Skinning - How do you do it?

[FMJnaX]

Simply put, how do you guys skin your planes. For example, the packaged planes models are blank and use bitmaps as skins. I've tried it for my model, but it hasn't worked. How do you build a skin and incorporate it with a model?

[Scarz]

heres a tutorial

[FMJnaX]

I'll take a look at that more in depth when I get home, but it appears that he is simply painting a skin on the model. What I want to do is create a standalone .bmp so that the model itself is a plain material (white) and the skin is applied externally. I know it can be done because the stock models come that way.

[Scarz]

this is one I wrote a while back, describes exactly what you looking for. sort of...