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General Forums => Custom Skins => Topic started by: EDO43 on December 05, 2004, 12:17:17 AM

Title: What program do I use to skin?
Post by: EDO43 on December 05, 2004, 12:17:17 AM

Tried Illustrator, it doesn't recognize the .res file.  Windows paint didn't work either.  What program do you all use to edit the basic schemes?

Title: What program do I use to skin?
Post by: Octavius on December 05, 2004, 12:26:21 AM

The .res files are compiled at HTC :)  

In order to access the default skin files manually, do this:

-Open AH
-Go to the hangar
-Right click on the aircraft/vehicle of choice
-Click 'save skin'
-Find your /HTC/Aces High II/skins directory
-Inside, you'll find the saved skin in it's own directory.  This dir contains all the skin bitmaps associated with the aircraft/vehicle.

- then skin!

-To see your skin in the game, create another directory in the //skins folder of the particular aircraft/vehicle followed by a number.  

eg, if I have 3 existing skins of a Spitfire Mk.V, and I want to add a fourth, the path looks like this:

/HTC/Aces High II/skins/spit54

or the first P40E skin:

/HTC/Aces High II/skins/P40E1

-Inside this directory you'll create a text file of the same name, but without the trailing number.  "P40E.txt" or "spit5.txt."  In the file make a small description or name of the skin.  HTC recommends keeping it under or around 20 characters.

Title: What program do I use to skin?
Post by: rogerdee on December 05, 2004, 06:18:58 AM

ms paint is not good enough   something like paintshop pro  will be great fo skinning
rogerdee

Title: What program do I use to skin?
Post by: oboe on December 05, 2004, 08:52:37 AM

Illustrator is an Adobe product - if you an Adobe suite you may  have Photoshop as well.   That works well.

Title: What program do I use to skin?
Post by: eskimo2 on December 05, 2004, 10:37:06 AM

MS Paint - mostly

eskimo

Title: What program do I use to skin?
Post by: EDO43 on December 09, 2004, 10:05:47 PM

Thanx... appreciate it!