CDDS Question

[PythonOne]

I just finished converting all my hires skins to cdds but I was wondering how do you add more skins to a particular plane. For example, in walmis F-15, he added a few skins that I would like to delete and replace them with a few of my own skins. So could anyone tell me how to

1.) Delete the new skins walmis added since I prefer realism so I didn’t want the dark panther skin (no offense)

2.) Add my own new additional slots to the F-15 and named it.

[Cosmonaut]

The way I do it is to use the Export/ Import facility in the CDDS browser of Modman.

 

Its pretty easy all you have to do is to add the resolution to the name of the .bmp file (e.g F-15-PAINT-L-DEF-1-2048x2048.bmp) and install it into the CDDS file you want to .. it will overwrite the skin automatically.

 

Also I cant remember the entire procedure off the top of my head but there is away to use the Addon manager in Modman, once you've applied Teka Teka's Modman patch, to install textures directly into your CDDS file but I prefer the method I described above.

 

Just adding. I've never actually done it before but to add/ remove slots I'm pretty sure you'll have to edit the meinit.xml file. If you scroll down to or search for Name="F-15C" in Wordpad or notepad then scroll down to the <ColorSchemes> section then it should be obvious.. as i say I've never done it but it looks fairly straight forward.

 

Edit; Just want to make it clear that I was referring to editing the color schemes that are already listed in the meinit.xml file. As i understand it the schemes are held in the 3d shape so I dont believe you can just add more but you can change the the name that appears in the lockon menu. So if you want to get rid of the panther skin then you should be able swap the skins with the CDDS browser then change the ID name in the meinit.xml file to what ever you want.

 

[PythonOne]

sorry but where is the meinit.xml file?

 

Edit: i think i found it in the ME folder but i can't find the new texture skins (ie walmis panther skins). Please help, i'm running on version 1.12a. Or if its not too much trouble, create a version 2 of your pdf file in ur sig that insert CDDS files, it was because of you that taught me how to use it.

[Cosmonaut]

sorry but where is the meinit.xml file?

 

Edit: i think i found it in the ME folder but i can't find the new texture skins (ie walmis panther skins). Please help, i'm running on version 1.12a. Or if its not too much trouble, create a version 2 of your pdf file in ur sig that insert CDDS files, it was because of you that taught me how to use it.

 

The textures are in the either the f15_maintextures.cdds or f15_newtextures.cdds these two files can be found in the C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\Eagle Dynamics\Lock On\Bazar\World . I think the ones your looking for are in the f15_maintextures.cdds. Use the CDDS Browser in Modman to view the skins you want to change.

 

Make sure you back up everything first :thumbup:

 

I plan on update my Tut but unfortunately I wont have time until next week .. thx for downloading it though ;)