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Well dudes, good to know that other people are still supporting 2.8.5. I will see you there, Vanoke. But this is not what i was asking for.

Unfortunately the conversation here is not hitting the spot.

So back to topic. I'm pretty sure that there is a way to use my own textures in 2.8.5. Maybe i'ts not that easy but it must be possible. In my humble oppinion the easiest way is to make an UTX file that is readable for the AAEditor. I tried that by creating UTX packages using "UnrealEngine2Runtime" and "UT2004" editors. But they are different versions (as i expected) and are not accepted by the AAEditor. Maybe i'm wrong but i was thinking that an encryption of the UTX file does the trick. There are tools out there to do something like this. I heard about AA2.8.5Converter, AARE and AACrypt. But i can't find any download links.

As far as i know ELiZ was one of the guys who cracked the encryption nut of 2.8.5. Maybe he or somebody from the dev team can help me to find a solution.

I would really appreciate it.

Thanks again teddy. This is exactly what i'm talking about  .

Hey folks,
after searching in the internet for almost a week without finding a solution, i decided to ask you guys: is it possible to change the weapons in specific player slots?
I'm not talking about the 'afc' command or the admin scripts with the 'admin forceclass 1 [whatever]' command. It's rather something like all R slots are getting SF weapons or if you're in G slot you're getting GP what i'm looking for. Is there any way to do this? I saw something like that on hospital map. Some slots are giving you a RPG. Somebody changed the weapons for this slots. Is stuff like that possible without changing any original files? Can a special script do this or is it a modification of the map file...? How to do this? Can you guys steer me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance

That's strange. On Win XP it was possible to play AA with surround sound. So whats the big deal to do that on Win 7? It's pretty important in this game to be able to hear where exactly something happens...

Cmon guys! Does nobody have an idea here...? Really...? I can't believe that i'm the only one who has problems with this.

Hey all,
does anybody now how to enable quadrophonic or 5.1 sound for AAO. I'm using my onboard sound card (Realtek) on Win 7. In Realtek HD Audio-Manager everything works fine and i get a signal from all speakers, but in game the sound is only stereo. I can't hear anything from the rear speakers. Is there a way to fix this?
Thanks in advance.

Hey folks, how is it going?
Yesterday [w].^W.e.ll.o^ asked me how to do random weapon scripts on a server. I know that some threads here are covering this topic already but seemingly there are open questions.
Ok, here is what i did to get it working:

1. Download the 'weapon_randomizer_v1_5'. I found it here: http://www.gamefront.com/files/files/6559722/weapon_randomizer_v1_5.zip
Maybe this is not the newest version - but i dont mind
2. Unzip the file
3. The readme file recommends to put the WeaponRandomizer.exe into your America's Army system folder but doing this prompts an error in 25Assist. For me it worked in any directory so skip this step. Just leave it in the extracted folder.
4. Open WeaponRandomizer.exe
5. Choose the weapons or weapon set you want to randomize
6. Push 'Star Randomizer'. After a few seconds (be patient) it creates a file in the same directory named 'random.txt'. It's just a file with 1000 rows and each of them is a command to force class a player slot (slot 1 - 1000). The first row is an admin message. You can edit the message in text editor.
7. Rename this file (to keep it nice and short i named it 'r1.txt')
8. If u want to play more than one round on the row with the same set of random weapons you should repeat steps 6 and 7 because: If nothing has changed in the player list, each player will have the same weapons again because player slots are still the same. So you need several files - lets say 'r2.txt', 'r3.txt'. 'r4.txt' and so on.
9. After this put these files into your America's Army system folder
10. Now you can use them in game by typing in console 'exec r1.txt' (for the 1st round), 'exec r2.txt' (for the 2nd round), 'exec r3.txt' (for the 3rd round) and so on...

Thats it. I don't know if there are ways to do this more elegant than creating a bunch of files - if so, tell me please. At least this is working.
Hope this helps.

Happy randomizing...