Livery Selector is Nearly There, Here's the Issue

[terminator363]

The new implementation of the livery options in the armament window are sweet, however to see a preview of the skin we need to back out into F2 (or external views) to see the preview on the 3D model itself. On select servers external views are blocked - meaning you have no idea what scheme you are using. It would be fantastic to have the encyclopedia preview in this new window so we can actually see what the hell the plane looks like.

[SDsc0rch]

that sounds like a lot of coding

 

i would offer a suggestion.. howabout merely ensuring all line-items have enough description that we know what we're getting

 

for example, in the F-15 dropdown list, not all entries have the tailcode letters (ED for Edwards is there, but MO is not) ----- if we just had the tailcode, that would be fine

 

point is, we can solve this with a text modification - we don't have to go crazy and import 3D graphics

[terminator363]

that sounds like a lot of coding

 

i would offer a suggestion.. howabout merely ensuring all line-items have enough description that we know what we're getting

 

for example, in the F-15 dropdown list, not all entries have the tailcode letters (ED for Edwards is there, but MO is not) ----- if we just had the tailcode, that would be fine

 

point is, we can solve this with a text modification - we don't have to go crazy and import 3D graphics

 

Couldn't they just import the code from the livery preview in Mission Editor?

[Northstar98]

Another solution, though to some this might not be feasible is to have a basic description for liveries or failing that and don't get me wrong here but surely it can't be too difficult to remember what they look like. I mean I would say most missions you pick a livery you desire, this is probably going to be the same thing throughout lots of missions. There will be discrepancy I'm sure but if you're able to say remember radio/TACAN/ILS frequencies then I can't see much of a problem remembering aircraft liveries...

 

Personally I think the best thing to do is leave things as they are and maybe add some description in brackets to the liveries in the selector. For preview, we already get that in load-out menus in the ME to preview, that for me is enough. But seeing as we have that I don't know why it would be a great deal more difficult to put that same thing on the fly but then again, I'm no software developer.

 

Another alternative maybe is just to ask nearby friendlies what your plane looks like, exactly the same as BDA