[RETIRED] ME Aircraft Payload Preview Overhaul

[Mainstay]

Freakin awsome Uboats ! u did it again have been waiting for this for a very long time now. ED should bring this to the base sim if you ask me.

 

Again thanks for your time and effort Uboats

[Weegie]

Hi UBoats

 

I haven't yet fully tested but it works for some of my aircraft in 2.0 but not for others

 

I've looked at the

Dora (does not change picture with skin)

A-10C (does not change picture with skin)

Kurfurst (works a treat)

 

Anyway its bound to have a few bugs but its an awesome tool and should have been in the main package a loooooong time ago

 

Many Many Thanks for this

[Tarres]

Still crashing with some combinations of country/airplane.

 

Examples:

USA-39ZA

Russia-M2000C

France-F5E

 

Thanks Uboats!

[diditopgun]

Amazing !!! Waiting for it since they have removed it so long years ago....

 

But still have CTD.

 

Some examples I remember:

USA L39-ZA

France/Russia F-86F

Edited May 16, 2016 by diditopgun

[YoYo]

Really nice work. It was missing feature in DCS.

[joker62]

Awesome job!!!! Very usefull :thumbup: +1

 

antonio.

[Midnight]

Great MOD uboats, will make things so much easier. Maybe now that this is finished you can look at the coalition change mod in ME...wink!

[uboats]

Still crashing with some combinations of country/airplane.

 

Examples:

USA-39ZA

Russia-M2000C

France-F5E

 

Thanks Uboats!

 

I've looked at the

Dora (does not change picture with skin)

Kurfurst (works a treat)

 

But still have CTD.

 

Some examples I remember:

USA L39-ZA

France/Russia F-86F

 

thanks guys, they have been fixed

 

A-10C (does not change picture with skin)

it changes, since most for US skin are almost similar. you can try RU skin and see

Edited May 16, 2016 by uboats

[NRG-Vampire]

Any rep is highly appreciated!

 

rep sent :thumbsup: great job :bounce:

[uboats]

v1.4: fix bug cause CTD

[Akatsuki]

Thank you uboats. This was much needed.

[Vedexent]

Really really nice! Thanks for your work.

[uboats]

如果能显示挂载配置就更好了

 

可能不太能实现， 系统限制

[BaD CrC]

Extremely nice and needed mod Uboats!

Makes you wonder why on earth this is not a basic feature in game!!!

[NRG-Vampire]

unfortunately old models (such as F-14, F-16, MiG-23, MiG-29S etc.) does not show changed skins. only default skin visible :(

[Kayos]

Awesome, Good work Uboats!

[uboats]

unfortunately old models (such as F-14, F-16, MiG-23, MiG-29S etc.) does not show changed skins. only default skin visible :(

 

 

 

Yes, since those old ones use different way for skin that they use index and dds file name include index. So that's why viewer doesn't know how to load. If you can figure this out in modelviewer, then I think it can be fixed here as well

[NRG-Vampire]

Yes, since those old ones use different way for skin that they use index and dds file name include index. So that's why viewer doesn't know how to load. If you can figure this out in modelviewer, then I think it can be fixed here as well

 

yes, those old models use arg70 for sinks

arg70 value 0.0, 0.1, 0.2 and so on - that's the id number in the description.lua file

however the modelviewer able to read skins both way: from description.lua by material and texture names and from description.lua by id number - that read the 3d model texture names what connected to arg70 skin-visibility

 

 

so can you implement that arg70 value changes/variable usage into your lua file ?

 

(if not we can convert that old arg70 skin names texture usage to a description lua file - how newer skins/liveries works - but this "conversion" needs some time unfortunately)

Edited May 16, 2016 by NRG-Vampire

[uboats]

yes, those old models use arg70 for sinks

arg70 value 0.0, 0.1, 0.2 and so on - that's the id number in the description.lua file

however the modelviewer able to read skins both way: from description.lua by material and texture names and from description.lua by id number - that read the 3d model texture names what connected to arg70 skin-visibility

 

 

I see. Then the implement is ok, but the issue is that how to know whether this is index based skin or not. And also, it only supports up to 11 skins?

[diditopgun]

Great !

[NRG-Vampire]

I see. Then the implement is ok, but the issue is that how to know whether this is index based skin or not. And also, it only supports up to 11 skins?

 

only old/index based skins use the id number from the description.lua file

 

(old models use the arg70 coz newer models do not have arg70 skin-visiblility, however you can add id number usage to the description.lua if animations or visibility is set to arg70 in 3dsmax to new models)

 

id number usage is good to over the arg70 value 1.0 too (for new user-made skins)

for example if you add new skins with numbers in the texture dds file name then id=14 will load texture name with "tex-name-14" however that's not the same if a built in skin (in the 3D model) use the arg70 value 1.4

 

old models use 10 textures (or maximum 11 if it defined in the 3d model file "inside") but you can load textures from "outside" as well - see above - LOM models used the "skins" extension for this too

Edited May 16, 2016 by NRG-Vampire

[uboats]

only old/index based skins use the id number from the description.lua file

 

(old models use the arg70 coz newer models do not have arg70 skin-visiblility, however you can add id number usage to the description.lua if animations or visibility is set to arg70 in 3dsmax to new models)

 

id number usage is good to over the arg70 value 1.0 too

for example if you add new skins with numbers in the texture dds file name then id=14 will load texture name with "tex-name-14" however that's not the same if a built in skin (in the 3D model) use the arg70 value 1.4

 

old models use 10 textures (or maximum 11 if it defined in the 3d model file "inside") but you can load textures from "outside" as well - see above - LOM models used the "skins" extension for this too

 

yes, that's what I thought

[NRG-Vampire]

yes, that's what I thought

 

so i think you should implement that arg70-id number usage to you me_payload.lua file first- model viewer use that too to read textures of old models

[SkateZilla]

Yes, since those old ones use different way for skin that they use index and dds file name include index. So that's why viewer doesn't know how to load. If you can figure this out in modelviewer, then I think it can be fixed here as well

 

 

old skins were ARGUMENT Based IIRC.

 

For F-14/F-18A EDM etc

Argument 70.

 

Description.LUA Contains the ARG Value (ie 7 = .700 = VF-1 Wolfpack)

 

Just gotta get the value from the description.lua

Edited May 16, 2016 by SkateZilla

[uboats]

so i think you should implement that arg70-id number usage to you me_payload.lua file first- model viewer use that too to read textures of old models

 

old skins were ARGUMENT Based IIRC.

 

For F-14/F-18A EDM etc

Argument 70.

 

Description.LUA Contains the ARG Value (ie 7 = .700 = VF-1 Wolfpack)

 

Just gotta get the value from the description.lua

 

thanks

i just tried, but didn't succeed.

so in modelviewer, for those old model, we dont use livery list but use arg scroll to change skin?