Distortion at the Yak

Public Mission building and skinning
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Hi mates,
Im working right now at the Yak1 and i have problems with some parts which get strained (sorry, i dont know english words for it :)).
How can I work against it with Gimp2. Is there a tool to strain the parts in the other direction so it fits on the ingame skin??
Here is example of a WIP, look at the topsection of number and on personal parts ( 310 emblem, estonian roundel and Pilots Name) than you know what i mean…

Thanks,

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I use Gimp 2 aswell mate and i had to stop putting my name under th cockpit coz i couldnt get it right sorry.

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Hi Paf,

You get the same stretching/distortion with the SpitMkvB skin and the MkIXe. The fuselage section is distorted to fit round the 3d Model.

Here’s how to get round it in Photoshop:

What you do is rasterize the font layer, this then allows you to distort the rasterized image. Looking at the fuselage lines usually helps.

It takes a lot of patience, but eventually you can get something that looks ok. :slight_smile:

Good luck with it, looks a nice skin so far :slight_smile:

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I to am doing a yak skin for the crimea. Have you managed to sort the distortion out?, if so plz tell how you did it. I did this with photoshop cs2, still a WIP.
Techy is this the sort of personalization you were mentioning?

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Sorry, aceman.
Had not much time to try it and couldn’t find a way.
I placed the 310- emblem to the left were its not that stretchy.
But pilots name etc still the same problems.
Would be nice to have a tool to stretch the layer in the other direction but i cant find something like this. Problem of not knowing what all the tools can do :wink:
This is the state sofar. I played abit around with coloursettings :wink:

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I think ive got it sorted, im using photshop and all i did was screwto the right a bit and a slight right rotation and its sorted:)

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Here is the Yak 9 you guys were mentioning last night. If there is not any points , i will start dishing it out. I know Swoop wants one, anyone else?

726×766

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Yes please mate the void skin makes us look like we’re made of nougat. Not calculated to get the enemy worried :slight_smile:

Ming

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Swoop. Ming, Marsh and Classic you Yak9 skins are ready to pick up in my folder under winter skins. Enjoy