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General Information
RATS Installer is a program realized for semi-automatic installation of texture sets in RATS format for AI-models installed in your Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004.
Texture Sets Installation
- After program start, MSFS 2004 will be located automatically. If not, please locate your fs9.exe file manually.
- Select textures set in RATS Format (ZIP-archive). If it is a first time when you install this airline, you will see Installation Table. If it is the 2nd or more time, please follow Installer commands before Installation Table will appear.
- Installation proceeds individually for each AI-model through the dialog window by *.air file choosing. Press cell named INSTALL? and then choose *.air file for proper AI-model. Installation will begin and cell be named OK!
- File named RATS_Installer_data.ini, which contains all information about installed textures sets, will appear in FS root folder. IMPORTANT! Do not edit this file to prevent errors in the installation processes.
- During installation RATS Installer will remove all old textures for installing airline for using AI-model (if user confirms it), regardless of date of installing textures (newer or older than installed), type of textures set (basic textures set or with updates for basic) and regardless of type of textures set - optimized or full pack.
Requirements
1. All AI-model for different authors have to be installed without any changes inside the main AI-model folder. You may change only name of *.air file. Also you may put all engine modifications in a one AI-model folder (for example, Boeing 747-200GE, Boeing 747-200PW and Boeing 747-200RR). But be careful with folder names as we mentioned below – do not change them.
2. In our texture sets we use [fltsim.xxx] sections consist of 14 lines as the most optimal variant:
- [fltsim.XXX] /// Current number of section, put automatically
- title=Aeroflot-Don Ilyushin Il-86
- sim=ai_rats_Il-86 /// original name of *.air file*
- model=3 /// original name of AI-model inner folder
- texture=DNV /// texture folder name (airline's ICAO code)
- atc_airline=Donavia
- ui_manufacturer=Ilyushin
- ui_type=Ilyushin Il-86
- ui_variation=Aeroflot-Don
- description=AI Model by Alexey Rubtsov/RATS // Paintkit by Aleks Pjarnja & Enzo Soliani // Painted by Alexander Petrenko aka alpet
- atc_heavy=1
- atc_parking_types=GATE
- atc_parking_codes=DNV
- setup=RATS /// special installation line for RATS texture set
IMPORTANT! Please remember that any changes in this section will reduce to errors in installation process. Lines in red are system-defined for RATS Installer.
Information from description line are used for Installation table
* sometimes users change names of *.air files, so we consider this fact and that's why we use *.air file name for our installer.
3. Determinative factor for installation is an ICAO code of airlines mentioned in texture= line. It should be noted that if you use this way to mark installed textures, than RATS Installer will offer you to remove all textures with similar with installing airlines ICAO code in texture= line.
Developers Information, Program Features
If you want to create your own texture set in RATS format, you will only have to download any of our files from August, 24 (all our texture sets are in a new format since this date, but you feel free to install it manually too) and later as an example for the right files structure and names. ZIP-archive could be named at will.
There could be two types of installing packages (texture sets) – basic set and update for basic set, if it is necessary. We have created a Setup file to mention all information is needed for installation:
- [RATSSetup]
- Airline=Aeroflot /// Airline name
- Textures Pack=Full /// Type of texture set
- Callsign=Tesis /// Callsign
- ICAO=TIS /// ICAO code
- Release Date=4th February 2008 /// Release date of set
- Description=See Readme file for details
Textures pack= line is a system line, here could be 4 senses:
- Full – Full texture pack for each aircraft
- Optimized – Optimized texture pack for each aircraft's type of livery
- Update Full – Update for full texture pack
- Update Optimized – Update for optimized texture pack
Updates install under the basic package with automatic replacement or addition for the texture files.
All information from Setup file is shown in the information window of Installer by choosing texture set in RATS format.
Licenses and Copyrights
- This program is freeware and could be downloaded from Russian AI Traffic System web-site (www.trafficsystem.ru) and not allowed for any kind of commercial distribution;
- You are now allowed to upload or distribute this program on any other web-site in any format or by copying onto any portable media or by e-mail;
- You are now allowed to modify this program or any part of this program and use it for your own creation as basic elements, except in cases mentioned in this agreement;
- Formats used in this program could be used by users for creation own texture sets in RATS format for RATS Installer;
- This creations could be distributed without any restrictions, but ReadMe file with texture set has to have lines mentioned below: This file is in a special RATS (Russian AI Traffic System) Format for RATS Installer. Please visit www.trafficsystem.ru to download RATS Installer from the FILES section.
This file is in a special RATS (Russian AI Traffic System) Format for RATS Installer. Please visit www.trafficsystem.ru to download RATS Installer from the FILES section.
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