Too Subtle?

I’ve started making new textures for the external model using Quixel, the question is are the rivets too subtle?  In reality most of the air-frame is flush riveted so they don’t really show up until you’re quite close, but does this look realistic in P3D?  First picture is a quite bad shot of the Fleet Air Arm Museum’s F1 that I took a few years ago, note although I’m quite close only the larger fasteners really pop out.

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This next shot is in Prepar3D, ignore the shiny spinner that still needs to be textured.

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Are the rivets visible enough?  They’re currently only on the bump map so it’s just variations in the surface showing, which I like as it’s effectively what you get in reality, but is that enough for the sim?  Any thoughts in the comments appreciated.

Incidentally I have no idea what the lumps in front of the Museum’s Firefly’s windscreen are, they don’t seem to feature on in service aircraft!

2 thoughts on “Too Subtle?”

  1. Looks good to me Skippy. I think a lot of bump mapping is over done in FSX/P3d TBH.
    Maybe a little highlighting in the spec channel?

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    1. Agreed Dave, I was pleasantly surprised when Quixel produced quite subtle bump maps from a fairly basic input.
      I’ll have a look at adding something to the spec map tomorrow.

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