Installation guides for ETO and Rising Sun

[MajorMagee]

Thanks buddy ! It is working fine now, even with the new Ankor's shaders ! Excited to have it running again. Thanks for all the help !

I thought I had Ankor's fully working in RS, but then discovered a new anomaly.

As part of using the new shaders I have custom compositescenerybudgets.xml files installed that push the scenery object rendering distances out farther to match the new horizon distances better.

In all my other installs these files simply supercede the default one hidden inside the terrdata.zip file, but not in RS!

In RS I would never see any trees beyond a very small ring around my aircraft, in spite of using the same compositescenerybudgets.xml from all my other Ankor enabled installs. It took me a lot of experimenting before discovering that it was the version hidden inside the 7 terrdata.zip files that were dominating.

 

[MajorMagee]

Also, if you're using the new weather files, and want the new randomized display of variable weather in the front end user interface screen, you have to do a bunch of careful editing of the 7 theater mission folders. The random frontend.xml weather files are contained in 14 numbered folders. Each one needs to be edited to look like the master one provided by RS for that theater but with the weather reference changed.

The weather pack provided with the 2025 shaders uses these weather references for each one.

Default Weather="0000Winter - Fairweather Day.xml"
1 Weather="0000Autumn - Approaching Warm Front.xml"
2 Weather="0000Autumn - Building Storms 1.xml"
3 Weather="0000Autumn - Building Storms 2.xml"
4 Weather="0000Autumn - Clear Skies.xml"
5 Weather="0000Autumn - Cold and Bright.xml"
6 Weather="0000Autumn - Dissipating Thunderstorms.xml"
7 Weather="0000Autumn - Double Overcast.xml"
8 Weather="0000Autumn - Fairweather Day.xml"
9 Weather="0000Autumn - Misty Morning.xml"
10 Weather="0000Autumn - Morning Fog and Scud.xmlv
11 Weather="0000Autumn - Thin Overcast.xml"
12 Weather="000Nimbostratus Rain 1,000ft.xml"
13 Weather="000Cumulus Congestus Scattered Showers 2,000ft.xml"
14 Weather="000Cumulonimbus Thunderstorm 3,000ft.xml"

Accessing a frontend.xml file from the wrong theater will throw an error and messes up the display when the game tries to start.