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Works fine for me with 2.0 version :smilewink:

 

 

 

 

If only i wouldn't use PErsian Gulf map and not just NTTR, the Hornet and 2.5.2 lots of new features, i wouldn't had deleted 2.0 ;)


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when I fire this up..... the edm extractor wondow opens up fine...no problem running it..my problem is, I cant find the actual files its looking for. I assumed it to mean you would point it at your dds file directories with description.lua and it would pull it all apart etc and generate an LUA based on what you had.

 

Where are these "edm" files...ie, what directory should I be pointing it at to pull, say, L-39 data to generate my own skin for it?

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EDMs are Mainly in:

/DCS World/Bazar/World/Shapes/

 

or

DCS World/Coremods/<category>/<module>/Shapes/

DCS World/Mods/<category>/<module>/Shapes/

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does not work any more

 

will investigate

 

there should be changes of edm format. edm format is a private format, so i cannot say whether i have time to 'fix' this issue. I also opened a wishlist ticket for ED to make this feature officially by ED

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Hi,

 

I am trying to extract the info from the same emd file: Cockpit_Spitfire_LFMkIX.EDM

 

Basically:

 

Mods stored in the folder:

 

Mods\aircraft\SpitfireLFMkIX\Cockpit\Textures\Cockpit_Spitfire_LFMkIX_Textures

 

Seen not to work anymore?:(

 

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Using description.LUA in folder:

 

Mods\aircraft\SpitfireLFMkIX\Liveries\Cockpit_Spitfire_LFMkIX\default

 

and placing texture mod there still works so far.

 

Need this wonderful tool to get the material+texture name for correct description.LUA editing and texture replacements for Spitfire Cockpit WIP Mod.

 

Thank you very much for the work so far uboats.

 

I agree that it should be convenient that we could access this info in, for example, ModelViewer.exe?

 

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Hi...

 

Same here too. The program crashes.

I can't get lua from Mig-29 EDM.

 

Any news?

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Thank you.

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At least is there any manual way to get the description infos for Mig-29? :\

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At least is there any manual way to get the description infos for Mig-29? :\

 

yup, but not quite efficient

 

win10, ubuntu emulator:

strings xxx.edm > edm_string

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Uh... It seems it's beyond me Uboats.

 

Anyway; since the day this issue came out, I've been living only your app.'s update Uboats. At the same time this means the only reason entering the forums is to be waiting for the update.

 

Best wishes. :)

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Why? Whhhyyy? Please... Update this app, please.

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Yes, please update this! When I try using your 'strings ...' method I feel like your current avatar :cry:

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At least is there any manual way to get the description infos for Mig-29? :\
There is another way, which I used to find the description information for the P-51's wheel textures, but it involves opening up the .edm shape files for aircraft...so...

I pointed you in the direction, but I won't say where to step.

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Thanks mate.

 

I'm working on Mig-29's cockpit. I can open its EDM file only in ModelViewer2, but it doesn't show me exactly which texture uses which DDS file. Other than this, I have no tool to see/get/create the list for the description lua.

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Hi All,

 

Thanks for your concern.

Unfortunately, I'm fully captured by jf-17 development and have no time working on this tool. Since latest edm has its format updated, my tool no longer works for edm created by latest edm tool (version newer than Jan 2018 i guess).

I will contact nickD, and see whether he would like to help, or i will make this tool open source, and anyone who is interested can continue.

 

Thanks

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Ouch. That hurts...

 

Anyway. Thanks for your reply back.

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Yes, I just found this great tool and it worked the first time, then no more. I was probably extracting an older aircraft, but can't even do the P51 now. Arg..

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