[F22-Raptor-2006]

PeterD,

As this was almost a standard feature of all operational Sabres, are you going to put the drop tanks as a load out on the next release, if so, where will the drop tanks pick up their skin from ?. Will they have a silver/metalic finish?

I only ask as most of the painted skins ( USN etc) have a colour scheme that also includes these tanks.

Will it be possible to produce a number of additional "user defined" tanks (either in the original release or as a modders extra) to allow for a range of different colour scheme tanks from the loadout selection?

Regards

GJE52

Very unlikely. I could try tying the default droptank skin name to some parameter perhaps, so that if you change the skin in the drop menu ingame it would swap the droptank too looking for another skin, but I can see a number of problems associated to that. Maybe after release :?

PS: Yes, droptanks will be included

What you are saying here is that if i for example choose Skin A it will go and find Droptank Skin C in the mods folder and if I choose skin B it will choose Droptank skin D in the mods folder...

If you have a look on the Fw190A series the earlier ones don't have a rack on the bottom of the fuselage so when they choose a bomb it is taken from a seperate skin that is already painted by default. With the later series they have the rack by default already even if no bomb so the rack itself is mapped onto the skin bmp.

I have never thought of it the above way that I stated in the first paragraph if that is what you mean... The way I saw it was that if you map the droptanks onto the normal skin bmp file that all skinners paint so they can paint it whatever colour they want just like if it was part of the plane. This may mean that Droptanks must be a default loadout so that we can paint them like the Fw190A series (late versions). These droptanks can be disposed if the user decides not to use them although historically they were probably used every single mission anyway. Or I was thinking there might of been a possibility to map it onto the normal skin file anyway but still have the default loadout as without the droptanks...

Either way I don't think people would mind if the droptanks were mapped onto the skin and if they didn't want it they would have to drop it every time they spawned....