MAE - IL-2 Great Battles Mission Aircraft Editor 2022 by BrassEm

[Taurus]

G'day, While testing my skinpacks, it became a chore to go into missions with the Mission Editor, changing the aircraft and skins. I could only go on skin names and not see the graphics of the skins. There had to be a better way. What was going to be a simple skin changer application turned into the MAE program. I trust it is going to be useful for those who want to change up the look of the aircraft in missions.

 

 

MAE is a utility program that collects, modifies and saves some existing aircraft settings from an IL-2 Great Battles .mission file. The aim of the utility is to make it easy to change the features of mission aircraft without the clutter of the mission logic used in the IL-2 Mission Editor. The settings that can be changed are;

 

   Aircraft Model and Skin.

   Associated Country.

   AI setting.

   Name and Description.

   Call Sign and Number.

   Modifications and Payloads.

   Tactical Codes and Colours.

 

MAE Downloads;

 

MAE_v1000.zip   8.97MB (Includes manual and license files.)

MAE_Manual.pdf   1.95MB

 

 

If you want to see the "Blank" skins in MAE then you can either extract them from the "gtp" files or download the JSGME ready .zip file;

 

Blank_Skins_20221127.zip   6.21GB

 

 

When using the MAE software. ALWAY MAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR .mission file FIRST!

This software has only been tested with Windows 10  and the "non-Steam" version IL-2 Simulator and Mission Editor.

It has been tested with the brilliant Easy Mission Generator by SYN_Vander.

The working Form has a locked dimension of 1780 x 935 screen pixels.

The .NET 6.0.11 (x64) Desktop Runtime is required to be installed. (Use the supplied MAE setup to help with the installation of this if needed.)

As always, this software is supplied "As Is". Use at your own risk.

 

If there are any issues, comments or question please leave them here or on the MAE discord channel and I will try to attend to them when I can.

 

https://discord.gg/qAPuffnK

(Invite updated 22/03/2022)

 

 

I trust that the skies will get a lot more interesting.

 

Cheers,

 

Brass

(a.k.a. Taurus.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 21, 2023 by Taurus
Update Discord Invite link

[jeanba]

This is a great idea

Than you

[jeanba]

Hello

 

I am using the MAE and I find it very usefull

Is there an updated version as I encountered several difficulties ?

 

Also, the discord invitation does not seem to work

[Taurus]

G'day Jeanba,

 

It is great to hear you are getting some use out of MAE. Not so great that there are some difficulties. I have updated the discord invite and would be very interested to find out what the difficulties are that you are experiencing.

 

Thanks!

 

[jeanba]

It is a very usefull tool and I thank you for this

I am using it for tuning or modifying missions from EQMG, quick combats ...

I occasionnally find some bugs, but overall, it works well.

And I recommend everybody to use it 

 

edit : I will contact you by discord, but it is not available at work

 

Edited March 22, 2023 by jeanba

[Taurus]

Thanks for the recommendation. ?  I hope to get the bugs sorted but I need the spare time to do that when I can.

 

The offending lines in the mission example that you sent to me is   Skin = "default";
I am not sure how the definition "default" got put there? The mission editor reverts it to   Skin = ""; if the default skin <default> is selected in the mission editor.

If I go in and change your sample mission and remove the word default and save it. MAE now loads up the mission and works.

But... The mission will not then load up in mission editor??? All the other blank aircraft are   Skin = "";   ???

 

Doing testing iterations has shown that there is no one step way of nulling out the skin assignment in MAE. (You have to trigger a "CHANGED" event and then null out the skin name to save to the plane list as a CHANGE.) I will have to fix that too in the process.

Getting closer.

Edited April 2, 2023 by Taurus

[jeanba]

Hello 

 

The mission was created using the AQMG

I did not modifyskin assignement

[nateliff]

I would like to thank Tankie for making this effort every week for us to fly!! Never realised how much of an effort it was. Thank you Tankie .

 

 

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Edited May 25, 2023 by nateliff

[jeanba]

I agree, it is very usefull