fox_the_apprentice

Mods have to be supported by Liberation/Retribution directly. When creating a new game, you can select which supported mods you want to include. I've attached an image of that screen during new game creation. I thought you could add mods partway through, but now I can't find the menu to do that... Maybe I'm misremembering. Retribution supports more mods, but I'm less familiar with it. You might be able to get around the requirement by creating a mission with you piloting a different but similar aircraft, then going into the Mission Editor and replacing that aircraft with your modded aircraft (but not replacing the name of the flight or anything else), and then after the mission using the 'manually submit results' option but manually editing the JSON file to return any instance of your modded aircraft back to the unmodded one. I've not tried this, though. Alternatively, you can try to add and manage the mod support into Liberation source, but that will take some effort: https://github.com/dcs-liberation/dcs_liberation/wiki/Modded-Aircraft-Support

Make sure you're in the right Saved Games folder, and that Liberation is configured to put the generated mission into the correct Saved Games folder. It should be the Saved Games folder in your user directory. For example, I have my user directory moved off of my C drive to my D drive: My user directory is at `D:\username`, but the default Windows location is `C:\users\username\`. This means that my Windows profile folders (Documents, Desktop, Downloads, Pictures, Saved Games, etc.) are not at the default Windows location. (I did this when setting up my PC by [Shift+Right-click]ing each folder, selecting Properties, and selecting the Location tab.) The default location of `C:\users\username\Saved Games\DCS\Liberation` exists because Liberation improperly creates that folder instead of pulling my proper user directory location (so it should be `D:\username\Saved Games\DCS\Liberation` if Liberation did things properly). It simply assumes you have the default locations for everything, and then creates it if those folders don't exist. It also defaults to assuming your DCS Saved Games directory is in the default location alongside of itself. DCS itself properly uses my `D:\username\Saved Games\DCS`, as it should. That's where I moved my Windows profile directory to, after all! Liberation doesn't find this directory by default, however; I have to tell it where to go, which is annoying. You can see in the attached image what each directory looks like on my PC. # TL;DR # What I suspect is happening is that DCS is using a different Saved Games directory than what Liberation is configured to use. You can which directory Liberation uses by opening Liberation and selecting File -> Preferences. Try going there, selecting the `Browse` button next to "DCS saved game directory". Then, in the *TOP* of the file browser (not the bottom) enter %USERPROFILE% and press Enter (the percent signs are important, don't cut them out). There should be a `Saved Games` folder in that directory that has a DCS folder inside it. (I have 2, and have to be careful which one I select.) That DCS folder should contain folders such as Config, Data, fxo, InputUserProfiles, Missions, etc. That's the DCS folder you should be selecting. If you only see a Liberation folder inside of your selected DCS folder, then you're in the wrong place. (And don't forget to hit `Select folder` and `Apply` instead of just closing the windows!)

Thanks for this - I was just entering a ticket to support for this very issue. Note, for people like me who only ever use Steam, pressing the `unbind` button in my profile (https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/personal/profile/) and leaving it unbound fixed my issue.

If you're doing your own missions for learning, you can add a kneeboard page with controls on it. It's a bit tedious, though, and requires you to have access to the mission file locally to edit.