Skin assignments to AI squads in IL-2 Career Mode

[the_dudeWG]

Hi, all. It is my understanding that IL-2 GB doesn't currently assign squadron default or Ace skins to AI planes in its career mode, correct? Just wondering because I don't fly any of the WW2 titles, so I have no idea how the current career mode uses skins. I'd like to know how skins will be handled in Flying Circus II since it is planned to implement a career mode of its own. I can't imagine a WWI career mode without the colorful aircraft of the Great War, but 1C doesn't manage Historical skins the way 777 used to, so I can't see how all of the available community created skins would be used. Maybe I'm totally wrong about this (hopefully), so I'd love to hear what some of you might think. Cheers!

[MarcoPegase44]

8 hours ago, the_dudeWG said:

Hi, all. It is my understanding that IL-2 GB doesn't currently assign squadron default or Ace skins to AI planes in its career mode, correct? Just wondering because I don't fly any of the WW2 titles, so I have no idea how the current career mode uses skins. I'd like to know how skins will be handled in Flying Circus II since it is planned to implement a career mode of its own. I can't imagine a WWI career mode without the colorful aircraft of the Great War, but 1C doesn't manage Historical skins the way 777 used to, so I can't see how all of the available community created skins would be used. Maybe I'm totally wrong about this (hopefully), so I'd love to hear what some of you might think. Cheers!

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Edited April 7, 2021 by MarcoPegase44

[LukeFF]

17 hours ago, the_dudeWG said:

It is my understanding that IL-2 GB doesn't currently assign squadron default or Ace skins to AI planes in its career mode, correct?

 

Not, that's not quite right - you can assign squadron default skins in career mode, as well as skins to aces. But, no one's ever added ace skins yet, probably because it's more appropriate to the WWI side.

[MarcoPegase44]

47 minutes ago, LukeFF said:

 

Not, that's not quite right - you can assign squadron default skins in career mode, as well as skins to aces. But, no one's ever added ace skins yet, probably because it's more appropriate to the WWI side.

 

I tried but I don't know if the possibility of ace skins works, maybe I didn't understand how to do it

 

But i assign squadron default skins in career mode and it works.

 

 

[the_dudeWG]

Thanks everyone for the replies. I'm guessing it might take a little work, but I would imagine those that get it sorted out will be able to pass along what they've been able to code for the skins. This community is pretty good for that type of stuff. S!

[Trooper117]

In PWCG you can assign individual skins to every aircraft in your squadron... each member will keep that skin until they are killed or replaced.

[LukeFF]

18 hours ago, the_dudeWG said:

Thanks everyone for the replies. I'm guessing it might take a little work, but I would imagine those that get it sorted out will be able to pass along what they've been able to code for the skins. This community is pretty good for that type of stuff. S!

 

Someone that did a whole lot of skin assignments for career mode in Rise of Flight was @TG-55Panthercules, so he'd be a good source of help. Otherwise, as far as I can see, the skin assignment system here works much the same as it does in ROF.

[migmadmarine]

Now that we have the beginnings of the auto-applied tac-codes system, I'd like to propose we start to make usable skins for career to provide the basic squadron colors that codes can then be applied on to. I've already made some for Pat to use, but I hope the rest of the community will be interested in assisting in making more. @the_dudeWG are you looking at the WWI or WWII side of the fence in particular?

[the_dudeWG]

@migmadmarine I’m only going to be involved with WWI most likely. I feel like the future career mode for FC2 would definitely be lacking if no one configured squadron defaults and ace skins. 

[migmadmarine]

Agreed, miss the visual variety. Hope to get a similar project going for WWII

[TG-55Panthercules]

On 4/8/2021 at 3:45 PM, LukeFF said:

 

Someone that did a whole lot of skin assignments for career mode in Rise of Flight was @TG-55Panthercules, so he'd be a good source of help. Otherwise, as far as I can see, the skin assignment system here works much the same as it does in ROF.

 

Yeah - I worked with VikS to add several hundred unit default and ace/other pilots' personalized skins to the career mode in Rof several years ago.  I'm pretty sure I still have the underlying data we used to support that effort, and I'd be happy to help with doing the same thing for the FC2 career mode, if they (the devs) want me to.  Of course, since there hasn't been a skin poll/submission/approval process like I administered for RoF, I don't have the same visibility that I had with RoF into which skins have been done for the FC planes at this point, so that would be a bit of a challenge, but nothing insurmountable as far as I can tell.

[the_dudeWG]

I’ve been trying to keep up with all the historical skins created up until now, @TG-55Panthercules and I was able to populate nearly all of the squads and most of the aces for the current version of PWCG for Flying Circus. I’m hoping all future historical skin submissions will be included in HSD since that will certainly make it easier to locate and incorporate into the game. It would be extremely helpful to have your insight and support, Panthercules, so hopefully they reach out to you. Cheers!

Edited April 26, 2021 by the_dudeWG

[co199]

I've started doing generic versions of my WW2 skins in anticipation of the marking system for more planes, but without rhyme or reason. I use PWCG as well so I pick a fighter group I want to flying and then do a squadron under that - for example, I just did the 22nd FS of the 36th FG P-47s.

[migmadmarine]

@co199 please see the the thread that I've started in this subforum, I'm trying to get together a more unified push for the WWII side of things, sounds like you've already got a chunk of the needed work done.