Transparent Shadow pack for European Air War

This pack contains transparent shadows for all the default Allied aircraft, plus transparent shadows for the current Hirez 3dz sets.  The shadows have been mapped to the texture from the spinning prop disk (black on the .tex, RGB 142, 0, 255 on the .tra), so they should work for all skins unless the spinning prop disk is painted a funny colour.  The shadows for the P51D, P51B, P47D and Me110c (all hires versions) are the exception, as their shadows have a dedicated area of the PCX.

There are two zips, one contains the shadows for High Res 3dz's, and the others are for normal res 3dz's.  The two are NOT compatible, so don't mix them up!  These ETO shadows will probably be incompatible with non ETO 3dz's, depending on how the aircraft was made.

Installation -
The best way is to extract all the files to a folder, and add the required file to every skin in your skin manager program.  If that's a big job, just do some of your favourites.

If you are running only the default ETO aircraft, you can extract the 'normal' shadows to your EAW directory, and then extract the 'Hires' shadows that you require, overwriting the 'normal' shadow.

Shadows for normal 3dz's -
B24A, B17F, B26A, Hurricane, Mosquito, P38H, P38J, P47C, P47D, P51B, P51D, Spit1a, Spit IX, Spit XIV, Tempest, Typhoon.

Shadows for Hires 3dz's -
B17F, P47D, P51B, P51D, Spit 1a, Spit IX, Me110c, Me109E, Me109G.

Thanks to Sandbagger for hosting this mod, to Von Beerhofen for extracting the b26ah file for me, and to LLv34 Doc for giving me the idea of mapping the shadows to the prop (For Luftwaffe Transparent shadows, see Doc's page at Sandbaggers).

If you have any suggestions, problems or comments, let me know!

John "Chompy" Masters
18th May 2003
jdmasters@ozemail.com.au
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~jdmasters/