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Aircraft Textures

Postby FS_Pilot » Mon May 31, 2004 7:46 am

Is there a maximum number of different textures allowed per aircraft.cfg
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Re: Aircraft Textures

Postby Felix/FFDS » Mon May 31, 2004 7:48 am

The aircraft.cfg basically doesn't call out the textures.  These are called out by either the visual model, or in the panel.cfg (in the case of the panel and VC textures)
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Re: Aircraft Textures

Postby FS_Pilot » Mon May 31, 2004 8:00 am

I have installed the As350 helicopter with about 60 different textures but not all are showing, this makes me think there must be a limit and thisd is what i am trying to find out
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Re: Aircraft Textures

Postby BiggBaddWolf » Mon May 31, 2004 8:54 am

The most textures I have used is 15 on a single plane, and they all work without any problem, but there may be a limit on how many you can use  ;D
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Re: Aircraft Textures

Postby dave3cu » Mon May 31, 2004 11:11 am

I've never heard of any limit..

For Texture Only d'loads that unzip to a 'texture.xxx' folder containing the new textures and a Text file containing instructions for creating a new [fltsim.x] section or preferably a [fltsim.x] section to paste into the aircraft.cfg, here are a couple things to check.

Make sure the texture folders are in the proper place, and that the suffixes, texture.new, are unique. (Which of course they would be or you would have been prompted to 'overwrite' when installing.)

Things to check in the [fltsim.xxx] sections, in aircraft.cfg.

[fltsim.1] <---the number must be sequential, no voids, no repeats, 1st = [fltsim.0]
title=SGA A300B4-200 Continental
sim=a310<----the same,from the .air file name, i.e. a310.air.
model=
panel=
sound=
texture=con<------match the texture folder suffix, i.e texture.con
kb_checklists=
kb_reference=
atc_airline=Continental
atc_flight_number=472
atc_id=N10970
atc_heavy=1
ui_manufacturer=Airbus<----the same for grouping in 'select aircraft' window
ui_type=A300B4-200 <-----ditto or not, depending on how you want to group.
ui_variation=Continental<----unique for ease of finding in group.
description=Continental repaint by Steve Drabek
visual_damage=1

Hope this is helpful.

Cheers,
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Re: Aircraft Textures

Postby SilverFox441 » Mon May 31, 2004 1:25 pm

One thing I've found is that any "failed" texture call in the .cfg will result in textures after that call not being available. What this means is that if you have 60 textures and #39 cannot be found then the last 20 textures will also not be available.

I've never gone this high in numbering, but never heard of a limit either.
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