PBR - 3 letters that changed your livery painter's world.

[Steve Dra 7,570]

No words can describe the effect of PBR on metal....see for yourself. 

This is early work Brian Thibodeaux and I have been doing with the Leonardo Maddog recently based on my metal textures from the AA and Eastern paints...they will have what I believe will be the 1st PBR aircraft model to be released (soon according to their FB page).  The reflections you see are real...they are dynamic, and they represent something you have never seen in FSX/P3D until now.

Below you can see the yellow lines in the reflections, as well as the taxi sign near the front, the sun glint is dynamic and real.  These pics are at 4k and very large to capture what I see on my 55" 4k monitor.  I had to use a lot of jpeg compression to keep them a reasonable size.

 

 

 

Once we get the metal completely dialed in , I'll add the AA and Eastern liveries.(as good as it looks in these pics....there are still more tweaks left to do)

Although metal receives the biggest benefit from PBR, painted liveries take on a whole new look...just hit up the Leonardo Maddog FB page to see the work other beta painters are posting...they look amazing!

 

 

[fppilot 4,336]

And I thought this would be about Pabst Blue Ribbon beer! LOL!

 

[Steve Dra 7,570]

2 minutes ago, fppilot said:

And I thought this would be about Pabst Blue Ribbon beer! LOL!

I know right? 🤣

Well maybe enough beer will help me re-learn how to paint with the new things we have to learn with PBR....where we had a main texture map and alpha channel deal with in the past (or is that Pabst? hehe), we now have 2 separate maps and 3 extra channels (RGB) to control the various environmental effects on every paint.

[Mace 1,896]

In the Pabst, I haven't paid much attention to these things, but now...I'm beery excited for the visuals we will see.

[ryanbatc 12,770]

I'm happy you p3d guys get to experience PBR!  And stunning work on the paint...  I'd say you are one of the best painters at avsim.

[Steve Dra 7,570]

2 minutes ago, Mace said:

In the Pabst, I haven't paid much attention to these things, but now...I'm beery excited for the visuals we will see.

Oh my...let the beer puns begin....lets see.

I "barley" got started on PBR textures...so you guys will have to "wheat" a while before I push out any liveries with it.  I hope you guys can "beer" waiting for them. 🙂

At "yeast" I don't have too many beer puns left.

[MikeT707 1,181]

This looks quite impressive. Really looking forward to seeing final results. I am sure it will be exceptional. 

[Steve Dra 7,570]

3 minutes ago, ryanbatcund said:

I'm happy you p3d guys get to experience PBR!  And stunning work on the paint...  I'd say you are one of the best painters at avsim.

Thanks Ryan!

Yeah I've drooled at PBR in Xplane for a while...glad to see it come to us P3D'ers finally.  I have Xplane but have not flown it in ages sadly....just not enough time to split between the two and painting.

[anden145 2,273]

Very impressive. I like the paint. The old American livery is just a classic. Great job, @Steve Dra

How's the performance with PBR in Prepar3D? 

[thibodba57 462]

40 minutes ago, Anders Bermann said:

Very impressive. I like the paint. The old American livery is just a classic. Great job, @Steve Dra

How's the performance with PBR in Prepar3D? 

I think I got a few more frames making the switch to 4.4.

[Oliver Ooi 85]

2 hours ago, Steve Dra said:

something you have never seen in FSX/P3D until now.

I saw PBR in FSW one year ago.

 

[anden145 2,273]

9 minutes ago, Oliver Ooi said:

I saw PBR in FSW one year ago.

Your point?

It has also existed in X-Plane for a while, but that still doesn't remove the fact, that it's a new feature in P3D.

[John_Tavendale 453]

Looks awesome 🙂

[Gandalf 45]

+1 for the awesome!

Just wondering, if all our AI had this type of repaint, how much an effect (if any) would it have on general sim performance?

Regards

Alan

[Jetset408 108]

5 hours ago, Steve Dra said:

see for yourself. 

Wow Steve. They are fantastic shots. Amazing work as always! Can't wait for the Maddogx release. I'm busy fresh installing P3D and having a clear out ready for the planned weekend release of the updated MD. I will be sure to add your liveries when they are ready.

Thank you! I hope you are enjoying painting them as much as we will enjoy using them.