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Mat Manager type of mod - Tigershark - 21.11.2007

Everyone remember this app,

Well, is there anyway of making his artwork, or similar concepts, the default decals for the sim...

I hate having to use a third party program all the time...

...memory hog

TS

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- RAF_Magpie - 21.11.2007

Well as far as I was aware this is a run once forget program... you dont need it running in the background

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- Tigershark - 21.11.2007

Have you used it before?

I used it WAAAAY back.. and I remember I had to launch il2 from mat manager... it would sit in the system tray... I was certain this didnt overwrite the exsisting hardcoded decals, it merely emulated its own in real time, via background app...

TS

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- tab_flettner - 21.11.2007

It now launches automatically. One time install and no hook file required. Latest and easiest install info and link:

http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/ ... 9491037606

If I recall reading about this a while ago correctly, it uses the same basic idea as the sound mod as far as file replacement goes. I don't see why it could not just be incorporated at this point.

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- RAF_Magpie - 22.11.2007

yeah its good these days. Took me a while to get it working with the SM, buuuut, apparently im a rarity

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Re: Mat Manager type of mod - Willy - 22.11.2007

Tigershark Wrote:...is there anyway of making his artwork, or similar concepts, the default decals for the sim...

I hate having to use a third party program all the time...

TS

This has crossed my mind quite often since we have the ability to change certain things from the inside as for my part I mostly use the program to shut off the national marking rather than replace them. therefore most of the stuff just sits on my hard drive taking up space.

I feel even more like doing this now I've replaced most of the awful default blank skins in my install.

However I think it might be an idea to contact "Aces" the bloke who made it first, see what he says...you never know he may be interested in making it work -from the other end- as it were, equally he may not.

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- Vpmedia - 22.11.2007

these are the default game markings extracted

http://rapidshare.com/files/71426851/ma ... s.zip.html

(you need to add new entries to files.txt manually)

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- Vpmedia - 22.11.2007

but Mat Manager is far better than the games default markings 'engine'

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- Fisneaky - 22.11.2007

tab_flettner Wrote:If I recall reading about this a while ago correctly, it uses the same basic idea as the sound mod as far as file replacement goes. I don't see why it could not just be incorporated at this point.

So everyones been using a "hack" for so long ? :lol:


It just puts the markings in the cache, which is why you dint clear the cache when running Mat Manager.

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- Tigershark - 23.11.2007

So VP, I love your skins btw, if I edit the default ones you uploaded and then put it in the correct il2 directory, it will overwride and I will have weathered or whatever I like decals, as opposed to the solid colored eyesore ones??

Correct?

TS

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