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Topic: Planepack 6.1 & custom skins installation
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Eyes
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posted 06-17- 06:08 AM
   
Well, I have a tough one (at least I think so) for you guys !
With planepack 6.1 and the aircraft folder amost empty, how is it possible to use a custom skin ?
For example, I have a custom skin for the Hurmki that I want to use ! I created a Media\aircarft\Hurmki\textures folder and I put the custom skin in there. I loaded sdoe but no good ! The one from the par file loaded ! Any good ideas ? or what am I doing wrong ?
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Harman_5
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posted 06-17- 06:24 AM
You have to make sure the name of the tif you made is correct. If you have BigMunger, use the 'listbig' tab and type in the location and par file number with the plane skins. Look for the Hurricane folder in the file list and look for the main tif for the Hurricane. To save you from doing all this work, just call your skin "Hurrmki.tif" And make sure the aircraft folder is called "Hurrmki" for the Hurricane. ------------------
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Da Jug head
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posted 06-17- 08:37 AM
Although some people say this is a myth, I have this happen occasionally when changing skins, and I have to delete the texture cache file for the new skin to show up.There's a tutorial at Fighter Squadron Central that covers this. Go to the "Tips" section. [This message has been edited by Da Jug head (edited 06-17-2001).] IP: Logged |
Eyes
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posted 06-17- 11:03 AM
Well, probably I didnt explain this well !In the pre-pp 6.1 era, I had no problem changing skins ! I did what you guys said ! But with pp61 ALL planes are in a par file !!! The aircraft folder is empty....Tried to make the corrct airplane folder and put teh skin with teh correct name in the but it didint work ! Only way to accomplish is is to open teh par file install the skin and then repack it...
But thats pain inthe as#^$&$$ ! See what I mean ? ------------
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Pye
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posted 06-17- 11:38 AM
eyes you spelt "aircraft" wrong.. maybe that was it!!!did you ever backup your aircraft folder.. ie. for using the spoons loadouts online.. if you did.. then you have all the directories in there.. just remember to delete any files called loadout.ppf that you find
then use that folder If you havn't then call back here.. it can be sent to you.. It would be a good idea. if the PP7.2 did create the relevant folder names for you.
or had them listed in the read me. You found a annoying problem there. [This message has been edited by Pye (edited 06-17-2001).] [This message has been edited by Pye (edited 06-17-2001).] IP: Logged |
Pye
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posted 06-17- 11:47 AM
EACH directory has a sounds and texture directoryList created with Dos DIR "directoryname" >tmp.txt piping the output to file to cut and past. . 03/03/01 13:23 .
.. 03/03/01 13:23 ..
SPIT11 03/03/01 13:23 SPIT11
SOPCAM 03/03/01 13:23 SopCam
SE5A 03/03/01 13:23 SE5a
NIE17C1 03/03/01 13:23 Nie17c1
MORANE~1 03/03/01 13:23 MoraneSaulnierN
FOKKER~1 03/03/01 13:23 FokkerDVIII
FOKKER~2 03/03/01 13:23 FokkerDVII
FOKKER~3 03/03/01 13:23 FokkerDr1A
BRISTO~1 03/03/01 13:23 BristolF2b
ALBATR~1 03/03/01 13:23 AlbatrosDva
TYPH 03/03/01 13:23 Typh
SPIT 03/03/01 13:23 Spit
MOSQ 03/03/01 13:23 Mosq
LANC 03/03/01 13:23 Lanc
JU88A4XV 03/03/01 13:23 Ju88a4xv
JU88A4 03/03/01 13:23 Ju88A4
FW190A 03/03/01 13:23 Fw190A
B17G 03/03/01 13:23 B17G
AIRFOILS 03/03/01 13:23 airfoils
YAK3 03/03/01 13:23 Yak3
TA152 03/03/01 13:23 Ta152
SPITIX 03/03/01 13:23 SpitIX
SPIT1A 03/03/01 13:23 Spit1a
SEAFIRE 03/03/01 13:23 Seafire
PE2 03/03/01 13:23 Pe2
P80B 03/03/01 13:23 p80b
P51D 03/03/01 13:23 P51D
P47D 03/03/01 13:23 P47D
P38J 03/03/01 13:23 P38J
MISTEL3 03/03/01 13:23 Mistel3
MISTEL1 03/03/01 13:23 Mistel1
ME262 03/03/01 13:23 Me262
LANCSP 03/03/01 13:23 lancsp
JU88G7B 03/03/01 13:23 Ju88G7b
JU88DN 03/03/01 13:23 Ju88DN
JU87G2 03/03/01 13:23 ju87g2
I16 03/03/01 13:23 I16
HURRMKI 03/03/01 13:23 hurrmki
HEINKE~1 03/03/01 13:23 Heinkel162
HE100D 03/03/01 13:23 He100d
GO229 03/03/01 13:23 Go229
FW190D9 03/03/01 13:23 Fw190d9
FW190A8 03/03/01 13:23 Fw190a8
FW190A3 03/03/01 13:23 fw190a3
FRELANC 03/03/01 13:23 FreLanc
FREHURR 03/03/01 13:23 FreHurr
F4U4 03/03/01 13:23 F4u4
F4U1 03/03/01 13:23 F4u1
F4U 03/03/01 13:23 F4u
F4F4 03/03/01 13:23 f4f4
CORS2 03/03/01 13:23 Cors2
BF109K4 03/03/01 13:23 bf109k4
BF109G 03/03/01 13:23 bf109g
BF109F4 03/03/01 13:23 bf109f4
BF109E4 03/03/01 13:23 bf109e4
BEAUX 03/03/01 13:23 BeauX
BEAUVI 03/03/01 13:23 BeauVI
BEAUI 03/03/01 13:23 BeauI
BEAU21 03/03/01 13:23 Beau21
B17F 03/03/01 13:23 B17F
A6M5 03/03/01 13:23 a6m5
A6M2 03/03/01 13:23 a6m2
A36A 03/03/01 13:23 a36a
COCKPIT 03/03/01 13:23 cockpit
P-38J 03/03/01 13:23 P-38j
SPITVC 03/03/01 13:23 SpitVc
Pretty isn't it!!
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Yardstick
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posted 06-17- 12:50 PM
If you use 'Ground Crew' you don't have to piss about swapping files manually. I have no idea where to get it from, I downloaded my copy about 2 years ago but it is the best SDOE ulitity in my opinion.------------------
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Eyes
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posted 06-17- 01:19 PM
Pye - Not sure xactly what you mean ! Will dig into it later, if The Ground Crew otion fails ! And I make ttypos all the time...standard procedure,lol ! I did name teh folder ok Yardstick - I do have the ground crew ! I will try it and will tell you the outcome ! To be continued ! Hehe...
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nealg
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posted 06-17- 01:39 PM
Eyes - as said above, if you kept a old Aircraft folder by renaming it, and it had the skin you want, just copy that plane folder into your new Aircraft folder. Go through it and make sure you delete any .sm or .ppf files that got carried over, and you should have your skin. It should work. Should, being the operative word, hehe.
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Yardstick
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posted 06-18- 06:04 AM
All my schemes are set up for Ground Crew. All you have to do is drop the zips into the zip directory in Groud Crew. Run the ulitity and the texture files will be unpacked into the relevant directories (these directories will be created if they are not already present).IP: Logged |
WWDubya
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posted 06-18- 09:23 AM
Hmmm...Those of us who are hard-drive challenged (little room left) may find it difficult to BM all the different .par files just so's we can determine the correct folder names for all the myriad aircraft that are available in the PlanePacks. Since I'm no programmer, I'm going to ask: How difficult would it be to create a snap-in routine for BigMunger that would build a flatfile detailing the folder/file structure in Media, without actually unpacking the files themselves? Oh, and BTW, if anyone can supply the link to this "mythical" ;-) GroundCrew utility, please share it here!!! I've been looking for that guy for the longest time, keep hearing mention of it, but I can't get my grimy little hands on it! ------------------
Fly Well,
Dub
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Harman_5
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posted 06-18- 10:26 AM
WWDubya,I'm not sure if this what you mean, but you can get BigMunger to create a txt file describing the contents of any PAR file you choose without unpacking the PAR file and taking up disk space. The text file details the file size, location (folder structure) inside media and also CRCs for each file (I think those are CRCs). To do this, simply start BigMunger, switch to the 'listbig' tab, and type in the exact location and filename of the par file you'd like to see the contents of. Check the 'Dump To Text File" box and hit OK. The text file will be created inside \Media. All this without unpacking the PAR file at all and you can see what the files for skins and anything else are called, and where to put them inside \media. ------------------
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WWDubya
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posted 06-18- 12:17 PM
Doh!!! all right there in front of me... and exactly what I was looking for too!Thanks Harman! But, as to this elusive GroundCrew guy... ------------------
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Eyes
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posted 06-19- 01:17 AM
I dont know what i am doing wrong, but it doesnt work ! Copied & pasted from my back up aircraft folder the hurricane dir into the new aircarft folder, put the hurrmki.tiff into the textures folder but still no good ! Deleted the cache.* files and had sdoe remake them, but still no good !
Looks like I will give up ! Or...any ideas?IP: Logged |
AGAS - 5
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posted 06-19- 02:46 AM
Eyes...try this....I sometimes get this problem when painting in gimp and replacing a skin. 1. Open the skin up in a paint prog (any that can handle .tiff files) 2. Save it to the correct location and file name. 3. DO NOT CLOSE THE .TIFF FILE !!!! 4. Go to the saved location in explorer, delete the file & hit F5. 5. Go back to the .tiff file in the paint prog and save again. 6. Go back to explorer and F5 (the .tiff file will now appear). 7. Close the paint prog (not realy required, but will save a bit of RAM during the game) 8. Start game. New skin should appear. Granted this is a bit of a strange method - but it avoids deleting the cache files and therefor makes loading quicker. Hope it helps bro  Cheers, AGAS 5 [This message has been edited by AGAS - 5 (edited 06-19-2001).] IP: Logged |
Harman_5
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posted 06-19- 06:21 AM
Eyes,I noticed there that you said "hurrmki.tiff". How about renaming the file to end with "tif" instead of "tiff"? Maybe SDOE doesn't read files with the extra "f" in tif? Just a thought... ------------------
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Eyes
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posted 06-19- 09:42 AM
LOL Harman ! I knew there was a typo somewhere made !AGAS if the extra f doent work, I will try your idea ! To be continued... ------------
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Jerry
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posted 06-19- 12:13 PM
Just a thought, are you doing just the Hurricane? If so, try changing the skin on another plane. Maybe, on the outside chance, your custom skin is the same as the 6.1 default skin and it is working but you don't see any difference. It still wouldn't hurt to try another plane.IP: Logged |
Eyes
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posted 06-20- 01:30 PM
Stupid me ! For a strange reason the file hurrmki.tif was seen by the wndows as hurrmki.tiff although in the properties of this file it was reckon as hurrmki.tif !
Anyway deleted it, redownloaded it and now it works great !Thanks to all of you guys ! IP: Logged |
Jerry
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posted 06-20- 02:30 PM
Glad to hear it.! IP: Logged |
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