As stated afore.
I am a proponent of allowing the players to do whatever they want to their aircraft skin, and how it appears on THEIR FRONT END, it would show up only on their SCREENSHOTS, and GUN CAMERA/FLIGHT DATA RECORDER type animations ONLY.
HT Said he could see this in the future.
He also said that he would consider the standard 32X32 Postage Stamp Icon for online play. If he allowed this, and allowed 32 colors to go into the pixels I don't see why they couldn't pick sections of the aircraft that could be painted online. I.E. The Rudder, Spinner, A Mid Body or Mid Wing Stripe. I would make these squadron ONLY type markings. Everybody in the "BLACK NIGHTS SQUADRON" would be identified by their BLACK RUDDERS. THe White Rooks would have a white Stripe on EACH Wing.
Surely it can't be that difficult to code this in.
I also am in favor of Theatre Skins. P-39 and P-40 with US and Russian Markings.
Spits with RAF, RNZAF, or RAAF markings.
Me-109s with Desert, Forrest, and winter markings, Etc.
Skins for the Theatre/Terrain/Arena.
I believe that all of these options are viable.
I am willing to wait for them. (Though I must admit screen shots, or FDR/GC of my personally edited plane viewable on my Front end would be pretty cool.)
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"I could feel the 20MM Cannon impacting behind me so I made myself small behind the pilot armor" Charlie Bond AVG