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Individual Mods and Packs for IL-2 1946 => Other Mods => Visual Mods => Topic started by: SAS~Monty27 on June 13, 2011, 07:52:32 PM
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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.
Download:
Offline until further notice
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Thanks crazyflak, I'm checking the download now.
Meanwhile sure, here's Backgrounds 3 & 5 separately...
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hi
please upload it to filefront or another upload server
because this link is broken
(bandwidth exceeded)
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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.
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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....
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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.
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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..
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Attention in the two files is a Trojan horse.ESET SMART SECURITY >:(
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Two download, always alert for Trojan horse. Infiltrate into the Windows folder.
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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 :D
Thx in advance
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or, if there was a way to get this to automatically run each time you quit il2, it'd also work great.
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Very good! Thank you Mont27!
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Beautiful screens ! I really like them !
But I second what Malone says : would it be possible to have the randomizer working automatically each time we quit (or open) the game automatically ?
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Looks like a great mod, but Mediafire says the file is "Invalid or Deleted".
Do you mind uploading again, please? :)
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OK, fixed it, this version has 125 Screens, Randomiser, Manual etc and is good for DBW, put into the #DBW instead of #UP3.0# folder.
Download:
https://www.mediafire.com/?7ukrvy8wgwlhgeh (https://www.mediafire.com/?7ukrvy8wgwlhgeh)
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Backgrounds 41 42 45 50 56 66 76 85 corrupt :(
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Beautiful screens! Thank you very much, Monty! :)
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Backgrounds 41 42 45 50 56 66 76 85 corrupt :(
Mediafire has been bloody terrible lately...
(https://www.sas1946.com/main/Smileys/akyhne/tongue.gif)RELOADED(https://www.sas1946.com/main/Smileys/akyhne/tongue.gif)
Download:
https://www.mediafire.com/?7ukrvy8wgwlhgeh (https://www.mediafire.com/?7ukrvy8wgwlhgeh)
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Thank you Monty27, I just noticed this post recently.
Its a very nice package with some great artsy selections.
I will give it a try very soon 8)
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Hi Monty,
that is great art, many phantastic "shots" for IL-2, BRAVO!
A lot of work, thank you very much for that...
wbr, Gerhard
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Monty, Is this available on Mission4Today? The reliability is much better and it is a good repository for your IL 2 work. Just a thought!
I thought this idea was such a great idea, I had a thought about combining your application with some of the awesome screenies in the Share a Screen IL2. You can view my post here https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,27670.0.html (https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,27670.0.html). Since it is your program/mod and your original idea, perhaps you would/should be the one to do this.
Warmest Regards.
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Is it possible that you share these screens for a Windows background?? These are awesome screens! :D
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I followed the Installation-Instruction, but it don't works for me with Ultrapack 3.0...
I put this into the mentioned Structure, started the exe. and choosed one Screen...but what I see is the Default one...
Could someone please tell me how to install this correctly ?
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I've been looking for a simple way of changing startup screens, randomly if possible. I haven't yet had much success finding anything simple ... maybe this one will be the winning ticket.
I see that this randomizer is predicated on having separate folders for each startup screen and that startup screens need to have the same name.
I was wondering if there isn't any method that randomizes the background0_ru.mat file by altering the one line that chooses which startup screen is chosen, namely this line:
TextureName background.tga
I choose different startup screens by simply changing the filename like this
TextureName background_Pacific_84.tga
or
TextureName background_Air_War_13.tga
etc etc ...
Since I have no knowledge whatsoever in programming, even simple things, I can't come up with anything that would randomize one line in the .mat file.
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I've been looking for a simple way of changing startup screens, randomly if possible. I haven't yet had much success finding anything simple ... maybe this one will be the winning ticket.
I see that this randomizer is predicated on having separate folders for each startup screen and that startup screens need to have the same name.
I was wondering if there isn't any method that randomizes the background0_ru.mat file by altering the one line that chooses which startup screen is chosen, namely this line:
TextureName background.tga
I choose different startup screens by simply changing the filename like this
TextureName background_Pacific_84.tga
or
TextureName background_Air_War_13.tga
etc etc ...
Since I have no knowledge whatsoever in programming, even simple things, I can't come up with anything that would randomize one line in the .mat file.
Sounds good but as far as I know the sim looks for Background, we would have to figure out how to specify what it looks for.
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I've been looking for a simple way of changing startup screens, randomly if possible. I haven't yet had much success finding anything simple ... maybe this one will be the winning ticket.
I see that this randomizer is predicated on having separate folders for each startup screen and that startup screens need to have the same name.
I was wondering if there isn't any method that randomizes the background0_ru.mat file by altering the one line that chooses which startup screen is chosen, namely this line:
TextureName background.tga
I choose different startup screens by simply changing the filename like this
TextureName background_Pacific_84.tga
or
TextureName background_Air_War_13.tga
etc etc ...
Since I have no knowledge whatsoever in programming, even simple things, I can't come up with anything that would randomize one line in the .mat file.
Sounds good but as far as I know the sim looks for Background, we would have to figure out how to specify what it looks for.
The sim may look for 'background.tga' as the default, but you can edit the file 'background0_ru.mat' and then the sim will look for whatever .tga file is specified in 'background0_ru.mat'.
Meaning that some sort of batch file that changes the specific line in 'background0_ru.mat' which determines which background is chosen, is all that is needed to randomize backgrounds on startup.
Here is the contents:
[ClassInfo]
ClassName TMaterial
[Layer0]
TextureName background.tga
tfNoWriteZ 1
tfNoDegradation 1
tfMinLinear 1
tfMagLinear 1
if I wish to use a different background (say 'background_Pacific_75.tga), I would for instance change it to:
[ClassInfo]
ClassName TMaterial
[Layer0]
TextureName background_Pacific_75.tga
tfNoWriteZ 1
tfNoDegradation 1
tfMinLinear 1
tfMagLinear 1
That's all that is necessary, one line edited.
If I knew anything about writing batch files, I'd try writing one myself. But I'm good for nothing but graphic manipulating ...
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So if I want them to be randomized (I mean have a different one automatically every time I launch the game), what should I write ?
And can I add other screenshots to the already 125 existing ?
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So if I want them to be randomized (I mean have a different one automatically every time I launch the game), what should I write ?
And can I add other screenshots to the already 125 existing ?
I would suppose that the filenames would be chosen from a pre-determined list of background files. Like in a wallpaper randomizer for Windows, you import the files you wish to use and then a batch file or whatever randomly chooses one from the list ...
for instance here's a list of some of my backgrounds:
background_Pacific_1.tga
background_Air_War_2.tga
background_Air_War_5.tga
background_Air_War_6.tga
background_Air_War_9.tga
background_Air_War_34.tga
background_Air_War_35.tga
background_Air_War_79.tga
background_Air_War_Med.tga
background_Desert.tga
background_Desert_2.tga
Background_Early_War_2.tga
background_Far_East.tga
background_Far_East_2.tga
background_Japan.tga
background_Manchuria.tga
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So you put them all in the batch file ?
And sorry, but how do a batch file ? I never did it...
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So you put them all in the batch file ?
And sorry, but how do a batch file ? I never did it...
Ha ha ... well, that's just it ... I don't know how to make a batch file either ... I was hoping/thinking maybe someone with more writing skills might see a way to do it ...
I was merely suggesting a possible manner ...
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LOL... maybe some guardian angel will see this and give some help !
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Same as in post 7+8 Eset Smart Security report Trojan horse :-(
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Download has been taken offline until further notice.
Best regards - Mike