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IL2 skinning test, Lozenge pattern

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I've decided to teach myself how to skin IL2 aircraft and teach myself how to use Gimp at the same time. Here is my first attempt. I am struggling with how to correctly arrange the lozenge camo pattern across the bottom of the 109. If you look close the pattern gets broken at the fuselage.

Free Track and Windows 7

Free Track turned out to be a lost cause. I read up on all the 3 point clips everyone was building and selected some good IR LEDs and calculated the needed resisitors for my own setup. I ended up using a metal clothes hanger for the frame. Turns out that the software utilizes 20% of my AMD single core processor which is sort of a buzz kill when it comes to frame rates... Tracking was there, but it was very finicky/flaky and I had to scotch tape a piece of floppy disc material over the lense of my borrowed webcam to filter all visible light.... Free-track is a decent technology demonstrator but its not being actively developed anymore and is nowhere near the plug and play stage that its commercial big brother TrackIR is. I will be holfing out until I upgrade to I7 goodness before I go to head tracking as I surmize that the software really does require a decent processor to run.

Free Track Error, Win 7 64 bit

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