Winter Skin not activated

[DaneLicanin]

Hello Pat

 

I have the problem that not one Winter Skin is activated when the Winter starts ingame. While the whole coutry lies under snow, the germans and russians fly with their black/grey and black/green skins on the plane. ? Could this be a bug maybe?

[PatrickAWlson]

Depends on who, when, and the roll of the dice. 

 

Some units are never assigned winter white.  My understanding is that winter white was not universal, so I did not make it so in PWCG.  Also, winter white was abandoned after the winter of 42-43.  Finally, many skins have to be downloaded.  If you have not downloaded all of the skins used by PWCG the game will use defaults instead.  Finally, the skin selection algorithm is pretty complex, so even if a winter squadron skin is configured PWCG may be using a non-winter personal skin instead.

 

Or it could be a configuration bug where I intended to use a winter white skin and do not have it configured properly.   

 

Mostly I think it is personal skins being chosen over squadron winter skins.  As more skins were added to PWCG the ability to use personal skins became more prevalent, and squadron winter skins may have been sacrificed.  Maybe I could add some code to make replacement of winter skins less frequent, but it would take some thought.  The skin assignment algorithm is surprisingly complex so any changes have to be thought through.

[Rumberger]

Hi, I want to ask. I can rename individual skins for better clarity for me. To unify the type, format of the notation.

Thank you very much.

[PatrickAWlson]

PWCG is configured by the skin name.  If you rename the skins PWCG skin assignment will stop working.