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[SAS~Monty27]

You can have all of these Launch Screens and live with one for a while, or change it every time you start Il2, with a simple click. No copying, moving or re-naming, everything is automated, convenient and can be changed in a second!

With 125 new very high quality, hi-res Launch Screens, re-sampled, colour treated and re-mastered for a high level of clarity and texture.  Choose from any of 100 Screens, illustrated in the attached PDF, or let the program generate a random Launch Screen.  Each screen is presented within a dark border with the 1946 LOGO, for widescreen monitors, use with Ecran-Wide.

The numbers at the top left corners do not appear in the sim, they are a reference for the randomiser program. There are some well known paintings here, and a number of lesser known, all of them stunning...

Please read the enclosed PDF for a full explanation of this simple utility along with a preview of every screen.



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[SAS~Monty27]

Thanks crazyflak, I'm checking the download now.

Meanwhile sure, here's Backgrounds 3 & 5 separately...

[~Wolf~]

hi

please upload it to filefront or another upload server
because this link is broken

(bandwidth exceeded)

[SAS~Monty27]

hi

please upload it to filefront or another upload server
because this link is broken

(bandwidth exceeded)

Oops! Sorry guys, fixed it all now, good ol' Mediafire.

[Spinnetti]

That didn't take long! Hey, is your .exe a compiled .bat file? I'd like to tune it. I don't know how to do the randomizer that works in Win 7, but my old mod goes a bit further. Its just part of a .bat that fires up my trackir, sets the overclock on my video, randomly pics the screens  then starts up IL2. The difference is, it changes ALL of the mission screens by country, mission home and the launch screen, thus every time I launch I get a new nice surprise... I noticed you used a folder for every picture, and a .mat for each picture - you don't need to do that. You can have a single folder with all the pictures for your setup, and leave the existing .mat in place. Saves lots of files and folders... anyway, if your randomizer is editable and you are willing, I'd like to borrow to update my setup which I've grown rather fond of... I can post my solution back up too if you like.

As an example, I just had a series of commands in my batch file that updated the mission, startup and so on. Here's the first couple... rand file just picks any file in the target folder with a .tga extension and copies  to the same folder with the name of background.tga (actually its got a character limit so truncates the last letter - the move command fixes it). This way, you can name the files however you like. The next line just puts it where it needs to go. That way you have folders of images anywhere and named however you like and use a single batch program to pick and copy (%root%is my IL2 folder). The randfile program is really small so a copy goes in each picture folder. Problem is my "Randfile" function doesn't work in Win 7, so I'm looking for a replacement.
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::Changing Startup SPlashscreen::
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cd %root%\MODS\UI - Random Splash Screen - Spinnetti 20090829\Splash Screens
RANDFILE *.tga background.tga
move backgrou.tga "%root%\MODS\STD\gui\background.tga

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::Generate a new main mission screen::
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cd %root%\Mods\UI - Random Splash Screen - Spinnetti 20090829\Mission Home Screens
RANDFILE *.tga background.tga
move backgrou.tga "%root%\Missions\background.tga

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::Generate a new Splashscreen for DE::
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cd %root%\MODS\UI - Random Splash Screen - Spinnetti 20090829\Single Mission Screens\DE
RANDFILE *.tga background.tga
move backgrou.tga "%root%\Missions\Single\DE\background.tga"


Thanks....

[SAS~Monty27]

Does this randomiser work for you on Win7?

I have used separate folders rather than a single folder, because it works.

This is my randomiser component:

SET NAT=%Random%
IF %NAT% GTR 9 SET /A NAT = 1%NAT:~-2,2% - 100
SET NAT
IF '%NAT%'=='0' GOTO 0
IF '%NAT%'=='1' GOTO 1
IF '%NAT%'=='2' GOTO 2

---------------------etc

I did it this way because it is more important (personally) to be able to choose the screen directly. I don't really like surprises! So the %Random% steers straight back to the %Choice%. Its the choice thats random, or a specific choice if you prefer, not always random.

[Spinnetti]

Does this randomiser work for you on Win7?

I have used separate folders rather than a single folder, because it works.

This is my randomiser component:

SET NAT=%Random%
IF %NAT% GTR 9 SET /A NAT = 1%NAT:~-2,2% - 100
SET NAT
IF '%NAT%'=='0' GOTO 0
IF '%NAT%'=='1' GOTO 1
IF '%NAT%'=='2' GOTO 2

---------------------etc

I did it this way because it is more important (personally) to be able to choose the screen directly. I don't really like surprises! So the %Random% steers straight back to the %Choice%. Its the choice thats random, or a specific choice if you prefer, not always random.

Hmm. Thanks.. I'll have look up those commands to exactly what that's doing, but thanks for the head start..

[falcofalco]

Attention in the two files is a Trojan horse.ESET SMART SECURITY

[falcofalco]

Two download, always alert for Trojan horse.  Infiltrate into the Windows folder.

[renmik]

Hi Guys,

cool stuff, also the pics are really great, thank you!!

Seems, I missed the answer... :
Would you like to add the option to get
a random background on every game startup,
without clicking the randomiser, pls?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not lazy, but I also like surprises
Thx in advance

[SAS~Malone]

or, if there was a way to get this to automatically run each time you quit il2, it'd also work great.

[Paulo Hirth]

 Very good! Thank you Mont27!