(Nonofficial request, just my own idea that I’m spitballing and wanna hear people’s thoughts on)
I also don’t know the difficulty at which the follow idea is for the developers or if it would take away anything from War Thunder aircraft skin creators…
But personally, I’d love to see a alphabetical/numerical decal generator for the game. The reason that I’ve thought of this is… you’re flying your own jet. There’s only so many ways you can make it look unique and still semi-realistic. I mean yeah, we’ve got numbers0-9 in white, 0-9 in red, and a couple of more complex numerical decals that are meant for tanks and the like. But other than that? We don’t have much in the way of customizing skins with personalized aircraft numbers.
There would be a few variations of the personalized aircraft numbers, but most would have the same concept.
1. BORT NUMBERS (WW2-Modern day) (for Russian / Soviet aircraft)
Russian and Soviet-bloc aircraft (incl. East German aircraft) would receive bort numbers. Bort numbers are three digit codes that are used for identification of aircraft that help with the location assignment of the aircraft. Those are the numbers that are placed below the cockpit of most Soviet/Russian aircraft.
Red 7 below the cockpit of an Su-35S
Yellow 19 below the cockpit of an IL-38
White 44 on an Lavochkin.
For WW2 aircraft, numbers would be limited to two chosen (0-9, 0-9)
For Korean war/cold war aircraft, numbers would be available for up to three (0-9, 0-9, 0-9)
The available colors would be red, blue, black, and white with black or white bordering.
2. BUZZ NUMBERS/“TAIL MARKINGS” (WW2-early Cold War) (for all other nations)
American, German, British, Japanese, Swedish, Italian, and Chinese aircraft in WW2 all needed identifiers. While the location of which varying bits of information were placed varied from aircraft to aircraft, most were painted with the same ideology.
Letters for site of origin/airfield station and numbers for serial number/registration number.
B-17 with “DRR” (91st bomb wing) and serial numbers on vert. stabilizer (23-1909)
Sptifire with “BJ” squadron code, “M” individual aircraft code, “B6486” registration number
Further examples
3. TAIL CODES/SERIAL NUMBERS (Korean War-Modern day)" (for all other nations, incl. China)
The grown up version of buzz numbers and tail markings. Used in combination with aircraft liveries for easier identification.
F-15C with “FF” (First Fighter), AF (airforce) and serial number (83-026) on tail
F-16 with “HL” (Hill Airforce Base), 4th FS (4th fighter squadron) and “AF 88-495” (airforce, serial number)
Eurofighter Typhoon with “QO•H” (tailflash) and ZJ924 (serial number)
J-10C with low-vis “61132” on vertical stabilizer
To simplify it.
American made (or American derived, i.e. F-2A, F-15J, F-15I, F-16I) top tier aircraft would receive two letter choices (A-Z, A-Z), two number choices (0-9, 0-9), three more numbers choices (0-9, 0-9, 0-9).
British/Italian/German/French made (or derived) top tier aircraft would receive three letter choices (with some restrictions, i.e. cannot make a swear word or is restricted to existing tailcodes), then two letter choices (A-Z, A-Z) followed by three number choices (0-9, 0-9, 0-9).
Russian made (or Russian derived, i.e. J-2/4/6, J-7/10/11 etc.) aircraft would receive three / five number choices (0-9, 0-9, 0-9) / (0-9, 0-9, 0-9, 0-9, 0-9) with Russian/Soviet aircraft receiving an ability to change the color of their numbers from a choice of (red, green, blue, yellow, black) and choice of (black, white) trim.
Would you like to see this in game?
- Yes, for all era of aircraft (WW2-modern day)
- Yes, but for Korean war-modern day aircraft
- Yes, but for Cold War-modern day aircraft
- No, I would like this to be changed before implementation.
- No, I would not like to see this.