Tired of the plain Jane green & black MH9's try these

[Dingo]

Ever wanted something other Green, digcam or black textures for the MH9 in your missions

 

well there are 13 other texture designs available inside the game files

 

all you need to do is 

go to this file location (or wherever your steam & game files are installled) open the .pbo file below

(using PBO Manager - http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=16369&a=dl)

 

c:\Steam\SteamApps\common\Arma 3\Addons\air_f.pbo

 

expand the pbo to the following file branch, and extract it out to a new file anywhere on your pc.

Heli_Light_01\Data\Skins

 

cut out the folder Skins and and keep it separate 

now go into editor in game create a mission, just drop down an MH9, save the mission

 

now take the Skins folder and place in you mission file here

C:\Users\(your user name)\Documents\Arma 3 - Other Profiles\(your profile name)\missions\(your saved mission)

 

reload your mission in editor

select you MH9 and copy the following to the init field

 

this setobjecttexture [0,"skins\heli_light_01_ext_wasp_co.paa];

^^CHANGE RED name above to any of following to change texture^^

 

blueline

varna

digital

elliptical

furious

graywatcher

jeans

shadow

sheriff

speedy

sunset

wasp

wave

 

Magnum P.I skin found here http://cthulhu.dark.ro/arma/heli_light_01_ext_magnum_co.paa

 

also add these to the init to add doors and remove the benches and not allow anyone to sit on the bench spot

this animate ["addDoors",1];

this animate ["addBackseats",1]; 

this animate ["addTread",0]; 

this animate ["addBenches",0]; 

this animate ["addCivilian_hide",1];

{this lockCargo [_x,true]} forEach[2,3,4,5];

 

or download & extract these 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ibuxeb397uv1eur/MD500.rar

change init line to 

this setobjecttexture [0,"md500\wasp.paa];

or any of the names in the file for the other textures

 

the same can be done for the Mowhawk, there are 4 skins in the Heli_medium part of the air_f.pbo file

 

also for the Buzzard if you have Arma 2 find the air.pbo for the L39, L149 etc and extract the texture file with

??_ext_??_co.paa in the file name to you arma 3 mission folder

 

enjoy

[Ducky]

Interesting

[Rarek]

The fellas at BI really have done a good job making this so easily expandable. By default, even the civilian cars are hugely customisable and they promise much more like it. See video below for some of the stuff already built in for the aforementioned civvie cars.

 

[iLLGT3]

How badass would it be if there was a mounted LMG in the back of the pickup