I started this thread so we could all show off and share our custom skins and ask and offer some modding/skining hints and tips.

Read the posts carefully before asking any new questions as there is already a lot of info here

Some GREAT stuff here and some very talented people.

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Originally posted by husker111:
Hi there,

I know that some of our more enterprising forum members have already done a few skins - (jamfanli that'll be you ! :-) and I was wondering if anyone else was planning on too.

I am a noob to this skinning thing, but can use photoshop pretty well, I'm just looking for some help appliying this to the art of skinning i.e. how can you put them in game, preview them etc etc.

I have found most of the stock skins so I am getting there, but does anyone have any tutorials, tips, walk thrus etc to help me on my way?

Cheers

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Originally posted by husker111:
Hi there,

I know that some of our more enterprising forum members have already done a few skins - (jamfanli that'll be you ! :-) and I was wondering if anyone else was planning on too.

I am a noob to this skinning thing, but can use photoshop pretty well, I'm just looking for some help appliying this to the art of skinning i.e. how can you put them in game, preview them etc etc.

I have found most of the stock skins so I am getting there, but does anyone have any tutorials, tips, walk thrus etc to help me on my way?

Cheers

oops.. Who is calling me?

Thank you and i just want to make game better

This is in fact not difficult, looking for material from the real picture, sometimes you also need to create your own, and will need

to extract the logos, Dressing them, Finally put these logos into Game texture file, adjust the location of each logo, finally do not

forget to save, this way you will see plane belong to you in the game

But if you lack some basic graphics editing software skills, Well, some may become difficult, you'd better learn some basic graphics editing skills, you can find some books or web pages, here, a friend shared this website may be helpful to you:http://www.simmerspaintshop.co...s/forum37-photoshop/

In fact, skins only to deceive your eyes, replace skins can not solve the fundamental, since many of the details necessary to rely on model.

I'm not that good at adobe either but i've been making/learning to do some really good skins next weekend i'm gonna start on fixing some of the messed up ones like a few other people have but if you need any help we can use vent or something and i'll give you the basics which will be plenty to make the skins you want

Hi Guys,

Thanks for your replies - rather than moaning about the game I think we can help improve it too. I have a lot of books to get inspiration from and really want to make some favourites of mine.

You probably already know but check out this site for markings/camofalgue - Wings Palette http://wp.scn.ru/



If I make a skin the thing that is bothering me is how I select it in game as I don't have the change skin option. Is this part of the demo mod that applies to the retail?

Anyway, before I mod the game I'm going to finish it and unlock all the planes normally then get cracking.

i've been messing around with textures, only with the F-15 active skin atm though (love that plane) but since it can e used for the F-15 skin aswell, i figured i might aswell use it for that

Heres a few of them, i'm a big fan of the AC series so 3 of them are from that, and the other is a blue camo skin referenced from a real F-15.

I just did a quick modification to the Draken skin, where i added the swedish "three crowns" roundels to the wings. And also som unit markings to the rudder, and a small insignia to a lokal airforce base (F17 in sweden).

I wanted to add the base number and roundel to the fuselage below the cockpit, and the "FARA" (danger) marking for the air intakes. But sadly the UV map is split on those places, so it would be a hassle to make it intersect perfectly

I'll probably modify The Gripen and Viggen later on, but those look much more user friendly for modification.

Very nice indeed!

Could you tell me how to get the skins into the game please?

Do you just put them in the data/textures/geoms folder?

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Originally posted by husker111:
Very nice indeed!

Could you tell me how to get the skins into the game please?

Do you just put them in the data/textures/geoms folder?

Yep

yep, you just copy the original files from the data2.pak file, int a folder you create inside the "data" folder called "geoms", inside a folder called "textures". The game will automatically read from those new folders rather than bothering to open the data2.pak instead.

Cheers - I'll try now.

ok extracted all the .dds files into data/textures/geoms and added the custom Harrier skins but they are not showing in game.

jamfanli refers to a "Change skins button" but this is where i fall down. How do you get this?

hmm, i tend not to go into that much fuss, i just rename the original skin and name the new one what the original was in the first place, so the first harrier skin would become something like "old_harrier_skin.dds" and the new skin i'd name "Av8B_harrier_P01.dds" (or whatever the actual name of the original was) its an easy way of putting the new skins into the game, but it means you lose the original when you play it.

Some of the planes original have two kinds of skin, i did not make any changes

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Impala-88

nice work Impala-88 and Foppemoa could you share it?

i want to make a Pixy skin just like that