Questions about installing and using Skins

[Ace_Hyflyer]

Hi all,

 

I just recently purchased Lock On: Gold (Up till now I've just been a civ and WWII junkie) and am starting to get into Lock On v 1.02 (wouldn't you know that I'd get one of the faulty discs :p)

 

Anyway, I'm focusing on the A-10 at the moment so I'd like to get some nice hi-res skins for it. I've downloaded 8 skins from lockonfiles.com (all 24 bit .bmps) and have tried to install them. I have 18 files named a-10-okras-l*.bmp and a-10-okras-r*.bmp (replace the * with "nothing" through "8") in the Bazar/TempTextures folder. 18 because I copied one in twice.

 

These are ordered in the same order as the default files but I'm having problems when I try and select them in the Loadout screen before a mission. Some of them are correct and in the correct slots, but others are corrupted or just not there.

 

Can anyone walk me through installing these skins manually properly for Lock On v1.02.

 

Also, a few of the skins that I've liked were .dds files and I put these in the Bazar/TempTextures folder as well and they didn't show up. They were also named along the lines of a-10-okras-r*.bmp.dds

 

Thanks a lot,

Chris

 

[edit]Well, after a lot of testing I've figured the skins thing out. (Mostly!) It looks like Okras0 installs to the second slot and partially corrupts the first slot. Okras3 installs to the 5th slot and corrupts the sixth slot, and r5 goes into 8th and 9th slots, with the only difference being the addition of a shark/boar mouth in the 9th slot. Everything else is in numerical order from Okras0 onward.

[Brit_Radar_Dude]

Why install manually? - use LOMAN (also to be found on Lockonfiles) it does it all for you one click to install, one click to remove.