Additional Bitmap Requirements for skinning World War I Planes

The World War I planes have a unique damage model system, which requires a damage texture/bitmap to be submitted with each skin. A picture is worth a thousand words, so here is an example, using the Camel. There are two basic textures to skin with in the Camel, and other WWI aircraft, as follows:

The name for the two textures are "CAMEL_1.bmp" and "CAMEL_2.bmp". This brings us to the two complimentary damage textures.

You will notice the "CAMEL1D.bmp" is the same bitmap as "CAMEL_1.bmp", but has been overlayed with a damage mask. Same goes for "CAMEL2D.bmp". In order to produce a WW1 skin, you will need to take your two base skins/bitmaps and overlay them with the damage bitmaps provided here. It is important the base color of the damage mask stay at the RGB value of 255,0,255. Once you have completed the overlay and conversion to an 8 bit indexed bitmap, you will need to get the index value where the color of the damage mask is stored in the bitmap. How this is accomplished will vary depending on your paint tool of choice. Typically it is shown in the color palette of the bitmap. Please note, the "Damage Bitmap Layer" is a PNG file. This preserves the alpha channel so you can overlay the base texture without having to do any more work.

Plane	Overlay this file	with this Damage Layer	to create this bitmap	Set the index value of the mask color from the bitmap in this file
Camel	CAMEL_1.bmp	CAMEL1D.png	CAMEL1D.bmp	CAMEL1D_a.txt
	CAMEL_2.bmp	CAMEL2D.png	CAMEL2D.bmp	CAMEL2D_a.txt
DR.I	DR1_1.bmp	DR1_1D.png	DR1_1D.bmp	DR1_1D_a.txt
	DR1_2.bmp	DR1_2D.png	DR1_2D.bmp	DR1_2D_a.txt
D.VII	D71.bmp	D71D.png	D71D.bmp	D71D_a.txt
	D72.bmp	D72D.png	D72D.bmp	D72D_a.txt
F2B	BRISTOL2.bmp	BRISTOL4.png	BRISTOL4.bmp	BRISTOL4_a.txt
	BRISTOL3.bmp	BRISTOL5.png	BRISTOL5.bmp	BRISTOL5_a.txt

Right-click on the appropriate PNG files and save them to your hard drive for use as the damage overlay mask for skinning any of the WW1 planes. Failure to include the above damage textures with a skin submission will cause the skin to be rejected.