Posts by icecold951

Quote from Marine1

SDK's are not all that friendly to read and understand.

I'll keep it simple. Every texture for everything has to have a .json attached to it. It tells the game what kind of texture it is and how to display it. It has to be included with the texture. Now the flags are coding/instructions for the texture. For this it's simple texture. If you're just modifying the texture, you don't need to change the .json entries, just copy it.

Yeah. I'm not going to be doing anything to complicated. Mostly maybe modifying a landing light if no one else does, or tinting. I did the tinting, since no one else seemed to be getting around to it. My next is a remove tint for the longitude. Only one person did it as part of a clean glass package.

Quote from JohnG

I think that if you look at the SDK documentation, you'll see what all that means

Didn't know there was SDK documents.

Can you explain the JSON file that you added in beside my mod?

Reads

{"Version":2,"SourceFileDate":132301306360000000,"Flags":["FL_BITMAP_COMPRESSION","FL_BITMAP_MIPMAP"]}

Wish to understand it for future projects.

Yup, that works. I'll try and disect it to see what I did wrong for future efforts. I'll Post this, adding you for the help.

Quote from Marine1

Try this. There were a few omissions and incorrect file names.

Try what? I don't see an attachment. FYI, if I go quiet, I just recovered from an internet outage that may return, depending on cause.

Just tested it again by putting in the official folder. Definitely works that way. So the problem has to be on the exporting to community side of it.

No joy. I uploaded what I did, so maybe you can see what I did wrong.

Quote from Marine1

You'll have to add the texture to the community folder for the F-18. Then you'll have to add to the "layout.json" the entry for that texture and save it. You'll have to do it for every F-18 livery you have. Real easy, honestly.

Is file size important, and if so how to i enter that? I mean what format does it want?

Quote from Marine1

In your Community Hornet folder, below "SimObjects", there are 2 files. "Layout.json" and "Manifest.json" In the "layout.json" you have to add the 2 entries for the texture so the game will load the texture. If it is not there, it will use the default/original texture for the base Hornet. The .json entry is below the texture as file. So, you need to add the texture name and the .json file below it and add it to the Community Hornets.

I had to create that folder. My process was I edited the original file. Now I put it into my own folder in community labeled F-18 tinting. It is empty except for what I put into it. Which was the one file I had to edit to mod the tint. I just put in a edited layout.json file.

Quote from Marine1

You'll have to add the texture to the community folder for the F-18. Then you'll have to add to the "layout.json" the entry for that texture and save it. You'll have to do it for every F-18 livery you have. Real easy, honestly.

I think I disected the concept with another mod's json file. I'll be testing it at the end of my current flight.

Quote from Marine1

You'll have to add the texture to the community folder for the F-18. Then you'll have to add to the "layout.json" the entry for that texture and save it. You'll have to do it for every F-18 livery you have. Real easy, honestly.

Let's pretend I don't know what you mean by layout.json. I get that is a file. Where? Since most mods are just in community, I assume that is a file I must create.

I have a mod to removed tinting form the Hornet. But...it currently only works in the original folder. I don't know how to get it to work in the community folder. Help? So I can share the joy of no tint.

I have managed to mod out the canopy tinting on the F18. Now...How to I share this. I tried putting it into the community folder, but I'm not doing something right. It doesn't work there. And I want to share this, as I know a lot of people hate tint. Why don't they just give us sunglasses that we can change the shading of?

JD's clean glass has a fix for it.

Anyone familiar with any mod that removes the window tinting, specifically for the Longitude? And possible nav lights that are actually useful. That seems to be a no though.

Unless I'm mistaken, I shouldn't be able to use the yoke to steer on the ground at all. And yet the sensitivity of the rudders at Max is insufficient, like yoke steering is working against it. Do I have a setting wrong? One I can't find.

Why don't they include the taxiway data on the sim map? I know generally people use the sign markers more, but that doesn't work so well in the sim graphics quality. Other maps exist, but they use accurate maps. Meaning what 2020 calls Taxiway G is really F. Since the sim knows the taxiways as far as its own map, it should be trivial to include that on the sim map.