Skinning Planes in New 3D editor???

[Gremlin]

Only a couple of months ago I asked Hitech when we would have skinnable planes, the answer was "Never".  However I was asking about a situation where every user would be able to have custom skins for each plane.

I can understand why this is, imagine if every person had a different skin in the MA, can you imagine the number of textures your front end would have to download??

However even this level of functionality is more than welcome and I'm really looking forward to this.

[gatso]

The way I read it is that we will only ever see skins in H2H and the CT/Special events arena because they are inbuilt into the MAP.

A system where every pilot has the ability to skin his own plane in the MA is unworkable IMHO just because of the number of people that play AH, add in the number of pilots who would be continuously updating and editing their own skins and we have bandwidth HELL.

However... I could see that maybe there is room to expand the squad 'nose art' feature.  Every squad gets to create 1 skin for 1 aircraft and this could be an optional download much as Mitsu's sounds are at the moment (does anyone actually still use the default???) This still means a fairly big download but nowhere near what would happen if everyone had the option to edit every aircraft.  Some guidlines for the said skin would also apply much in the same way noseart has to pass HTC scrutiny before it is added. What ya all think?

Gatso

[Grimm]

Originally posted by senna
What about the cheaters, guys who want to see red 109s to shoot at?

Im that old unmentionable game I used to play,   Some Guys made Pink and purple and red skins.   The funny thing is it really didnt matter.   The Skin coloring isnt really visible until your fairly close.  By that time, you have the Icon for plane type anyway.   It never really gave them an edge over anyone else.   The same would most likely be true here.

A couple Guys from the Kraits Squadron made a wonderful utility to change plane skins.   It was called the Scenario Aircraft Changer (SAC)  Fidd and G42 I know had alot to do with it.  It was a marvelous thing to be able to set your entire plane set to match the scenario.

Perhaps HT can move toward something like this.   Maybe not only can it be terrain based,  but maybe an entire plane set available for the CMs to turn on.  

I think this is definatley a move in the right direction.

[BenDover]

hmm, i think i'll write 'SHOOT ME!' on spits, n1k, 262s...........

[NUTTZ]

Like the terrains everything is HTC approved.

NUTTZ

[BenDover]

except h2h ones, i could put a porn pic on the side of a mountain........hmmmmm, that gives me an idea.........