AVSIM Commercial Utility Review |
Product Information | ||
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Publishers:McPhat | ||
Description: Commercial and Freeware add-on liveries. | ||
Download Size: NA | Format: Download | Simulation Type: FS9/FSX |
Reviewed by: Tim Capps AVSIM Staff Reviewer - November 1, 2009 |
Possibly the best livery ever for flight sim: the American Airlines Ultra High Definition Texture: free at the McPhat website. | Flight1 Coolsky’s Super 80 Pro empennage. Pictures truly do not do this art justice. | Note the 3D detail where the wing joins root joins the fuselage. All done with bump maps. |
This is what you think of when you think of a paint job: the often sometimes colorful design that the company chose to express its identity. | This is the specular map: the reflective layer that controls the way the model looks as the light moves across its surface. Even on the same wing, there might be different levels of reflectivity, depending on stains. | And this is the bump map: Up close, the subtle dents, dings, rivets, edges, and other textures that form the 3D skin to the 3D model. Looks pretty boring, but if the devil is in the details, this is texture Hell. |
Wilco’s Airbus A330 in gloriously filthy early McPhat style. Love it or leave it alone, but just don‘t wash it. | Same airplane, looks a little cleaner in the light. | McPhat Alitalia Express paint for feelThere/Wilco’s E-jet (not so dirty) |
E-jet Air Caraibes heads through some bumpy tropical weather. | Northwest E-jet landing out of the blue. | Sky Air World E-jet on final at Palma. |
“Baboo Kisses.“ No E-jet operator is too obscure for McPhat’s attention. | One of several Jet Blue liveries by McPhat. | Some jobs are more difficult than others: matching up the company name on the empennage was a challenge. |
Even in normal definition, this Alaska Airlines retro livery looks beautiful on the Ariane 737-800. | Know where this carrier is out of? McPhat’s Ariane liveries extend to just about everyone who uses 737s. |
One of several KLM liveries McPhat did for Ariane. Now you know what bloom does. | Norwegian Air Service 737-800 detail. | Sterling gets the McPhat treatment. |
Dave Sweetman has produced a ton of Captain Sim liveries: this is his latest. The windows are improved from the stock Captain Sim kit. | Dave’s Southern Air Transport flying low off the coast of El Salvador. | Fictional U.S. Customs livery for one of Captain Sim’s C-130 models. |
Some of the paints that will be available in the payware pack. | Beautiful, but a lot of airplanes look good from this distance. | McPhat art invites you to get up close and count the rivets. |
Look beyond the painted colors to the specular and bump maps underneath. | Another close-up to show just how good bare metal can look. It isn’t really so dirty, is it? | Fall is here, at least in FSX-world. |