Version history:
1.0 - Initial release.
1.1 - Fixed botched MREC imports in slots 1, 2, 3 that resulted in bright glowing aircraft during landing in Mission 7 and Aerial Refuelling in Mission 14.

This texture pack adds a livery design that was applied to the EF-2000 development aircraft during the first few years of test flights.
A two-tone grey top with a white underside.


The archive contains 8 pak files.

3 'base' liveries, primarily for multiplayer use, which can be placed in any of the first three texture slots.
These are in the "No Markings (Skin Slots 1, 2, 3)" folder and can replace any one of the Osea, Erusea or Special textures.
You can apply whatever emblems you want via the in-game customisation options, as the nose, wings and tail are all clean.

The "Campaign Markings (Texture Slots 4, 5, 6)" folder contains 3 paks that can be used to replace the Mage, Spare and Strider textures with versions that will feature the appropriate markings for each slot, whilst staying story friendly.

The "Bonus - Alternative Mage, Strider (Skin Slots 4, 6)" folder will offer versions that replace the Trigger Fox Emblem with the appropriate Squadron Emblems instead.
This was just a little alternative tweak I decided to make as aircraft tend not to have pilot specific emblems, even within the Strangereal Universe.


Due to all of these textures making use of high quality BC7 encoding for the diffuse textures (and DXT5 for any MREC textures in slots 1, 2 and 3), these paks may be a larger file size than other mods, hence not making all of the possible designs availabe on every individual skin slot, but I hope the options available will be flexible enough for most people.
That said, it is now reasonably straight forward to use the AC7 Mod Tool by lotsbiss to extract the textures from a pak file for one skin slot, and import them into a pak for a different skin slot.
https://twitter.com/lotsbiss/status/1162946922102968323?s=20


Installation:
1. Navigate to the Ace Combat 7 installation directory and go to Game\Content\Paks\~mods
(If the "~mods" folder does not exist, create it.)
2. Paste the desired .pak file(s) into the "~mods" folder.
3. Launch the game and select the skin that the installed .pak has replaced.

If you are unsure where Ace Combat 7 is installed, go into your Steam library and Right Click on Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown
Select Properties
In the window that should pop up within Steam, click the "Local Files" tab at the top
Click the "Browse Local Files" button



Special thanks to SuperOstrich for allowing me to share these skins, which are based upon the Scarface 1 (AC2) texture set he released.
https://www.moddb.com/games/ace-combat-7/addons/typhoon-scarface