Hrvat-Pilot

Had I known that, I wouldn't be so dissapointed. At least there is some good news out there. I will wait then and add the skin to Black Shark instead. Thanks a lot!

Well that's very dissapointing news to hear. I guess I will have to overwrite the Hind skins then... very dissapointing. Is there some way I can make my own .LOM model or anything to add non-overwriting skins? I have decent modeling skill so I could do that as well... any ideas? Honestly, if there is ANY way to do what I want to do, I don't care how far out you have to reach, please let me know, it is very important to me to not overwrite anything. So even if I have to go buy some random software and make some random files or ANYTHING.. please let me know. But for now, I guess I will overwrite some so I can at least test the skins and have a little bit of fun. Thanks a lot for the replies! :thumbup:

Hello everyone! I am in the process of making a Croatia mod for LOMAC, and I have added the country so far, but am now working on new skins. I started with the Hind (as there are other people working on other planes). My problem is that I do not know what to do next with putting the skin into the game. It is 6:00 in the morning here and I have been struggling with this all night, and I have to get to sleep, a lot to do tomorrow, so forgive me for the fact that I am simply going to copy the exact same message I posted on lockonfiles.com. ----- I just finished a Hind repaint that turned out very good, IMO. Only problem is that I don't know how to put it in the game. I generated the CDDS file, and then put the entry in the graphics.cfg... and now i'm stuck, I have no idea what to do next. I do not know how to specificy to the game that I want Croatia to use this specific CDDS or this specific Hind repaint. What's next? I tried looking through the MEInit.xml but to little avail. I figured out that for each texture, there is a different CLSID and a name, and for now the Croatia Hind only has Standard as one of its textures. Only problem is, I have no idea how to specificy that I want this specific new CDDS to be used. I tried searching the CLSID everywhere, but it came up nowhere else, so I have no idea where the game is getting its information for which files to use for which countries/repaints. I would appreciate some help, I have no idea what comes next. This is where I am right now: I have MI24-Croatia.cdds in the Bazar/World/ folder. I added the entry into the graphics.cfg as follows- TextureCollections { highFolder = ".\\Bazar\\TempTextures\\"; Collection1 = ".\\Bazar\\Terrain\\Surface\\High\\LandTexturesBMP.cdds"; Collection1 = ".\\Bazar\\Terrain\\Surface\\High\\LandTexturesTGA.cdds"; summer = ".\\Bazar\\Terrain\\Surface\\High\\LandTexturesSumBMP.cdds"; summer = ".\\Bazar\\Terrain\\Surface\\High\\LandTexturesSumTGA.cdds"; winter = ".\\Bazar\\Terrain\\Surface\\High\\LandTexturesWinBMP.cdds"; winter = ".\\Bazar\\Terrain\\Surface\\High\\LandTexturesWinTGA.cdds"; Collection2 = ".\\Bazar\\Terrain\\Surface\\High\\MapTexturesBMP.cdds"; Collection3 = ".\\Bazar\\Effects\\EffectTexturesTGA.cdds"; common = ".\\Bazar\\World\\MI24-Croatia.cdds"; Collection4 = ".\\Bazar\\World\\WorldTexturesTGA.cdds"; Collection5 = ".\\Bazar\\World\\WorldTexturesBMP.cdds"; Collection11 = ".\\Bazar\\World\\WorldTexturesBMP1.cdds"; Collection6 = ".\\Bazar\\World\\ShipTexturesBMP.cdds"; Collection7 = ".\\Bazar\\World\\ShipTexturesTGA.cdds"; Collection8 = ".\\Bazar\\World\\CockpitsTexturesBMP.cdds"; Collection9 = ".\\Bazar\\World\\CockpitsTexturesTGA.cdds"; Collection10 = ".\\Bazar\\Effects\\effects.cdds"; Other than that, I have not done anything. I have not touched these files with modman, I haven't added anything new to MEInit.xml or any other files for that matter. Basically, all I want to do is make it so that whenever a Hind is generated in game under Croatian nationality, I want it to use my skin. The key thing here is that I do NOT want to overwrite any skins. I would have been long past this step if overwriting wasn't an issue, but it is, and I do not want to overwrite anything. So, if any skinners out there know what comes next, please, let me know!! Thanks a lot! Any and all help is much appreciated! -----

Hehe... wow. I am not a professional modder here. I can do repaints... but what you are saying seems way over my head. Anyway, I have decided to choose Lockonfiles.com forums as the place to continue this whole discussion and such, as there was a huge base of support there with people suggesting I do repaints and I wait for a MiG-21 that is apparently coming out sometime. Then actually making translations for the game, etc etc... Anyway, if anyone wants to follow along or join in on the project, you can now go to http://www.lockonfiles.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1355&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0&sid=279cc9b93c1ebca7e21b4d1e3451563a Anyway, thank you all so much for your help and everything, and Spyros, that step by step list will always be my reference to make sure I did not forget anything, and I will keep your suggestions in mind. Thank you very much, appreciate all the help!

You probably read my reply on the lockonfiles forum, but here it is again anyway so that if anyone does a search here, they get the same results... ---- Okay, great news here! Problem solved, everything corrected and working better than I could have hoped! Thank you for all of your help, I was on lockon.ru when I found that same file you just posted, and have been working feverishly for the past while fixing up my "mod". It now is fully functional and I am extremely happy, and not to mention proud of myself! For the future, I plan on adding more squadrons, and actually doing repaints (obviously fictional as the game does not have the MiG-21) for Croatia. Anyway, I want to thank you so very much, and I will be releasing this when I feel it is perfectly complete and has no bugs. I will make a new thread here when I release it. Thank you!!!

Good afternoon everyone! I am on a long trek right now, I started off at the official Lomac forums at ubi.com, I was then referred to Lockonfiles.com, and they sent me here to ask you ladies/gentlemen this question... I will post the exact same question as it still applies perfectly here.... My apologies if this is the wrong place to post this query... (*Note - If "TekaTeka" is reading this, please reply here as I heard you made similar attempts, but succeeded, unlike me.... I would appreciate your [and anyone else's] help!!) --------------------------------------------------------------- Good evening everyone! First a big hello, as I am new here and don't want to start off with business talk before the proper introduction. I am an avid simmer, and a real world pilot (not military... I only wish), I now live in Canada but was born in Croatia, and am proud of being a citizen of both countries, and love them both the same! Anyway, off to the problem. I tried adding a country to my game (as you may have guessed, Croatia) and failed... somewhat. I went though for about 2 hours following an example from USA to add Croatia, essentially just copying anything from the USA, and implementing the same Croatian variant. I even went in depth enough to change add the proper CLSID (or whatever) categories and such in the MEInit.xml. I added the flag, the anthem (OGG format), the awards, ranks, squadrons, pilots... etc etc etc... Now, when I start the game, the problem arises when viewing the logbook. The entire ranks section is white, blank, and not working. Not only that, but Croatia is still not listed. I don't understand what I did wrong, but if there is some sort of step by step walktrhough, or even just a big list of what needs to be edited when adding countries, I would appreciate it very much. Yes, I know, one would ask why I want to add Croatia... well its simple... I want Croatia on the list so I can put that as my nationality rather than Canada. Yes... fine... call me pointless, but I have my goal, and I have my reasons as any other human has theirs, I do not ask for your judgement, simply your help! Infact I beg for you help because I am confused. Here is a list of the files/folders I have edited/added: MEInit.xml - Added Croatia, making it country #17, added its flag and all info and such... MECustom.xml - Again simply added Croatia. UI.xml - Added Croatia respectively where required. FUI/Common/Flags folder - Added the flag PilotLogBook folder - Obviously, added the pilots here, the straps, the awards, the squadrons. Also edited Countries.xml to add Croatia where required, again as Country 17. Sounds folder - Added the anthem. Now, if I am missing anything, please, please let me know. If you need more information, please ask. I have seen some of you out there, one person specifically, who had a HUGE list of countries added, if that person can drop by and give me a quick step by step guide or an example of his/her files that needed to be edited, I would appreciate it so much. I really just want to add this, and I thought I had it in the bag... obviously not. Thank you so much for all and any help!! --------------------------------------------------------------------- Anyway, like I said, I was referred here from ubi.com forums (originally) as well as lockonfiles.com. I was told that a similar attempt has been made, and was successfull, so if there is a "TekaTeka" out there, my call is mainly to you, I heard you were successfull in adding Japan to the roster of nations as well as to the logbooks etc. Obviously, I am also asking/accepting help from ANYONE who can give me any more suggestions, I don't care how many times I have to be referred to other websites (hehe, but hopefully this is the last time before I find my solution).