CoD disappointing in skinning matters!

[JG52Krupi]

How do you select a skin in QMB, I can only change my armament.

[csThor]

AFAIK in QMB the skins are connected with the mission so selecting your own is not possible ATM.

[JG53Frankyboy]

Originally Posted by JG52Krupi

How do you select a skin in QMB, I can only change my armament.

you have to edit the mission in the FMB, select the skin - than the aircraft is loaded with the skin in the mission.
totaly weird, indeed

[Zorin]

I advice you all to check your cache folder. Within you will find the actual dds files of the skins you used during your last session. The dds files are 2.7MB each and there is also a bmp file of a single skin, in my case at least, that is 12MB.

Therefor I am pretty certain that the deal with the skin exchange during online battles will be based on the 150x150 res version of the dds file and only upscalled to 2048x2048 on the recievers end. That is why these skins should be strictly kept as pure camo schemes without any effects or additional markings, because they would look pretty crappy once upscalled and saved as a jpeg.

[Pierre@]

Please Zorin, where is the cache folder??

[bongodriver]

C:\Users\XXX\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover\cache

I should note I have Win 7 64 bit, this may vary depending on windows version

[Pierre@]

Thanks bongodriver!