[BurntCornMuffin]

I'm currently running the 10/9 CVS FS_Open 3.6.9 with the latest media_vps, updates and everything.

I noticed on a couple of missions with the Barracudas that the insignia for that squadron appears on the Ulysses's and Medusas on their missions.  Seeing these insignia and deeming them a nice touch, I set out to figure out how to get insignia to appear on all fighters/bombers in the game: I immediately went to the ever-handy HLP search function...

...after scouring the forums for a couple of hours now, I couldn't find a thing beyond simply mentioning insignia in passing.  I realize it's probably been mentioned many times before, but I was unable to locate instructions on how to get insignia on my fighters.  Would anyone please help me?

[NGTM-1R]

Insignia is something of a sore point. Apparently many of the newer HTL models and/or some SCP feature has broken them, and there's an almost pathological refusal to fix insignias for some reason I honestly cannot fathom.

[BurntCornMuffin]

Okay, thanks.

[edit]Actually, while I'm thinking about it, what would it take to fix the insignia?  Is it something in the code or just issues with the HTL models themselves?  Were they not fixed because it's mind-numbingly hard or just really time consuming?[/edit]

[Colonol Dekker]

I spent so much time making pRon logos during the retail dark ages for squadwar too. Now they;re wasted seeing a herc mk 2 with boobs was always good forr distracting noobs anfd racking up my killcount.

[Goober5000]

Seeing these insignia and deeming them a nice touch, I set out to figure out how to get insignia to appear on all fighters/bombers in the game: I immediately went to the ever-handy HLP search function...

Assuming that the fighter model is designed to display an insignia, you can do this in FRED2_Open.  Simply open the wing editor and choose a wing logo.

[TrashMan]

Insignia is something of a sore point. Apparently many of the newer HTL models and/or some SCP feature has broken them, and there's an almost pathological refusal to fix insignias for some reason I honestly cannot fathom.

I fixed insignias for all HTL ship for me. Can't stand being without insignia.

It's actually a easy fix.

Open the ship you want to fix in PCS, look up the insignia tab and for each insignia, increase the offsets X coordinate by approximately 1.

That should fix it, assuming that the model has allready imported insignia from the stock model. If not, you'll have to first import the insignias and then increase the offset.

This happened becouse the HTL models have more detail and are generally a bit wider, so the insignia ends up under the hull...

Note that for some ships it won't look good again. Some HTL models now have rounded surfaces or intrusions/extrusions where the insignias ought to be on the original model.

[BurntCornMuffin]

YES!!!    This is exactly what I was looking for!  Thank you TrashMan!

[Bobboau]

and the insignia's won't be lit, and if they do get lit it will be imposable for them to have the proper smoothing data.