[Boostjunky]

Hi all,

Firstly sorry if this is in the wrong section wasn't sure where to put it.

When using a plane with marking on, if I want to fly an axis plane but with US markings it always show the old US star without the stripes on the side. EG, I wanted to fly the GO-299 as if it was Northrops experimental plane but if I switch to US markings it shows the old star. Is there a mod anywhere to change it to the US star with the bar/stripes at the side?

Thanks from ross

[RAF_Magpie]

Moved to the correct section for you.

[Bearcat]

That actually would make a good mod.. one where you can chyange the markings...

[328th*Col.Doodle]

Yeah, that would be nice.

[Scharnhorst1943]

That actually would make a good mod.. one where you can chyange the markings...

Agreed, but ...

If you have mat manager you can do that. If you create your own mat you can replace it with any of the default mats for mat manager and select it in game.

The above method will be MUCH easier than recoding the game default mats ... but either will work.

[vampire_pilot]

but be aware that it would not be of the correct size, the bar would be the width of the old star circle. too small, you cannot enhance the size of the graphic.

with MAT Manager (google it) you will be able to customize ALL insignias and numberings. but you cannot add additional ones, no such mod exists up to date.

for your quaestion on the Go-229, using a premarked skin, as with all aircraft that usually has the bar, is much easier and looks way better. for single special aircraft it is easy enough too.

[samuli]

Dunno if I understood correctly, but this mod I think is the key to your... Umm.... Happiness?
viewtopic.php?t=1866&highlight=markings+mod
It fixes the old crappy looking US star and changes the shine of the national markings.

Sam

[WWSandMan]

When using a plane with marking on, if I want to fly an axis plane but with US markings it always show the old US star without the stripes on the side. EG, I wanted to fly the GO-299 as if it was Northrops experimental plane but if I switch to US markings it shows the old star. Is there a mod anywhere to change it to the US star with the bar/stripes at the side?

The easiest method is to create a skin with the markings you want, especially if those markings are American. IL-2 doesn't handle the US marking system well, especially from the time the "Star-n-bar" insignia were introduced, but also including earlier Star only markings where the star is only displayed on the top-left and bottom-right wings. IL-2 will display those insignia in all positions.

All American aircraft skins with the star and bar insignia have those insignia on the skins themselves, not as .tga + .mat files. No need for a mod, just a need to open your favorite paint program and create what you want. Search through some of the more prolific skins warehouses (Mission 4 Today, Flying Legends, etc., etc.) first... in case someone else has already created the skin you want to use.

[Ch3aTor]

Ok there are SEVERAL things in the sim that are small and insignifagant that either A: Never got compleated upon release or B: Got porked before release. One of those things are the Squadron names, historical and otherwise along with thier regimentals. A good example of this would the the lack of a 201st MEAF Squadron for the PTO. It's widley known that Mexico was left out of the countries list in IL-2. My aim is to fix that oversight forthwith. Along with adding the proper squadron regimentals to some of the squadrons listed as well as adding new squadrons to the list and thier corect regeiments. Also i'd like to make sure that all aircraft can display a regiemtal as an option.
While historically...not all squadrons did so...there are several NON historical squadrons that would possible like to add thier own regiemts design to the sim. off the top of my head...CPS, RCAF_FB would be two. thereare others. But you get my point.

So being new to the modding aspect of the sim.....What would i need to do to get started modding.
Where are the files located that i would need to link the new images & .txt files for the images, and where do you change the squadron names. If someone could halp me out and give me a starting point that'd be great.

After i work on this i may switch to helping out some of the map guys. Or on to some other form of eye candy mod. but this is where i'm starting so i can get kind of get the hang of it brfore i try and bite off on a larger more invloved prodject.

At some point i want to work with Wepons. Adding the HVARS's to the P-51 has long needed to be done. As it was HISTORICAL for the PTO. and used operationally there. A point some ppl often forget is this not just a ETO Western/Eastern front sim. and fixing a few HISTORICAL inaccuracies would go a long way for the sim.