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Area/Game:Blue Max
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Subject:Re: New Plane Designs
Posted by: Lord Locquax - 20years 103days ago.
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redwom wrote:
Lord Locquax wrote:
I've been trying....and trying...and trying for weeks now to find the best way of making new plane designs....

My early designs were quite crude

However, now I think I'm getting somewhere:

http://www.chimpage.com/bluemax/planes1.gif

What does everyone think? The Allied planes are all in Shakespearo Squadron colours

The Pfalz designs are my most recent attempts, and the last two Pfalz aircraft are based on historical colours.

Is there any design someone would like to see? If so, I'll give it a go


Those are pretty cool-Although the Shakespearo colors are a little dull!

Seriously, how does one make a plane design?
This Basement General wouldn't mind giving it a try. Is there a base GIF somewhere? How's the process work?

Thanks for your help,



I use the planes from this page:
http://www.youplay.it/play/bm_showAllPlanes.asp

and right click on them and 'copy' before pasting them into Paint Shop Pro. That's the easy bit it's taken me weeks of playing around with the opacity and density of the paintbrush tool in that program in order to make it easy to colour over the existing planes and make a new pattern. This is important in order to retain the shading and make them not look as fake as my earliest efforts did.

Then once you've done that, the files need to be named in a format such as:

bm_pln_133.gif - and then you need to make smaller versions for use on the map itself, facing in each hex direction. These files are numbered eg: bm_pln_133_1.gif (NE facing), bm_pln_133_6.gif (NW facing) etc.

If you're still interested I can e-mail you more detailed instructions if you want

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