Accuracy...and Sims... - Military Uniforms.

Creating Sims Uniforms are at the best of time annoying and time-intensive. And making sure that you do the uniform a proper service involves a lot of painstaking research. I could have picked a color out my ass but I chose to go do some major research into what colors the United States Marine Corps uses for its uniforms. One of the main reasons why; was the fact that the Service Alphas are a weird moss color that changes with the light. If you view it on a cloudy day, it looks brown to the eye, where as other light hitting it makes it look green with a hint of grey. It's more than freakin' annoying and almost enough to make you want to throw your hands up in frustration, but I intended to nail down that color and see if I could get it as close as I could to the USMC color.

After all, Mac in my previous images didn't look anywhere near what the uniform was supposed to look like.

The Navy uniforms are easy to do in comparison to this. Had to track down the USMC Color Brand Guide for this and ended up with Pantone 574 C which worked out to 78,90,49 and I figured out some sort of tan color that didn't look yellow...for a change which ended up in RGB coming out to 189,175,99. And all of that combined to make this...

Yup, I was so posterior-retentive that I noticed that the Colonel's eagles on Mac's uniform were not facing the RIGHT direction...so back into editing. They are supposed to always face front. That's why when you put down a pair of eagles on the table they're looking in opposite directiosn. One for the right collar, one for the left.

The US Navy uniforms in comparison, just slide the good ol' color picker to the bottom left black and do it for everything other than the shirt.

Everything else is overlay.

There's a reason for this attention to accuracy...it's because anything less would be disrespecting the Service which those uniforms stand for.

Also did a enlisted Marine Corps Service Alphas for the Marine Corps females (rank is Gunnery Sergeant). The Hashmarks go the proper direction - research.

The middle ribbon on the bottom row denotes the fact that she served as a drill instructor.