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Title: Custom Skins.... did you know...?
Post by: Mister Fork on September 07, 2018, 02:45:34 PM
a. All the selectable skins made in Aces High come from community members.
b. Of all the hundreds of aircraft and vehicle skins submitted, hours of careful research go into all the skins including peer review for historical accuracy.
c. In addition to the peer review, HTC has strict guidelines on what kinds of skins are allowed to be submitted.  Guidelines include that all skins must have been used operationally during the wars and 100% historically accuracy. No exceptions. No pink mustangs or bolts. (Sorry Brooks  :neener:)
e. In addition to the hours of research that goes into a skin, all require hours of work for several graphical layers required on the skin that allows it to look realistic in-game.
f. All the custom skin graphic artists do it on their free time.

So, if you have a moment, don't forget to drop by the Custom Skins (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/board,71.0.html) forum and check out all the awesome work going on. And don't forget to pay compliments to the graphic artists who give up their free time to make this part of the game great.

:salute
Title: Re: Custom Skins.... did you know...?
Post by: Vraciu on September 07, 2018, 04:54:26 PM
Nice Post, Fork.   TY!   :salute
Title: Re: Custom Skins.... did you know...?
Post by: RELIC on September 07, 2018, 07:41:34 PM
a. All the selectable skins made in Aces High come from community members.
b. Of all the hundreds of aircraft and vehicle skins submitted, hours of careful research go into all the skins including peer review for historical accuracy.
c. In addition to the peer review, HTC has strict guidelines on what kinds of skins are allowed to be submitted.  Guidelines include that all skins must have been used operationally during the wars and 100% historically accuracy. No exceptions. No pink mustangs or bolts. (Sorry Brooks  :neener:)
e. In addition to the hours of research that goes into a skin, all require hours of work for several graphical layers required on the skin that allows it to look realistic in-game.
f. All the custom skin graphic artists do it on their free time.

So, if you have a moment, don't forget to drop by the Custom Skins (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/board,71.0.html) forum and check out all the awesome work going on. And don't forget to pay compliments to the graphic artists who give up their free time to make this part of the game great.

:salute
:aok
Title: Re: Custom Skins.... did you know...?
Post by: Puma44 on September 07, 2018, 10:01:01 PM
 :aok :salute
Title: Re: Custom Skins.... did you know...?
Post by: Shuffler on September 07, 2018, 10:42:17 PM
We have some great skinners.
Title: Re: Custom Skins.... did you know...?
Post by: 1stpar3 on September 08, 2018, 12:28:54 AM
Except for than one guy...Vraciu or something. All he does are Horse leather? Pony skins...SORRY :devil Eh hes ok when hes INVERTED :rofl And gesundheit :neener:
Title: Re: Custom Skins.... did you know...?
Post by: Vraciu on September 08, 2018, 08:55:33 AM
Except for than one guy...Vraciu or something. All he does are Horse leather? Pony skins...SORRY :devil Eh hes ok when hes INVERTED :rofl And gesundheit :neener:

It’s an outrage!   :old:
Title: Re: Custom Skins.... did you know...?
Post by: DubiousKB on September 08, 2018, 01:14:23 PM
Now, if only we could easily distinguish updated skins from "old" skins, we'd all look better.  :devil

Salute skinners!
Title: Re: Custom Skins.... did you know...?
Post by: Vraciu on September 08, 2018, 01:32:41 PM
Now, if only we could easily distinguish updated skins from "old" skins, we'd all look better.  :devil

Salute skinners!

I would say the skins download page is a partial help.  Any skins there with icons are probably updated.  Any orphans are probably not if you check that listing. 

Most of the P-51s are updated.   There are still a few that need work of course but...
Title: Re: Custom Skins.... did you know...?
Post by: DubiousKB on September 08, 2018, 02:01:11 PM
I would say the skins download page is a partial help.  Any skins there with icons are probably updated.  Any orphans are probably not if you check that listing. 

Most of the P-51s are updated.   There are still a few that need work of course but...

Yeah, I've said it before, just give the user, in game, an easy way to tell which skins are updated for AH3, that would be super nice.  No biggie...
Title: Re: Custom Skins.... did you know...?
Post by: Vraciu on September 08, 2018, 02:32:39 PM
Yeah, I've said it before, just give the user, in game, an easy way to tell which skins are updated for AH3, that would be super nice.  No biggie...

An asterisk for AH2 skins would definitely help.    Post in WISHLIST and see if Skuzzy can get that done somehow.   It may be a bit of work though.  Not sure how that goes from a coding standpoint.
Title: Re: Custom Skins.... did you know...?
Post by: Dundee on September 08, 2018, 05:09:02 PM
See Rule #4
Title: Re: Custom Skins.... did you know...?
Post by: Vraciu on September 08, 2018, 05:29:22 PM
See Rule #4
Title: Re: Custom Skins.... did you know...?
Post by: Devil 505 on September 08, 2018, 05:43:34 PM

(Breathing....counting to ten...)

Nevermind...

Exactly. Who gives a crap what the quitter thinks?
Title: Re: Custom Skins.... did you know...?
Post by: BBQsam on September 08, 2018, 11:08:22 PM
Well this Pink-40 is "historically correct".



(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ca/e3/79/cae379b377d8b92e807f8ac43e73043d.jpg)

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7296/12450648273_ffaed6b5c5_b.jpg)


Title: Re: Custom Skins.... did you know...?
Post by: Vraciu on September 08, 2018, 11:13:26 PM
Well this Pink-40 is "historically correct".



(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ca/e3/79/cae379b377d8b92e807f8ac43e73043d.jpg)

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7296/12450648273_ffaed6b5c5_b.jpg)


Not exactly...

Title: Re: Custom Skins.... did you know...?
Post by: Mister Fork on September 09, 2018, 09:43:34 PM
Well this Pink-40 is "historically correct".



(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ca/e3/79/cae379b377d8b92e807f8ac43e73043d.jpg)

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7296/12450648273_ffaed6b5c5_b.jpg)




Daggum.


Well, I don’t think it saw combat and wouldn’t pass the ops requirements but wow. A pepto pink kitty!
Title: Re: Custom Skins.... did you know...?
Post by: Vraciu on September 09, 2018, 10:40:10 PM
Daggum.


Well, I don’t think it saw combat and wouldn’t pass the ops requirements but wow. A pepto pink kitty!

It's an attempt to show the "pink fade" of the desert camo P-40s.  It's too glossy and too pink.   A bit of artistic license.    The owner, Suzanne Parish, was a WASP and flew during the war.  She and her husband founded the Kalamazoo Air Zoo I believe...   She flew that thing into her 70s...