Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Custom Skins => Topic started by: Warty on November 11, 2016, 09:28:27 PM
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I have been kind of doing AH off and on over the past 5 years, mostly off, and have never really downloaded skins before now. Since I came back to check out AHIII, I went ahead and downloaded the skin pack from the web site. I've read that having all those skins can cause a stutter when you get near someone, while your system loads in the skin they chose. So I was planning on getting rid of all but the skins that interest me. But wow... painful. In game, you see the full name. In Windows, you see the plane + slot #. You can cross reference a skins page with the slot # and name, but it's still really time consuming. You have to load each skin in the game, then flip to the web site to get the slot #, then go to windows and remove that skin file.
I don't suppose anyone has a page up with a picture or 2 of each skin, with the name and file name?
Also... are all the skins 4096? I can't really see the difference between 1024, 2048, and 4096 in very limited "testing". As I understand it, lots of the skins have been around for 5+ years... were people doing them in 4096 back then?
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I don't suppose anyone has a page up with a picture or 2 of each skin, with the name and file name?
Also... are all the skins 4096? I can't really see the difference between 1024, 2048, and 4096 in very limited "testing". As I understand it, lots of the skins have been around for 5+ years... were people doing them in 4096 back then?
Short answer.. No,
Krusty had a page going but that hasn't been updated for quite awhile. Most skins are 1024, gradually been updating to 2048, but that is a slow process as it goes.
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I believe an improved skins download page with screenshots is on HTC's list of things to do, since for the last few years skinners have been asked to include a thumbnail and a screenshot of their skin when submitting their skin files. However even when that goes live a lot of earlier skins won't have screenshots unless the skin's maker decides to add them.
I expect a new skins download page won't happen until AH3 is more stable and until after a new skins submission page is completed.
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What Greebo said. Right now, the name of the skin, in game, is shown with the file name, on the downloads page (http://www.hitechcreations.com/downloads/downloads-skins).
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I have been kind of doing AH off and on over the past 5 years, mostly off, and have never really downloaded skins before now. Since I came back to check out AHIII, I went ahead and downloaded the skin pack from the web site. I've read that having all those skins can cause a stutter when you get near someone, while your system loads in the skin they chose. So I was planning on getting rid of all but the skins that interest me. But wow... painful. In game, you see the full name. In Windows, you see the plane + slot #. You can cross reference a skins page with the slot # and name, but it's still really time consuming. You have to load each skin in the game, then flip to the web site to get the slot #, then go to windows and remove that skin file.
I don't suppose anyone has a page up with a picture or 2 of each skin, with the name and file name?
Also... are all the skins 4096? I can't really see the difference between 1024, 2048, and 4096 in very limited "testing". As I understand it, lots of the skins have been around for 5+ years... were people doing them in 4096 back then?
This can be an issue IF your computer and/or connection is on the weak side. If your running 60 FPS and you internet connection is good/stable then you most likely wouldn't ever see an issue with a skin load.