Making a planeset with the new filemanager.
This tutorial
assumes that you have downloaded and installed the one available from my page
at Sandbagger’s, and that you have the skins and the “NoNames” flight model
set.
It is a collection
of three separate documents wich cover
To use skins for other than the 30 EAW default aircraft you
really need to load a flight model set. Otherwise if you load a Corsair skin
for the P51D slot you will really be flying a mustang wearing a Corsair skin so
you are not flying a Corsair at all.
So, to get the best out of EAW click “Select the Flight Model”
and select “NoNames”.
Part One: Select the skins first
Part One: Select the
skins first
Click on a region such as UK Euro
Select a plane by clicking on its name
Click the picture to select it, or click another name if you
do not want to use it.
If you do select it then its name will be shown in red.
Select any others in the same way
Sometimes you may select a plane which goes in the same slot
as an existing selection.
If that happens a warning message appears.
If you click on the picture your original selection will be
replaced by the new one.
Continue until all the skins you want to use have been
selected.
If you click on the screen it will take you back to the screen
showing the aircraft regions (Axis Desert etc).
When everything is selected you now need to add the FMs. So
click the “Show Plane Table” button.
I’ll just make a quick
selection for the purposes of the tutorial.
Click the “Find FM for the selected slot” radio button, then
click on the skin name to tell the progan which slot the FM will be for.
I have selected the Lancaster III here
Scroll down the FM list at the right and click on the
appropriate FM (“Lanc(AI)”)
You only need to select FMs for the non-standard planes
If I leave the FM empty then the stock FM will be used from
the “NoNames” set.
What we have done so far is to select FMs for the alternative
planes avaiable such as the Lancaster and Wellington.
Some slots would use the default skins and the default FMs.
Clicking “Show All” will show the completely empty ones:
At this point it is probably worth saving this set after your
hard work, so click “Save”
Enter a file name in the bottom text box and click “OK”.
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if you make it a
*.txt file you can check it using Notepad.
If you want to load it then click “Process”.
This will put the files for the selections you have made in
your EAW directory.
This tutorial will be continued in a separate document.
Jel
Adelaide, South Australia
July 2007