Are skins backward compatible?

[Patersonski]

I have Nevada/2.0 and am waiting for a couple more weeks of bug fixes before I download Normandy, but I'm reading on these forums that 1.5 skins need to be updated for 2.1. Should I also assume skins made for 2.1 going forward will not work properly in 1.5?

 

At the moment I essentially have a single liveries folder (a symbolic link in 2.0 references the 1.5 folder), which works very well, but going forward will I now need separate 1.5 and 2.1 folders because the skins will be incompatible?

 

Thx

[nrgized]

Deferred is not backwards compatible with not deferred rendering.

 

Thus if someone is making skins to support deferred they are not backwards compatible.

[Art-J]

Incompatibility of 1.5 is related mostly to specmaps, the normal ones might work more or less OK - for example YoYo's custom Spitfire skins look actually much better "out of the box" in new engine, with slightly over-polished finish of 1.5.6 now rendering properly semi-flat in 2.1 without any tweaks.

 

Try out any flat-painted aircraft skins and see how they look, most of them should be reusable. The reflective, natural metal ones, however, will most often need serious rework.