Silhouettes and Dual View Silhouettes

[BLACKHAWK101]

Good Evening, Rick
When you have time, could i please have a Silhouette for a Gulfsream Aerospace G800 (ICAO GA8C).

Many thanks and regards
Steve Coulson

[rikgale]

Hi Steve

All done... no dual view thought. Can't find a top view.

Have also done Generic and Gulfstream (GLF) sides as well.

Rik

[BLACKHAWK101]

Hi Rick,
Thank you for the GA8C Silhouette. I have not seen much info about the GA4C yet, but if by chance you have, could i please have a Silhouette for it.

Many thanks and regards
Steve Coulson

[rikgale]

Hey Steve.
I have come across nearly nothing on the G400 - however....

I'm going to ask the community for a bit of assistance. I have found a picture, essentially the same source as the G800, but for G400, but it cuts off the side view. I used my free gratis one article on Flight Global on the G800 image, and I am not paying there subscription fees. Can't afford them.

https://www.flightglobal.com/flight-international/gulfstream-pitches-g400-at-large-cabin-market-sweet-spot/150140.article

If anyone is able to view the full article, click on the image and save a full-size version and send it to me that would amazing.

I have attached the picture so you know what you are looking for.

Any help appreciated.



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[BLACKHAWK101]

Hi Rick,
Please find attached hope this is what you wanted.

Regards Steve C

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[rikgale]

Sweet! Thanks Steve... the GA4C silhouette may be a project for another evening, but now I have the source material.
Thank you
R

[rikgale]

All sorted.
Three attempts on the silhouette and I am still not completely happy with it.
Hopefully at some point a larger image will become available to to work with.
In the mean time.... I hope this will do?

[Roadrunner]

Hi Rik,

Sorry it has been such a long time since last "spoke" but been busy and cutting down on PC time.

I have been using more of your dual view transparent images  but I am encountering a problem. I have been using individual airliner and bizz jet logos, no problem but this morning I down loaded from your site the transparent DV logos and added all the Piper Pa and P staring logos, selecting those that I wanted. They are now in my file BUT when they appear in the BaseStation list they're still the pale blue background. I have closed both programs with no change. The only way I can get the  transparent background is if I indiviually select each one and do it manually... Any ideas?

[rikgale]

Hiya. Not being a Basestation software user - I'll probably not be of much help, but I'll  have  a stab at a few ideas.

a) you definely put the transparent silhouettes in the correct folder for BaseStation to use?
b) the files that you are adding are actually transparent? - might be worth checking a few in an image viewer of your choice - should either come up with a checkerboard bg or white depending on software used.
c) I have no idea if BS makes use of temporary files, but it might be worth clearing temp files from your PC.
d) when you say 'downloaded from your site' do you mean the files section of this forum, or from my Github repo (they should both be the same file, but a potential source of a mistake on my part if they are not the same)
e) they are working but the silhoeutte b/g in BS is set to pale blue which is then coming thought (again I don't know if you can do this in BS)
f) something else that someone else might suggest.

Aparently the transparent silhouettes don't work very well in BS, they don't display great, but will display correctly in Faramir/Pipo BS addon thingy.

[Anmer]

Hi Mike

Rik's transparent silhouettes carry a "health warning" in the download:

The silhouettes don't display too good in the Basestation aircraft list.  The main use is in the popup Aircraft Details window, as shown below.

They also display OK in Virtual Radar Server (VRS).

See attached using Rik's transparent R44.bmp file.  It shows OK in the Aircraft Details window but not so well in the aircraft list.

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[Roadrunner]

Hi Rik/ Anmer,

Thanks to both of you for that, I had not picked up on it. However, having said that most are displaying white background and those that don't seem to come good if I just adjust the logo by using the white fill in the "transparent" area and they are good to go.

Rik I have a copy of your last downloads from you of complete folder. It is interesting that on some when importing a get an error warning about transparency from  the system.

The logos still look Good and I thank you for the time spent doing them.
You probably know what's  coming next, a few more i' like please in the transparent

D253  E260  M108  MIMU  SAPH  and SU29

Regards

Mike

[Anmer]

It is interesting that on some when importing a get an error warning about transparency from  the system.

Hi Mike

What "system" generates the error message? Can you post a screenhot?

[rikgale]

The logos still look Good and I thank you for the time spent doing them.
You probably know what's  coming next, a few more i' like please in the transparent

D253  E260  M108  MIMU  SAPH  and SU29

Regards

Mike

No worries Mike. I'll add them to work list - I need to make sure there are standards DV's of them first. All I do is strip the blue from the b/g following a technique Faramir taught me, so it is nice and easy.

[rikgale]

E260??? Can't find an aircraft type relating to this ICAO Type code. Did you mean F260?

EDIT: All done as DV, so transparent DV will appear in the next ZIP I do.

[Roadrunner]

Hi Rik,

Sorry for the non-reply to your question. The aircraft I have shown as E260 is G-EXTR An Extra EA.260 c/n 004 It picks up the code A260 from PlaneBase. I assume it is a custom build but not really up on these things...

Regarding the error message. What happens when I put one of the "transparent" logos into the sb file it was coming up transparency may be lost and it was paint that was issuing the waring. In actual fact If I used the white colour brush in all the "transparent" areas this happens as well, but unless I have done that and get the message just from putting you logos into base station they don't always end up with the Transparent background and revert to the blue. No worries though as I know what to do now