Author Topic: Aces High II and the CT (Read 1245 times)

Löwe · « **Reply #15 on:** May 18, 2004, 05:31:31 PM »

A question on Skins............. Will the skins guys come up with for squadrons be like the squadron patches in AH1 where everyone sees them? Or will only those people who choose to add the skins to their own program see them?

Arlo · « **Reply #16 on:** May 18, 2004, 05:51:56 PM »

From what I can tell only skins officially approved by HTC will be placed on the server for all to see. But that shouldn't keep squadrons from sharing individual skins amongst themselves and everyone in the squadron being able to see them. I'm thinking the fewer skins HT oks the better, though. I'm not the only player that suffered a freeze frame when a new skin loads. (Why is it set up to load a freakin skin at the 1K range? Why can't we just load all the skins at once somewhere?)

Slash27 · « **Reply #17 on:** May 19, 2004, 12:55:02 AM »

What is up with the skin loading anyway? Last night Norad had 5 or 6 skins for the '51D and I had 3. I also had none for a 109 and he had a few. Do they have to reload everytime we log on? That will suck. On the other hand the skins will be great for the CTers. Whos working on a VF-27 skin for my Hellcat?

Grits · « **Reply #18 on:** May 19, 2004, 01:21:53 AM »

They download in the background, if you have not been in there long you wont have them all d/l'd yet. Once you get them you dont have to d/l them again though.

Slash27 · « **Reply #19 on:** May 19, 2004, 04:17:11 AM »

Good:aok

Mister Fork · « **Reply #20 on:** May 19, 2004, 10:45:13 AM »

What I did was just leave myself logged into AHII and went to work. When I came back, I think I had all the skins downloaded.

BTW - if you are on dialup, it may take a while for all the skins to show up (weeks). Maybe it's time for some to upgrade your connection?

Grits · « **Reply #21 on:** May 19, 2004, 10:56:38 AM »

Thats exactly what I did Fork. There are a lot of skins already there to d/l too, 7 alone for the P51D. It also seems that every time you upgrade to a new beta version you have to re-download all the skins over again. I dont know why, but I know for a fact I have had to down load the same ones several times after I had them all. Maybe its a bug?

Arlo · « **Reply #22 on:** May 19, 2004, 12:21:00 PM »

As previously stated, they need a seperate download for the skins.

Grits · « **Reply #23 on:** May 19, 2004, 01:06:34 PM »

And the default skin for the -1 is the only one you need, right Arlo?

Arlo · « **Reply #24 on:** May 19, 2004, 04:55:17 PM »

Well .... sure .... but I wouldn't be upset to see some Blacksheep flyin around as well as them checkertail types. Healthy inter-service competition.

Grits · « **Reply #25 on:** May 19, 2004, 05:15:40 PM »

I might take a crack at a VMF-214 skin. Boyingtons famous "86" Lulabelle was not a plane that he ever flew, it was a prop for Public Relations use. I have photos of several of his and other 'Sheep's planes like Bourgeois, Bolt, and Magee. They are all plain with no names or graphics so they would be easy to do just doing a little "cut-n-paste" with the VF17 skin.

CurtissP-6EHawk · « **Reply #26 on:** May 19, 2004, 06:28:03 PM »

Lowe, you will see the skins that people choose. This is really nice. I flew in the beta a month ago. We were in three diffrent skined P-51Ds. It was really nice.

I hope Skuzzy will allow some of the CT squads to use thier skins. The Checkertails have thier P-51 skin. I hope that the F4U Checkerboard skinn will be approved as soon as HTC releases the 1024 skin for the Corsair. When I sent in my proposed skin, it was the only one I know of the was sent to skuzzy for production. Now they are flooding in.

Check out this thread. I was in the Checkerboard P-51 and Grits was in the Other one. http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=113905

Rafe35 · « **Reply #27 on:** May 19, 2004, 07:41:20 PM »

Still I am looking forward to see F4U-1A to CT, but I doubt that would happen and be nice for us(VF-17

).

Rafe

Grits · « **Reply #28 on:** May 19, 2004, 11:45:06 PM »

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Originally posted by CurtissP-6EHawk
I hope Skuzzy will allow some of the CT squads to use thier skins. The Checkertails have thier P-51 skin. I hope that the F4U Checkerboard skinn will be approved as soon as HTC releases the 1024 skin for the Corsair.

I dont see why they wouldnt Hawk. Its an Historical skin, and I doubt very seriously that the F4U's will get to the max of 15 skins. For the MA skwads, its probably not that big a deal, but CT skwads that are Historical could all have their own skin. It would add a lot I think.

Slash27 · « **Reply #29 on:** May 20, 2004, 05:06:43 AM »

You guys need to prioratize. Finish the F6F VF-27 skin then you can play wiht your little F4U skins.