Let us know if you need any assistance on where to locate the files or how to change the .json file colors etc… there are lots of guides in the forum on how to do this but it can be difficult in the beginning when you are figuring out how everything works. I made a nice guide a few weeks back here is the link:
In other news…
making my final touches to WestJet, WestJet Encore, WestJet Link (ATR42 instead of SAAB 340B), and Swoop (didn’t have room on the screen)!! Just need to adjust some gradient/inner glow shading to make them all match as a fleet and do a test run at the TwoC Aviation Test Airport Here is a preview…
There we go… Final products. Added the metal strip on the fin edge, changed the fin top/tip to teal on the B736/8s, adjusted the shading so the all pretty much match in whiteness. I think they are ready to go test at TwoC Aviation Test Airport for the final test, photoshoot, and shipment… stay tuned.
Thanks a lot for all the help. I managed to get the mods running with the new colors, but the inverted logos don’t really look good. I’ll try to fix them. Lufthansa looks okay, EVA Air I have tried to fix myself, not too bad I hope:
@modair If you have any use for the updated mods, I could upload them somewhere for you. Just for myself it’s fine as native mods but of course I don’t just want to take without giving back.
In the tutorial it is mentioned that the logos should be 256x256 or 512x256 in size, but both look pretty bad in the game. I just used the 900x294 I found in the UNI Air folder and it looks much better. Are the sizes outdated?
Here is how I make my logos. I make a new image file in my photo software ( I use GIMP, its free), I make It either 512 x 256 px or 256 x 256 pix depending on the logo im making for. for airlines 512 x 256 works fine!
I then copy the logo to the file, and crop to image so that the box around the logo is nice and tight, then I scale the image to the max width of the log image (512 px for the width or 256px for the height depending on which fits all the logo in, if the logo is tall, I use 256, if the log is short but wide, 512 for scaling.) This makes the logo as big as it can be in the space allotted!
I then export the image as a .png file and wala. you have a new log that’s nice and big!
Just make sure you fill up the image space with the logo so its as big as possible for the flight planner and contracts
Here are the ones I just finished. I do 3 export saves,
1 - color logo transparent background for the .png (contract logo)
1 - color logo transparent background for the _Inv.png (flight planner logo for white backgrounds and color text)
1 - white logo (color overlay white) transparent background for the 2nd _Inv.png option (flight planner with color background and white text)
I even added for my WestJet Packs, logos for the the contracts with specific aircraft and livery types this time. here’s what they look like… So you know in the Flight planner which contract is which so that all the logos don’t look the same…
For the EVA Air logo I used a svg image where I changed the colors and then rescaled it. So the quality in the resulting png even in 512x256 was perfect. But in the flight planner it looked pretty bad and blurry. On the other hand, the 900x294 image looks much better (although far from being perfect as you can see in the screenshot).
Where in the flight planner do you need a second Inv logo? In the airlines list and also the string in the flight plan it’s all the colored background where the normal “Inv” logo works well. If I click on one of the strips to see the details, the normal (not Inv) logo is shown and looks fine there.
Did I miss another location where the second Inv logo is needed?
yeah, you can always make the logo image px size bigger, that works too! however, I would use the same porportions so like 1024 x 512 instead of 900 x 294 @Gerwanese
I also find that the white background and color logo looks better, whereas the color background and white logo usually looks more pixelated
so thats why I stuck with the white background option for my airlines
Ok I see, so you actually don’t need two Inv logos but just use the one of them which you prefer.
I actually like the color background because it integrates nicely, but the image quality indeed is a bit disappointing. I’ll try a bit more with the sizes. Maybe the bad quality at 512x256 was just a scaling issue and the bigger the image is, the better it looks. Then I should get even better results with 1024x512.
Quite fun to see things working out and learning. I probably won’t do airplane layouts (not really confident that I could do it) but maybe try more of airlines and stores/restaurants if time allows.
yes, try that out and let me know and if it looks good ill maybe change mine to color backgrounds white logos for the flight planner and color logos, transparent backgrounds for the contracts
send a picture of your outcome if you get a chance. would love to see how it turns out.
And yes, I was unsure about making liveries before, but I decided to give it a try and it took a lot of trial and error, making mistakes, trying new methods, learning by searching online how to do certain things in GIMP etc. but I get better and better each time I make a new plane and build on what I already know.
Actually I found that the “Wings Air” logo made by Dawed looks really good. It’s 920x260:
I tried the EVA Air logo in 1024x512 which looks pretty nice although not perfect:
2048x1024 seemed to be slightly better but the difference is so small that it’s not worth the bigger image size. 512x256 however looks awful.
Edit: This is the 920x260 version:
You can see that in this version the E doesn’t look very nice, but the R shape is much better.
see what I mean by color logos on white background look better when comparing same image px sizes. here is my WestJet Encore Flight Planner. Notice the smaller aircraft livery type text in the lower left hand corner of each one. the white logo color background one looks worse.
All contracts now come in two options. One with a color background and white text/logo, And one with white background and color text/logo. You get to choose the style you like best! The contracts include:
All contracts now come in two options. One with a color background and white text/logo, And one with white background and color text/logo. You get to choose the style you like best! The contracts include:
All contracts now come in two options. One with a color background and white text/logo, And one with white background and color text/logo. You get to choose the style you like best! The contracts include:
All contracts now come in two options. One with a color background and white text/logo, And one with white background and color text/logo. You get to choose the style you like best! The contracts include:
Hi , if you want to help , you can send me the new Logos and i can add it to the mods , then all users would have it. But just if you want Or also the whole mod , that works also. But not upload this mods.
If you want the send it to me , i give you my email adress.
Thank you
i allways let the game resize it automatically…
but on the flightplanner logos it can’t be a small text, that looks weird. and i also add allways like 10 pixel of space to the logos, if the for examlpe the fin of eva air is to close to the picture border, it looks later bad…
and yes modair is right, please don’t upload the adjustments in native mod pack to steam…
we put a lot of effort in this mods and don’t like to see that other uploads your own mod again
if sending the jsons to modair don’t work, we can give you access to upload to our onedrive share
I uploaded the updated mods to my Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14FNo0BE1F07zBjpOIhb8bLqe5ps3gWcY
The mods have the same numbers they got when originally downloaded from Steam. I don’t know whether it’s important or just some random number chosen by Steam so I decided not to change them.
Updated are Logo.png, Logo_Inv.png and the Mod.json (only color changes).
For now I’m happy with most of it, only Asiana Airlines isn’t really exciting. The Logo_Inv.png works well, but the normal Logo.png has some white outline (not visible in the contract but at other places). I found a way to get rid of it but then instead the red hook would get a black outline which looks even worse. That’s why I stayed with the white bit.
All inverted logos (please ignore Cathay Dragon and Garuda Indonesia, I didn't change them)
And the normal logos in contracts
Asiana with the ugly outline
By the way, I updated a few of the logos to the current version (some were outdated) but didn’t change the mod images themselves because they contain the author. Don’t be surprised if sometimes the mod image has a different logo than the airline has in the game.
All contracts now come in two options. One with a color background and white text/logo, And one with white background and color text/logo. You get to choose the style you like best!
Here is a preview…
bummer!
Or also the whole mod , that works also. But not upload this mods.
