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Offline sandwich

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Custom plane skins
« on: August 26, 2010, 05:34:19 PM »
I think it would be pretty damn awesome if we could make custom skins for our planes, and it wouldnt need to be historically accurate or any such thing like that.

There would be the downloaded skins, which everybody that has the downloaded historical skins would see on your plane.

And then there would be the custom skins, which nobody else would see on your plane but you, and maybe, the people that downloaded your custom skin if you share it with the community.

Anyone viewing you with your custom skin would just see the default skin on your plane.

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Re: Custom plane skins
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2010, 07:05:32 PM »
No.

by the way, you can create a custome skin like you want and use it but it will only be visible to you when you play and not anyone else.


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Re: Custom plane skins
« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2010, 07:56:12 PM »
No.

by the way, you can create a custome skin like you want and use it but it will only be visible to you when you play and not anyone else.


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Re: Custom plane skins
« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2010, 08:35:14 PM »
Online too?

Not really sure but I think I recall HiTech saying when we got the skins that you could do it but it would only be visible on your front end not the other players. 


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Re: Custom plane skins
« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2010, 08:48:06 PM »
So saying that i could replace the .res file of say, P51D_1 with my own skin? It will show as mine custom on my computer, and the default on others  :headscratch:
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Re: Custom plane skins
« Reply #5 on: August 26, 2010, 09:07:51 PM »
If so, then theres really no need for me to have wished for it, is there?

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Re: Custom plane skins
« Reply #6 on: August 26, 2010, 09:26:22 PM »
Might be a good question to call and ask HTC about.  If you make a custom skin that works and run it while you're playing the does it show up in films?  I can see the skinners and film makers starting a 'black' market and maybe getting some return for the time that they put in. 
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Re: Custom plane skins
« Reply #7 on: August 27, 2010, 12:48:02 PM »
Eh I already see how this could be a bad thing. Someone would find a way to make a transparent skin so they could see better.
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Re: Custom plane skins
« Reply #8 on: August 27, 2010, 01:36:16 PM »
Eh I already see how this could be a bad thing. Someone would find a way to make a transparent skin so they could see better.

I remember making one on one of the older styled planes where you could 'block out' a certain color with a text file. I painted everything the same color and then blocked it out. From the out side the plane was almost totally transparent except for the prop and some other minor parts. It was to funny.


As for the OP I remember way back when only you could see your custom skins in the TA but no one else could.
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Re: Custom plane skins
« Reply #9 on: August 27, 2010, 11:02:07 PM »
Probably the easiest and most oft used method of providing maximum customability for avatars (which relates directly to our skins) is the provision of multiple options in various details, the squad logo is an example of this so we already know it's possible in AH. There could be multiple choices in colour/texture (e.g) for individual parts of each a/c like the fin, rudder, elevator, nose etc and maybe a choice of insignia (RAF, USAAF, Luftwaffe etc) so the odds of two guys ending up with exactly the same scheme are very long.

I'm not entirely sure why the community hasn't already demanded this, I guess it has something to do with an apparent commitment by the 'authorities' to stick rigidly to historical accuracy - strange really when you put it alongside the three country system. I only fly WW1 these days and generally up my favourite mount (Camel) in its' historically accurate skin against small hordes of Dr1, DVII, F2b and other Camels... if anyone can find an account of that scenario in the annals of history I'd be very interested to read it.

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Re: Custom plane skins
« Reply #10 on: August 28, 2010, 04:11:55 AM »
I'm sure this is why HTC doesn't let people have custom skins that they can distribute and fly online.   :noid




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Re: Custom plane skins
« Reply #11 on: August 29, 2010, 03:34:15 PM »
Well, it WOULD be a stealth fighter, minus the giant red icon that would give away your possition  :devil.


I remember doing something simmilar to that for the 110, B-25H, and 190F8. Made it a green simmilar to the ground color so that fighters would have a hard time seeing it. Then I stumbled into the icon issue.
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Re: Custom plane skins
« Reply #12 on: August 29, 2010, 04:38:41 PM »
Yeah but imagine the damage one could do with that type of skin in a tank. Plus I think some would think it was a bug or something seeing an icon but no plane.
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Re: Custom plane skins
« Reply #13 on: August 29, 2010, 06:00:08 PM »
Custom skins = only you can see it.

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Re: Custom plane skins
« Reply #14 on: August 29, 2010, 07:09:10 PM »
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