Is there a way to put the skins on the static planes?
Thanx all!!

Nope. Static skins are hard coded into the game.

(unless you use that which cannot be named)

Which is a real pain, and I don't understand, since they use the flying planes as the basis.

Take a look at the B-17F (or maybe G). If you look closely inside the middle of the fuselage from teh dorsal nav position, you can see the navigator in there. They forgot to get rid of him I think. Shows that there is really no difference between the flying and static planes methinks.

So I kinda think there should be a fairly simple way to make that possible, but I know very little about such.

Sure would help the cmpns we build though. Kinda messes things up when you have a misn in 47 with C47s that have 1941 markings.

You may also notice that the default skins will sometimes change according to the map htat is used, but nobody knows how to affect that either.

I bet they do in the next sims though.

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Originally posted by -HH- Beebop:
Nope. Static skins are hard coded into the game.

(unless you use that which cannot be named)

You mean the "M"word???
And you´re right Enforcer, it would help in the campaings we build.
You got phone here Oleg!!!

only need it when you have a bright green plane in the middle of the desert of the snowy plains of russia. sucks. otherwise i dont care. either you destroy them or you pass them quickly on take off/landing. no big deal but its very obvius in the desert

Sadly, they could have made this very easy, like any skin with a certain name is the default. Also, it turns out that you could actually have a different default skin for each map if you wanted (like we have SUMMER, WINTER, and DESERT).

It IS easy as beebop suggests

tater

Yeah, but Oleg has made it clear that there will be no more input into IL2, since he is already overun with the new sims. I kinda wish they would accidetally let us know how to affect that though.

And static skins are very important and do get seen alot. On my current 1947 east-west project, you sit on the runway a bit and there are static planes all over the place. They play a major role in the story to. I could improvise a bit with teh P47 and corsair skins, since there are some stock skins that are at least a little similiar, but Im using natural metal skins on tempests, spits, B25s, A20s (as A26s), and having the static ones in camo and green just kinda messes it up.

Also, the P80skins im using dont jive with the late war stock one, and Im using late 47 insignia with the red stripe in it. So......

You can change the nationality which changes the skin. You may not solve the inappropriate skin problem, but not all planes would have the proper skin in a theater anyway. You can also substitute a similar looking plane which has the proper skin.

Tee hee.