Viewer utility-thumbs up!

[Blitzen]

This is probably old news to many but I just stumbled across this quite-well-done aircraft viewer.It allows you to view the aircraft & plug in different skins,lighting & then animates them ( gear ,flaps etc.)

Its found here:"C:\Program Files (x86)\1C Game Studios\IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad\bin\viewer\Viewer.exe"

and looks like this:

 

[LAL_Luny]

Its really useful for skins artists

[fergal69]

Wasn't aware of this, but very interesting bit of software included in the sim. 

 

How due you animate flaps, gear, etc?

 

I've a box in the top corner that appears to be covering other icons that I can't seem to get rid of

Edited April 17, 2015 by fergal69

[Jaws2002]

Wasn't aware of this, but very interesting bit of software included in the sim. 

 

How due you animate flaps, gear, etc?

 

I've a box in the top corner that appears to be covering other icons that I can't seem to get rid of

To animate the gear, flaps and stuf, just click on the "play" button in the center of the top bar. (In the screenshot posted above it's grayed out because it's playing)

[Bearcat]

Seriously guys... ?

 

You didn't know about the viewer... ?  It's been out since Christmas Eve... It was released when the templates were released..

[pilotpierre]

Well I didn't as I was thousands of kilometers from home with lousy internet connection over xmas/new year.

[ShamrockOneFive]

Seriously guys... ?

 

You didn't know about the viewer... ?  It's been out since Christmas Eve... It was released when the templates were released..

 

This one escaped me completely. I knew something had come out but the details were a little vague to me. This is pretty damn cool!

[fergal69]

To animate the gear, flaps and stuf, just click on the "play" button in the center of the top bar. (In the screenshot posted above it's grayed out because it's playing)

 

 

Ahhh

 

was looking for some way of making individual parts move - didn't think to press the play button to see what happens 

[Bearcat]

This one escaped me completely. I knew something had come out but the details were a little vague to me. This is pretty damn cool!

 

Yeah it is id'n it.. ;)

[Sokol1]

Seriously guys... ?

 

You didn't know about the viewer... ?  It's been out since Christmas Eve... It was released when the templates were released..

 

The problem is this features - Viewer, ME... was added, but no shortcut was created  in Windows Programs or in Launcher (ideally).

And some people seem unable to find the folder where the game was installed, to not say that many don't read updates notes. 

[Bearcat]

I have a shortcut to it on my desktop. Not hard to do.....

[Dakpilot]

Personally I would think that those who are unable to create a shortcut are unlikely to have the necessary skills/interest or time to learn gimp/photoshop find the correct plugins and install them, and then learn to use the software to make use of the viewer in any case....jut my thoughts

 

Cheers Dakpilot

[Elem]

Yes, this is a great little tool, but I would really like to be able to view all the ground units (as we could in IL-2 1946). Will this ever be possible? I would also like to see added small units of infantry, perhaps platoon level, in particular how about morter teams, large and small.

 

[WWDubya]

Pardon the necro-posting, but since the 3.001 update, the Aircraft Viewer (...\bin\viewer\Viewer.exe) no longer shows the custom splash screen normally located in ...\data\graphics\textures\userviewer\splash.jpg

 

I've tried to upscale the splash.jpg file to 4K (3840 × 2160), but that did not seem to help. Neither did dropping the splash.jpg file into the folder containing the viewer.exe tool. Is this nifty feature no longer supported? Or is it a different file-type, or folder location?

 

I use the custom background to help me "normalize" my skins in comparison to a screen capture of an in-game shot of some ground features. Seeing my works-in-progress against in-game terrain features is very helpful... much better, for me, than viewing my work against a blue background. 

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Also, and slightly off-topic, any rumors as to when the latest skin templates will be available for the AC released with Kuban?