...some may have found out already:

If you want your whole Squad to fly with a Custom-Skin, name it:
Plane_t_Squad 19Year-you-fly-in
This is particulary useful, if you fly a Plane, where only the Default Skin exists (Halb D3 or thr new Fokker D2), or if you fly Jasta 3125424653-z or ESC 6390863509-y, which haven't got their own Skins, yet.

Don't forget to additionally save your Skin somewhere else, because if OBD comes up with a real historically correct Skin for your Squad in an Update, yours will be overwritten...

Superb skin Nietzsche. Actually it's a little trickier than that as not all skins are named the same as the aircraft name. Plus it's often the "Model" name not what you would call the aircraft.

Best to look in the \textures folder of the particular craft you fly and see what it's called there, and also you need to add Off_ in front if you put it in campaigndata\skins to choose from later.

For example in QC for example you can choose the Sopwith Camel.
But for skins.. the camel needs;
Off_camel_t_RFC-80 1917.dds in campaigndata\skins.

Spaces _ and - are important too.

Best to look at other examples in there campaigndata\skins to get the idea.

Yeah, that's a better Explanation.
I guess, that will work with Historical Aces, also? That would make Air Combat a bit easier, for one could identify the Pilots better during the Furball...

Thx, Pol I was thinking, how would the Halb D3 look like, if the Jasta 5 would have started their distinctive Design a bit earlier...

Boys, be careful messing around, I say - I had done so with the Albatros D.I,
and I ended up having only a grey "plastic model" - I couldn't select ANY skin for it anymore,
and had to re-install the add-on No. 2, and the patch for it.
Just a warning!

Greay?
That sounds really odd.
"Usually", when something is wrong with the File, your Skin gets semi- or fully transparent and shows eihter the stock Skin or the "Bones"...
I've never had a solid grey Skin... and I thought that I had already made every Mistake possible LOL
Olham, did you replace your File by the Stock-Skin again and checked the G... Simulation, before re-installing?

I did not re-install the whole WOFF, to be clear, just the 2nd Add-on.

Yes, I had replaced my skin with the stock skin, and it still wouldn't work.
Might be a "speciality" with the Albatros D.I ?

...hmm... maybe we'll toss that Question over to someone, who... Pol?

Yes, I wish their were other skins for the Fokker D model and the Albatross D-1. As a beginner skinner, I feel that I would mess up the whole game by changing the Default skin.

I must say that Nietzsche,s Sqn looks great.

Same problem I had a while back. Suddenly, My Albatros D.V was ivory white. The next time I flew, ALL the Albatri were white. (Have no idea what I did, but had to re-install everything.)

Agreed

hmm... is there some kind of automatically-written-Spreadsheet-Whatever in the Program?
I remember UT3: There you had to erase some automatically written lines in a certain file after every modification... otherwise strange things happened...

As for the Halb D3:
If you like it, just pm me & I'll send it over

Yes it will. That's what I did with 54 squadron a little while ago.

It goes without saying that you must back-up your original skins!

May I suggest that you always make JSGME mods for your skins so you can easily revert back to stock skins without any worry of corrupting the stock environment.

How is that to be done, Robert???

Olham;

Here is how I have made my custom skins available via JSGME:

1 Create the following directory structure in your "Mods" folder and add your custom skins to the last folder in the string:




2 invoke JSGME program where you will now see the "My Custom Skins" folder available for promotion to "active"




That's all there is to it. Moving the mod to the in-active side of the JSGME menu puts the stock WOFF stuff back in place.

Great - I will do that then.
I will even move already-made skins into that folder, and activate it.
Thanks a lot, Robert!

That's all?
Robert, you really did a great Job programming this JSGME

Olham, Nietzsche, if you have any problems with it, just let me know. Glad you like it. Cheers

It works - I have tried it out.
That makes it a lot more tidied up and safer, I guess.
I can take all selfmade skins out at once now.
Thank you, Robert!