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[asmokin84]

Hello everyone! Hello Bombsaway! I've got a question to you: Is that possible to set your water textures to non-pacific maps? I just want to change the water graphics that comes with BAT mod, because they look really weird to me. I mean: Is that possible to replace the water graphics which comes with BAT onto rivers, seas and lakes on the eastern front maps with your textures?

[SAS~Bombsaway]

Sorry for the late reply. Unfortunately in bat I believe most if not all of the load.ini's for the maps in bat are now in SFS form and you would need to download the SFS extractor. A simple search here on the site will bring it to you. You would have to run the SFS extractor and scroll down through the files to find the load.in for each one that you want to change and then if you get all that done I can help you along with showing you how to change those entries.

[cbradbury]

if you activate one of the DEFSkies folder(s) in jgsme that will generate folders for each map in BAT containing the load.ini. No need to access the sfs files..

[agracier]

Sorry for the late reply. Unfortunately in bat I believe most if not all of the load.ini's for the maps in bat are now in SFS form and you would need to download the SFS extractor.

For BAT.

There is an easier way to do get to the load.ini files for maps. When you run the il-2 selector.exe file, click on the 'change settings' option. Once in the change options menu, then click on 'dump mode'. This means that mostly all aircraft and maps that you use in a BAT mission, will be sent as files to the 'Dump' folder which resides in your main Sturmovik folder.

Go to the 'Dump' folder and then go to 'maps' and find the map you wish to alter. Not all files will be dumped into that folder, but usually enough are to enable you to make alterations. The load.ini files are invariably dumped.

Then, once you have altered the load.ini to your satisfaction, put it in the correct folder in either #WAW/#TGA etc in Mapmods/maps/[name of the map you choose]

That should do it.

[SAS~Bombsaway]

Thanks guys. I forgot about the dump option. I haven't had much time lately to do anything with the game.

[ssn637]

Gentlemen

Does anyone have improved water textures for the original V4.12.2M _tex files : "Foam*.tga" (Foam, Foam_, PacificFoam_tl, PacificFoam_, etc.) and  "BeachSurf*.tga (PacificBeachSurf, BeachSurf, BeachSurf_, etc.)?

Almost all of the other _tex files from the original game have been improved and included in BAT, but I can't find any of the foam or surf textures (other than foamnv40.tga) and was wondering if we might not be able to upgrade these.  Since I can't open any of them in PhotoShop (I can view them with ViewIMF.exe but can't modify them) I don't know what what can be done with them.  I'd love to have the same type of beach surf and foam that we enjoy with all the other mods here, such as the water animations in the perfect water upgrade.

Thanks for your help!

Geoffrey