Download AircraftTweak here

I realized the other day that with AVSIM being down, there has been no place to download AircraftTweak. So here it is: get v1.1 from my SkyDrive
If you don’t know what this app is, it is a way to install repaints (either manually or automatically in an installer etc.), and apply patches in general to [...]

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Making a repaint auto-installer with Clickteam Install Creator and AircraftTweak

Many people create repaints for FSX aircraft, but there is no easy way to have an installer add the [fltsim.x] information into the correct aircraft.cfg file. This is usually left to the person who downloads the repaint, which is not very professional. AircraftTweak can help you automate this process, and creating a single exe which [...]

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AircraftTweak hits 1000 downloads!

Woohoo! Version 1.1 has now been downloaded one thousand times (collated from all the download sites I could think of). It’s so popular even I use it!

I have not gotten any bug reports yet, so that is good (one dude had problems running it cause he forgot to install the visual studio runtime). [...]

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AircraftTweak v1.1 is on AVSIM

This version has the ability to make and apply binary patches – now you have a complete patching solution for your aircraft and other add-ons. The install code has been improved by changing the source file scanning algorithm; rather than requiring the [fltsim.n] section to be contiguous, it now scans until it hits a line [...]

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AircraftTweak v1.0 released!

Put it on AVSIM just before lunch. I added a little UI for installing and removing repaints:

The UI works like the UI in Exchange – it is just a graphical wrapper around shell calls. The main app is statically linked so that it can be distributed without requiring users to install additional packages to use [...]

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New project: AircraftTweak

With modeldef_edit released, it is time for a new project. Again, it’s one for developers (this time aircraft painters can have some benefit too). Very close to release right now (it is a command line tool, so development has been quite speedy). What does it do? Here is the dump from the tool itself:
AircraftTweak v1.0 [...]

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