How do you add new skins?

[Bomber ace 0]

If any one knows anythin called you please help.

[Ruggbutt 45]

http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?showtopic=31832

[Bomber ace 0]

http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?showtopic=31832

 

I would use the link but its all in french, do you know of any English sites?

[Ruggbutt 45]

You'll have to register.

 

http://www.lockonfiles.com/modules.php?nam...n_7.1#dldetails

[Bomber ace 0]

Ok thanks, I'l see what I can find there.

[Brit_Radar_Dude 1]

Ruggbutt has given you a link to MODMAN, a cool utility that helps you manage your Lockon addons such as skins. here is a bit more info that might help.......

 

Lockon has a fixed number of slots for each aircraft type, some aircraft types have more skin slots than others. In the ME (Mission Editor), in the PAYLOAD section for an aircraft you can set the skin you want. Note that you can change the skins for flyable aircraft and also for the AI aircraft. When you install a new skin with MODMAN (or manually), then that new skin will replace one of the default skins. Which default skin depends on which one the designer of the new skin chose to replace, ie which slot number he chose.

 

Sometimes a readme file with the skin will tell you which slot number, mostly skin designers dont bother and more usually you have to look at each skin to find your new one. When you open up a mission in the Mission Editor and select an aircraft then choose the PAYLOAD screen, you see a picture of the aircraft and you can see what weapon loadout it has, what skin it is wearing, etc. If you look lower left, you see a pulldown menu called COLOUR SCHEME. It tells you the name of the current skin, click on the pulldown and you see the whole selection and you can deduce which slot number the skin is. When you load new skins, it does not necessarily change the name shown in this pulldown menu yet it DOES change the skin. It means you have to look at each skin in turn to find the one you want. Slightly annoying but only takes a few seconds to find the one you want. I'm sure I recall occasionally that new skins I've loaded in the past did change the names in that menu or maybe I just imagined it.... When you finished changing to the skin you want, then don't forget to SAVE the mission (top left save icon).

 

This is the most common problem folks have with D/L'ed skins, they have successfully used MODMAN to add them into Lockon but fail in the final step to actually select the skin "in game". This explains why folks get confused when they fly a mission and the new skin doesn't appear.

 

Example.

The new skin replaces default skin number 3 for the A-10.

You fly the A-10 quick fly mission straight from the main page.

Unless that mission coincidentally used skin number 3, then you would see no change.

 

Example

The new skin replaces default skin number 3 for the A-10.

You fly an A-10 campaign you have downloaded from the Community.

Unless the missions within that campaign coincidentally used skin number 3, then you would see no change.

 

Example.

This time you make your own mission using the ME and choose skin number 3 in the PAYLOAD screen.

Now you see the new skin.

 

Hope that makes it clear.....

[Bomber ace 0]

Thanks, you made it loads more clear, I didn't quite understand before 'cos I'm still quite new to Lomac so thanks.