"and "paint your own plane" software available"
they do?
HT.. please?
Instead of having players make their own skins and making everyone download everyone else's skins, why not do something like HOMEWORLD did? Only take it a bit further.
Separate the skin of each plane into sections.
Tip of Wing
Center of Wing
Wing Root
Nose
Middle fuselage (aka, from behind engine to behind pilot seat)
Tail (behind pilot seat and covering the whole tail except the stabilizers and rudder)
Stabilizers
Rudder
Flaps
Engine (for buffs and multi-engined planes, where "nose" wont cover the engines)
Allow the player to set a color or preset texture on their plane. Say, I chose to paint my P-38 completely black except for the "Center of Wing", which I set as a black background with 2 white stripes (2 white stripes=preset texture) and for the nose, in which I choose a black background with a shark tooth preset texture.
This way, I THINK, players wont have to download textures or crap out their systems displaying them because AH will only x-mit a short "enemy plane has this texture scheme settings" packet which will make the game retrieve said settings from its own programing.
Also, give players the option in SETUP to display or not display player set camo settings if it bugs them.
Would be cool to hunt wobble in his pink p38
