With the large number of variants of the soon to be release Taru helicopter I understand that the black skinned variant will only be accessible through scripting commands. This makes sense as it avoids clogging the various UI lists with endless variants of the same unit.

This is fine for mission makers using the editor and scripting commands but falls short when you consider Zeus mission makers/curators.

Under the currently proposed system the only way to give a Zeus player access to these variants would involve more complex scripting such as an "objectplaced" event handler, these solutions would generally limit the Zeus player to a single skin for each classname of object they are placing.

Therefore I would like to request that Zeus be given the ability to change the skin of a vehicle through a new UI element. This could be achieve with a simple slider UI that can be displayed either as an addition to the "double click" UI when selecting a unit or with a placeable module that can be dragged onto an existing unit.