Huge file size ?

[PatCartier]

Hi all,

 

As Juri_JS pointed out it to me, 4k of a whole squadron risk to be too heavy to play a campaign in good conditions. Of the blow I hesitate to paint skins in 2k or 4k.
What do you think about it ?

[Juri_JS]

To be more precise, I only meant the huge download size of campaigns when using large numbers of 4k skins.

I don't know if 4k skins have any impact on performance on older systems. If anyone has tested the performance impact of 4k skins I would be interested to hear the results.

[PatCartier]

ok, my english is so bad i've misunderstood ...but I would be interested to hear the results too.!

[KG200_Volker]

Skins are stored locally, nobody downloads skins from another person or server, before, during or after a mission, if you have it in your folders you see it if not, you ll see the default one, so don't wory.

 

The only impact might be in someones GFX card, but so far haven't heard a complain for low fps due to skins.

Edited February 22, 2017 by KG200_Volker

[Juri_JS]

We are talking about the skins mission builders use in their campaigns/missions, that are added to the download. 4K skins would triple the download size of my campaigns, that's why I've decided against using them in my missions. Though a compromise could be to use a 4k skin only for the player's plane and 2k skins for AI planes.

[Extreme_One]

We are talking about the skins mission builders use in their campaigns/missions, that are added to the download. 4K skins would triple the download size of my campaigns, that's why I've decided against using them in my missions. Though a compromise could be to use a 4k skin only for the player's plane and 2k skins for AI planes.

Why not consider creating two files, one including standard skins and one with 4K skins for those that don't mind the additional file-size.

 

Just and idea ... 

[=TBAS=Sshadow14]

im still soooo lost..

What skins used in mission campaign builder?

You cannot download the skins ingame only from this forum.

only things a player can download is mission files
 

Edited February 22, 2017 by =r4t=Sshadow14

[Dakpilot]

im still soooo lost..

 

What skins used in mission campaign builder?

 

You cannot download the skins ingame only from this forum.

 

only things a player can download is mission files

 

 

In some user made campaigns historical skins are included and in the missions the right aircraft will use them (example: correctly marked squadron)

 

Skins are included in the download as well as the mission files and any media

 

To include a full set of 4K skins with a campaign would make for a large download/bandwidth

 

Cheers Dakpilot

[Yakdriver]

offer the skin pack  in 4K once

and offer the campaigns that use them in  a different download

?

[=TBAS=Sshadow14]

I dont see the issue..

IF you have 40 planes with the same skin there will be little difference in performance drop as the skin is cloned
if you have 40 planes with different 4K skins then you might notice something on a low end PC

You only see the 4K skins when you less than 25-50Meters from plane much past that they drop in LoD
Around 1K you are looking @ a 256x256 skin at most ..@ 9km about a 16x16pix skin