Too many skins for certain planes (1000+ per plane)? (originally posted by Dupxo7)

[TG-55Panthercules]

This is copied from the old RoF Forums. 

 

Originally posted by Dupxo7:

I have a problem with availability of skins for several planes. I downloaded all 7 skinpacks from PWCG page and i have install them properly. But when I choose Quick Mission I see that some skins are missing... I have this situation with DFW C.V among others (1408 skins for this plane). For example all skins for FA23 and Austro-Hungarian skins are "missing" (I can't aplly them in hangar, can't see them on the list) and i am not quite sure why. I suppose that the reason is that game can't handle such big number of skins, because when I have installed "only" 500 skins all were available for Quick Mission mode. Am I right or I am not and you can apply every skin on plane even if you have 1400 of them for one plane?

 

Second question is - as I wrote above I had downloaded all skinpacks from PWCG page, but I still have a message in PWCG Window that some skins for several planes are missing... Why, they weren't even in skinpacks for PWCG (I have checked by their names) so how can I obtain them?

 

 

Panthercules, on 27 Apr 2020 - 20:42, said:

 

Yeah - I don't think the devs ever expected the huge amount of interest and willingness of people to populate the RoF skies with skins - they appear to have built in a limit of 499 or 500 skins that will show up on the drop down lists in the hangar screens, and several of the more popular plane types have way more skins than that (especially after all the skins were created for PWCG).

 

The way I worked around that was to put all the PWCG skins in JSGME mod packages, and only load them up when I planned to fly PWCG missions.  With PWCG, you can assign the skins to yourself and your squadron inside PWCG, so you don't need to use the game's hangar screen drop down lists for that.  Then, if I want to play regular game missions (career mode, QMB etc) I simply use JSGME to unload all the PWCG-specific skins, which makes the in-game hangar screen drop down lists much more manageable.

 

As to your second point, there have been a lot more skins done for PWCG than were included in those early packs Pat put on his site - so you may want to D/L the additional skins (check this thread for more details,https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/82595-useful-materials-for-rise-of-flight/  ) as well as this thread:  https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/84152-pwcg-skins-by-gooseh/

 

 

 

Dupxo7, on 28 Apr 2020 - 06:02, said:

 

Thank you for your very comprehensive answer.

 

Edited June 22, 2023 by TG-55Panthercules