27.04.2009, 16:38
[quote="woop woop"
yes, you're right, and yes, i saw the skins for the 109's and spits :shock: i dont have them all:P i like skins, but i don't like it when i have to search 2 minutes in the list of the XP-86 to find the correct skin[/quote]
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There are a few tricks to keep skins manageable when choosing in the FMB.
Rename them with a system that you find easy to use. For instance, I started renaming all my skins by simply adding a national prefix in front of the filename they come under. This is useful for planes that come in different national markings and as hacks.
For instance, the Blenheim.
I downloaded a skin named ca311.bmp. Turns out it is an Italian skin. So instead of having to search through all my Blenheim files, all 224 of them one by one on the off chance of finding the one I want for an Italian squadron before i loose interest, I renamed the file into:
ITALY - c311.bmp
and then it's a quick and easy alphabetical search.
Do that for all your skins when you install using a simple national name and part of the trouble searching is over.
Off course you can set up other naming systems as well, by choosing a unit number/name as prefix or a color prefix or whatever. The system is up to you. Just remember the game orders the skins by prefix. So there is little gained by adding naming systems to the end of a filename.
One drawback though - you have to start out doing this early in your install of the game and you have to be systematic about it.
But it does save heaps of time.
yes, you're right, and yes, i saw the skins for the 109's and spits :shock: i dont have them all:P i like skins, but i don't like it when i have to search 2 minutes in the list of the XP-86 to find the correct skin[/quote]
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There are a few tricks to keep skins manageable when choosing in the FMB.
Rename them with a system that you find easy to use. For instance, I started renaming all my skins by simply adding a national prefix in front of the filename they come under. This is useful for planes that come in different national markings and as hacks.
For instance, the Blenheim.
I downloaded a skin named ca311.bmp. Turns out it is an Italian skin. So instead of having to search through all my Blenheim files, all 224 of them one by one on the off chance of finding the one I want for an Italian squadron before i loose interest, I renamed the file into:
ITALY - c311.bmp
and then it's a quick and easy alphabetical search.
Do that for all your skins when you install using a simple national name and part of the trouble searching is over.
Off course you can set up other naming systems as well, by choosing a unit number/name as prefix or a color prefix or whatever. The system is up to you. Just remember the game orders the skins by prefix. So there is little gained by adding naming systems to the end of a filename.
One drawback though - you have to start out doing this early in your install of the game and you have to be systematic about it.
But it does save heaps of time.