![]() Product Information Publishers: Description: Commercial and Freeware add-on liveries. Download Size: NA Format: Download Simulation Type: FS9/FSX Reviewed by: AVSIM Staff Reviewer - November 1, 2009 Introduction “ We don’t make the airplanes you buy. We make them look better.” This might be texture artists McPhat’s slogan, if BASF Chemical Company hadn’t thought of it first. Instead their slogan is “ We tear ‘em up, we wear ‘em down for you to fly.” Indeed, their work is known for the honest grime of hard-working jets in regular service. If you like shiny-fresh airplanes that look like they have just rolled out of the painting facility, McPhat might not be your style (and good luck finding their squeaky-clean equal). Ps3 console id generator. Do not use this for illegal purposes. Captain Sim 757 RepaintsAnd that is about as close to anything negative as this review will deliver. McPhat artists are the Dutch masters of flight sim painting. And when I say they are artists, I’m not using journalistic license. (I am about the Dutch part: they’re not all Dutch.) They are temperamentally driven to produce beautiful and accurate graphics in ever-increasing detail. Since McPhat is playing only against itself by this point commercially, you might think they would be tempted to rest on their laurels. Their latest gift to the flight sim community is the glorious bare metal American Airline livery for the Flight 1 Coolsky Super 80 Pro in Ultra High Definition Texture (UHDT). Mcphat Studios Freeware Registry. AVSIM Online - Flight Simulation's Number 1 Site! Commercial Utility Review. Phat Graphic Artist Studio. American Airlines # FREEWARE repaints for your favorite 767, the Level-D 767-300! Both the normal (bare metal) and the oneworld alliance version are back online for you to download! Ow, by the way, we have the new livery ready and waiting too. Then give us some likes and we'll upload it. Freeware, forums, community; it all comes together at AVSIM. This repaint was made by Lars Domen / McPhat Studios. More information on www.mcphatstudios.net. It may be the best livery ever and it is available as a free download. The Best Paint Ever? Flight 1 Coolsky Super 80 Pro Ultra High Definition American Airlines Bare Metal Livery Possibly the best livery ever for flight sim: the American Airlines Ultra High Definition Texture: free at the McPhat website. Flight1 Coolsky’s Super 80 Pro empennage. Pictures truly do not do this art justice. Note the 3D detail where the wing joins root joins the fuselage. All done with bump maps. How can I say it is the best? Objectively, it has 253 pixels per meter (measured at the fuselage), or eight times more detail than PMDG’s MD-11, four times more than the original Super 80 Pro, and more than three times than even the 757 from Captain Sim, themselves no slouches at graphics. But why should you take my word for it, when you can download it yourself, if you have the add-on? (And if you don’t, what better excuse to get an airplane that is arguably -- when you consider frame rates, systems, looks and support -- the all-around best tube liner for FSX?) What you will find is crisp decals that don’t dissolve in close-ups. The skin does not look like polished granite, but subtly rippled metal that has experienced many pressure changes and the occasional bump from a hurried ground crew. Upon even closer inspection, the wing root displays joined metal, not some smooth organic growth, and there are layered paint chips that react differently to rolling light. The screenshots do not do it justice. It is meant to be seen alive, in dynamic light, where the details can be savored in flight. The Fundamentals By now, it should be clear we are not just speaking of the pretty colors of the flat texture, the diffuse map, or what we normally think of as liveries. Alitalia’s green stripe, Lufthansa’s dark blue and golden crane design, and Delta’s widget tell us whose airplane we‘re flying. But no matter how pretty or realistic, it takes more than a layer of dirt to bring the diffuse map to life. Mcphat Studios DownloadsThis is where McPhat’s mastery of the specular and bump mapping comes into play. You can see how they work when you take a careful look at the American Airlines paint. This is what you think of when you think of a paint job: the often sometimes colorful design that the company chose to express its identity. This is the specular map: the reflective layer that controls the way the model looks as the light moves across its surface. Even on the same wing, there might be different levels of reflectivity, depending on stains. And this is the bump map: Up close, the subtle dents, dings, rivets, edges, and other textures that form the 3D skin to the 3D model. Looks pretty boring, but if the devil is in the details, this is texture Hell. These are both per-pixel lighting techniques available to FSX. You may have seen textures that emulate the reflectivity of bare metal by actually painting on the shine.
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