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Many thanks rob10, didnt spot that !!!

I deactivated my Log In Screen - the new thing with the moving images and all the settings - because of issues with double log in's I was having at that time. I have just realised that I am not seeing the updates any more and have missed a few recent updates ending up with a HUGE update, which I could live without !! How do I reactivate it ?

Super little boat for in and around the harbour. It looks very similar to the type of boat the British Dockyard Police use for all warship and submarine berthings and harbour escorts. Nice one Admiral.

Regarding the desdemica mod - Its taken me most of the morning to work out why I never managed to do liveries for that Mod. Its all to do with the way they created the first version of the Mod and how they created texture plates for the ships number, there was no way you could remove that plate from the hull sides. I think they may have released an Australian version of the ship later and from what I can remember I tred to create another livery for that but I think there is still an issue with numbers on the liveries option. I never finished it. I dont use their mod myself so have never bothered to do any more work on it. Late Edit - I have just downloaded the latest version and the numbers issue remains as it was, you cant add different liveries. You can have L61 and L02, only. They have also updated the deck textures etc, so what I had done so far is of no further use without a lot of work.

Sorry, my memory let me down there - there is no C47 Template that I am aware of. I did these a while ago and forgot that I made them all from scratch. I do have an Australain version of the carrier which is not in the pack but no Turkish version, I did that work before Turkey took delivery of their ship. I dont use this Mod myself for a number of reasons so I am not in the best position to do a Turkish deck, if I can do it I'll post a link. Edit - This mod appears to have been withdrawn, the link to the Mod is broken and has been broken for some time. I dont have a copy of it to work from, sorry.

A collection of ships liveries for various ED and Saved Games Mods - in 2 parts. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/wlemo3f4rliejdp9df94n/CrazyEddies-Ships-Liveries-PT1.zip?rlkey=uj5er3sxuad9ii4rrdwfbizbt&st=xa1hifn0&dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/x1x25sjy882gu1xpd7nhb/CrazyEddies-Ships-Liveries-PT2.zip?rlkey=42q4yd6136qjkpaf9qf4iggv7&st=tq45kqgf&dl=0

No lights, just static objects - some of the radars turn if placed as Vehicles.

My collection of C47 Military and Civil skins. These were produced long before the C47 template became available so I expect there are many better liveries out there somewhere. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/kd7zlxa4bd4vyl4phredz/CrazyEddies-C47-Skinpack-Military.zip?rlkey=umm3fpguoizfoa7txzl7f3q42&st=1hqlcf7q&dl=0 My Civil Liveries - some are reasonably accurate, others not quite so - just eye candy. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/iaj7s56qvk3bg6er2fdux/CrazyEddies_C47_Skinpack_Civilian.zip?rlkey=hwg2hpeqf6d1mmz7b38zyuag5&st=9rfzz8fp&dl=0

Admiral and I had a go at creating an AI Only version of the Merlin Helicopter, just for the fun of it. He did the hard conversion wotk and I did the Textures. Complete with a range of Liveries. On one version you can hang torpedo's but understnd that they do not fall like an aerial torpedo or track like one either, that is not coded within the game. This is AI Only with all the issues already associated with the in game helicopters, its not perfect, but it is fun. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/4yje2embi9isubticc8va/CrazyEddie-and-Admirals-AW-101-Merlin-Helicopter-AI-Only.zip?rlkey=m0qqiygglw3xjfd5hvpimsl6m&st=4m4xl7cn&dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7p54s884plyilvu22mjxn/CrazyEddies-UK-A29-Tuncano-Liveries.zip?rlkey=zx7ge27mej3rni1kn3b7n0t8u&st=z173gmv1&dl=0

VNAO T45 UK Fictional Livery Pack - with special thanks to Blinde1 for his excellent Finnish liveries which I used as my template for the UK trainers, it saved me a mountain of work. The UK does not use the T45 so I had to modify things to fit the airframe a bit. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jkuwb54r483u4ij8li7u9/CrazyEddies-UK-T45-Hawk-Liveries.zip?rlkey=3sczca3xa4ok2urxxu32hkj4s&st=3r6nmwlp&dl=0 Still to come - Tucano, Merlin, ED's C47 -- then I will try to create a ships collection, but thats a long way off yet.

Pt2 of a small colelction of liveries for other peoles Mods - due to the large size I had to reduce this by removing some of the F4B liveries. As before I have identified the Mod you need in order to instal these liveries. Where a livery is identified as a Static that means I have folded wings or opend hatches etc as if it were parked up. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qbp0y2dch0tng2fw765o0/CrazyEddies-Misc-Liveries-Pt2.zip?rlkey=qr1dqxgrxg4hv7sw3zh93yxsz&st=at1tesvk&dl=0

My static Vehicles Mod. These are mainly older ED models that you can now place as a static object in the Structures option. Some have livery options in the drop downs. The ones with working radars can be placed as working radars if placed as a Vehicle. I have no idea if the radar function works as such, but it does rotate. Not all ED radars from that period turn and burn, and some that did , did weird things, so no options there. . Some of these vehicles were provided by Hawkeye in a Mod we did years ago, but most are existing ED Models from the modern carriers mod or odd things I have aquired over the years from various free sites. Use these at your own risk - they may conflict with you in game versions but I have tried to overcome that by name changes and other things. 5 March 25 - Updated link to fix HEMTT Liveries issue: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/en1vacsnkgym6wys3acc4/CrazyEddies-Static-Vehicles-MOD-updated-6-3-25.zip?rlkey=w25vxdzpgtjlwvke2lf2c9mq4&st=i9yyzw0s&dl=0

My Static Buildings Mod - These are mainly old, original ED buildings that you can place as eye candy, some have destruct models, many dont. Many have drop down livery options. I may add more drop down livery options at a later date - I have many more stored away. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/53mtf6pi4ux1bqasywlv9/CrazyEddies-Static-Buildings-MOD.zip?rlkey=6dq52f0aqv0291nf95zatpgmw&st=mdwe1go5&dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mkbv6foxhbbxw5mv1kzzt/CrazyEddies-Tornado-Liveries.zip?rlkey=zb61oc3pknhtecrt2325tjafs&st=4doe62fk&dl=0

Have decided to make my own Livweries and Mods thread where I will post everything once DropBox have unlocked my account (dont ask !) It will all be under "CrazyEddies Mods" - find it there, possibly another 24hrs they said !!! (Its not rocket science to me but appears to be impossible for them !!)

Some guidlines for this thread: Please dont post endless thank you's for anything - I'm more than happy to do this stuff for free, it just clutters up the thread and if you are happy then I am happy. If you have an issue or a question you can either pm me or post something here, quoting which Mod it is, I will respond when I can. I'm elderly and in poor health so I spend more time on my comode than I do on my pc ( that's a joke of course, but I do attend horpital an awful lot so be patient, I will get back to you) I will post an image of what the Mod is with a DropBox link below it (when they sort the stuffing thing out !!) - I will keep it simple as I can. Feel free to do anything you want with my stuff, credit me if appropriate.

A small collection of liveries for other peoples Mods - examples as per the image. You will need the original Mod to be able to uise these, they are not unique in themselves. Read the ReadMe for which Mods you will need. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/1i99bfzevs37h724ngmyn/CrazyEddies-Misc-Liveries-Pack..zip?rlkey=so7ymqgqa5oe5ib42degbeypi&st=0u2fcjss&dl=0

I have just finished fixing my screw up, I'll post both livery packs again in a day or two. I have a max file size of 2 gb in my dropbox so I will do everything in small drops, in sequence - The fixed Tormnados' will be next. Glad you like them - I am not really interested in the First Gulf War period so these desert liveries were a bit of a plaything for me.

Sorry about that - I included a slightly incorrect description.lua with each livery that included my working .bmp lines. Over the years the way the game sees texture files has changed several times and I forget that my working files are in bmp format whilst the game now wants to see dds files, so if I leave the bmp lines in and delete the actual bmp textures leaving the dds textures, as it requires - it all goes t*ts up. The only way to fix it is to check each line in each description.lua again, and correct the errors. As I updated what were quite old bmp files that used to work from I forgot to alter the descriptions to match what are now dds textures. Thas going to take some time ... delete the files and I will do it all again.

Here is a link to my dropbox containing 5 sets of liveries for 5 different Mods by other people - its jusr below my dropbox limit so grab this today, I will have to remove the link soon . An example of whats in the file. If I can reduce the Buildings and Vehicle Mods enough I will do the same, a quick link, on here. If I cant then consider it no longer a viable option for me. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7667ccuh79tz96b7kk47k/CrazyEddies-Misc-Liveries-Pack..zip?rlkey=xjo6xo4jckt7kheahpod8bow1&st=y8xlxih0&dl=0

Not always, when we created the Merlin Mod it was over 3GB is size and we uploaded it to the site then, without any issues. Most of my livery packs have been in excess of 1 gb and I used to upload them to the site, also without issues. Admittedly I have not used the site for a few years, hence my wonder at when it all changed. The Eightball Gropund Objects Mod, which I have just hed to download again, from the ED site - is 2.58 GB. So, something has changed.

Doom and Gllom - When did the DCS Site restrict the file sizes to 300mb - thats one livery. There was a time when you could upload a whole MOD. Not sure how I'm going to be bale to do this now - no way am I uploading 1 livery at a time, it will take dozens of uploads. I wont pay for stuff like this - any suggestions on free sites that will let me upload 8gb plus ?

These mods are all huge, far too big for my DropBox account - so I will have to upload them to the main DCS site, which I hate because of its size, its almost impossible to find stuff in there with over 22000 files covering every type of mod possible going right back to the Jurasic !!!. First one later today or tomorrow depending on upload times and hospital appointments.

I'm doing both the buildings and Vehicles Mods - they are huge files so it will take me a few days, be partient. I'm also creating an odds and ends bundle of Liveries I have done for other peoples Mods which might be useful, mainly building related.