[Question on livery painting]

@ThePilotX thank you so much for the detailed explanation, much appreciated. I will give it a go tomorrow!

[Question on livery painting]

Ah thank you, I’ll try using the default livery shortcut you suggested.

[Question on livery painting]

7 minutes ago, ThePilotX said:

No problem! 3D painting software is commonly used to paint more complex stuff into your livery, and it's often used in combination with a 2D one. For most cases using just 2D software it's enough.

If you want to get into 3D painting i would recommend Adobe Substance 3D Painter and Blender (Which are the ones i use) But there are more tools out there if you'd like to investigate!

That's good to know that for the vast majority of cases 2D is sufficient.

I do have Blender installed, but I never had the time to learn it. I assume Substance 3D Painter is not free, because it's an Adobe product, right?

The thing I find most difficult to paint on the 2D livery are the nose cone and tail sections, and the inside of the rudder. By using the UV map it helps somehow, but it's still fiddly and really time consuming, especially because you have to wait for X-Plane to reload the aircraft... Unless of course there's a better ways of doing all this that I don't know of! 🤣

[Question on livery painting]

Thank you very much @ThePilotX, I'm completely new to this, so I wasn't sure I was missing something crucial! Indeed I used Affinity Photo to create the livery and was happy with the result, but my knowledge is limited.

Should I want to use 3D painting software to make liveries, which one would you recommend? 

[Question on livery painting]

Hello everyone,

I hope I'm posting this question in the correct forum, please let me know if I should move it to somewhere more appropriate.

I recently started painting liveries and I compared what I've done (screenshot 1) to some of the liveries produced by iniBuilds (screenshot 2). I noticied that in the iniBuilds livery, the colour that appears on the skin bleeds off and diffuses on the grey background. I was wondering if someone could explain to me what is the purpose of that, if I should apply it to my liveries, and lastly how would I do that?

Thank you very much in advance for your help! 🙂

VictorTango