Hello all !
I have a request, which I do not know if it is possible or not.
As you know, for the planes' default skins, the game uses tgb and tga files. But for custom skins, it uses bmp files.
Also, default skins are in the planes' folders (for example, they are in #DBW\Grumman J2F-Duck_2014.09.30\3do\Plane\GrummanDuck\summer for the J2f, and so on for all the planes of the game). Also, for some planes, there is a summer folder, a winter folder, a desert folder and so on.
The other inconvenient of this is that I think it is much easier to resize bmp skins than the tgb ones for the peoples which do not want to use the HiRez mod. But, as I have tried to reduce a tgb default skin file to 4097 Ko like for other skins, I do not know why I can not do it. It always results in a 3073 Ko skin, which work, but makes custom skins not available. Also, the tga and tgb system uses 4 skins of different sizes, instead of one
So, my request is the following :
wouls it be possible that the planes use as default a skin which is the skin folder of the plane (in Paintschemes/skins/...plane...), in standard bmp sizes (1024 or 2048) instead of those complicated tga and tgb files ?
It would really give all players the possibility to really choose if they want to use a HiRez mod or not (personnally, I do not, and I resize all the custom skins I download in standard bmp sized files, and it works perfectly). This would save a lot of space on our hard-disks !
I hope I have clearly explained what I mean...
Thanks for having been reading my annoying English !
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Topic: Skin mod : no more tga/tgb files ! (Read 1193 times)
