IckyATLAS Posted July 8, 2020 Posted July 8, 2020 Dear Jason, it has been a very nice move to give access to the skins of the planes. May I ask if you could do the same for the ships. In this way we could as an example change the flag, or give the ship a bruised and damage look that is more realistic, of for abandoned ships on the shore, a damaged and rotten look. Or simply change the numbering and a lot of details. I know that you are striving for visual perfection so giving us access to that would be a step in that direction. Many thanks, IckyAtlas 4
Stonehouse Posted April 16, 2024 Posted April 16, 2024 On 7/8/2020 at 5:55 PM, IckyATLAS said: same for the ships. Old post I know but I came across this the other day and just saw one of @kraut1 screenshots from the EMG PNG campaign of an "IJN" Russian destroyer doing a torpedo attack on a US convoy. I thought how much better it would look if the destroyer had been painted up to look like an IJN one with an Imperial Japanese flag. Long story short the ship textures are held in ships.gtp and the Bayfield and FDT are in vehicles6.gtp. I'm no texture artist myself but I know that there are many in the community so I figured that they perhaps could use this info to create texture mods for the ships similarly to the great work done by @MajorMagee here: 1
kraut1 Posted April 16, 2024 Posted April 16, 2024 (edited) 5 hours ago, Stonehouse said: Old post I know but I came across this the other day and just saw one of @kraut1 screenshots from the EMG PNG campaign of an "IJN" Russian destroyer doing a torpedo attack on a US convoy. I thought how much better it would look if the destroyer had been painted up to look like an IJN one with an Imperial Japanese flag. Long story short the ship textures are held in ships.gtp and the Bayfield and FDT are in vehicles6.gtp. I'm no texture artist myself but I know that there are many in the community so I figured that they perhaps could use this info to create texture mods for the ships similarly to the great work done by @MajorMagee here: Hi Stonehouse, In general a good idea. -If there are some skin artists who are interested and willing to work on japanese ship skins - would be great! -Maybe at first only a minimum solution: to replace only the Russian Flag and the other Red Star insignias. -and maybe I will replace on some german / japanese freighters the german soldiers by russian ones. -but I myself have to care for to reduce the workload for me. I am very busy with many IL2: GB tasks... Added later: Question: in which *.gtp are the skins for "Blocks" defined? I mean the skins for the "Block" static planes and vehicles. Edited April 16, 2024 by kraut1
Stonehouse Posted April 16, 2024 Posted April 16, 2024 2 hours ago, kraut1 said: Question: in which *.gtp are the skins for "Blocks" defined? I mean the skins for the "Block" static planes and vehicles. Guessing one of the graphics gtp files. There are 3. Not sure which one 1
MajorMagee Posted April 16, 2024 Posted April 16, 2024 (edited) Blocks are defined in Luascripts\WorldObjects\Blocks. Those text files point to the related graphics folders defining the referenced objects. (p.s. I don't see any Blocks related to ships.) Ships.gtp holds the ship textures themselves. Edited April 16, 2024 by MajorMagee 1
IckyATLAS Posted April 16, 2024 Author Posted April 16, 2024 12 hours ago, Stonehouse said: Old post I know but I came across this the other day and just saw one of @kraut1 screenshots from the EMG PNG campaign of an "IJN" Russian destroyer doing a torpedo attack on a US convoy. I thought how much better it would look if the destroyer had been painted up to look like an IJN one with an Imperial Japanese flag. Long story short the ship textures are held in ships.gtp and the Bayfield and FDT are in vehicles6.gtp. I'm no texture artist myself but I know that there are many in the community so I figured that they perhaps could use this info to create texture mods for the ships similarly to the great work done by @MajorMagee here: Thank you for this information. Somebody may go through the hassle to do it. But what I would like is that the devs make it easy for us to do it, at least as easy for planes. This means a system to select custom ship skins, or custom vehicle skins. If they do it they will probably spark a lt of interest. Han always boasts that they want us to participate and contribute. I say ok, but first do the homework to make it easy for us. 2
Billsponge1972 Posted April 16, 2024 Posted April 16, 2024 Don't know if this helps but Off_ Winters did a mod repaint of a type7 to German skin in the mods section awhile back. 1
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