Planes for France 1940!

Thanks Gert,
I already found it while seraching for belgian skins. But they are all marked so i assume we can’t use them.

The other question is. Is there any sense in painting AI? Is the SE-emgine able to pick the right skins or will it go with the standard ones?

They are marked yes, too bad…

excepting for hosting this SE for 310/322/ and 51

Buying TrackIR is possible, 165 € with mastercard
Getting a new PC is possible, 3.000 € with mastercard

Brigstock hosting SE is priceless… !! :slight_smile:

Concerning the skins,

If everbody agree and download your skinpack Paf, you can use the Belgian roundels, and if it’s not much work add a personal (skin) letter/number for each pilot, what can be used each mission.
Then choose option no markings for flying.

:slight_smile:

…as for skins. I’ll need the pack so I can add them to the template. Once they’re in the template everytime a mission is generated the skins will be added to the mission file and all AI will then display the skin from the pack.

In regard of the belgium aircraft it maybe that we’ll need A/C with full markings on them. The rest of the pack should be blanks, except for the rudder markings. I haven’t got IL2 installed at the moment to test what markings are displayed but we do have time to make adjustments as needed.

Personal skins need to be collected and adding to the skinpack too. Once they’re in only skins in the pack should be used. Otherwise in a big SE mission with all the ground action going on and 10, 15 or even 20 players in, uploading/downloading new skins at 1 meg to all players will drag a servers bandwidth down to it’s knees.

Thanks for the information.

The Skinpack is mainly finished but still some work to do. The Problem is, that I am away from my pc till Monday. SO, would it be ok when I finish it in the beginning of next week?
One question remains. In the planeset i read Db3b/Il4. The Problem is, that IL4 and DB3b use different Skinfolders. I already started the skin on the Il4. Just want to make clear before putting to much work in a wrong skin :wink:

No problem my end.
Can I propose that all AI skins be called SE_Ardennes.bmp. That way I can complete any work on the template using placeholders until the pack is finished. All it means is that each AI skin you complete should be called SE_Ardennes.
I’ll check on the IL4 DB3b. If there are any problems we can change the template to suit.

Sorry mates,
I had no time this week to sit more than a few minutes at my pc :frowning: and thats why there are no news on the skinpack. As Brigstock is using placeholders I think there won’t be a problem to start the campaign and add the skins later. Its up to u. On weekend i have time to finnish the pack.

No need to say sorry, you are doing a big job alone!!!

If there is no problem to add skins later we can start tonight. If its not possible, and after all the work Paf had done, its ok for me to wait to next Monday.

IMO let’s put it over the weekend and start on monday with fresh new shiny skins. I think it should give Brigstock also less work.

Ok then. Maybe we can put up some skins for blue side.

I am using Brigstock’s skin for the Emil and love it.

LOL me the same skin when flying the blue :slight_smile:

The template has been edited to suit. All AI will wear a skin called SE_Ardennes.bmp. As long as everyone has a skin called that for any of the aircraft in this campaign they will see the AI in it. If a player takes an aircraft and uses the default skin they will have to select it then everyone will see it. All skins including personal ones really should be downloaded and placed in the relevent skin folders prior to flying in any of the missions. It will be a largish skin pack and will take up a lot of bandwidth if not downloaded in advance. For example 20 skins being uploaded to say 3 players will mean 60 megs of data piggybacking the host datastream.

EDIT:
Hurricane and Glad the exception. There will be two types needed named
SE_Ardennes_GB.bmp
SE_Ardennes_Belgium.bmp

Roger!

Axis skins are already included, like most allied ones :wink: (from skinners all around the world)
Maybe I will show all of them tomorrow and you can say if you want changes.

Good show, can’t wait :slight_smile:
Very much apreciating your effort Paf :slight_smile:

After long search i didn’t find a Cr42-template or a skin only with belgian markings. This means, everybody and AI will fly with the same numbers on the plane. Is this ok, with you?

As you maybe can see, i added 4 different 109’s to the skinpack, so there is abit a choice. The Ai will fly the one infront.

I found no good skins for the following planes:

L2D
Fi 156
Fw189

Maybe its ok to use standard skins for them?