Ells228 Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 Well to start off, I've searched the forums and can't see this has been asked before. We'd like to be able to change our smoke colour during flight. So as an example, we have a white and a red smoke pod, during a manouever we select smoke and it comes out white, at the top of the loop we switch to red smoke. I've been trawling through the lines of code in the files and here is my conclusion so far: I've found the lines of code in the mission .mis file which designates the payload and allocates the smoke pod colour. But the file can't be changed externally, only through mission editor. I have a buddy that has written an app that sits behind lockon that changes text in a file with a key press trigger. If I can find the file that holds the RGB values of the smoke, and assuming lockon doesn't load the details to memory rather than dynamically, then I can change them in the background. I've also found info in the meinit.xml file that can be changed by the external program, but i'm not sure limiting the smoke options in the meinit file will trigger the game to change the smoke, or get confused? I think the key is to find the RGB values for the smoke, so does anyone know where these are held, or are they hard coded into the game engine? Thanks for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frazer Posted March 1, 2008 Share Posted March 1, 2008 Hey Ellis, the thing you guys found out is very interesting. I knew where to find those color settings in lockon but I don't have time now to find it again. I think we should discuss this issue soon in VT. It would be a great thing if we can work this out! :D Forum | Videos | DCS:BS Demo1 / Demo2 | YouTube Channel [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ells228 Posted March 2, 2008 Author Share Posted March 2, 2008 Hey Frazer, yeah definately bro. I'm at home all day this coming Wednesday (UK time) so will be on MSN from around 8.00GMT so hope to catch up with you then. MSN - ells228@hotmail.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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