Unused skins in Ace Combat 04 restored for player aircrafts.
Within Ace Combat 04's data libraries, there are found NPC-only liveries that could have been used by players. This mod is an attempt to restore these liveries as close as the original files, with some minor modifications and/or workarounds to adapt the plane models' issues. These liveries are:
F-16C -Explorer- : USAF Thunderbirds F-16C livery.
![Flyby (F-16C)]()
F-18C -Blueford- : Blue Angels F-18C livery, presumably its fourth wing. The tail emblems on the original texture resembles a stylized number 4.
![Flyby (F-18C)]()
Tornado IDS -Asterix- : Milky Way themed livery made by Luftwaffe to celebrate the 40th anniversary of their Fighter Bomber Wing 30 'Boelcke', the livery is aptly named "Spirit of Boelcke". To match the Strangereal setting, the wingtips are changed to Erusean flag's colors.
![Flyby (Tornado IDS)]()
Su-35 -Tester- : Blue and grey camouflage of the unused NPC-only model of Su-33, which was planned to be a fully playable plane at some point in the game's development. It's presumed that the livery is Su-33's Standard skin, so the livery uses ISAF and Mobius markings.
![Flyby (Su-35)]()
Due to the way the Tornado's ailerons are mapped, the wingtip stripes are not painted over that part. There are also some issues with the Flanker's leading edges and vertical stabilizers that caused the textures there misaligned or distorted.
Inject the .gim file with the GIM Injector to use these liveries.
Special thanks to death_the_d0g for the livery tools and people at encycstra.net for publishing these unused liveries' existence.
Update (02/06/2023):
Added alpha-masked .png files of the liveries for use with PCSX2's new Texture Dump and Replacement feature.
