19.12.2009, 17:14
Hello there. I guess I'm not the only person who has had the problem of a HUGE Paintschemes folder. I haven't kept my Skins folder up to date for ages, nearly nothing added since the modding started - yet the folder is nearly 10 GB.
I'm one of those folks who don't care that much about the specifics behind certain skins - if it fits the plane and looks nice, it goes inside the folder. Thus some planes I got have the same skins in each folder - if a new version is added, I simply select all skins the previous versions had and add them to the new plane's folder.
Now, the issue. I have 2, 3 if you add the original clean install (which is backed up on an external HD) installs of Il-2. Furthermore, the modded versions have quite a few folders for what's basically the same plane.
Lets use the Bf 109 as an example - a plane which I love to fly and which has had numerous versions in the game since the beginning, with only minor changes in the skin templates (my idea of "different" skin-wise is Emils vs Friedrichs). I counted 39 Bf 109 skin folders (missing few versions actually, such as K-6, need to check that) on my UP install. The later, up-to-date skin folders contain over 290 MB of skins. 39 times 290, you do the maths. When using a laptop for a helluva lot of games, all my personal works and SLR photography, you get the idea - I need to constantly make decisions of what to remove and what to keep on my HD.
Would it be possible to make the skin folders to point to a single folder? I've seen it done with some programs (which refuse to run unless in a specific file location), but would it work with Il-2? Or is the only way just to either modify the files themselves (something I'm a complete newbie at) or to built a Frankenlaptop?
Any help would be appreciated. Cheers, Scorpy.
I'm one of those folks who don't care that much about the specifics behind certain skins - if it fits the plane and looks nice, it goes inside the folder. Thus some planes I got have the same skins in each folder - if a new version is added, I simply select all skins the previous versions had and add them to the new plane's folder.
Now, the issue. I have 2, 3 if you add the original clean install (which is backed up on an external HD) installs of Il-2. Furthermore, the modded versions have quite a few folders for what's basically the same plane.
Lets use the Bf 109 as an example - a plane which I love to fly and which has had numerous versions in the game since the beginning, with only minor changes in the skin templates (my idea of "different" skin-wise is Emils vs Friedrichs). I counted 39 Bf 109 skin folders (missing few versions actually, such as K-6, need to check that) on my UP install. The later, up-to-date skin folders contain over 290 MB of skins. 39 times 290, you do the maths. When using a laptop for a helluva lot of games, all my personal works and SLR photography, you get the idea - I need to constantly make decisions of what to remove and what to keep on my HD.
Would it be possible to make the skin folders to point to a single folder? I've seen it done with some programs (which refuse to run unless in a specific file location), but would it work with Il-2? Or is the only way just to either modify the files themselves (something I'm a complete newbie at) or to built a Frankenlaptop?
Any help would be appreciated. Cheers, Scorpy.
