[MOD] Correct Markings for Kuban Official Skins

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Edit: This mod is obsolete. It has been superseded by this mod created in collaboration with Panthercules.

 

This mod replaces all default skins for Battle of Kuban plus G-6 collector plane with versions that have correct national insignia (Hakenkreuz and hakaristi). Do not download this mod if you don't want to see these symbols. The textures are still only 2K, like the defaults.

 

You can download the full package here.

 

Alternatively, the following are skins for individual aircraft:

Bf 109 G-4

Bf 109 G-6

Bf 110 G-2

Fw 190 A-5

He 111 H-16

Hs 129 B-2

Install using a mod enabler of your choice, such as JSGME. The skins will appear in all game modes with MODS ON option selected. Note that the preview images in the menu will be unchanged.

 

Let me know if you find problems.

Edited March 28, 2018 by Mitthrawnuruodo

[TG-55Panthercules]

Just curious - how did you manage to get access to the default skins in order to modify them in this fashion?  When I did my default replacement packages (just for the generic defaults, not all the other standard skins, posted here): 

 I had to create new default skins because I could not open/access the ones in the game.

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Read from memory at runtime and rebuilt the DDS files. I do not have access to the GTP packages. 

[TG-55Panthercules]

Cool - that's well beyond my current understanding/capability to do, but I'm glad to hear that it's possible. I'm almost done with my mod packages to replace all the relevant standard default skins, but I would love to have packages of all those other great standard skins with the proper historical markings. 

[kendo]

FANTASTIC!! Many thanks. Have installed both.

 

I hope you can eventually do all the German aircraft with authentic markings.

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Added Fw 190 A-5. See above.

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Added Hs 129 B-2. See above.

[Trooper117]

Good god... Many thanks you people.

At last, correctly marked German aircraft... You deserve some sort of medal!

[Blooddawn1942]

Yes. That's a very welcome addition. 

Thank You very much. 

Maybe someone is willing to edit the german medals as well? 

[Pierre64]

Mittrawnuruono, please, could you add the default skins of P-39, A-20, Yak-7 to have a first look before the future release of official templates ?

Thanks

[SJ_Butcher]

Now we are talking about man! this is awesome, can you change all the axis aircraft and then upload just one file?

[Blooddawn1942]

42 minutes ago, SJ_Butcher said:

Now we are talking about man! this is awesome, can you change all the axis aircraft and then upload just one file?

This would be outstanding! 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

6 hours ago, Pierre64 said:

Mittrawnuruono, please, could you add the default skins of P-39, A-20, Yak-7 to have a first look before the future release of official templates ?

Thanks

Done. 

 

[CastorTroy]

In career, the lead aircraft has the vanilla insignia. The others however show the downloaded insignia.

 

Thanks for this! 

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

19 minutes ago, CastorTroy said:

In career, the lead aircraft has the vanilla insignia. The others however show the downloaded insignia.

 

Thanks for this! 

 

Judging by the retractable tailwheel and antenna position, the pictured aircraft seems to be a G-2 (not included in my mod). To cover BoS and BoM aircraft I recommend the mod by Panthercules.

[CastorTroy]

That would be it. Thanks again!

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Added He 111 H-16 and Bf 110 G-2. See above.

 

When combined with the mod for BoS and BoM from Panthercules, I believe that correct default skins are now available for all aircraft in Il-2. Therefore, I consider my project complete. 

 

The next step will undoubtedly be 4K skins. However, I'll leave that to the experts. 

[CastorTroy]

Thanks to you both! The correct insignia really helps complete the immersion. Thanks again.

[The_Gunfighter]

1 hour ago, Mitthrawnuruodo said:

Added He 111 H-16 and Bf 110 G-2. See above.

 

When combined with the mod for BoS and BoM from Panthercules, I believe that correct default skins are now available for all aircraft in Il-2. Therefore, I consider my project complete. 

 

The next step will undoubtedly be 4K skins. However, I'll leave that to the experts. 

 

 

Well....until BoBodenplatte is released hopefully!!!???

[Jocko]

1 hour ago, Mitthrawnuruodo said:

Added He 111 H-16 and Bf 110 G-2. See above.

 

When combined with the mod for BoS and BoM from Panthercules, I believe that correct default skins are now available for all aircraft in Il-2. Therefore, I consider my project complete. 

 

The next step will undoubtedly be 4K skins. However, I'll leave that to the experts. 

Thanks so much for these...been waiting for this possibility for a long time.  But is there no love for the Ju87?

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

14 minutes ago, Jocko said:

But is there no love for the Ju87?

Please see the mod by Panthercules for some Stuka skins. 

 

23 minutes ago, VF31_Gunfighter said:

Well....until BoBodenplatte is released hopefully!!!???

LOL. 

[Missionbug]

Thank you very much for your work Mitthrawnuruodo, really appreciated and a great addition to the game.

 

Wishing you all the very best, Pete.

[BOO]

Hello Mitthrawnuruodo

 

First thanks for this (and to Panthercules too). 

 

I wonder if you could help my simple mind to understand something : If I follow the file path data/graphics/planes/MODEL/textures in the downloaded file I get to a .dds file with a skin. If I do the same in the game's root, its a dds file in purple which I think is a normal map. I can see that the naming convention is different so I know that they are for different aspects of the model but I'm really struggling to get me head around why the single skin dds is there. 

 

Your mod clearly works so I'm not questioning it  I just wondered why I'm seeing what I'm seeing.

 

Kind Regards

 

BOO

 

 

[Voidhunger]

default skin for g6 has still censored swastika

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

9 hours ago, BOO said:

If I follow the file path data/graphics/planes/MODEL/textures in the downloaded file I get to a .dds file with a skin. If I do the same in the game's root, its a dds file in purple which I think is a normal map. I can see that the naming convention is different so I know that they are for different aspects of the model but I'm really struggling to get me head around why the single skin dds is there. 

I think it was done to make development more convenient by keeping the huge skin library separate from the models while having one default skin very close.

30 minutes ago, Voidhunger said:

default skin for g6 has still censored swastika

I am unable to reproduce this. Which skin is it?

Edited March 21, 2018 by Mitthrawnuruodo

[VBF-12_Stick-95]

Mitthrawnuruodo, thanks for this mod.  It is installed and working.   I have been waiting to see historically correct German aircraft markings for the Official skins since the game release.  If I am following this correctly you have replicated all Official German skins of BOK with the hakenkreuz.  These are placed in the Graphic/Skins and /Planes folders.  TG-55Panthercules on the other hand, is replicating only the Official default German (with hakenkreuz) and VVS skins of BOS and BOM with regard to winter vs summer maps.  These are placed in the Graphics/Planes and SWF/IL2 folders.  Only the summer or winter files can be used at one time.  The two approaches seem to be achieving slightly different goals.  Please correct me if I am wrong.

 

My goal is to have all Official German aircraft skins with the hakenkreuz on it.  I am not concerned with VVS aircraft nor about winter vs summer.  Do you plan to expand your approach to BOS and BOM German aircraft?

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

1 hour ago, VBF-12_Stick-95 said:

Mitthrawnuruodo, thanks for this mod.  It is installed and working.   I have been waiting to see historically correct German aircraft markings for the Official skins since the game release.  If I am following this correctly you have replicated all Official German skins of BOK with the hakenkreuz.  These are placed in the Graphic/Skins and /Planes folders.  TG-55Panthercules on the other hand, is replicating only the Official default German (with hakenkreuz) and VVS skins of BOS and BOM with regard to winter vs summer maps.  These are placed in the Graphics/Planes and SWF/IL2 folders.  Only the summer or winter files can be used at one time.  The two approaches seem to be achieving slightly different goals.  Please correct me if I am wrong.

 

My goal is to have all Official German aircraft skins with the hakenkreuz on it.  I am not concerned with VVS aircraft nor about winter vs summer.  Do you plan to expand your approach to BOS and BOM German aircraft?

It seems that your understanding is correct. I may have caused some confusion by using the term 'default' instead of 'official' when referring to the skins in my mod. 

 

I chose to modify the official BOK skins because many aircraft did not have custom skins yet. Official skins modified with Hakenkreuz for BOS have existed for years, but nobody has made a modpack to actually replace all the official skins. I do not want to modify those skins again because it is a rather slow process. Also, it seems that better-looking 4K skins are becoming standard. Therefore, I prefer to avoid spending time working with 2K skins that will soon become obsolete. 

 

Ideally, we'd like to have one big collection of all official skins in 4K with Hakenrkreuz and updated menu images, as well as the option to switch to winter default skins. I think that talented artists will create these skins and someone will assemble a mod like this. It just might take some time. 

 

 

[VBF-12_Stick-95]

Thanks, ya, I can imagine how laborious it would be.  I didn't think about the possibility of replacing the 2K official skins with 4K and with the hakenkreuz.  So one could put together a set of existing custom 4K skins, change the names to the Official 2K ones and place them in the Graphics/Skins/"plane" folders and that would work?  If MODS were off I assume the game would see these as custom skins for mp.  I have most of the 4K normalmaps in place.

 

How does one find a list of the Official skin names by aircraft?

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

1 hour ago, VBF-12_Stick-95 said:

So one could put together a set of existing custom 4K skins, change the names to the Official 2K ones and place them in the Graphics/Skins/"plane" folders and that would work?

Yes, that would probably be the best solution. 

1 hour ago, VBF-12_Stick-95 said:

How does one find a list of the Official skin names by aircraft?

The skins are nameofaircraft_skin_01, nameofaircraft_skin_02, .... They can be found by looking at the contents of the Skins.gtp files with the help of one of the available unGTP utilities. 

[Voidhunger]

10 hours ago, Mitthrawnuruodo said:

I think it was done to make development more convenient by keeping the huge skin library separate from the models while having one default skin very close.

I am unable to reproduce this. Which skin is it?

First one in G4 and G6 (i dont have other skinpacks)

[kendo]

All my G4 and G6 skins,  including default, have proper swastika

[VBF-12_Stick-95]

OK, once I figured out the skin I want as default goes in the Textures folder without a number all is working great.  I've made several 4K skins over time, mostly VVS, and it's nice to see them flying in QMB, etc.

 

Thanks for your help Mitthrawnuruodo.

[Voidhunger]

23 hours ago, Mitthrawnuruodo said:

I am unable to reproduce this. Which skin is it?

Its working now, sorry. My mistake, I forgot to copy the texture file to planes folder.

[Mainstay]

Thank you for this mod. Will you make it for the remaining Luftwaffe aircraft aswell?

 

Nvm is just read a few comments above.

Edited March 24, 2018 by Mainstay

[=gRiJ=Roman-]

On 3/19/2018 at 4:42 PM, Mitthrawnuruodo said:

This mod replaces all default skins for Battle of Kuban plus G-6 collector plane with versions that have correct national insignia (Hakenkreuz and hakaristi). Do not download this mod if you don't want to see these symbols. The textures are still only 2K, like the defaults.

 

You can download the full package here.

 

Alternatively, the following are skins for individual aircraft:

Bf 109 G-4

Bf 109 G-6

Bf 110 G-2

Fw 190 A-5

He 111 H-16

Hs 129 B-2

Install using a mod enabler of your choice, such as JSGME. The skins will appear in all game modes with MODS ON option selected. Note that the preview images in the menu will be unchanged.

 

Let me know if you find problems.

 

Are you going to do the same with BOM and BOS?  I just love it! Historical accurate! 

 

Just a little thing ... in G6: Molnár, Weiss and Schilling the Swastika is covered by the camo painting in some parts, is this intentional?

Edited March 25, 2018 by PA_Spartan-

[TG-55Panthercules]

2 hours ago, PA_Spartan- said:

 

Are you going to do the same with BOM and BOS? 

 

Since it appears that Mitthrawnuruodo does not intend to extend his efforts to cover the official skins for the BoS and BoM plane set, I've decided to go ahead with doing those.  There are a lot of them, so it may take a couple of days or so before the mod packs will be ready. 

 

@ Mitthrawnuruodo - if I've misunderstood your posts/ intentions and you do want to do some of the other BoS/BoM planes, that would be fine with me.  I've only got the Bf-109 F-4 and Bf-109 G2 done so far - I don't mind doing the rest myself, or letting you do some if you'd like - I'd just hate for us to be duplicating efforts unnecessarily.  (and yeah, it might help dispel some confusion about the difference between our respective mods so far if you could edit your first post/thread title to use "Official skins" instead of "Default skins".)

Edited March 25, 2018 by TG-55Panthercules

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

18 minutes ago, TG-55Panthercules said:

@ Mitthrawnuruodo - if I've misunderstood your posts/ intentions and you do want to do some of the other BoS/BoM planes, that would be fine with me.  I've only got the Bf-109 F-4 and Bf-109 G2 done so far - I don't mind doing the rest myself, or letting you do some if you'd like - I'd just hate for us to be duplicating efforts unnecessarily.  (and yeah, it might help dispel some confusion about the difference between our respective mods so far if you could edit your first post/thread title to use "Official skins" instead of "Default skins".)

Good idea. I've edited the title. 

 

I haven't touched anything beyond Kuban, but I could start working on Moscow. It seems there is a lot of interest; many people would be pleased if all these skins were available soon. 

 

I've also noticed that my Kuban release was rather rushed. The menu images are unchanged, and I missed some of the faint swastikas on Romanian skins. Therefore, I think I will revisit this mod. 

2 hours ago, PA_Spartan- said:

Just a little thing ... in G6: Molnár, Weiss and Schilling the Swastika is covered by the camo painting in some parts, is this intentional?

I'm not sure how to handle this. The official skins have this paint, but is it historical? I didn't give it much thought and left the blotches unchanged.

[TG-55Panthercules]

2 hours ago, Mitthrawnuruodo said:

I haven't touched anything beyond Kuban, but I could start working on Moscow. It seems there is a lot of interest; many people would be pleased if all these skins were available soon. 

 

 

Sounds good - if you want to do the BoM plane set I'll just finish up the BoS plane set I've started on.

[Trooper117]

Happy day's you two

[kendo]

8 hours ago, TG-55Panthercules said:

 

Since it appears that Mitthrawnuruodo does not intend to extend his efforts to cover the official skins for the BoS and BoM plane set, I've decided to go ahead with doing those.  There are a lot of them, so it may take a couple of days or so before the mod packs will be ready. 

 

...

 

That's great news. I did unpack the skins myself a few days ago with a view to doing the rest myself. Unfortunately my Photoshop skills are lacking a little. Would love to see the rest done.

 

7 hours ago, Mitthrawnuruodo said:

Good idea. I've edited the title. 

 

I haven't touched anything beyond Kuban, but I could start working on Moscow. It seems there is a lot of interest; many people would be pleased if all these skins were available soon. 

 

I've also noticed that my Kuban release was rather rushed. The menu images are unchanged, and I missed some of the faint swastikas on Romanian skins. Therefore, I think I will revisit this mod.

 

 

 

Great.

 

Many thanks to you both.