theglennster
01-01-2008, 03:13 PM
I was bored today so I have been playing around in Photoshop again. I thought I would share some of my customising for Phoenix. I have created two new blade images I have improved the stock look Curtis Youngblood Radix Carbon blades and made a new Align 600A Carbon blade. Unfortunately as the T-Rex 600 is mapped pretty poorly in some areas the white blade shows up badly on the tail rotor this cannot be improved on :arggg: (Blame Phoenix for that one)
Something to note the BMP images can be increased in size to get better detail, the blade original size was only 256 x 32 pixels my versions are far bigger at 1024 x 128 but does not effect the performance of Phoenix SIM as this is probably due to the blade being faded out when you spool up.
Anyway just a couple of screen captures to show my cleaner improved look.
My Custom Helifreak T-Rex 600 Nitro with the new improved Radix Blades (More Pop :YeaBaby:)
http://www.helifreak.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=34310&stc=1&d=1199216788
My Custom Red T-Rex 600E with Align Carbon Blades and Paddles Drooool :YeaBaby:
http://www.helifreak.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=34309&stc=1&d=1199216788
As Always back up your old images before overwriting with any of these you will find the blade images typically stored here :-
C:\Program Files\PhoenixRC\resources\textures\aircraft folder.
You will only be able to use one blade or the other unless you fancy tweaking the GEO file for each bird so it looks for a unique BMP file name then rename the blade image. The Align blades also feature a black carbon paddle and silver flybar which to me ages to get to work but I got there in the end.
Some Helis (Raptors etc) have their blades mapped on the main image so this mod will not work for those.
To be honest I think Phoenix are going to have their work cut out with this new paint package as the texturing is really poor in some areas I suspect they will have to re-release some models with corrected mapping. Not knowing what 3D package they are modeled in is tying may hands or I would sort it.
Cheers
Glenn
Something to note the BMP images can be increased in size to get better detail, the blade original size was only 256 x 32 pixels my versions are far bigger at 1024 x 128 but does not effect the performance of Phoenix SIM as this is probably due to the blade being faded out when you spool up.
Anyway just a couple of screen captures to show my cleaner improved look.
My Custom Helifreak T-Rex 600 Nitro with the new improved Radix Blades (More Pop :YeaBaby:)
http://www.helifreak.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=34310&stc=1&d=1199216788
My Custom Red T-Rex 600E with Align Carbon Blades and Paddles Drooool :YeaBaby:
http://www.helifreak.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=34309&stc=1&d=1199216788
As Always back up your old images before overwriting with any of these you will find the blade images typically stored here :-
C:\Program Files\PhoenixRC\resources\textures\aircraft folder.
You will only be able to use one blade or the other unless you fancy tweaking the GEO file for each bird so it looks for a unique BMP file name then rename the blade image. The Align blades also feature a black carbon paddle and silver flybar which to me ages to get to work but I got there in the end.
Some Helis (Raptors etc) have their blades mapped on the main image so this mod will not work for those.
To be honest I think Phoenix are going to have their work cut out with this new paint package as the texturing is really poor in some areas I suspect they will have to re-release some models with corrected mapping. Not knowing what 3D package they are modeled in is tying may hands or I would sort it.
Cheers
Glenn