Skin Selecting in the ME

[jollyjack]

Now i am preparing a mission for publication, that runs for everyone owning BoP.

 

So i was checking it on a fresh downloaded installation of game 4.506.

 

All the Allied planes were supposed to be USAF or RAF, but loading it from the fresh installation all appear as USSR.

(normally i use my own prepared skins folder)

 

Now i know it's a Russian game, but selecting the right plane is tough without the corresponding names of skins in the default setup. 

Names are shown OK in the viewer, but not in the ME.

 

May be the devs can come up with a proper naming solution?, you cannot expect every one to be familiar with JSGME, but i might have to come up with a file for that now.

 

 

PS a 'bug':  The second default skin for an a20 is named 'British' in the viewer, but it's actually USSR.

Edited March 17, 2021 by jollyjack

[BlitzPig_EL]

You have to select the aircraft's country in it's property tab when adding it to the mission.  Then you will get the correct default skin.  It's the drop down box right above the skin selection box.  It's in the screenshot above that you took.

Edited March 17, 2021 by BlitzPig_EL

[jollyjack]

that's what i did (i think), i'll check it.

PS in the pic above it sayz United States, but other skins load easily.

Edited March 17, 2021 by jollyjack

[Jaegermeister]

You can load any skin. It is not dependent on the country.

 

I believe the default skin is hard coded and does not change according to country selection.

[Gambit21]

3 minutes ago, Jaegermeister said:

You can load any skin. It is not dependent on the country.

 

I believe the default skin is hard coded and does not change according to country selection.

 

Yep

4 hours ago, BlitzPig_EL said:

You have to select the aircraft's country in it's property tab when adding it to the mission.  Then you will get the correct default skin. 

 

Nope

Make an A-20 American, and you still get the default Russian skin.

[jollyjack]

12 hours ago, Gambit21 said:

Make an A-20 American, and you still get the default Russian skin.

 

Well it's tough to get the right skin loaded with the deafault skin set; you can only check it running the game it seems.

Not in the ME.

 

PS, We're not the only ones with skin problems:

Edited March 18, 2021 by jollyjack

[Jaegermeister]

4 hours ago, jollyjack said:

PS, We're not the only ones with skin problems:

 

That's gonna get a lock slapped on it real quick...

[jollyjack]

34 minutes ago, Jaegermeister said:

 

That's gonna get a lock slapped on it real quick...

 

PM me for the real picture ? ?

[Beebop]

I couldn't agree more about using numbers instead of names in the ME. 

Why?

What I do is use the Viewer to load the plane, find the default skins (names from setup screen used here), find the skin I want to use and count down from the first "official" skin.  The Default is "00" so the first named skin (often "White") is "01".

 

IMO it's a needless snipe hunt that could be easily solved by changing the numbers to the names.