crazyeddie

The Royal Navy used to paint their civilian owned (P&O) Trooping Ships white, for the passage to India and the Far East mainly. NOW, see the LST above, when they were first built they were run by P and O and they were painted white with a yellow band, P and O's colours. I recollect seeing them in White in The Persian Gulf in the early 1960's. The RFA took them over and grey they became. I still remember the old white and yellow band Troop ships - Empire Fowey, Empire Clyde. They were bloody horrible things to passage in !! Trust me on that !!

Your doing something wrong Andy - just tried the Sea King on Ocean and it works fine.

Sorry, got my HMS Ocean's mixed up, it was the one by T PAP (I think !) that I ditched because of texture issues - here are the 2 Brazilian conversions I did, 1 x Ocean and all the Brit Round Table Class LST's plus the late Aussia conversion. There is a lot of pixilation on all of them but from a distance they look okay. Ocean is as converted for Brazil, so the CIWS is missing but I retextured the decks to get back to the Brit layout and did a few different decks for the LST's. Link deleted after some minor changes made>

I ditched most of that Mod a long time ago. I asked him to fix the texture issues with the landing craft and the pixilation on the LST's but he never did so I binned it. I will see what I can find in my archive, back drekly as they say here in darkets Devon.

All my 12+ liveries were hand made using PhotoImpact10 - I didnt have a template or a wireframe to work from when I did them, there were nothing available apart from the basic Belgian camo textures when I did mine. No point in explaining to you how I did mine, its would take pages on pages.

That Chilean texture is the default texture which is in the main texture folder. so: Do you have a liveries folder in the mod itself and are there different coumntry liveries in it ? Is there another folder in the Liveries folder with the name LPD_Foundre - inside that should be all the different country liveries Is the path to the liveries folder shown correctly in the entry.lua (mount_vfs_liveries_path (current_mod_path .."/Liveries") Have you removed the country line from the LPD_Foundre.lua. (That is in the datatbase folder/Navy folder) Within each coutry folder in the liveries there should be a description.lua that contains these lines: livery = { {"Material #64", DIFFUSE , "Siroco_Bahia", false}; {"Material #49", DIFFUSE , "Brazilian_flag", false}; } These are the lines for the Brazilian version/livery, each country is different. If you have done all this and everything is correct then it should work perfectly, if it does not then I'm afraid I have no idea what else could be wrong with youyr instal.

If you place a static ship on a map the default texture (the one in the main mod textures folder) is what you will see. There is no facility to change a static ship livery in DCS, It has been asked for, MANY TIMES, but its never been implemented. if you want to see some other livery then place it as a moving ship with a very short waypoint just in front of the bow, and use the livery you want from the drop downs. Thats the livery you will see and thats the only way you can do it. Go to the "shipname". lua file and find this line - stick 2 bars in front of it just like this and now it will appear under every country. -- GT.Countries = { "SPN",};

The Ice Breaker looks very interesting Admiral - let me have a look at the textures when you start doing her and I'll help sort that out if you need help with it.

I had a good look around to see if there were any 3dmax models available but there is nothing. There are a few Ice Breakers and Survey ships, of varying quality, but nothing that would double as a Brit Ice Patrol Ship as such. The top image Endurance was lucky to survive a serious internal flooding and was not a very popular ship to serve in, the repair costs were prohibitive so she was scrapped. I dont know much about the middle one HMS Protector A173, only ever saw her a couple of times in Plymouth. The 1967 version shown in Tengah's image was VERY popular ship, getting a draft in her was like winning the lottery !!!. The name Protector and Endurance have been used over many years for whatever ship we had in service down south in the ice, doubling up as the Falkland Islands Patrol ship. They were used to support The British Arctic Survey sites on the various dependecy islands as well.

HMS Endurance - A171 - Ice Patrol Ship. Affectionately known as "The Red Plum" !! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Endurance_(A171) HMS Protector - A173 - Which has replaced HMS Endurance There was a model of either HMS Intrepid or Fearless on one fo the free sites but from memory it was VERY basic quality and not worth a waste of anyone's time. I seem to remember when the original details of the SA map were released there was a model of one of them in that package, but it appears to have never been made.

Interesting idea, I will try this out. What ice patrol ship is that ? (I dont mean the Leanders)

Change all the textures to dds format and your problems will be solved.

Something else I should have added to the post above. I have found that if I use any Mod that is made up with mostly jpg or png format textures I have problems with stuttering, crashes and freezes. I dont know if those issues arise because of the file format or because my graphics card has an issue with it, it could be either and I honestly have no idea which. SO - I change all of the textures in a mod to dds format, which is VERY time consuming when you look at the size of some Mods, but that appears to help with that issue. Most of the in game ED tetxures are dds format, so the game is clearly designed to work best with that format. Others may not agree of course - its very much horses for courses.

I have never reported this as an issue simply because at first I thought it was something that was only affecting me and I assumed it might an issue with my PC and Nvidia Grphics Card. The first time it appeared as an issue for me was with the MAM A400 mod that suddenly went textures weird, I spoke to a few other guys and between us we came up with a solution - pretty much what you are finding now - redo the dds texture files. Since then I have seen several posts that appear to address similar issues, with different mods. I have never noted or seen an ED response to any of the issues mentioned. It does not make any sense to me - it wasnt an issue before 2.8 so why now, what has changed in the core game. - I dont know. As I said, I cant think of any reason why this should be happening, and I long gave up reporting issues involving non ED Mods to ED - thier solutuion is always the same - remove the Mod. I get on and try to fix it myself.

I agree with Rango's findings. This issue isnt just confined to Aircraft, its affecting vehicles, buildings and any other mod you have in your Saved Games folder. I have been getting really annoying game crashes and freezes ever since 2.7 and each time I trace it to a mod where I have yet to redo the dds textures. I have a big Saved Games Folder so Its a never ending issue for me. On some maps it appears to be more common than others - Caucasus seems to be the least affected. I dont know why its happening but I wish ED would sort it out.

If anyone is looking for inspiration, something a little different - look no further. I have not got one - but I would love one - the livery opportunities are endless with several military options.

I changed all the jpg texture files for the model and the cockpit to dds format, using paint.net, but its still happening. I tried saving them TO BC3 Linear DXT5. I had solved all my MAM Liveries a long time ago using this same method, so I dont think this is the solution. Thank you for the suggestion though, it was worth a try. My mistake here - getting threads mixed up. The MAM issue above isnt a problem for me, I fixed that ages ago. I'm still having ussues with the drop downs in the ME for the A29B. Sorry.

Does anyone else have this issue with the A29 showing up in the Mission Editor. I select the A29 and place it on the map - I then open the livery window to select the appropriate livery that I want. The window in the ME is empty, no image of the aircraft at all, the weapon loadouts shown in the lines below the image are correct. If I change the aircraft to another, say the A10, the changes happens correctly and the image is the A10 with the A10 loadouts etc etc. If I then select the A29 again I get the A10 in the image window ... with the A29 loadouts below that AND the A29 weapons hung randomly under the A10. Back to square one so to speak !!! The only way I can get the A29 to show up in the image window is to close the mission completely and restart it again, then the A29 image shows up in the image window. It only happens with the A29. If anyone knws what is causing this and how to cure it I would love to know.

Have you ever sat in an A4 pit, its TINY, I'm sure all the pilots were dwarfs !!!! I'm 6ft 1in and I could not get into it, at all. Im joking of course but taller guys must have had a rough time flying that aircraft.

I served in Hermes in the 1970's when she was an LPH but I heard that they did try landing an F4 on her at some point before she was converted to her LPH role. I dont think it was a success, for pretty much the same reasons that you are finding. AND, they had to crane it off, no way could her cats launch that bird. Bungo was making an Ark Royal R09 but there has been nothing from him on that score for over a year, so thats not in the pipeline any more sadly. The best alternative I have is a conversion of the Forrestal deck to a Brit look a like, which works fine of course being a CVN.

Here is a small collection of UK/USN F4 skins I collected from various different places last year, I cant recollect where exactly. They are all in .bmp format so you will have to create the liveries for yourself. None of them were created by me, I just gathered them up for my own game and I have probably done some small bits of work on them so if I have stepped on anyones toes inadvertently I apologise in advance. You will find an 892 Sqn Livery from HMS Ark Royal R09 in there, HMS Hermes never carried F4's. Credit for these belongs with the original authors. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/am8lcg6wri8na87lxfn19/UK-F4.zip?rlkey=m8vmdvh54lijule3v17fowcjj&dl=0

Ah, sorry about that, my fat fingers !!! Link updated.

CrazyEddie here - Its been my practice to pass skins on to the mod maker for inclusion, if they wish, no obligation. If they decide not to ... I dont ask. Anything I do is free to everyone, to do with as they wish, give me credit where its due and I'm happy. This way I avoid conflict with the mod makers. SO - Here are the Tanker and single Tug skins I did for the M92 mod, I use them in a completely different way so I dont know if they still work, but feel free to adjust or modify them to make them work as you wish. I will remove this link in a day or two, so grab them whilst you can. Link updated to correct spelling error. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/h65gszc5jph5kzlif8h7y/CrazyEddies-M92-Tanker-and-Tug.zip?rlkey=cur0u9klmzd8pm63qzwgp9ck4&dl=0

Can you explain that more, I'm not sure what you mean ?

I'm still getting the exact same issues as well, prop aircraft dipping into the flight deck on the cat, tail wobble, tail up in the air, engine up to full power and stuck.