skins help/request
 

hey,
i am looking into releasing a U-552 skin with the emblem attached. however, when i tried my skin, the emblem was in the right position, but backwards, duplicated, and in a few different places.

what i am looking for is someone to redo the lightmap so i can place the emblem in the right spot. there is even a spot in the lower right corner where you can put it. i am unbale to do it myself or i would have.

bump, please, this would be great for those who don't want the same ol' same ol' emblems

are you sure?
i figured that it was universal, seeing as how the .dat's are relatively similar...

well, i was just annoyed that with certain U-boats there is a lack of proper placement of the symbol (my case in point, U-552)
i mean, don't get me wrong, i love the menu-select symbols, but they don't do what they are supposed to do (face the same direction, keep a small-size thing)

I have not got this problem, because the XXI conning tower is big. Look on my sig. I "paint" my emblem on the conning. In smaller U-Boats with smaller connings tower the emblem should be smaller and painting in the very correct place. If it is not "painting" corectly, then is display incorectly on the U-Boat hull.:yep:

@mikhayl, a "front emblem" mod would be ideal, possibly have it so only certain emblems would be placed? i would make the emblems, possibly set up a request thread where i can make emblems to work on the mod:hmm:

BRILLIANT!

@evan82,
i am planning on making my own tricky little symbol (a stick arrow with a pair of feathers tipped backwards) across the WHOLE type XXI Tower
/_________\///

like that. you know.of course it wouldnt be a stick arrow, it would be a real sharp looking swordy-thing :yep:

Your looking for a way to do this?

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n...rm_modded2.jpg

I did a few Turms like this but never completed them all.
And All the work is lost but simple to do.
;)

The emblems in that picture still exist :up:

http://files.filefront.com/Privateer.../fileinfo.html

cheers,
Ubertorpedo

The emblems are not what's of interest.

It's the work on the Turm that holds all the keys!!
:up:

That download has a "Turm9c_1_hd" dat file included. Isn't that it? :roll:

cheers

of course, privateer got the jump on us...:lol:
thats great for the type IX, but, as per the heated arguements, what about the type VII?

Sledgehammer427

I don't think there are any arguments. I'm just trying to help out :yep:.

Privateer is da man!!

http://i442.photobucket.com/albums/q...oticon_208.gifhttp://i442.photobucket.com/albums/q...oticon_208.gifhttp://i442.photobucket.com/albums/q...oticon_208.gif

Privateer, I'm so glad to see your post... You have just reminded me of a mod project I started a long time ago and gave up trying to finish! :damn:

In my quest to find ultimate Viking emblem for my boat, I was trying recreate U-404's full-turm emblem on an IXC turm...

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1...ingG/u-404.jpg

But, as you can see, even though I managed to get the texture positioned correctly, other elements of the tower picked up the emblem texture too - notably the front of the tower and the wind/sea deflectors:

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1...3-04_01_08.jpg

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1...3-04_01_46.jpg http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1...3-04_01_54.jpg http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1...3-04_02_54.jpg http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1...3-04_03_00.jpg

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1...3-04_03_23.jpg http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1...3-04_03_29.jpg http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1...3-04_03_41.jpg http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1...3-04_04_05.jpg

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1...3-04_04_30.jpg http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1...3-04_04_43.jpg


I understand why it was displaying like this, but couldn't figure out how to fix it!

I guess you must have figured out a way to tell the model to use other areas of the texture, or something like that?

The same thing I did on the IX can be done to all Turms.

1st, in a 3D program rotate the left Emblem placement and flip it.

All emblems now face forwards!
Resize those if you want bigger side areas to draw on.

2nd, for the front area, I created a new 3D panel shaped like the Turm
and UV-mapped it to a new tga file placed in the dat.

I found the areas on the original skin to create the tga.

By useing this tga and putting what I want on it I get the front emblem.
I place the New tga with the drawing in the tex folder for easy access.
:up:

VikingGrandad,

I can modify a new panel to fit the turm as per your pictures.
Create an Emblem and you got that look.
:up: