WARPAINT Skins: Viewing a custom skin in Warbirds III

-furball Updated 1-02-02
Here's how you can see a custom skin you've made or downloaded in Warbirds. To learn how to create your own skins, click here. For a list of downloads that can make creating a skin less difficult, click here. For a list of downloadable player created skins, click here.

Typing ".planeskin" by itself will disable custom skins.
Typing ".planeskin <path>" (where path is the name of the directory to load custom skins from UNDER THE PLANE'S skin path) activates it.

The files must have the names "fuse.tga", "wing.tga", and "extra.tga" (extra.tga is a spare for anything you have on the third texture... dive brakes, etc).

*Examples:

c:\wbiii\skins\109f\offline\redsix

Switching between them you would use ".planeskin redsix" or ".planeskin rocket". Doing a ".planeskin" alone would return to using the normal artwork.

Note: ALL aircraft will look for the current planeskin directory in their path so setting ".planeskin yellow" would mean P-51B's would look in skins\p51b\offline\yellow for .TGAs as well. Nothing bad happens if they aren't there... it just falls back on the default artwork.

Plane display list (these will be the directory names for the current planes in the game):

JU52	B25C	BF109E	P51B	P40b	KI84
JU88A	B24J	BF109F	P51	F6F5	ZERO52
JU87G	B24D	BF109G	HURRI1	FM2	ZERO21
JU87D	B17	109GR6	HURRI2	F4U1	ZERO
FW190D	P38	BF110G	SPIT1	F4U4	XXX (f86)
FW1908	P38L	ME262	SPIT5	F4F3	YAK3
FW1904	P38F	A36	SPIT9	F4F4	YAK9D
				P40e

Too put it as succenctly as possible, after you've created a new skin, or downloaded one from the net, save the fuse.tga and wing.tga files into a folder under skins/(name of plane)/offline/(whatever name you want). Go into Warbirds III and select the plane for which you have a skin ready, then type .planeskin (whatever name you picked).