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Tailslide Pilot	posted 11-27- 02:07 PM I want to be able to change all my paint schemes depending on what terrain I am playing on.. for example if I'm flying an africa mission, I want to alt-tab back to windows click a button and have all my planes with desert camo. Is there something out to do this? TS ------------------ ________________________ TS Aircombat IP: Logged
Zoycite JAG	posted 11-27- 02:13 PM Heya, I would like this too. I dont use paintboy or camo comander so I'm not sure if they can do this. Spyder might be able to add this to a new version of SDOE control. I'll shoot him a mail and ask. ------------------ Zoycite {GS} GUNSLINGERS visit The War Paint Factory IP: Logged
Jaguar Pilot	posted 11-27- 02:27 PM I believe the skins load up when SDOE does...... Not sure how you would change it..... Maybe if you put a reference to it in the actual mission. That wouldn't be too hard. Just tell FS to load up all the skins, and let the mission pick one or more..... Can this be done MH? ------------------ Cheers! Jaguar www.fshangar.com IP: Logged
kopper JAG	posted 11-27- 02:52 PM Spyder, spyder he's our man! If he can't do it no one can! ------------------ Kopper Fortunae Nihil (Nothing to Chance) OPPs Making SDOE a Dangerous place. One plane at a time. IP: Logged
Yardstick Pilot	posted 11-27- 03:46 PM You can alt tab back to windows and use Ground Crew to do this. You will have to do the aircraft individually but it takes seconds. IP: Logged
Tailslide Pilot	posted 11-27- 05:21 PM The cheaters way could be to put them all in zip files like africaskins.zip and make shortcuts on the desktop to unzip them to the right directory.. TS ------------------ ________________________ TS Aircombat IP: Logged
Sp@nky Pilot	posted 11-27- 05:43 PM well tail i don't see your fix being that bad until someone puts it right in the game so it autoloads it that would be great IP: Logged
Poodle EAF322 Pilot	posted 11-27- 05:58 PM I think Ground Crew is the shortest way now. Especially if you don't have too many skins in it. About 2 or 3 for each plane so you can find things easy. ------------------ Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a Flying Poodle ! IP: Logged
Sp@nky Pilot	posted 11-27- 06:26 PM nope putting all your africa skins in one zip with all of them pointing to the right plane is the fastest way just double click on the zip and boom there all in one step IP: Logged
juzz Pilot	posted 11-27- 06:27 PM The way I sort of do it is with multiple texture directories, ie: texturesD(esert) texturesE(urope) texturesR(ussia) and the one being used, textures. So I just rename them to change the textures. Takes a while though. Probably a batch file could make it a one button affair to rename the directories? IP: Logged
Katana Pilot	posted 11-27- 06:39 PM Quick question Spanky can you do this on the fly by alt tabbing and clicking on your zip file ------------------ Cheers Kat out IP: Logged
Falck Pilot	posted 11-27- 07:59 PM I hope everyone who is going to get access to the source code is taking notes IP: Logged
Sp@nky Pilot	posted 11-27- 08:41 PM Katana actually i never use alt tab just atl enter to put the chat lobby into a window and then double click on your zip u could make it a self extracting zip and it would just drop all the skins into there proper folders IP: Logged
Spyder Pilot	posted 11-28- 02:37 AM If the above examples are fast enough then I'll leave it, but this is what I'm planning. The random skins should make it a nice variety: ------------------ IP: Logged
Yardstick Pilot	posted 11-28- 03:48 AM Spyder, don't forget the tundra/winter rhineland maps :0 IP: Logged
Sp@nky Pilot	posted 11-28- 06:08 AM HEHE what about pacific? very cool man IP: Logged
Zoycite JAG	posted 11-28- 12:30 PM WOW!!!! 2 emails to the guy, I go to bed, and awake to find a screenshot of the skin app! Well done Spyder! Looking good. But I think that Rhineland Winter needs to be included as well Very nice! ------------------ Zoycite {GS} GUNSLINGERS visit The War Paint Factory IP: Logged
Katana Pilot	posted 11-28- 05:02 PM Big hug and lotsa kisses from Jade Spyder.And a BIG whoopee from me. ------------------ Cheers Kat out IP: Logged
Lucky Stripes Cadet	posted 11-28- 05:51 PM Well, I had thought if this a long time ago, I have a solution, but I think many of you wont like it for obvious resaons. Why not just have a differrent plane for each theatre? Well, the same plane but with a different name, For example.. take the Ju88 you could havea Ju88 named Ju88Africa, Ju88Dover, and Ju88 Rhineland. In each folder you keep the respective textures, and in each mission, you use the right Aircraft for the corresponding terrian. IMO this is the simplest most conveniant solution, of course it does take a little more to set up and have everyone use, esp when it comes to online play. I'll be looking forward to reading replies on this idea. Capt Lucky 8th AFF Viper Squadron IP: Logged
Spyder Pilot	posted 11-28- 06:23 PM The way I'm doing it is this: The util makes the folders shown in the util, you place your favourite skins into the respective folders and when you select the theatre they get copied into your \media\aircraft\plane\textures folder. Of course this means only one aircraft skin of that type per folder but I figured everyone uses a particular skin all the time anyway. That would give you a choice of 4 different B17 skins per online session for instance. The random option will just grab any one of those theatres and use it, so it becomes a lucky dip. ------------------ IP: Logged
Jerry Pilot	posted 11-28- 07:32 PM Spyder, What happens if a particular folder is empty and your utility doesn't find a skin in it? BTW this is a great idea! IP: Logged
Spyder Pilot	posted 11-28- 08:13 PM If no files are in the folders nothing will happen, it will look for the files and only copy what are there to your aircraft folder. All the files will be standard names that the current aircraft use ie. FW190A2.tif. You won't be able to use 2 instances of 190 skins in the Africa folder for example. cheers ------------------ IP: Logged
Sp@nky Pilot	posted 11-28- 10:25 PM Sounds and looks great man When will it be out? Just wondering not pushing again great work it will bring a new level of imersion to have the proper skin always loaded IP: Logged
Spyder Pilot	posted 11-29- 05:13 AM Hoo hah, worked progressed quicker than expected and it seems functional on the african theatre right now. I have only gone with single file copying of the planes to their respective texture folders, this means planes such as the B17 with multiple texture parts won't get copied over as yet, just the B17g2tif for example. I'll add this later if it's not useful enough but for now I want to get it running and work on it from there. Another problem, sort of, is I'm allowing only for the current planes tifs as we know them, future planes will of course not be part of the swapping process until a newer update which incorporates the file names. Eventually an option to drag over and unzip textures into their respective theatres will/might be incorporated as well. Just keeping you informed. Possible release, a couple of days. Cheers ------------------ IP: Logged
Spyder Pilot	posted 11-30- 03:20 AM Zoycite is testing the util for bugs at the moment. I have everything working except for the random tif section. Basically it will grab a tif for each plane from any one of the four theatres randomly. The choices therefore are for 4 different schemes for each plane when you use the util, should be enough for some variety, I can add more later if this isn't enough. I need to write the instructions out more clearly also, it all seems obvious to me but I can see people wondering how to set it up correctly. Cheers ------------------ [This message has been edited by Spyder (edited 11-30-1999).] IP: Logged
Raider Pilot	posted 11-30- 09:27 AM Spyder, you have already added so much to this game. This too will be a great addition. Thanks Raider IP: Logged
Sv Pilot	posted 11-30- 12:49 PM Wow Spyder! I'm not the kinda guy that gets worked up about skins, but this idea seems great! I would like to see some more variety without much hassle - cool! ------------------ -Sv =FC= WWI in SDOE! IP: Logged
Zoycite JAG	posted 11-30- 07:10 PM Heya all, Great News, it works fine on my set up. No problems with the testing done. I did have some set up problems, but that was my fault. This was such a great idea, Im pleased to see that its done. Less than a week. Spyder, your the Man! Outstanding. I think all of you will enjoy this. The War Paint Factory said: "Wow! What a great a little app, this is a must have" "A definate thumbs up!" The Seattle Times.... And for 19.95 it can be yours too. J/K Thanks Spyder, ------------------ Zoycite {GS} GUNSLINGERS visit The War Paint Factory [This message has been edited by Zoycite (edited 11-30-1999).] IP: Logged

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