Sorry I've been a bit thin on the ground this week but I've been hard at work on IL2-MAT Manager v2.
Below is a quick progress update. First up, there's a new set of weathered RAF numbers/letters and a new National Markings option for Greek 335 squadron, this interested me as they had Greek alphabet call letters.
I have seperated the New Zealand markings from their previous home into in the British national markings section to their own drop-down box.
I have added an option to the Netherlands national markings drop-down box to display the triangle marking at a reduced size, thanks to Tachyon for the pictures and information.
Unfortunately the Australian (RAAF) markings are still shared with the Royal Navy option but I have extended the range of markings in this drop-down box to incorporate an additional two options which enable weathered and faded versions of the "shared" marking as a compromise solution although I have also retained the option to use Britian as a "surrogate" nationality to display RAAF markings so you have a pretty good choice.
Lastly I have re-coded the program to incorporate a new option to switch the path that MAT files are copied to in advance of the game version supporting non-clearance of the PaintSchemes\Cache folder. This will allow full backward-compatibility with IL-2 Sturmovik and all other game versions prior to the new version with support for this feature. I considered having the program detect the game version but, the game executables don't contain any version information and date and size is a problematical way of doing things so decided on a simple switch in the Control Panel.
That's it for now, I'll post more news later in the week.
Best Regards
Aces
