Looking at SimMarket lately, where repaint packs of 4 liveries for payware aircraft are selling for no less than €16.20 (about $20!), makes me realise how lucky we are to have many repainters out there who still are willing to give their time and their talent to the community by producing excellent repaints for us as freeware. These repaint artists and all those who continue to develop flight simulator freeware deserve our ongoing appreciation and thanks!

Bill 

I'm happy to create repaints for free and am certainly grateful to the others that are more prolific and talented than I. Thankfully, it seems that payware liveries are the exception rather than the rule in the community. Even if payware liveries are offered, chances are someone will make similar ones for free at some point. 

4 hours ago, scianoir said:

Looking at SimMarket lately, where repaint packs of 4 liveries for payware aircraft are selling for no less than €16.20 (about $20!), makes me realise how lucky we are to have many repainters out there who still are willing to give their time and their talent to the community by producing excellent repaints for us as freeware. These repaint artists and all those who continue to develop flight simulator freeware deserve our ongoing appreciation and thanks!

Bill 

I do not know how they do it.  I can hardly draw a straight line with MSPaint, LOL.  The repainters are fine artists, when I download an airliner livery I simply cannot tell the difference between the repaint and the real aircraft.  And the repainters do great work on the general aviation aircraft as well, although they are not as active in that arena.   It's good to see a frequent forum member celebrating their work.....

John

Wish i could find a JF F-27 done in Allegheny colors. Anyone seen one around?

1 hour ago, Cactus521 said:

I can hardly draw a straight line with MSPaint, LOL

That's the easy bit. It's the curves that getcha.

I would like to add my hardy thanks as well and include the scenery artist with these gratitude deserving folks.

>That's the easy bit. It's the curves that getcha.

You are absolutely right Ron. The curves are what will eat up hours of time. But it sure is fun and it is great to be able to share them when they are done!

where i can publish my own repaints?

 

AVSIM  Library. 

I used to have a program called Colorix for painting, it had one feature I loved, anti aliasing when you drew a line. It was an old MS-DOS program, I even helped the developers because their program would not work on Packard Bell computer monitors, which had a slightly offset synch rate.  I went into their code using DOS debug and found the code that handled the synch rate, and tweaked it a bit.  Gave them a lot of free business, I just wanted the program to work because it gave a resolution unheard of in those days, 360x480, for image captures, plus the color spectrum that computers lacked until that time. 

I was really motivated by meeting people from Microsoft which was battling Apple in those days for supremacy in the PC world, they gave me a free copy of Visual Basic two years after I met Bill Gates, who visited the Napa Valley where I lived, given that Silicon Valley was growing fast, we were "collateral damage" lol, and the big developers we knew would come to Napa and stay at my hotels for R&R, that is how I met them, and that is how I was inspired to have a career in hospitality and aviation information technology.  Hospitality Tech evolved from Aviation Tech.

As for repainting, my most successful repaints were done using the common freeware tools out there, that worked with extended bitmaps, but I cannot remember the developers name.  We used mip maps for aliasing problems and they worked, my trike in Avsim's library, its textures were created with the process and I used FSDS 2 for the aircraft design.

I had a lot of help on my trike which I related to in the included docs, I had someone help me with sounds, someone help me with the man flying the trike, and the engine, both the man and the engine came from a payware company that went out of business, but they gave me their source if I promised to release their parts as freeware, which I did.

So repainting is a big part of simming, and I cannot draw a straight line with a ruler.  I created two art programs for virtual airline logo creations, MirrorArt and SpiraPaint, they can be found on the web, they are easy to run but you have to run down an ocx Microsoft forgot to include in their Windows update.  I have the ocx if painters are interested.

John