"During your joruney at making skin mods, trying to fix the original game textures for doing an entire new thing can turn into a hard task for beginners or unexperienced artists. Of course that it won't always be a perfectly 1:1 replica of the original texture like if belonged to Project Aces, however to enhance the quality of your potential skins without it begin plain or amateur, with those templates having intact wheatering, panel lines, decals, markings, isolated interiors, layering options and alpha masks, are made for your skin experience begin more easier and less of a headache. Made by modders, for the community."
*Unofficial¹/Some nicknames² are desconsidered on the naming structure of the template files(i.e. Terminator², Viper Zero¹, Agile Eagle¹, Peace Eagle¹, Felon²)
*Old¹/Different² monikers desconsidered on the naming structure of the template files(i.e SF-39², JAS-39¹, R-M01², EF-2000¹, Su-32², Su-35BM¹, T-50¹, PAK-FA¹, F-104C³, F/A-22¹)
*NATO Flanker names(except Fullback) desconsidered on the naming structure of the template files considering how conflicting the expected sources can be
*Companies(Eurofighter, Mitsubishi) on the naming structure of the template files by the vague mention rule of Strangereal, obvious exceptions begin the Sukhoi and Mikoyan monikers(Su-/MiG-)



"What is a "Vanilla" template?"


Without going into "infamous" or literal terms of the word, "Vanilla Template" is a term used to describe a light grey or white aircraft/vehicle texture without paintschemes, highlights, or camouflages. Expert skin makers with a well knowledge of Photoshop, GIMP, or their most used graphical design software aside of 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 well known in PC game modding scenarios like the Flight Simulator series(FS2004, FSX, FS2020), DCS World and derivates, IL:2 Sturmovik, and War Thunder, made by modders with the main focus in helping people to get more quality on their own skins.

Example (F-22A Raptor Version 2.0 - STILL IN PROGRESS):


This is a joint project made by Rythus and Sunrest along with other expert users that participated before, the main goal is at having ALL the Ace Combat 7 aircraft roster with a vanilla template(modded aircraft not included, brief exceptions are some VISMODs by popular demand), is expected that users would be going at Codename VANILLA if they would want to update their skins. along we have the knowledge people worked on their own vanilla templates and distributed on personal communities for making their skins, Codename VANILLA doesn't cover those other templates as we focus working on our current library and details which may differ, you may became interesed at asking permission to other users for their own details if you manage to get the permission, but Codename VANILLA focus is mostly "having the basis available"


Contribuitors :
Rythus(Creator/Founder)
Sunrest(Sub-leader/Current MVP of recent progress)


Ex-staff membrs :
Dantofu
(First contributor of the project/Instance Isolation improvements/Currently retired of Codename VANILLA contributions)
SkylineGTRFreak
(Second contributor of the project/Currently retired of Codename VANILLA contributions for IRL matters)
John_Silver
(Third contributor of the project at Moddb/Flanker and Russian aircraft templates at Moddb/Currently retired of Codename VANILLA contributions for IRL matters)
Roaches/Gamingroach/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 Modding Concepts by the focus of Enhanced Gunplay)


Honourable metions :

SuperOstrich
(Contributions to some template assets/ASF-X Template)
HoshinoComet
(ACES07 glyphs additional help/Creation of Nostalgic UI interface mod)
"Rugal"
(ACES04 original glyphs, currently retired of the Ace Combat communities)
Lanzerince
(Contributions to some template assets)
Calamitous/Colamitous
(Contributions to some template assets/Alternative mirror for some additional templates at the True Canon Pack period/ADFX-01 Template)
Arhentol, Andhika, Rocketman_02, NuclearFuzion, Njmskr
(Contributions to some template assets)


"Useful Links" :

GR Management - The Ace Combat Onedrive's repository
https://1drv.ms/f/s!ApONtI1SBUFngso3LPdEqqXzGbG2ug (Root)
https://1drv.ms/f/s!ApONtI1SBUFngso_NNHRpxv5wb85qw (Unreal Engine 4 - static link)

Current writtern tutorials(at Ostrich's website)
https://superostrich.xyz/ac7.html

Roach/ACES Typografics(by Roaches)
https://www.moddb.com/mods/aces-typografics/addons

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¹¹3D Models Repository(by Dantofu)
https://mega.nz/folder/mWxTnayD#AWzaK83HSeYSleEbo3nJhg
¹¹Injectable Generic Camera System(AC7 version by Ghostinthecamera, Original by Frans Bouma)
https://github.com/ghostinthecamera/IGCS-GITC/releases?q=ac7&expanded=true
¹¹UUU - Universal Unreal Engine Unlocker(by Frans Bouma)
*3.0.2.1 is the lastest free version available, as the newer versions turned into Patreon membership exclusives
https://www.framedsc.com/GeneralGuides/universal_ue4_consoleunlocker.htm

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Holy Trinity vanilla templates, by BelkanLoyalist
https://www.moddb.com/games/ace-combat-04/downloads/ace-combat-04-aircraft-templates
https://www.moddb.com/games/ace-combat-zero-the-belkan-war/downloads/ace-combat-zero-templates
Holy Trinity provisory 3D model rips, by Charles Charleston
https://www.moddb.com/games/ace-combat-04/addons/ace-combat-04-shattered-skies-model-rips
https://www.moddb.com/games/ace-combat-5/downloads/ace-combat-5-the-unsung-war-modding-tools-and-files-pack