I seem to recall that some boffin on here created a way to allow the player to change the default skin for their selected aircraft. However I have looked but cannot find any reference to it on here now. Granted I am old and probably missed it.
Here's the thing: I like the P-51D-NA-20, I like the skin the game provides for the 325th Fighter Group (the one with the yellow and black check tail) but for some odd reason that skin is not available when you select USAAF ? Instead it switches to a rather plain OD and NM model.I find it somewhat annoying.
Does anyone know of a way to change the default skin so I can select this for my dogfights in the MTO please.
I found the Skin1o.tgb file from the P-51DN20(Multi) summer folder and put it into the
P-51DN20(USA) file In the Summer folder. I then had the checertail skin with US markings.
For some reason the origional default skins do not show up in the cache folder.
Bo,
It sounds like you're thinking of the QMB+ mod (Beta Downloads???) At least that's what I recall the mod was that allowed change of default skins. Essentially, you choose the skin you want as default for that plane in QMB, tab-alt or whatever it is that allows you to go to your windows screen, go into Paint Schemes/Cache, find the a/c folder, copy the tga's there, then go to your Mods/Skinmods folder, find the a/c file, and drop the tga's in there.
Funny thing though...it has always worked like a charm for me on all aircraft except for the P51's. The first time I changed the default for the P51, I followed the standard procedure, but when I was back in QMB, the default skin showed that OD/NM skin--for all models of the P51. (I too have chosen a yellow checkertail for a default.) Anyhoo, after repeated attempts to figure out the problem, I just chose the checkertail for my own plane, and figured too bad the rest of my squadron isn't going to match. But when I played the mission, lo and behold, all the AI planes showed up in my chosen default checkertail! But still, whenever I check out the default skin in QMB, it still shows the OD/NM skin! So I can't figure out where the QMB is pulling it's skin from...but it pulls my intended default from the proper place when in-mission.
P.S. I put the checkertail skin in all of the files of all the P51 variants, so the only thing I can think of is that the QMB is pulling it from some mod version of the P51...only I don't have any mod like that. I had a similar problem with the B25's, but that was because I had the B25 strafer mod (which came with a default skin), which was loading before "regular" B25's and therefore using the mod's default skin despite my attempts to change it on other B25's. To avoid that type of problem, I have the skin mod loading second, right after the soundmod. It fixed the B25 problem, but not the P51.
