DD Repaints done- naming conventions?

[HundertzehnGustav]

Hi all!

I have , at home a few new paintjob Variants for the Type 34 Zerstoereer done, but i cannot get them to work, like the brandom Merchants.
new Paintjobs are not Historically researched, i jhust painted them to look better, more like i would want them to look. With Yello Liferafts, inverted the Grey Paint Pattern etc, less or more corrosoin... Blue underside... you get the Picture.

so, 2 basic questions: where do i put the 5(five) new TGA files? into the TNormal- folder?

How do i properly name them, to see them instead of the standard 256*256 Paintjob?

Jhust
XXX_T01
XXX_T02
XXX_T03
etc

or what?

so much painting done all for nothing?

Thank you for advice or instructions

OH- i must add: new textures are 512*512... could that be the problem?

[Shadow9216]

Not an expert on this, but here goes...
Two things have to happen for a ship to show multiple paint schemes:
1) It must be coded into the campaign layer(s) as DD Type34#1 (for example) to "know" to display that particular skin

2) There must be a corresponding .dat file in the ship's folder.

Anyone confirm this?

[iambecomelife]

Unfortunately, the type 34 is one of the ships that only supports one skin. This is especially common with escorts and warships. You can only use one skin at a time, so pick whichever one you like best. Place it in data\textures\tnormal\tex and give it the same name as the corresponding file in tlowres\tex.

[HundertzehnGustav]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

you ruined my day.
or better- the DEVS that made it so.

are all Warships like that?
the Beautiful Tribal? the Handsome VW DDs? and that Goddamned Somers? no Multiple Paintjobs for those?

ah- Bummer.

[HundertzehnGustav]

Okay, so before i start on dozens of Plane repaints-... do THEY work, or are planes "one paintjob only" objects too? :hmm:

[Shadow9216]

Go to Terrapin's site, check the mod "multiple skin warships" and see who did it, then ask them. I remember when I installed it that the files went into the sea folder for the specific ships, which is why I think there was also an amended .dat file to go with.

iambecomelife, you may be 100% correct and I'm talking out my...err, hat, so I'm not contradicting you or correcting you. I just recall one of the guys talking about the specifics for making things show up, and the dat file and the campaign layer were the major fixes that stick out.

[Jace11]

Serg knows how to change the files so it can use multiple skins.

[HundertzehnGustav]

Not all hope lost you say

i shall truust your UNITED knowledge- what person A does know, is new to person B

so lets put together what we have in da brainz and fiind a solution.

off to terrapins now... :|\

[iambecomelife]

Originally Posted by Shadow9216

Go to Terrapin's site, check the mod "multiple skin warships" and see who did it, then ask them. I remember when I installed it that the files went into the sea folder for the specific ships, which is why I think there was also an amended .dat file to go with.

iambecomelife, you may be 100% correct and I'm talking out my...err, hat, so I'm not contradicting you or correcting you. I just recall one of the guys talking about the specifics for making things show up, and the dat file and the campaign layer were the major fixes that stick out.

I hope the dat file modification is easy, since I would really like to make the C-3 available for multiple skins. I think I'll browse the forums and look for the related thread.