it, but I wonder.. is it possible to build a skin that alter in time? I mean, after I come out from the docs I have a shiny new paint on ma boat, but few weeks or months later, I got a very rusty and dirty one. It would be very realistic and awesome to see how your boat longer it stays on the sea, uglier it gets

Thank you again!

[naights]

Hi:

W-clear, I have some problems with the tiling (conning tower), I mean the mapping of texture is not very well done (Ubisoft dont now what is thinking), detailed textures are trully hard to mix them, even stock texture have some serious problems.

Going to put some images, because my English is very limited and cant explain correctly:

Here is one texture I designed, apparently no problems.



This is the other side, the texture starts repeating in "bad" place (not the best one), as you can see he overplaces some part of the texture too...



"Good" normal mapping for example will be in medium of the conning tower, something like this



Any ideas?

Thx

[TheBeast]

Originally Posted by naights

Hi:

W-clear, I have some problems with the tiling (conning tower), I mean the mapping of texture is not very well done (Ubisoft dont now what is thinking), detailed textures are trully hard to mix them, even stock texture have some serious problems.

Going to put some images, because my English is very limited and cant explain correctly:

Here is one texture I designed, apparently no problems.

Looks good too.

This is the other side, the texture starts repeating in "bad" place (not the best one), as you can see he overplaces some part of the texture too...

Good" normal mapping for example will be in medium of the conning tower, something like this.

Using Goblin Editor is a fast way to see changes but because many graphics effects are missing, you should only use it as a object location refference. To see actual render, view in game.
The Starboard side or Right side is the first side rendered but since the towers have additional structure on the Port side or left side. Your skins should be modeled to match the Port side. This may also help with the texture overlap problem.

[ShoCkwaVe]

is there any easy way to convert model formats from .gr2 to .3ds or .obj ?

I have not looked into recent S3ditor/Pack 3d type tools lately
that open & export models for sh5

I prefur to use LithUnwrap for UV & Texturing
& Lightwave or Milk for modeling

why does ubisoft enjoy to over complicate things

[TheBeast]

Originally Posted by ShoCkwaVe

nice..

do you do reQuests?

do U-997

I have yet to find a good U-997 skin

Can you provide picture of actual Sub? Can you provide Pictures of and Weathered FX types to apply to it, etc.

I need visual information...

[rsvette12]

Looking very nice, thanks.

Rich

[reaper7]

Just wondering if you released your Template pack yet TheBeast, as I've started playing around with the textures to create my own fantasy skin and find it very hard to tell what part of the texture correlates to the part of the sub its applied too.

Just a quick test to see if I was editing the default texture:

[TheBeast]

Originally Posted by reaper7

Just wondering if you released your Template pack yet TheBeast, as I've started playing around with the textures to create my own fantasy skin and find it very hard to tell what part of the texture correlates to the part of the sub its applied too.

Yes, The Type-VIIC template is available with the Tarmatte(Weathered) skin I made. It is a PaintDotNet(Freeware) PSD template so anyone can use it.