Skullbiscuit Wrote:How did you get Mat Manager to work with the mods? I assume you are talking about Aces Art Mat Manager with all the different possibilities and not the new glossy ones meant to work with Avala's specularity mod?
I tried Aces Mat Manager and I did not see the desired markings appear when I checked out aircraft within the object viewer. I thought that with the mod installed that it will take the glossy insignia inserted within the "files" folder over the traditional location where Mat Manager puts the new insignia.
SB
Wilhelm Heidkamp Wrote:Skullbiscuit Wrote:How did you get Mat Manager to work with the mods? I assume you are talking about Aces Art Mat Manager with all the different possibilities and not the new glossy ones meant to work with Avala's specularity mod?
I tried Aces Mat Manager and I did not see the desired markings appear when I checked out aircraft within the object viewer. I thought that with the mod installed that it will take the glossy insignia inserted within the "files" folder over the traditional location where Mat Manager puts the new insignia.
SB
Modded game with soundmod 9.3, avala's planshine mod and a long etc, is working perfectly with Mat Manager (latest version) here. Perfectly. Moreover, it's the best tool to set up correct and nice markings in your planes (quantity of options and periods).
Regards.
Lo0n Wrote:yeah there is a self installing exe at mission4today now, but it used to be a case of install one version, run it and the game, uninstall and then install update, run, uninstall, install next update yadda yadda for about 4 updates, and if you missed any of the steps or did em slightly wrong it stuffed up the install of matmanager. the error messages were probably saying which files hadn't been installed properly. also need to have the delete cache folder option checked and uh... maybe other things, can't remember...
Skullbiscuit Wrote:yeah don't go to aces site, that is the version oh 2.33 or something, and you need several updates and the readme's are less than clear. the mission4today one is a self installing exe, like the mods here. it's just a fiddly installation process that is the downer with mat manager if you get it from aces site. perhaps fiddly is being too generous! anyway, here's the linkLo0n Wrote:yeah there is a self installing exe at mission4today now, but it used to be a case of install one version, run it and the game, uninstall and then install update, run, uninstall, install next update yadda yadda for about 4 updates, and if you missed any of the steps or did em slightly wrong it stuffed up the install of matmanager. the error messages were probably saying which files hadn't been installed properly. also need to have the delete cache folder option checked and uh... maybe other things, can't remember...
OK, so I have looked at the forums at ACE's site and followed the instructions there to no effect. Does mission 4 today offer a more reliable install guide? I know they have the software there for download but I did not note any reference to the "definitive" guide for making it work with 46.
Barring that...I guess I'll just have to pick through the bones myself and see what went wrong on the install.
SB
Lo0n Wrote:Skullbiscuit Wrote:yeah don't go to aces site, that is the version oh 2.33 or something, and you need several updates and the readme's are less than clear. the mission4today one is a self installing exe, like the mods here. it's just a fiddly installation process that is the downer with mat manager if you get it from aces site. perhaps fiddly is being too generous! anyway, here's the linkLo0n Wrote:yeah there is a self installing exe at mission4today now, but it used to be a case of install one version, run it and the game, uninstall and then install update, run, uninstall, install next update yadda yadda for about 4 updates, and if you missed any of the steps or did em slightly wrong it stuffed up the install of matmanager. the error messages were probably saying which files hadn't been installed properly. also need to have the delete cache folder option checked and uh... maybe other things, can't remember...
OK, so I have looked at the forums at ACE's site and followed the instructions there to no effect. Does mission 4 today offer a more reliable install guide? I know they have the software there for download but I did not note any reference to the "definitive" guide for making it work with 46.
Barring that...I guess I'll just have to pick through the bones myself and see what went wrong on the install.
SB
http://www.mission4today.com/index.php? ... ls&id=3117
vpmedia Wrote:Two important things regarding IL-2 MAT MANAGER problems:
inside Mat Manager you must set the game path and then press the save button
you must also put ClearCache=0 into the [game] section of conf.ini
vp_MatManagerMarkings.zip