INSTRUCTIONS FOR OPERATING SNAPSHOT WITH COPYPLANE (a Snap-it replacement) 
 
Make sure you have the SNAPShot utility as a subfolder within your main EAW
directory. 

Then put this CopyPlane.bat in your SNAPShot subfolder. No need to download
the "Snap-it" auxillary or if you have, just remove that but you must have 
this bat.file in order for the other program windows to work automatically 
now.

Right click the CopyPlane.bat and go to "edit" whatever plane you like inside
the notepad to capture from within your EAW directory. Be sure that you have
already installed the approbiate skin files and chosen your Panel selections 
first because these will be the exact characteristics or batch files that will
be captured. Close notepad and execute CopyPlane.bat by right clicking "open".

You should now get a new folder inside your SNAPShot folder with the "name" 
of the plane you just copied. Inside this new folder will be all the relevant 
files and another new bat.file that you must use to restore the plane to your 
main EAW directory at any time. This new bat.file icon is what will restore 
those single aircraft in what has been coined as SnapAddons or with multiple 
aircraft from SnapPacks.  

That new "restore" bat.file created by SNAPShot may look like this now (just 
open it within the text editor) and as an example we'll use a camo named for 
190D_Michalski and follow this procedure below:

cd ..
REM (dest slot) (file name seed) (Sub-folder) (Display name)
call insts.bat 190D 190D 190D_Michalski "Fw 190D-9"
cd 190D_Michalski

To restore the plane to its original slot you just excute it by clicking it
on within your the file folder which is named for that particular plane.

To restore the plane to a different slot: i.e. 109E, you only have to change 
the 4 letter coded name assigned to the destination slot or (dest slot) then 
just edit the bat.file like a text file so that the bat.file now reads:

cd ..
REM (dest slot) (file name seed) (Sub-folder) (Display name)
call insts.bat 109E 190D 190D_Michalski "Fw 190D-9"
cd 190D_Michalski

and then execute it.


INSTRUCTIONAL REVIEW

1) You must have the original SNAPShot utility in a sub-folder inside your
   main EAW directory.  
2) you must have the CopyPlane bat.file inside this same folder. Do nothing 
   else except pick any slot that you want to capture, by naming it in the 
   (dest. slot) and complete the other 3 spaces of its command line that are
   respective of the slot that you've just chosen.
3) Follow the procedure above for all of the remaining executions; either 
   to keep the new bat.file for which the plane is intended or change it to 
   any other slot and you're finished. But suggest reading instructions that 
   concern some program limitations pointed out with the original documents
   included with the SNAPShot program.

This substitute utility for Snap-it was created by Moggy and available as 
share-ware for the further benefit of enjoying the SNAPShot program made by 
Paulo Morais.


The Firm
UPDATED: 11/21/01



 

 