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Static aircraft skins...? - eliot - 04.06.2008

Cant find the old mod that allows you to change the skins on static aircraft... anyone help :?:

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Re: Static aircraft skins...? - fly_zo - 04.06.2008

eliot Wrote: Cant find the old mod that allows you to change the skins on static aircraft... anyone help :?:

skin of static planes depends on default skin for certain plane so this should help:

(The link is inoperative)


cheers

Z

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- eliot - 04.06.2008

Aghhhhhh...Thats the kiddie , thanks alot fly_zo...

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- 4./JG53_Badger - 05.06.2008

Can someone please tell me how to change the static skins! I thought I was doing them, but all I did was get new default skins. I want to know how to make the static planes skins different when I make a mission or a campaign. Please some telll me how to do this. I just spent 1/12 hours reading on what I thought was statics and all it was, was making default skins....I am tired of flying in the desert and landing at base only to see the green ETO skins on my G2 instead of the desert skins. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE some one point me in the right direction....

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- fly_zo - 05.06.2008

4./JG53_Badger Wrote:Can someone please tell me how to change the static skins! I thought I was doing them, but all I did was get new default skins. I want to know how to make the static planes skins different when I make a mission or a campaign. Please some telll me how to do this. I just spent 1/12 hours reading on what I thought was statics and all it was, was making default skins....I am tired of flying in the desert and landing at base only to see the green ETO skins on my G2 instead of the desert skins. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE some one point me in the right direction....

.... default skin for certain plane is always displayed for static plane of same type , no cure for that

for desert skins to get displayed on static planes :

1 make sure desired plane has desert folder present

MODS"desired plane mod"\3do\plane"desired plane name"\desert\

2 place there default desert skins files

skin1o.tga
skin1o.tgb
skin1p.tga
skin1q.tga

* load desired skin in QMB play ....quit .... go to paintshemes\cache .... copy those files for desired plane

3 make sure map load.ini have desert for camouflage option selected

!!!! be aware that IL2 uses desert folders for pacific theater so you'll get desert default skins on those maps too

regards
Z

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- 4./JG53_Badger - 05.06.2008

Thanks Ill give step 3 a try. I have done the rest ..... :wink:

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- 4./JG53_Badger - 05.06.2008

Hey Boss Thanks so much for your help it was step 3 that I was missing, Now I can make my campaign missions with the statics in Desert Camo....Heres a shot

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- fly_zo - 05.06.2008

4./JG53_Badger Wrote:Hey Boss Thanks so much for your help it was step 3 that I was missing, Now I can make my campaign missions with the statics in Desert Camo....Heres a shot

any time

nice shot ...


cheers
Z

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- Bearcat - 13.06.2008

So from that link.. If say forinstance I wanted to use a new default skin on a winter map.. wouldI change :

C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\IL-2 Sturmovik 1946\MODS\SKINMOD\3do\plane\p-51c(multi1)\summer

to winter? What about in a jungle environemt.. is there a way to hage multiple defaults for each type of map.. like the AI automatically go to the white skin in the QMB. ....

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- fly_zo - 13.06.2008

Bearcat Wrote:So from that link.. If say forinstance I wanted to use a new default skin on a winter map.. wouldI change :

C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\IL-2 Sturmovik 1946\MODS\SKINMOD\3do\plane\p-51c(multi1)\summer

to winter? What about in a jungle environemt.. is there a way to hage multiple defaults for each type of map.. like the AI automatically go to the white skin in the QMB. ....

you've got it backwards m8 ....

in plane folder ( 3do\plane\....) you can have only three folders : SUMMER, WINTER,DESERT ( desert is really used for pacific theater) in each one you can have one default skin ( explained in previous post)

now, to force game to use those skins on certain map you need to edit load.ini file of that map and define line for camouflage to SUMMER, WINTER or DESERT.

example:

[WORLDPOS]
CAMOUFLAGE = DESERT
MONTH=7
DECLIN = 10
PRESSURE = 745
TEMPERATURE = 25

so on that map game will load skin present in DESERT folder of certain plane as default one.

cheers
Z

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- Bearcat - 13.06.2008

Ahhh I think I got it... bear with me..

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- 4./JG53_Badger - 16.06.2008

Hey Guys,
I am trying to get the africa italy greece map to load a desert skin for any of the hurricanes and it won't. I have changed about 12 planes to have a desert skins as default but when I try to make it do a hurricane it won't load...Anyone have an idea. So far I have bf109's, P-40's, Spitfires, He111's and some others already placed on the map with no problems. can't figure out the hurricane. did anyone else have the same problem. If you have skinmod installed see if you can get a hurricane for your static aircraft as default...please let me know if you do thanks...

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- 4./JG53_Badger - 16.06.2008

I fixed it, I didn't have the folders in the filelist correct....Here's some screenshots of the 40 Mission campaign that I'm doing, called "EAGLES of the DESERT". The map is the Italy,Africa,Greece map...The first shot is me and my bf-109 transferring to our new duty station....Man it's hot over here... :wink:

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- HH Enforcer - 28.06.2008

This is interesting, but what happened to the insignias on the spits and hurris?

If anyone was ever able to discover how to put custom skins on static planes (preferably without having to change a myriad of files), it would be the holy grail to FMB users. My current 1947 east/west cmpn really suffers from the default skins on static planes-natural metal tempests take off from a base with camo ones in the shelters etc. Actually, I would even settle for doing so by modifying the files, but it's already a pretty time consuming process to build such creations (my current project has been going for a yr).

I found yrs ago that the static planes are basically the flying ones wiht the crew removed....look at the B-17F and you will see the navigator was left inside the middle of the fuselage. I know 1C could do such with a minimum of difficulty since that is the case, but........

It's also odd that we can only use a limited number of nationalities on static planes as well.

I know you guys know alot more than I do, but I'm a misn/cmpn blder primarily, and these things would really enhance our creations.

Thanx for all the work you guys do the BTW. hock:

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- 4./JG53_Badger - 28.06.2008

Yeah I since then changed the skins the newer mission has everything...

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