4KDefault Skin Pack (ATT: Skinners permission request!)

[=TBAS=Sshadow14]

Hello Skinners of current 4K skins available for planes in IL2 -BOx
Firstly thanks for your great works and nice skins.

I have put together a Simple Skin pack Installer of all the current DEFAULT 4K skins and 4K bumpmaps.
And uploaded it to a dropbox
- Easy self installer all thats needed is user backups Original Bumpmaps

I just wanted your permissions before posting the skinpack to forums.

(if it's ok ill edit this post with skinpack link)




 

[A-E-Hartmann]

Good idea.  

[BlackHellHound1]

I am fine with that. (was kinda waiting for someone to do this)

I would ask that you also post the names of all the 4K skin creators either in the download or here on the forums. They do deserve credit for their work.

 

BlackHellHound1

 

[=TBAS=Sshadow14]

Yeah i was planning on it.
I put in the installer the following as i could not remember all their names but ill look up who i downloaded the file from.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This is just a repack of all current 4K DEFAULT Skins
*I take no credit for the great works done in these files.
*All skin Copyrights and credits goto their respective artists
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Think most are IDCP and a few yours (Blackhellhound) and 1 or 2 from randoms.
Ill have to look them all up and wait for answer from others.
 

[ICDP]

That is a great idea.

[WIS-Redcoat]

Yes please

[=TBAS=Sshadow14]

yeah ill have to look up the skin makers and msg them 1 by 1 it seems as they not all seeing this thread :|

[VBF-12_Stick-95]

First of all thank you for doing this, great idea.  I do have a suggestion.  Due to the size of the skins involved you might want to break the files into smaller categories, such as by plane.  There are three reasons for this.  First, some do not have broadband available and it could take a long time to download, which could mean some that want it don't bother.  Second, some may only want specific planes and avoid a huge download to get what they want.  And third, if the idea is to keep these zip files updated as new skins become available, you have a smaller subset to work with.  Just my thoughts.

 

Cheers!

[=TBAS=Sshadow14]

That would make the skin pack pointless as they already seperated by planes when the skin packs are made.

The entire skinpack uses high compression (require 2GB Ram to uncompress the installer)
The Entire download is only 370mb so not worth splitting that really as that takes about 20-80 seconds to download for most modern internet connections..

Any later version skin packs i release as more skin packs come out can simply be installed over the stop of this one and it will update and replace all the default camo style skins anyways. (simple Yes to overwrite all option)


Personal msg sent to skinners.
waiting to hear back from rest then ill edit OP and Add link
 

Edited May 27, 2017 by =R4T=Sshadow14

[VBF-12_Stick-95]

Only 370mb isn't too bad.  I zipped (7z) 12 4K skins and it was around 150mb.  Maybe I was thinking there were more 4K skins than there are.

[=TBAS=Sshadow14]

The skin pack has 73 files in 19 plane folders (skins)
Than an additional 15 files in 15 folders (bumpmaps)

The compression ratio is actually pretty Great using FreeAcr Archiver

Uncompressed the files total in skinpack total 1.72GB
With FreeArc compression on Ultra drops it down to 374MB)

Note: doing this means only Computers with 2GB FREE RAM Can decompress the skinpack but that ram is less than game needs as min Req so..
 

[Highwayman]

Great idea, looking forward to it

[=TBAS=Sshadow14]

Skin Pack Released

Forum Link here.
https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/29513-release-il2-4k-default-skinpack-installerwith-bumpmaps/

Mods can you please Lock this thread now as its no longer "needed"

Edited May 28, 2017 by =R4T=Sshadow14