Splashes

[legoboyvdlp]

Hi guys.
Mig29 -- could you and me work together?
I'd like to make some splashes for the A320neo and A330-200.
Could you give me any tips?

I'm taking screenshots right now.
First is Aer Lingus A320neo at Dublin
Terminal 2 of course.

[IAHM-COL]

I can give you a few tips

1) Splashes need square format. 1024x1024 is a good format
2) transparency is ok. (included a transparent frame)
3) Use all shaders on when taking the picture, and a good weather engine. Make the best image possible. Obviously.
4) Doctoring the image is fair deal, but keep in mind you are trying to show the aircraft at is best
5) Keep content GPLed. (specially for GPL aircraft). There is no point to pollute a GPL aircraft with unnecessary nonGPL content. (and yes. Liveries are also optional... think about it)
6) work additively. Don't delete or remove previous splashes. Just Add more. FG now can accept many splashes and selects them randomly. --I will adapt the 717-200 to show randomly both your splash and the one that was before (which I liked better). Take a look at that repo later to see a better practice of using both as oppose to replace
7) For aircraft with several splashes, it make sense to create an splash folder and save them there. It is unnecessary to throw all those images in the aircraft root dir. Check the 727 and the Lockheed-Model10 for examples. The other approach is like the c172p
8) Have fun.

PS: Consider also improving thubmnails. Many thumbnails are rather sad -- and can be improved a lot. Keep in mind thumbnail are size standardized at 171x128, and must be a file named thumbnail.jpg. An additional descriptive file can go in thumbnail.txt -- and it will be nice to actually have these too.

IH-COL

[IAHM-COL]

Ok. Lego
Here we are.
I sorted the splashes of the 717

1) I restored the original splash (no need to "replace it")
2) I modify your splash to follow the original "structure". It gives a feeling of standardization if all splashes are look-alike too
Your image was kind of "thumbnail" size. That's not good. Better keep good resolution and sizes.
3) I move all splashes to a new splash directory
4) I edit the xmls accordingly, so splashes now are looked-up / loaded randomly (again/ a better approach than your replacing)

See the commit here, for an example of good practices
https://github.com/FGMEMBERS/717/commit ... 5d459a5ccb

IH-COL

[legoboyvdlp]

Thanks for the tips.