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Hi all.

A question regarding public DB images. How is CMO set up to download database images? Is there a way or an option to permanently prohibit the software from auto-downloading images? I noticed at some point CMO started overwriting existing and thus own DB images. Also, with the introduction of public Beta v1.08 I noticed that the file format has changed from .jpg to .webp. I'm a bit bummed out because I prefer my personal DB images for a number of reasons. I started editing my own images way back in 2013 (CMANO).

PLEASE make it an optional checkbox (or something along those lines) to use public DB Image packs. The way it is set up now makes my personal collection of 5000+ DB images and several dozens of hours of photo editing go down the drain. Same basically goes for DB descriptions. Not to sound rude or unpolite but personally I don't see the reason to have the database page cluttered with a wikipedia article.

Blocking CMO with your firewall?

There is a ExternalURLs.ini in the config folder, with these lines.

Tried deleting the second, and still the .webp files were downloaded, perhaps this ini file is not used anymore.


Are your chosen pics better? Why not to share them?

Nikel wrote: Sun Jun 15, 2025 8:08 am Blocking CMO with your firewall?

There is a ExternalURLs.ini in the config folder, with these lines.

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[RemoteImages]

MS1=https://warfaresims.slitherine.com/DBImages/

Tried deleting the second, and still the .webp files were downloaded, perhaps this ini file is not used anymore.


Are your chosen pics better? Why not to share them?

Does this switch also turn off any link to a remotely hosted HTML files?

I also maintain my own set, its like a second hobby. I don't want to share because I don't want a third hobby of managing websites and hunting down photographers for permission, etc.

...Not that everything hasn't already been sucked up into the pale, dumb, boring enshittification machine anyways...

M

As I commented above, deleted the line and still the .webp files were downloaded and displayed in the game.

Perhaps one of the devs may explain if the ini file is still used and how.

Nikel wrote: Sun Jun 15, 2025 8:08 am Are your chosen pics better? Why not to share them?

At some point I put up a post in the CMANO Facebook group, asking if anybody was interested in my set of images. There wasn't a lot of enthusiasm about it so... Also, I'm not sure about the copyright situation on a number of images. Some organisations require you to acknowledge the source in form of a watermark or link. And that's kind of the opposite of what I've been doing. That's why I won't post them publically.

At the moment I'm waiting for a reply from Dimitris or some other dev. I raised this issue in the past when they first started implementing the auto-download feature but it didn't receive any attention from anybody in the development team.

Vici Supreme wrote: Sun Jun 15, 2025 7:02 pm

Nikel wrote: Sun Jun 15, 2025 8:08 am Are your chosen pics better? Why not to share them?

At some point I put up a post in the CMANO Facebook group, asking if anybody was interested in my set of images. There wasn't a lot of enthusiasm about it so... Also, I'm not sure about the copyright situation on a number of images. Some organisations require you to acknowledge the source in form of a watermark or link. And that's kind of the opposite of what I've been doing. That's why I won't post them publically.

At the moment I'm waiting for a reply from Dimitris or some other dev. I raised this issue in the past when they first started implementing the auto-download feature but it didn't receive any attention from anybody in the development team.

If you have good images to share for the database, post them here : https://forums.matrixgames.com/viewtopi ... start=1020

Yes, Sourced images are better and easier to implement, but if you've already collected them and lost track of the sources, just zip them into a folder and share them. They can be filtered. Thanks.

This used to work so try it:
add 'AllowInGameDownloads = False' to Command.ini to stop the in-game image downloads

goldfinger35 wrote: Mon Jun 23, 2025 4:28 pm This used to work so try it:
add 'AllowInGameDownloads = False' to Command.ini to stop the in-game image downloads

Indeed it works, thanks

Thank you goldfinger35