Author Topic: Skin selection name enhancement  (Read 456 times)

Offline Mister Fork

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Skin selection name enhancement
« on: December 15, 2019, 02:59:44 PM »
We have a lot of really good/cool skins for a variety of aircraft. The challenge is that the naming convention is based on the unit/squadron. To make ID'ing skins easier, when looking at a list of skins, if a pilot or aircraft name is associated with a skin, that would appear if you mouse hover over the skin or appears under it.

Right now, the only way to figure out a particular skin is to know the squadron name prior to or to go through each one.

But if I could see the aircraft or pilot's name as well, it'll make selecting it that much easier.

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« Last Edit: December 15, 2019, 03:01:21 PM by Mister Fork »
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Offline Vraciu

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Re: Skin selection name enhancement
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2019, 08:46:44 AM »
I like the idea of being able to scroll through the skins using arrows instead of the pulldown menu.   Or to hover without having to click.   Then you could cycle through them relatively quickly. 
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Offline Greebo

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Re: Skin selection name enhancement
« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2019, 09:46:59 AM »
It's a good idea in theory, in practice though it would mean someone researching and then typing all those pilot or aircraft names for the hundreds of skins there are in the game. For many of the skins though there is already a brief history text written by the skinner when the skin was submitted to HTC. So possibly this text could be shown instead.

Offline Vraciu

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Re: Skin selection name enhancement
« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2019, 11:16:37 AM »
Maybe Hitech can add it as a feature going forward.   We can update the skin names as we go. 
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Offline Devil 505

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Re: Skin selection name enhancement
« Reply #4 on: December 16, 2019, 01:25:16 PM »
Then there are the skins that represent planes with no known pilot.
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