Mitch Skins and the invisi-helo

[Sunjah]

I thought I had installed the Mitch skins correctly. Last night, I got frustrated at not seeing what options I had for skins, so I copied the "Shooting Range" mission and made one for each skin. I tested some and was shocked to find that a few of them show up invisible. The cockpit, pilot, rotor blades, engines, guns and a few other things all show up, but no outer helicopter skin (much akin to Wonder Woman's jet).

 

The BOLD ones I tested and worked, the RED ones showed up invisible and the OTHERS still have to be tested.

 

This leads me to 2 questions:

 

1) Does anyone know what are the skins INCLUDED in the game by default, and which ones are from "Mitch-Skins?" I've already had to reinstall this thing twice and really don't want to do it just for this information.

 

2) Any idea of why at least 2 helicopters are not showing up at all, but are invisible instead?

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1- Default (fine)

 

2- Default faded (not tested)

 

3- "22" Black Shark (NICE!)

 

4- "24" (not tested)

 

5- Desert (not tested)

 

6- Digital Camouflage (not tested)

 

7- DOSAFF (not tested)

 

8- Euro Desert (not tested)

 

9- Euro Camouflage 1 (not tested)

 

10- Euro Camouflage 2 (not tested)

 

11- Euro Gray (not tested)

 

12- Euro Gray- old (not tested)

 

13- Euro Green (not tested)

 

14- Euro Green and Gray (not tested)

 

15- Euro Green and Gray- old (not tested)

 

16- Euro Winter (not there/invisible)

 

17- Olive Green (not tested)

 

18- Snow Splatter (fine)

 

19- Standard (Nice)

 

20- Tropical Green (NICE...I love this one!)

 

21- Sweedish Green (not there/invisible)

 

22- Werewolf (fine)

[RCN_Moose]

6 and 7 are a seperate skin pack. (believe its the DOSAAF Digital pacl) All of the Euro skins are Mitches (8-16) Not sure about 21 at the moment

[richskinns]

There are also issues with many of these skins which concern missing textures (mirrors and front cockpit panels). A real turn off when you are looking out over the nose to see daylight?? However this may be just a function of the way I have installed the files? The method for installation is a long way from being user friendly.

 

Anyway minor stuff becuase this is an incredible SIM!

[Slayer]

If i remember right from Lockon, if you install multiple skins from different users you end up having to manually edit the graphics.cfg file or something so that they can co-exist since some "mods" replace the config files. So if you install one skin then another after only the second skin would work(I may be wrong here so don't take it as gospel) Seems like it was like this with the A-10 mod for Lockon where there were multiple configs and you had to manually replace the file to work with whatever mods you had installed or hand edit your config files. OR use modman compatible stuff so it could track changes and do all this for you.

 

Always make backups and then you can check whats different between the original files or merge as needed.