Any skins out there with 00- or 01- tail numbers?

[Vampyr]

I want my Viper to have a 00-xxxx or 01-xxxx tail number, but there doesn't seem to be a way to modify that part of the tail number (at least not with the default skins).

Is there any way to do this short of creating my own skin? I'd rather not have to create my own skin just for this.

Edited November 29, 2024 by Vampyr

[Vampyr]

I'm sorry... I didn't understand most of that.

[Tholozor]

You would probably have to either find a custom livery that already changes the fiscal year of the serial number or make your own; that part of the decal isn't dynamic.

[Vampyr]

I see. Out of curiosity, is there a reason as to why DCS chose pre-2000 tail numbers only in their default liveries? It seems that 2000 and 2001 are just as accurate for the Viper we got.

[sirrah]

26 minutes ago, Vampyr said:

I see. Out of curiosity, is there a reason as to why DCS chose pre-2000 tail numbers only in their default liveries? It seems that 2000 and 2001 are just as accurate for the Viper we got.

I'm pretty sure the three digit tail numbers are just DCS legacy. I could be wrong here (please correct me if so), but as far as I can remember we've always just been limited to these 3 digit numbers, for all modules ever since DCS was brought to life.

[Tholozor]

1 hour ago, Vampyr said:

I see. Out of curiosity, is there a reason as to why DCS chose pre-2000 tail numbers only in their default liveries? It seems that 2000 and 2001 are just as accurate for the Viper we got.

The good chunk of Block 50 F-16s in U.S. service were built in the early 90s. There were only a small handful of 00- and 01- serials that were built for U.S. service (about 4~5 for 2000 and about 10 for 2001). Compared to this, the amount of U.S. Block 50s built in the fiscal year for 1991 attribute to about a little over 90 airframes.

That's not to say that the 00- and 01- serials are "invalid" (especially considering the original default livery for the DCS F-16 was serial 01-7052). It's just that the 91- serials for U.S. Block 50s are much more common.

Edited November 29, 2024 by Tholozor

[Cydrych]

As others have said in order to get serials with manufacture dates other than the standard ones supplied by ED you have 2 options.

1. Create your own skin and draw the number on the Kil.dds.

2. Use the turk bort argument in the description.lua as Mapi said and modify the F-16_Decal_THK.dds in the THK-191_Filo.zip with whatever date you want. 

[Vampyr]

Thanks I'll give that a shot!

Are these bort numbers visible to others on multiple servers as well?

[Mapi]

Oh sry,  you mean Aircraft Serials

i removed my posting.

Edited November 30, 2024 by Mapi