LithiumR

Thanks! I'm using Photoshop and "The Compressonator". I downloaded the template from the user files too. Makes it a lot easier.

I'm still not done with it... not sure I'll ever be. Still trying to make the tires red?? (http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=99899) and trying to get the flames to line up but it's getting there. Making skins is almost as fun as playing!! And my first one.... :D

My first (sort of) skin. Don't know if this is really what you're looking for.

In edmodelviewer the tires are red. In DCS they are not. I even put the red p51D_wheel.dds in the folder with the rest of the dds files and made a reference to it in description.lua.... still not red tires in DCS. Works great in edmodelviewer. I'm sure they would be red if I edited the p51D_wheel.BMP in the world/textures/p51D.zip folder but I don't know if that would get me booted in MP. I would rather not do it that way. Maybe my description.lua is the problem? UPDATE: So I backed up the p51D.zip folder and put the red wheel .dds and .bmp in there and it does make the tires red.... but obviously for ALL p-51's. This leads me to think that the problem is with my description.lua. I put what I thought would be the right code for the wheel but I haven't seen it anywhere else so while it is in line with the rest of the code it may be wrong and may not be pointing dcs to the red wheel .dds / .bmp so it's just falling back on default. If anyone can help me out I would be greatful. It's probably pretty simple for some of you.... but I have no idea what I'm doing ha ha! livery = { {"P51D_FUZ_FRONT", 0 ,"p51D_DIF_Fuz_Front_FF-736",false}; {"P51D_FUZ_REAR", 0 ,"p51D_DIF_Fuz_Rear_FF-736",false}; {"P51D_WING_L", 0 ,"p51D_DIF_L_Wing_FF-736",false}; {"P51D_WING_R", 0 ,"p51D_DIF_R_Wing_FF-736",false}; {"P51D_wheel", 0 ,"p51D_DIF_wheel_FF736",false}; {"P51D_FUZ_FRONT", 2 ,"p51D_SPEC_Fuz_Front_FF-736",false}; {"P51D_FUZ_REAR", 2 ,"p51D_SPEC_Fuz_Rear_FF-736",false}; {"P51D_WING_L", 2 ,"p51D_SPEC_L_Wing_FF-736",false}; {"P51D_WING_R", 2 ,"p51D_SPEC_R_Wing_FF-736",false}; {"P51D_BORT_NUMBER_COCPIT_01", 0 ,"p51D_DIF_Fuz_Front_FF-736",false}; {"P51D_BORT_NUMBER_COCPIT_01", 2 ,"p51D_SPEC_Fuz_Front_FF-736",false}; {"P51D_BORT_NUMBER_COCPIT_01", DECAL ,"empty",true}; {"P51D_BORT_NUMBER_FRONT_10", 0 ,"p51D_DIF_Fuz_Front_FF-736",false}; {"P51D_BORT_NUMBER_FRONT_10", 2 ,"p51D_SPEC_Fuz_Front_FF-736",false}; {"P51D_BORT_NUMBER_FRONT_10", DECAL ,"empty",true}; {"P51D_BORT_NUMBER_FRONT_01", 0 ,"p51D_DIF_Fuz_Front_FF-736",false}; {"P51D_BORT_NUMBER_FRONT_01", 2 ,"p51D_SPEC_Fuz_Front_FF-736",false}; {"P51D_BORT_NUMBER_FRONT_01", DECAL ,"empty",true}; {"P51D_BORT_NUMBER_FRONT-2_10", 0 ,"p51D_DIF_Fuz_Front_FF-736",false}; {"P51D_BORT_NUMBER_FRONT-2_10", 2 ,"p51D_SPEC_Fuz_Front_FF-736",false}; {"P51D_BORT_NUMBER_FRONT-2_10", DECAL ,"empty",true}; {"P51D_BORT_NUMBER_FRONT-2_01", 0 ,"p51D_DIF_Fuz_Front_FF-736",false}; {"P51D_BORT_NUMBER_FRONT-2_01", 2 ,"p51D_SPEC_Fuz_Front_FF-736",false}; {"P51D_BORT_NUMBER_FRONT-2_01", DECAL ,"empty",true}; {"P51D_BORT_NUMBER_REAR-2_10", 0 ,"p51D_DIF_Fuz_Rear_FF-736",false}; {"P51D_BORT_NUMBER_REAR-2_10", 2 ,"p51D_SPEC_Fuz_Rear_FF-736",false}; {"P51D_BORT_NUMBER_REAR-2_10", DECAL ,"empty",true}; {"P51D_BORT_NUMBER_REAR-2_01", 0 ,"p51D_DIF_Fuz_Rear_FF-736",false}; {"P51D_BORT_NUMBER_REAR-2_01", 2 ,"p51D_SPEC_Fuz_Rear_FF-736",false}; {"P51D_BORT_NUMBER_REAR-2_01", DECAL ,"empty",true}; {"P51D_BORT_NUMBER_TAIL_01", 0 ,"p51D_DIF_Fuz_Rear_FF-736",false}; {"P51D_BORT_NUMBER_TAIL_01", 2 ,"p51D_SPEC_Fuz_Rear_FF-736",false}; {"P51D_BORT_NUMBER_TAIL_01", DECAL ,"empty",true}; {"P51D_BORT_NUMBER_FIN_01", 0 ,"p51D_DIF_Fuz_Rear_FF-736",false}; {"P51D_BORT_NUMBER_FIN_01", 2 ,"p51D_SPEC_Fuz_Rear_FF-736",false}; {"P51D_BORT_NUMBER_FIN_01", DECAL ,"empty",true}; {"P51D_SERIAL_NUMBER_L_001", 0 ,"p51D_DIF_Fuz_Rear_FF-736",false}; {"P51D_SERIAL_NUMBER_L_001", 2 ,"p51D_SPEC_Fuz_Rear_FF-736",false}; {"P51D_SERIAL_NUMBER_L_001", DECAL ,"empty",true}; {"P51D_SERIAL_NUMBER_L_010", 0 ,"p51D_DIF_Fuz_Rear_FF-736",false}; {"P51D_SERIAL_NUMBER_L_010", 2 ,"p51D_SPEC_Fuz_Rear_FF-736",false}; {"P51D_SERIAL_NUMBER_L_010", DECAL ,"empty",true}; {"P51D_SERIAL_NUMBER_L_100", 0 ,"p51D_DIF_Fuz_Rear_FF-736",false}; {"P51D_SERIAL_NUMBER_L_100", 2 ,"p51D_SPEC_Fuz_Rear_FF-736",false}; {"P51D_SERIAL_NUMBER_L_100", DECAL ,"empty",true}; {"P51D_SERIAL_NUMBER_R_001", 0 ,"p51D_DIF_Fuz_Rear_FF-736",false}; {"P51D_SERIAL_NUMBER_R_001", 2 ,"p51D_SPEC_Fuz_Rear_FF-736",false}; {"P51D_SERIAL_NUMBER_R_001", DECAL ,"empty",true}; {"P51D_SERIAL_NUMBER_R_010", 0 ,"p51D_DIF_Fuz_Rear_FF-736",false}; {"P51D_SERIAL_NUMBER_R_010", 2 ,"p51D_SPEC_Fuz_Rear_FF-736",false}; {"P51D_SERIAL_NUMBER_R_010", DECAL ,"empty",true}; {"P51D_SERIAL_NUMBER_R_100", 0 ,"p51D_DIF_Fuz_Rear_FF-736",false}; {"P51D_SERIAL_NUMBER_R_100", 2 ,"p51D_SPEC_Fuz_Rear_FF-736",false}; {"P51D_SERIAL_NUMBER_R_100", DECAL ,"empty",true}; {"pilot_P51_patch", 0 ,"empty",true}; } name = "black" countries = {"USA"}

I'm pretty new to making skins but I think I have the hang of it. I cannot for the life of me figure out why I change the color of the tires on the p-51 in photoshop but they are still black in DCS. If anyone could help me I would appritiate it. I am out of ideas. I attached a .zip folder with the .dds and the .BMP. Everything else shows up except the tires. Thanks! EDIT: I just realized this is in the wrong place. I'd move it but I can't. Sorry! p51D_DIF_Fuz_Front.zip

I don't know about dogfighting skills.... but I some mad dog crashing skills :joystick:

Here's mine. At first the AI gave me a lot of trouble but I finally figured out how to bring him down. P.S. I think the AI is perfect for the "excellent" setting, but maybe should be a little easier for good and average. It's crazy tough to take him down on full realism settings imo. Kind of sucks if you are new and can NEVER win.

I saw something like that today too. One p-51 that never moved and a dust cloud created by an invisible plane flying low. Weird. If not for the dust I would have never known.

I thought you guys might like that :lol:

I beat the AI on excellent every time. It's really not "that" hard. You just have to use the tools you have.

I'd be down for that:thumbup: but I've been playing with out labels and doing okay. Labels optional.

I know what part of the video you are talking about..... what would the right move be?? I tried a lot of different things. Some worked sometimes (split S) but not as reliable. I would like to know what would have been better?? (I hope this question doen't read wrong, I really am curious. If I can do it better I'd like to understand how.)

Wow.... awesome link. I'm about 3/4 of the way through it. This explained a lot about radar and ECM usage!! And told me at least part of what I am doing IS right:thumbup: (and a lot is wrong!)Thanks!

I have played a lot of IL2 and other WW2 flight sims but not too much jets. I fooled around with Janes a long time ago but never really got good at it. So I have decent close combat dog fighting skills but not so much beyond visual range. I set up missions in single player to practice. All AI is on Excellent and different planes so that I am up against a variety of different missiles. There are some things that I don't understand though. Here are a few key questions... 1. When should I have radar on/off?? 2. When should I have ECM on/off?? 3. What I do in the video works on SP.... sometimes in MP but not always. What can I do better? If you have any tips, suggestions, links to tutorials, or even a "you did such and such right" I'd really like to hear it. Thanks! P.S. I have read the manual a lot. Doesn't mean I remember it all.... and I've watched the flankertraining.com videos. For the most part I understand the button pushing part (I think!) but not so much BVR tactics. I'd just like to know if I'm on the right track in the video?

Awesome.

I've read (studied) In Pursuit by Johan Kylander multiple times... http://www.virtualpilots.fi/feature/lento_ohjeet/inpursuit/inpursuit.pdf And there was another .pdf version of a book written by a real WW2 pilot that had cartoon illistrations that was awesome. I thought I had it saved somewhere but I can't find it and I can't remember the name. Most of my reading / studying was based around ww2 aircraft.

Yes, I'm trying. Seems like when I don't pull high G's I tend to get missiles up my tail pipe. I've read a lot about air combat so I have a little knowledge on how I should fly.... but using that knowledge on the fly in a combat situation is easier said than done!! for me anyway. Practice practice practice. I really wish there was a larger online community with DCS FC3. It would be great to fly against some real people so I could really know just how bad I am!! :megalol::lol: I've read on here about people saying that the AI is pretty easy..... with no labels and no outside views I find them pretty challenging on high skill. Not too challenging, but challenging enough for me. I'm sure (or I hope) that will change as I get better.

Done. I don't want you guys to think it's some awesome kick ass video..... it's "okay". I've been learning to NOT use labels as a crutch and this was a action packed session that I thought was fun. Hopefully I can get some of my first person shooter friends to watch and inspire them to want DCS :D

By no means is my video as good as some of yours but I had fun making it anyway :thumbup: I'd like to see what you guys think are some of the best vids!!?? Edit: Vimeo link

Thanks..... it's amazing how beautiful this game is when you can turn the graphics up! The SSD is coming but not quite enough of the green stuff yet.

I've been playing DCSW on a really old rig. Nvidia 8800 GT AMD Athlon blah blah blah.... but today, finally I can actually framerates higher than 2!! :thumbup: New Rig specs.... Asus P8Z77-V Lx I5 3570k 8 Gigs Hyper X ram (on sale at compusa) GTX 660 ti by Galaxy... off brand or something (I've never heard of Galaxy but I've been out of simming/gaming for a few. DCS brought me back). It was a good deal. I usually stick to Evga but $$$ ya know. My old 7200 rpm seagate (SSD one day) Thermaltake 800W PSU Certainly not the best system ever but a big step up from my old rig and I am stoked. Been lurking here a while but never posted. So excited I registered !! ZoSo I guess I put that in the wrong place. Sorry.