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Old 01-04-2012, 11:46 PM
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You need to hack the game to do that and extract the DDS layers for the default skin. Such effects are not possible with the simple Jpeg skins we have now. There would also be the disadvantage that the effect would be applied to every 109 or Stuka etc. Oleg once said the ability to do polished metal was there, but it would need a drastic rethink of the way skins are stored and read in game for it to be practical.
Ah thanks for clearing that up, I was under the impression they were changing the effects.

I could have sworn we had something like this in a beta patch though.

Like this...



Will find a better shot.

Found some more..





Hope they bring the shine back at some point.



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