27.07.2010, 07:51
I don't know if anyone can suggest the cause of this oddity, but here goes:
I play on-line with a friend over in the USA, with my machine being the server. We use exactly the same version of il2 with exactly the same UP2.01 and the same additional mods. In certain missions his aircraft appears to have the wrong skin, and I mean totally wrong, so the skin for another aircraft type is wrapped around his current aircraft making it look completely screwy. If sometimes he selects a skin he's made (and this is the only place our two versions may slightly differ), at first I will see the default mission skin, but usually eventually I will see his new skin (that I didn't have in my install) correctly shown on his aircraft. I guess I can disable user skins but that's not what we'd prefer obviously.
When we go to the next (different) mission , it will sometimes show this new skin on his aircraft again - hence looking all wrong if its a different aircraft type. It's like there's a delay in updating everything. I presume that normally there should not be any problem with playing against someone on-line who's using a skin I don't have, as the server eventually seems to grab it - am I right on this?
I have to say we've experienced this on earlier versions of the game too; on our current version I have ensured that the air, weapons and plane ini files are absolutely identical, only a few user made or downloaded skins differ between our set-ups.
Any ideas what causes this wrong/previous mission skin to be wrapped around the aircraft in a totally different mission and different aircraft? My friend never sees wrongly skinned aircraft by the way - everything looks fine from his end.
Cheers
Z
I play on-line with a friend over in the USA, with my machine being the server. We use exactly the same version of il2 with exactly the same UP2.01 and the same additional mods. In certain missions his aircraft appears to have the wrong skin, and I mean totally wrong, so the skin for another aircraft type is wrapped around his current aircraft making it look completely screwy. If sometimes he selects a skin he's made (and this is the only place our two versions may slightly differ), at first I will see the default mission skin, but usually eventually I will see his new skin (that I didn't have in my install) correctly shown on his aircraft. I guess I can disable user skins but that's not what we'd prefer obviously.
When we go to the next (different) mission , it will sometimes show this new skin on his aircraft again - hence looking all wrong if its a different aircraft type. It's like there's a delay in updating everything. I presume that normally there should not be any problem with playing against someone on-line who's using a skin I don't have, as the server eventually seems to grab it - am I right on this?
I have to say we've experienced this on earlier versions of the game too; on our current version I have ensured that the air, weapons and plane ini files are absolutely identical, only a few user made or downloaded skins differ between our set-ups.
Any ideas what causes this wrong/previous mission skin to be wrapped around the aircraft in a totally different mission and different aircraft? My friend never sees wrongly skinned aircraft by the way - everything looks fine from his end.
Cheers
Z