More about Nose art...

[Keez]

Hi,

I designed some nose art for our squadron, and sooner or later will want to upload it. I checked the help section at the site, but I do not find it very helpfull.

1. Do I understand that it has to be named after the CO?

2. How do I upload it? To where? From where?

3. Do I understand it correct that I will have to delete all Squad Nose Art in that folder and only put in my own?

Thanks for helpen a newbie  

[Kweassa]

Keez, this is what I found out.

 1. Only the Squad CO may upload nose art.
 2. After the nose art is created, place it in aceshigh/squads directory.
 3. Go to "Club" menu in clipboard, then to "Squad" menu. Upload nose art from there. The text buffer won't inform you anything(no "Nose art uploaded" sort of message)
 4. It takes some time for HTC to evaluate your nose art and approve it. Mine took about 3 days. Noseart can be used only after approval in MA and CT.
 5. But U may upload nose art instantly in TA.
 6. So, if U can't see your nose art, try going to TA and use external view to see if it shows. If it shows in TA as it should, and it doesn't show in CT or MA, it means it is still being evaluated. If U can't see nose art in both MA/CT and TA, it means something is wrong with the nose art.
 7. Once nose art is approved, u may change the nose art if you wish, without having to upload nose art again. Thus, delete former BMP file in squads menu and replace it with new BMP file. In my case, I've made 4~5 nose arts and named them Kweassa.BMP, Kweassa1.BMP, Kweassa2.BMP etc etc.. so that I may change it upon occasion. If I want to use a new nose art, I name the new file "Kweassa.BMP" and rename the former nose art file to something else.

[geistx]

But once your noseart is approved, do the indvidual squad members need to put the file into the squads directory or will it be automatically populated?

I ask because we created some noseart and our squadron leader uploaded it.  The logo appears on his plane, but when I put the bmp in the squads directory with his name, all I receive on my plane is a black box.

I will try out the TA and see if I can see it there.