Changing/Adding Country flags

[choclate77]

Searched in the forum but could not find any guidance/tutorial or walk through on how to add/change any of the country flags in the campaign. Can some one help maybe?:neutral:

[Skipper]

you need F4ResEditor

http://sakgiok.gr/programs/4-f4resmanager

and some sort of TGA editing software. I use Paint.NET to save a tga, but then you need to use a different tool to save it in the correct TGA type (I use IrfanViewer or something or another).

F4Res opens the idx files that contain the tga images - you need to unpack, edit the tga file, save it back into the folder you unpacked into and then repackage. Full details on Arty’s ‘Hot List’ post stickied on General Discussion.

https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?13653-Arty-s-Hot-List

Editing country names is a different issue. I’m at work at the moment so I can’t give you a full heads up on that procedure.

Good luck, let me know if you get stuck and I’ll help you out.

[choclate77]

Great, thanks man- will try it out tonight

[choclate77]

worked like a charm thanks- ended up using Irfan view, tricky part was finding the file that had the flags, it was main.idx. Was able to swap out the flags, changed the team names from MissionCommander as well to show the appropriate names in the Campaign. Only open item seems like under OOB the flags are changed but the the team names still showing up as DPRK instead of country xyz. Trying to figure out what is the reference of the name/text in OOB and change that…

[Cloud 9]

@choclate77:

but the the team names still showing up as DPRK instead of country xyz. Trying to figure out what is the reference of the name/text in OOB and change that…

Those entries are contained in the Art>main folder, the lcktxtrc file.

You have to change the appropriate country names. It’s a text file and can be opened with notepad.

Hope you kept track of which one is which!!

Good Luck, Cheers!!

C9

[Cloud 9]

Also, for your new countries to appear correctly in the Updates(news flashes), you need to edit the Strings.wch file. There are several places in that file that need to be edited. One area affects the .cam file, the other area affects the news flashes.

The Strings.wch file is in the campaign folder. I believe MC can do this also??

C9

[choclate77]

Wow- that was pretty amazing to see it work. Backed up the files but the text file in the art/main folder (lcktxtrc) is pretty handy. Similarly was able to change the names from MC for the strings. All showed up well, have now swapped out the relevant squadrons with different aircraft types, changed the country flags, country names. Next challenge: Once i changed the squadrons and ran the campaign (day-4 now) I see some of the squadrons are now down to 4-5 aircraft, do i need to set some replenishment flag some where for the squadrons in MC that i added by replacing the original one’s in there?. Soon they will be wiped out it seems like :(. I am looking for some thing like 2-3 planes replacements every 2-3 days to keep the momentum going on both sides

[Arty]

I must add this to my hotlist

Sent from TapaTalk

[choclate77]

@Arty:

I must add this to my hotlist

Sent from TapaTalk

yes definitely, i can help with the write up, let me know what do you want to define it as 1. Flags editing 2. Campaign Text editing for team names. Waiting on your input for aircraft replacements/replenishment please

[Arty]

I just added this thread to the hotlist.
If you want to refine it you can edit your first post.
If you want split threads or articles create them and give me a poke to add the links.

[Shadow]

@choclate77:

yes definitely, i can help with the write up, let me know what do you want to define it as 1. Flags editing 2. Campaign Text editing for team names. Waiting on your input for aircraft replacements/replenishment please

I have done similar in the past but have forgot most of what I learnt, so if you can do a “How To” while its fresh in your memory it would be appreciated by many.

C9 is always a helpfull source of knowledge, if you can catch Him sober:drink: