3rd party skins allowed in MP?

[corchard]

(I'm pleased to receive replies from folk I've been reading and learning from these past months! Perhaps this thread could become a good reference for other newbies like me wanting to fly online with skins.)

I accept not using skins with swastikas in online MP out of respect for the laws of those countries that find it necessary to prevent their display. I just find it a bit of an immersion-killer in offline SP to NOT see them as I learn CloD well-enough to try my hand online.

Originally Posted by cheesehawk

... I went a bit further (albeit at risk to myself for getting banned) in replacing all the default skins with the same blank skins but with the historical mark on the tail. That way, to me at least, everyone else that uses the default skins, still appear to have the correct markings.

That is all I really want to do - add that one historical marking as I fly offline. For that I'd be quite satisfied with just having the versions of the default skins Cheesehawk describes above, if I could find a place from which to download them.

But if I did use those or other historically-correct skins, would I have to swap them out of their respective documents/1csoftclub/paint schemes/ "plane type" folders prior to joining an MP server, both to avoid a VAC ban and to prevent stutters for myself and my fellow onliners?

Or does the MP server software require me to opt-in or otherwise limit itself to only "approved" skins?

(My only experience with skins is ROF, the only other sim I've ever flown.)

Charlo