Author Topic: AC skins (Read 339 times)

Viper17 · « **on:** February 16, 2002, 04:54:31 PM »

I was wondering that if the AH ac skins are BMP files it should be posible at least in theary to edit them. Because im seariously thinking of doing that if i can find the files. and if they do exist. wow

SOB · « **Reply #1 on:** February 17, 2002, 02:19:56 AM »

A suggestion before you go online after doing any such mod. While I doubt it will be as easy as finding some .bmp files to modify, if you manage to do it and go online with it, HTC may consider it a hack, and as such will probably boot you promptly and perminantly from the game.

I could be wrong tho', but still, it doesn't hurt to ask before you get yourself into a jam.

SOB

Seeker · « **Reply #2 on:** February 18, 2002, 05:04:45 AM »

Viper, the A/C aren't skinned with a BMP in the same way the A/C in AW were..they're a true 3D rendering, and as such arn't amenable to user manipulation.

To paint your plane, you'd need to code hack the game, with all that that implies.

The only BMP's in the game are the custom nose art patch (Squads only) and the gun sight.

On the other hand.....there's always the terrain editor if you feel a need to get expressive, although it's not the same, I know.

Fariz · « **Reply #3 on:** February 18, 2002, 05:58:02 AM »

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Originally posted by Seeker
Viper, the A/C aren't skinned with a BMP in the same way the A/C in AW were..they're a true 3D rendering, and as such arn't amenable to user manipulation.

To paint your plane, you'd need to code hack the game, with all that that implies.

Seeker, textures are 2d pictures, stored in one of graphix formats (popular or selfdeveloped), so they can be found and modified.

AH textures stored in RES file, and can be extracted and modified, but it is anyway reversed engineering, and prohibitted by licence agreement. BTW, modifying BMP's in AW was violation of copyrights too IMO.

Anyway, even if in AH you will hack and change textures, your opponents will still see the usual skin, so I would not bother to edit camo even if it was allowed.

Fariz

Seeker · « **Reply #4 on:** February 18, 2002, 06:23:45 AM »

Thanks for the correction, Fariz (not a P.C. genius).

However, modifying the BMP's in AW was officialy sanctioned. Infact, some members of my AW squad (the Kraits) made a program expressly to swap different skins in and out of the program, which ended up being adopted by Kesmai, and released on CD by them.

It was a very cool utility, as it meant that (if so whished) one could have the corect markings for every plane you saw in the air during a scenario.

As well as a pink Spitfire :-)

214thCavalier · « **Reply #5 on:** February 18, 2002, 09:56:13 AM »

Hmm and whats wrong with Pink spitfires ??

Sandman · « **Reply #6 on:** February 18, 2002, 11:31:13 AM »

We like Pink...

Seeker · « **Reply #7 on:** February 20, 2002, 05:06:20 AM »

"We like Pink..."

So do we......

Seeker · « **Reply #8 on:** February 20, 2002, 05:07:43 AM »

Whoops, the picture fell off!

Texman11 · « **Reply #9 on:** February 20, 2002, 05:23:04 AM »

As a former AW'er, the SAC utility, terrains by squirrel and
the differing A/C skins, let me get through a remote tour in
the ROK alot easier. I could fly in just about any climate imaginable. It was quite fun.

Just my .02

Texman