XFA-27 - Joker Skin Pack (JSP)

At the final chapter of their journey, the heroes of Usea are crowned with the XFA-27 "Phoenix II", a massive reverse-engineering collaboration between the FCU and General Resource. Claiming that it was the work of a mercenary pilot that once saved Usea from total chaos, it was now going to be them, General Resource, a mercenary company, that saves Usea once again. By using the callsign of the legendary mercenary as the XFA-27's nickname, the "Phoenix II" was ready to take the fight to Sotoa. The legendary aircraft being hurriedly manufactured to be used by the Joker Squadron was history rhyming itself in an ironic fashion, but the war was far from over.This collection of liveries belong to the second flight of the FAS-830, the Joker Squadron. Stationed on the aircraft carrier FCU Endurance, they are the protagonist squadron of Ace Combat 8, taking part in the FCU-Sotoa conflict.

This collection of liveries should be considered fanon, as I've included my headcanons for the livery. For legitimate information about the squadron, I'd suggest checking the wiki.

Character information.

Jan "Rex" Cope - Joker 1 "Rex / Wings of Theve" - Aircraft #203 - Rank: Commander

Ellington Baxter - Joker 2 "Professor" - Aircraft #204 - Rank: Lieutenant Commander

Tasha Severskaya - Joker 3 "Tasha" - Aircraft #412 - Rank: Ensign

William Coster - Joker 4 "Noise" - Aircraft #277 - Rank: Lieutenant Junior Grade

*Ranks and full names provided by Bandai Namco's EU website featuring the character roster.

Installation Instructions.

What are Material Instances, and how do I install a skin mod that uses Material Instances?

Most of my liveries use Material Instances, a more efficient way of packing skins without uploading the texture files dozens of times and wasting all of your hard drive space. Instead, I pack the textures once, and Material Instance files sit on top of the skin slots, telling the game to "load this specific livery in this location instead of the vanilla one!"

And here is how you can use them.

- Create a folder called "~mods" inside "\ACE COMBAT 7\Game\Content\Paks" - This is where the game stores its data, the tilde gives it priority above vanilla files.

- Extract the Base Texture file into the "~mods" folder, and pick the skin slots you want to override with this mod. You can increase the mod's load priority by adding more tildes into their names.

I recommend organizing your mod folder by making subfolders!

Credits. Heartfelt thanks towards;

Decal locations and proportions, such as the camo, marking texts and et cetera are based on the liveries featured in njmksr's XFA-27 Retro Squadron Pac