Thanks for drop'n by m8
About the viewer:
The main reason, its Quick. Not having to load the game, Pick the plane, start mission etc. Just to see if the Vic's are lined up or something. It also eliminates the need of taking screens of errors.
As you can just keep the viewer up at all times, and switch back and forth.
Being able to just save your file, go to viewer, and load it. I have a viewer that I used back when I made some skins for Nascar 03. And it made things alot easier. It was just called "CarViewer" I think, it had lighting options and zoom, pan too. A 3d tool. These viewers are just a few seconds behind Real Time.
I'm mainly speaking from my IL2 skinning experience. You can leave the game running, but it does'nt update skin files once its started. No matter if you exit the mission, and start another once you re-saved your mod'ed skin. It will appear the same as it did when you started the game. And the game generaly takes a while to load.
Does Bob2 reload skin files into memory each time you load a mission?(I guess thats why IL2 is the way it is, I'm no tech guy)
If so, a viewer would'nt really be as big of a deal. But still, theirs no replacement for Viewers. They are just good.
