Check your custom skin size!

[mazex]

Originally Posted by klem

Custom skins are bad enough for online flying but when I find a 12.3Mb .bmp skin in my cache folder its beyond a joke.

Leave it out or learn to make them smaller.

Well, two weeks ago I found a 50Mb skin (Picture.bmp) in my cache folder (saw it when cleaning out for beta patch 2). It contained a spit with a naked chick and some other junk. It seems like the game itself creates the Picture.bmp as some temp file. Just try cleaning the cache folder and play some sp-mission - you will find a 12 mb bmp file then too of a default spitfire or so. Seems like it cleans the cache sometimes so it doesn't happen all the time.

As the 50Mb file naturally was an online skin and not the spitgirl I also realized it was the last temp file after my game crashed while playing on the Repka server... And as 12.5 x 4 = 50 one can guess that some online guy had created a skin that was 4000x4000 instead of 2000x2000? That would give a 50 mb tmp file for a skin if the default ones result in 12.5 mb...

I mailed this bug to Ilya and got a very nice answer where he wanted the contents of my cache folder as he was interested in this happening. To bad I had cleaned it out. I also asked him for a switch to disable skin downloads after this incident...

Just look in the cache folder after your next Repka session. Full of crappy user skins. And people wonder why the game stutters when new users spawn?

Mazex

[CWMV]

There are some good skins in there, but those that are just totally out of reality (Bright red spitfires?) are freakin retarded.

[phoenix1963]

Originally Posted by CWMV

There are some good skins in there, but those that are just totally out of reality (Bright red spitfires?) are freakin retarded.

I bet that's an online cheat. That's why Ilya wants to see them.

Now if the player names were stored with the downloaded skins....

56RAF_phoenix

[CWMV]

Wha?
I don't follow, how do you mean a cheat?

[MD_Titus]

It's the "invoke spirit of manfred" hack. Simply colour your mount bright red and your bullets do 10x damage...

[Feathered_IV]

Presumably adorning yourself with a 4096x4096 skin will give any opponent just that little extra bit of lag when they get you in their sights. Just enough for you to get away....

[VO101_Tom]

Originally Posted by Feathered_IV

Presumably adorning yourself with a 4096x4096 skin will give any opponent just that little extra bit of lag when they get you in their sights. Just enough for you to get away....

Im not tried yet, but it is possible? The official skins is 2048x2048 jpg, the program allowed to use bigger pictures?