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Thank you very much for your effort, it seems like you’re making great progress. The number of options available in this addon is amazing! Once again, thank you. When possible, I would love to see this addon in action. It would be very interesting to see a video to understand how it works firsthand.

Hi!   Still alive, out of spite, if nothing else.    Saw news of a tornado hitting Asheville, North Carolina. Hope you’re good, Zjj. And everyone else, too. 

We played a few more online missions today.  We played the original Ghost Recon 2001 missions. And also some mods. Screenshots of our latest games will be posted later!    

I have been reading about the next installment by Ubisoft on GR. From what I have read, it looks very good. I am very glad the game will return to a "first person view". Sorry, but it lost me when it went 3rd view.  Will stop by often to get the latest info.  Everyone take care, Kingkat

Detailed How-To guide Ok, now to a more detailed guide. Still, this tutorial kind of assumes you are already familiar with texturing as well as basic modding for Ghost Recon. Requirements: -Ghost Recon -Image editor software/setup for editing & creating custom RSB textures. (Photoshop (CS2 - 5 I believe) with rsb plugin installed) -Mike Schell's Skinner Utility v1.1   How to create custom track textures: 0-1. Download gr_tutorial_custom_tank_treads.7z *I will provide the files later!* This archive will contain custom track textures I made you can use for this tutorial, as well a finished sample of how the end product should look like. 0-2. Create a new "mod". "Mod" in Ghost Recon is a folder containing "modscont.txt", with or without any other contents. This folder must be inside Ghost Recon's "Mods" folder. You can create a mod through IGOR or by copy-pasting modscont.txt from Origmiss and renaming the name of the mod. Note: text inside modscont.txt must follow a specofoc format, else it won't be recognized, and might cause crash. For this tutorial, let's name both the folder and name (inside modscont) Custom Treads. Then create another folder inside Custom Treads, and name it Textures. Once you are done, open Ghost Recon and see if this mod shows up in the Available Mods list. If it does, it's a success.  1. Create a set of custom tread textures and export them as RSB. You'll need a set of 4. (There's one exception)      For this tutorial, use "custom tred t72" png images in the 7zip archive provided below. (There's one exception) Use vanilla tread textures as the basis for size and placement of each element: tracks, roadwheel and sprockett/idler wheel. Default size is 128*128. If you want to go bigger, remember that it must be a power of 2. (I don't know the number, but I believe there's a max size limit, so I recommend you go with 128 or 256.)  2. Choose (just choose) which vanilla track textures to replace. For this tutorial, let's use the following textures: iv_howitzer.rsb iv_howitzer_01.rsb iv_howitzer_02.rsb iv_howitzer_03.rsb These textures are used by Abrams, T-72, and Russian Self-Propelled Howitzer vehicle models. I'll list all the vanilla track textures that I know of later.  3. Copy the vanilla textures you chose and paste them into the Textures folder inside Custom Treads. If the new copies of the files have "read only" enabled in the file properties, disable it.  4. In your image editor (Photoshop etc), open the vanilla textures you copy-pasted.  5. Open the custom RSB textures you created in #1 in the image editor.  6. Inside the image editor, select all of the custom texture, then copy paste it to over to the corresponding vanilla texture you've opened in #5.  7. Save the vanilla texture (which now has your custom texture on top) as RSB. If you did everything right, the new texture should replace the vanilla texture you chose once you activate the Custom Treads mod.  8. See if the textures were exported right. Launch Ghost Recon, activate Custom Treads mod, and start Mission 10 "Fever Claw". (Other missions with moving M1 or T-72 work, but this is the best since you spawn next to a group of friendly M1s. Howitzer is hard to check, given that it moves only when it fires.)   Re-assigning Textures for vehicle model using Mike Schell's Skinner v1.1 There should be tutorials on how to use Mike Schell skinner on this site already, so please look for it.