posted 01-29- 08:57 AM               

But you can have more than one type of the same plane created as seperate aircraft. This would make a bit of a mess, but I think it is still somewhat of a viable idea. Basicaly there would be two seperate planes, identical except for the texture images.

I would say this might work for say two squadrons with their markings, but never personal markings.... maybe.

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posted 01-29- 06:15 PM               

They all work fine offline (I presume you'd get a mismatch online) except when you put them in the same mission .... then they all adopt just the one skin.

If there is a way around this I'd like to know.

Cheers,

posted 01-29- 07:52 PM               

To me it seems a logical thing to add into the game if at all possible.. alot of us fly with squadrons online, so then we can have our own squadron numbers/markings, and have even more realistic actions.

I'd be grateful for anyone to look into the possibility of doing this with SDOE

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posted 01-30- 03:40 PM            

I guess Multi-skin is out of the question. Per Senior members.

I did this last July. Got flamed.

Yes it works online like a champ. (All players need the same files. for operation. No Different than the Plane Packs "DATA*.PAR and a/c folders)

Yes it is a lot of work.

Yes you can do it with any of the planes made
Fighters etc

Yes you can have multi-sounds, Engine,gear,etc

No they didn't add it to the plane packs

yes 4 is the maximum number of schemes

yes you need a fast machine

yes clouds will lose a bit in their quality

yes there are problems with fighters used with bombers with multi-skin

yes, it was an interesting project

no, I canned all the files

yes, you can do it too, IF you have the tools, patience, know-how.

sorry I am unable to help further on this.

But this should give you an indicator of what the multi-skin development results are.

4 identical planes can be painted different schemes requiring for plane type folders.
otherwise the better route is to have it in a DATA*.PAR file

4 planes must have different names Ex: B-17F, B-17G, B-17X, B-17E. This is done through use of the BIGMUNGER tool. NOTE VERY EXTENSIVE files when opened.

Hope you can do better.

rgrds,
TH

posted 01-31- 11:41 AM               

It makes a mess of the planes

posted 02-01- 07:43 AM               

What I think would be a more sensible idea is to have a generic texture for each aircraft class. We could then work out a system where the game would paste individual textures onto these planes representing flight codes or staffel numbers which would be visable to all.