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

- Making a planeset by selecting the skins first
- Makinf a planeset by selecting the FM first
- Editing the planeset table

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”.

- 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