[HusarDerLuft]

OK guys, it's extremely simple... I'm assuming you already have the skinmod installed, so this is just for making new defaults-

start the game, and go to QMB. then, select the plane you want, and set the skin you want to be its default.

Then, alt+tab out of the game

Go to your Il2 game folder, and go to "paintschemes", and then "cache". inside will be a bunch of .mat files and folders. find the folder with the name of the plane you want to change.

open it, and there will be 4 files: "skin1o.tgb, skin1o.tga, skin1p.tga, and skin1q.tga"

copy all 4 files

go to your MODS folder, and find your skinmod folder. open it- go to 3do, then plane, and then find the plane folder you want to change. *note- some planes have more than one folder, with (multi1) or a nationality abbreviation after the plane name. The nationality ones will only change the default skin for that specific country. The (multi1) changes the skin for all other nationality.

Inside each of these folders, there will be any of 3 folders: "summer, desert, and winter"

"summer" changes the skin for european and any other "summer" maps

"desert" changes the skin for pacific and any other "desert" maps

"winter" changes the skin for winter maps

paste the four files from the "cache" folder into whichever folder you want, depending on your preference.

Hope that helps!

Jackpack, - if you're still around I'd like some help with this skinmod. I got it from Vpmedia's home page,.. so it was not hard to find,.. but getting it to work.. now thats different story..

I did everything and placed the files in the appropriate folder.. but its not detecting that MODS folder.. it has no effect.
Do I need some special Mod enabler program to get this to work? How does Il-2 know about the MODS folder and to look in there? Whatever it is,.. its not 'enababled', so the default skins I want to change... remains the same..



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