So I've been working on completely new templates for the excellent Ruth a330 and a340 freeware planes. The original textures are very blotchy, pixelated and generally not as the real thing.

It's been quite the effort since it's like a puzzle broken in several parts that aren't 100% relative to eachother in terms of size.

While certain details like gear textures, interior textures and so on are the originals: everything else even down to the spinners on each engine are new vector based textures by me. Not to mention I've looked at pictures of the real planes and made sure stuff like the lining of the engine intake is the right design and colors as the real GE, PW, RR and CFM56 engines for instance. All in all I've put in effort in not only making the texture precisely uniform between the differently scaled a332, a333 and a343 texture maps but also conforming to their real-life counterparts.

 

I will be making more (alot more) liveries and release it all along with modified aircraft.cfg files and panel fixes when I'm done. But for now this is the first texture I have made as I've just finally finished the templates, the PW-engined a330-200 in the house colors flying around the alps:

 

http://i.imgur.com/URCwOIr.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/QYxLqyT.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/9I5k4Sn.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/ZkOgq2h.jpg

Wow, huge enhancements. Particularly the engines. Love it!

This is looking good, please keep us up to date! B)

 Outside looks very nice, are you working on the VC too?

 Outside looks very nice, are you working on the VC too?

My only plan is really just getting the panel fixes in so people less savvy don't have to muck about with it. Otherwise I think Ruth (or whoever textured the VC) did a reasonably good enough job for me not to cry and start retexturing.

 

 

 

 

Aparently I can't edit my own posts... well, here's a batch of the GE engine A330-300 in the house colors:

 

http://i.imgur.com/6TkEI5p.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/mcEFB6e.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/TpbdWGD.jpg

Nice.

 

nebojsa

I'm currently flying my way through a massive TR A330/340 multi package that I downloaded from Simviation.com. Most of the liveries are pretty poor tbh and this looks like a massive improvement! Keep us posted!

I'm currently flying my way through a massive TR A330/340 multi package that I downloaded from Simviation.com. Most of the liveries are pretty poor tbh

Aye, that's what inspired me to get this project going. Well, again: since I made one set of templates that weren't up to my standards and restarted. Which I then lost god knows how accidentally and had to restart again. But this time I think I'm finally on track and happy enough with how much my templates match up to the details of the real a330/a340 planes. Thank god for airliners.net which has served me with great reference pictures.

Also I'm surprised how inconsistent even the aircraft.cfg files were, both in relation to eachother and the real aircraft specificiations.

 

Anyway: right now I don't have alot of energy to work on this since in total I've probably spent over 100h just on getting the templates right. But in the future I'll post some updates of liveries as I finish them.

 

Cheers.

Started working on the liveries, here's an RR-powered a332 for you to preview:

 

http://i.imgur.com/ANoZAkD.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/8z4Qsd9.jpg

Very nice!

 

Funny you should choose that one as on the few occasions I get down to the end of the runway here at Gatwick of a lunch time, I quite often see the Air China A330 departing