Game Makes New Cache Every Time

[Bullethead]

Skuzzy said:

Only people interested in skinning need the skin viewer.  Putting it on the standard download page will cause many people just to download and install it without understanding what it is for.

Well, the same can be said, with IMHO more justification, about the terrain editor.  Only people interested in making maps need the terrain editor, there seem to be fewer of them than skinners, and improper use of of the TE can cause more problems than just an old skin viewer porking your cache.  Yet the TE has its own download page, in the "Content Creation" section.  So why not put the skin viewer on that page, too?  That way, unless folks were really interested in making content, they wouldn't download the skin viewer.

The new skin viewer has not been built yet.

Why is it that a new skin viewer always lags weeks behind a game update?  As soon as a new plane comes out, there's always a big rush to start making skins for it.  And if it's known that old viewers cause cache problems to at least some people, and often don't work well with new planes anyway, why not update both the game and the viewer at once?

[rogerdee]

Bullet head i think your problem is the skin viewer.if the game plays ok a couple of times after you have first made the cach then you use the skin viwer.the game will then rebuild the cache again.

i take it you hae started skining again

[Bullethead]

rogerdee said:

Bullet head i think your problem is the skin viewer.if the game plays ok a couple of times after you have first made the cach then you use the skin viwer.the game will then rebuild the cache again.

That's exactly how it's working, or rather not working, for me.

i take it you hae started skining again

Yup.  I'm a big fan of the B-25.

[scottydawg]

Originally posted by Bullethead
rogerdee said:


That's exactly how it's working, or rather not working, for me.



Yup.  I'm a big fan of the B-25.

Awesome, what skins are you going to make? Or is that a secret?

[Denholm]

Originally posted by Bullethead
...Only people interested in making maps need the terrain editor, there seem to be fewer of them than skinners, and improper use of of the TE can cause more problems than just an old skin viewer porking your cache...

I have made some nice tutorials on the TE and the OE. Lots of people now understand how to use the majority of the functions available in the TE and the OE making it less likely that there will be major screw ups.

[Bullethead]

scottydawg said:

Awesome, what skins are you going to make? Or is that a secret?

Not a secret, just off-topic here.  Check out the "Red Wrath" thread in the Custom Skins topic.