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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

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Liveries: "How many is too many?"

Sorry I haven't been very active with the paint brush lately, I have been a little busy with some other projects. I still have a few ideas I would like to try eventually. If the plane has a good paintkit and the airplane is reasonably 'paint-o-genic' (not spending hours lining up stripes to parts), I will paint a lot of liveries for it. I try to do a variety between actual schemes and fictional artistic schemes. The artistic schemes take longer and usually require a bit of trial and error because I never know how somthing will turn out until I try it. When I paint, I try to think of each FSX plane like a blank canvas for me to apply whatever idea or theme I have in my mind.

It is interesting that some airplanes get a lot of repaints...go to avsim and count the NGX repaints :icon_lol: while some hardly get any. Usually for my own hangar, I try to find a few good paint schemes I like, or paint a personal scheme for myself. I usually try to fly an aircraft with a registration matched to the location I am flying in....ie a ZK reg if I am flying around NZ or a N reg if I am flying in the US.

Cheers
TJ
 
I guess I'm one of the "Bring 'em on!" types. While I don't try to fly them all,
I do experiment with using them as ai. Also, I try to get nealy all the paints available for my ai models.
 
I fly a lot of different areas in the sim, in fact I'm actually a bit less interested in aviation than I am in exploring the earth virtually. my problem is that I can't stand to fly an aircraft that would not rationally fly in the area that I am exploring in-sim, so I tend to like a lot of repaints covering different areas of the earth. that way I don't have to fly a US-Reg GA aircraft in New Zealand or Australia for example. I consider a lot of repaints availability to be a plus, even though I don't end up flying most of them.
 
Scratch said:
Good post Falcon. Now what is the best, least time consuming way to prune the liveries you don't want? Is there just one way, or several?
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I guess there are a lot of ways to accomplish the "pruning" scratch. I usually make a "misc" folder in the particular aircraft folder I'm going to whittle down, but only if it's a US GA or US Military as I may want to swap out various liveries while only maintaining one or two "active" paints. I simply cut and paste the texture files into the "misc" folder, then cut the cfg info, paste it into "notepad" and save that as well in the misc folder.

Now if it's an aircraft that carries both US and Foreign registries, the foreign registries are deleted right off the bat. The only contradiction to my lack of any foreign liveries is the LET l410-UVP-E. Czech made and comes with three liveries, none are US. . .but it's such a terrific airplane for both long hauls and short field operations that I made an exception, lol.:salute:
 
I spend most of my flying time in my own aircraft and some of my fellow modelers WIPs. I usually have one or two liveries at most on my aircraft and some have no liveries at all! I tend to stay in the VC when I fly especially when flying MP. I have a couple of payware military with a large amount of liveries but pick a favorite and stick to it when I do fly them (no need for a bunch). I think the large liveried aircraft packages should offer only a few with the base package and have additional liveries packages available for those who want them. On the other hand if your into screen shots with lots of eye candy scenery then a large stable would be in order much like costumes for actors. Anyways there’s my two bucks on the subject (inflation).
 
Scratch said:
Good post Falcon. Now what is the best, least time consuming way to prune the liveries you don't want? Is there just one way, or several?
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Drive space isn't an issue (yet) so I don't physically remove any files. I go through the aircraft.cfg file and replace the numbers in the [Fltsim.00] sections with x's (so they become [Fltsim.xx]) for those I don't want to show up among the thumbnails under Select Aircraft. Then I renumber those that I kept. This is quick, reversable, and so far has worked well for me.
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I suppose most people end up flying just one or two liveries, but its nice to be provided with a wide choice to start with. PMDGs MD-11 is a case in point for me - I ended up only ever flying two liveries, but it was nice scrolling through the rest of them and enjoying the painter's art. With military paints, the differences are usually more obscure - often exactly the same camouflage scheme but with different squadron emblems or such like.
 
No more than 3 or 4 per aircraft, any more than that and most never see the virtual light of day outside of the selection menu. The only execptions are aircraft that have personal significance, i.e. something I've flown real world, worked on or the odd type I've been obsessed with since childhood.
A certain italian starfighter drove me nuts with the number of default loadout/skin options, briefly ended up with more F-104's than everything else combined.

Craig
 
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