Codename VANILLA -Template Repository- (AC7)

"The next step to enhancing your texture quality, to get a clean paintscheme template in hands."

During your joruney at making skin mods, fixing the original game textures for doing an entire new thing can turn into a hard task for unexperienced artists. albeit not much of an 1:1 replica of the original like if belonged to Project Aces, but to enhance the quality of your potential aircraft skins without it being mediocre, or amateur, Codename VANILLA is your solution. With those templates having intact wheatering, panel lines, label markings, decals, isolated interiors, layering options and alpha masks, those are made for your skin experience become more easier and less of a severe headache

Made by modders, for the community

"What is a Vanilla template?"

"Vanilla Template" is a term used to describe a light grey or white colored vehicle texture without paintschemes, highlights, or camouflages, used to be a basis for skin creation, Vanilla can also mean the taste of an ice cream, or "lovey dovey romance stories about couples which aren't much safe for work". Experienced skin makers with a well knowledge of Photoshop, GIMP, or any other graphical design softwares, and a lot of patience, can create Vanilla Templates at your own by isolating details using the original textures of the game and tools of their software

Vanilla Templates are also well known in PC game modding scenarios like the Flight Simulator series(FS2004, FSX, FS2020), DCS/Lock On, IL:2 Sturmovik, and War Thunder, created by modders with the main focus in helping users to get a better quality on their own skin projects

Example (F-22A Raptor Rev. 1) :

This is a joint project made and managed by Rythus and Sunrest alongside with other expert users that participated before or still participates, Codename VANILLA focus on having the templates of all the Ace Combat 7 aircraft roster(*modded aircraft not included on Codename VANILLA), Codename VANILLA main goal is mostly having the basis available on demand

Contribuitors :

(Creator/Founder)

(Sub-leader/MVP of previous progress)

Roaches (ElectronicOldMan)

(Roach/ACES Typographics collaborator at Moddb/Participation on font and stencil assets/new ACES04 glyphys, ACES07, ACES-MILSTD/Still a member and contributor of Playmore with Enhanced Gunplay)

Ex-staff members :

(First contributor of the project/Instance Isolation improvements/Currently retired of Codename VANILLA)

SkylineGTRFreak

(Second contributor of the project/F-14D and MiG-31B templates/Currently retired of Codename VANILLA contributions due to IRL matters)

Kalgin (John_Silver)

(Third contributor of the project at Moddb/Flanker and Russian