Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 1
This course will look at the fundamentals of modeling in Maya with an emphasis on creating good topology. We'll look at what makes a good model in Maya and why objects are modeled in the way they are.
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No cammy....never really thought about...the P51 is and looks cool without it. I think the nearest they came to camouflage was on the B-17 which was a matted green color...but not all of them LOL
have an update...just started finalising the rear elevators
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Jugs (P-47's) and P-40 warhawks and P-38's as well as the early bombers B-17's and B-24's had Olive Drab and Grey in the early stages of the war for minimum camouflage when viewed from above on green fields and against the sky with the grey bottoms.
However, camouflage is only important when you are on the defensive and it was not long after the US entered the European theater with large numbers of aircraft and crews that base defense and therefore ground camouflage was not as critical. In fact the bigger concern was being mistaken from the ground as axis aircraft and was one of the reasons for the black and white invasions stripes being kept on many aircraft well beyond D-Day. Being recognized was more important then not being seen.
Throughout the war most US aircraft stuck with olive drab and grey and towards the end of the war when the allies had total air superiority we stopped painting the aircraft all together -both fighters and bombers and so in the late stages of the war you see most of the planes in bare aluminum although many were still painted with invasion stripes for ground recognition.
In the early part of the war England was certainly being attacked and was perilously close to having unsustainable losses of aircraft and crew just due to overwhelming numbers of German aircraft. This of course was the great battle of Britain arguably the greatest air battle of all time. The need for ground camouflage was therefore more important. Had the Germans not decided to switch from targeting the British air bases and other air defenses to carpet bombing the cities the loss of royal air force pilots and planes and air defenses would have been unrecoverable.
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I just looked again and I don't see ailerons? Have you cut those out yet or are the seams just not pronounced in the render?
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The render is just a shader test so none of the detail is visible...its pretty crappy. The rear aerolons arent present in that render, check the grab after....
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Its just a shader test with reflection blur and ambient occlusion in it. Should work niely once I get the real texture done
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