Skin Installer

"Install skins at the touch of a button, literally."

Posted by just_some_guy

This software allows you to install skins to your SimTractor game by clicking a button on mySimTractor.com, there is no need to go through the confusing process of downloading and copying files. When you install this small program a button will appear next to the download buttons on the skins pages, when you click it the skin will be applied to your game in seconds.


Click here to download

System Requirements -
Windows XP or Windows Vista
Internet Explorer 7 or above
.NET Framework 3.5 (will be installed by installer if not present on target system).
200 MB Diskspace
128 MB RAM

Screen Capture Application

"Seamlessly add files to mySimTractor.com direct from SimTractor."

Posted by just_some_guy

I have developed a new tool for SimTractor, it is a screen capture application that takes a screen shot of SimTractor and uploads it to the mySimTractor.com galleries. You can start the application and take any number of shots at any time whilst playing, all you need to do is press - Shift + Enter, and your snap shot will be uploaded and added in 0.25 seconds. There is no need to leave the SimTractor window as it works in the background (defeating the tedious procedure of pressing Print Screen and manually uploading the picture). The application has 2 modes - "Auto Mode" and "Single Capture".

System Requirements -

Windows XP or Windows Vista
512 MB Diskspace
126MB RAM.

Download -

Prerequisite - The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, you may find that you already have this installed on your computer (Use Add/Remove programs to check) If you don't have this download it from - here - Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5

Click here to download - mySimTractor.com Screen Capture App Download


Instructions.

Auto Mode -

1. Start up the application by clicking the shortcut on the desktop.

2. Login to your mySimTractor.com account -



3. You will then be presented with the application window -



4. Start up SimTractor and enter the minimized mode by click the shrink button in the top right corner of SimTractor.

5. The way the application works is as follows: it captures an image based on the location of the software's window. So you need to move the Capture window ontop of the SimTractor window, you can use the the Opacity Slider, to gain a better view by varying the opacity of the Application window, as demonstrated in the picture -



6. Click "Start Auto Mode" when you feel that you have correctly aligned the windows. The application window will now disappear allowing you to start playing SimTractor.

7. Whenever you want to take a picture press "Shift + Enter", the image will then be uploaded and added to mySimTractor.com. Repeat this process as many times as you want.

8. (optional) To bring the application window back up, press "Shift + Esc".


Single Shot Capture -

This allows you to take one picture at a time, Line up the windows and click "Capture Single Shot". One image will be taken and uploaded to the site.

As illustrated in the below image -

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Image Format Converter App

"Making Skin Creation Accessible."

Posted by just_some_guy

This software can convert the SimTractor skin files (Targa's (.tga)) into many other formats that then allow you to create and view skins using free tools like Microsoft paint.
The software can convert to and from the following formats.

Targa (.tga).
Jpeg (.jpg).
Bitmap (.bmp).
CompuServe GIF (.gif).
PNG (.png).
Tiff (.tiff).


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System Requirements -
Windows XP or Windows Vista
6 MB Diskspace
126 MB RAM


The software does have some prerequisites but the installer will take care of that.

Once installed you can launch the application from the "Programs" list in the start menu.

Instructions to convert the skin file to a Paint (example) recognized file then convert it back to skin file format. -



Convert from skin file -

1. Click "Browse" to choose the .tga skin file that you would like to convert.

2. Select from the dropdown menu which format you want to convert to. (Paint uses bitmaps so lets convert to that.) So select "Bitmap (.bmp)".

3. Click "Click To Convert" , you will now be presented with with a dialog asking you to save the file, do so to a folder of your choice.

Convert to skin file format (.tga).

1. Click "Browse" to choose the image file that you would like to convert to a skin file format (Targa (.tga)).

2. Select from the dropdown menu - "Targa (.tga)".

3. Click "Click To Convert" , you will now be presented with with a dialog asking you to save the file, do so to a folder of your choice.



Hope it proves useful,

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