Swiper

I tried it and the alignment of the picture
graphics and the boxes for them in the GUI
were way to the left.

Im also not sure what we can do with this
being no one has standardized on a .PIN
package file for skins. The ZIP feature
did not do what I expected either.

Are you going to have this work with Judge
and AC2000's programs, integrate them?

Its a great ideal, it just needs some good
tweeking yet.

OK, how where you expecting the zip function to work ? It's designed for zip files containing a .sif file. If yours doesn't , extract it first to a directory and generate the sif file using the SIF generator provided in the package. The actual process is explained in the ReadMe.txt file which is provided with SkinMaster.

I realise there isn't a standard yet, but somehow we have to agree on one. I posted a few questions at WW2F Online, without much response, and this package does allow you to generate the required file without too much effort.It would be helpfull to get some opinions as to what an install file would need to include, or what people would be willing to actually do with their skin files.

I'm not aware as to who AC2000 is and what software he has release, I am however in regular contact with Judge, and as you will be aware, SkinMaster makes use of his Sqzip utility. He commented on the effectiveness of using the.sif file, but you do need some kind of listing to differentiate skin files and squadron markings, unless you want to sacrifice the ability to include squad markings. OK, maybe if the sif file isn't present, it should interpret all files as being skins to be packed to ww2.sqs by default. I can incorporate this change fairly easily into the present code, althought the sif file is also used to check on file validity ( ie, is the zip file actually for an aircraft skin, or something totally unrelated ? )

I'd would really like to hear your comments on this, and maybe SkinMaster v1 was a good start to initiate some discussion on this topic, now that new skins are becomming commonplace. I can scrap it, and start new code with what people would consider a "standard", but I do need to know what this "standard" will be.

Please do give your thoughts, I think this is important for further developments of this great sim.

Thanks