What resolution do you need now?

[Kazan_HB]

Do you need Skuzzy skin map 1024 x 1024 or 2048 x 2048?
With 2048 I can make better detail.

[Skuzzy]

Kazan, I will get you an answer by Monday (May 21), unless one of the other guys here sees this and offers an answer.

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Do you need Skuzzy skin map 1024 x 1024 or 2048 x 2048?
With 2048 I can make better detail.

even using the 2048 when you convert it, it will still lose the detail that would be put into it......unless you are talking about the bump and spec maps....they don't get converted, from what I read in the new sticky.

[Greebo]

As far as I know almost all AH skins will remain in 1024 by 1024 res for the foreseeable future. The exception is very large aircraft, probably just four engined bombers. Currently the only one of these that is 2048 res is the B-29, however if and when the Lancaster, B-17 and B-24 are updated or any new one introduced I would expect them to be 2048 res skins as well.

It is mainly down to surface resolution, i.e. what area of the real object is represented by a single pixel. On something like a B-29 a single pixel could cover three or more times the scale area as on say an I-16 if they were built to the same res.

[Kazan_HB]

The game can use textures 2048 x 2048.
I did a test. For a small fighter plane
 Positive results were

[Greebo]

IIRC the game will accept any resolution of skin but HTC won't accept skins in anything but 1024 (except the B-29). If all the skins were submitted in 2048 res they would take up a lot more resources.

[Krusty]

2048 textures are ONLY for hi-res cockpits. They are internal only. There is no difference in external textures (except on the B-29, which requires more pixels). All externals (except B-29) must be submitted in 1024x1024, no larger, no smaller.