Megalax

Its not loaded as spec. Its loaded as a roughmet. Here's an ED secret for you...If the main texture is renamed to have the _roughmet at the end of the file name, it defaults to it and the game will load it as a roughmet, not a spec. Once you have maintexture_roughmet.dds, the game ignores everything else, even if there are lines for spec in the lua.

Its a roughmet, trust me. Put this in bazar/textures/avionicscommon where the default textures for this model go. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xdftYaQB4D8-eXMsOul_zD7dgdHAibWc/view?usp=sharing

Fixed the roughmets.

Please explain.

I wanted to give this a try, and I figure that there would be a long wait for the shaders to recompile, but how much of a wait are we talking here? I set this up and it just hangs there forever. When I check task manager it says that DCS is not responding, so I end up killing it. Should keep waiting longer?

3rd submission: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3322127/ 6-17 Cav G Troop Liveries to include Bad English, Bad Larry, Ban Hammer, Bigg Thirty, El Cuco, El Patron, Meat Tornado, No Diggity, Rico Suave, Snake Eye, Tyrone Biggums, and Wanda. Thats 12 in total for this squadron/troop.

I have a question for you @BIGNEWY: With the unavoidable increase in size of liveries for DCS from now in to the future, is there a plan to increase the file size limit to the User Files section? I think a lot of us have started to resort to offsite hosting now because its near impossible to get a full AH-64 livery under 300mb. By a full livery obviously I mean anything with custom roughmets, pilots, and a normal map here and there.

Don't forget the alpha channels on the Bottom1/2 and Balka1 files, otherwise the screen meshes come out opaque.

Second submission: Pack of 6 skins including Athena, Mjolnir, Ragnarok, Tyr, Odin and Loki. File link : https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3321970/ Based on IRL Liveries:

RCAF Trio https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3321756/ https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3321757/ https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3321861/

You're also not ED team. BN did clarify in his second post that they want real world like liveries. To me that means no anime, neon, or beans.

This is because all of the bort number entries are activated in the default livery's description.lua : So the description.lua just needs some editing to match the rest of the USN skins. This is not present in the VFA-37 livery's description.lua, only for the one labeled "default livery.zip"

Courtesy of Tricky https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_A0MeZsDfS1XOk-qE6tpmSlwl5xXBv48/view?usp=sharing

All tail logos face forward on CF-18s.

You can't resize or reposition the Borts.

Probably something to do with carrier landings.

Just use fa-18c.edm from the shapes folder, not one of the LOD .edms. Thats why the pilots helmet is all boxy shaped.

Looks like you're using one of the LOD shapes in MV.

I just edited the link on the first page. Alternatively, you can search by username on the general DCS User Files page.

They are templates for the Green (Roughness) and Blue (Metallic) channels of the Roughmet texture. Basically they are there to help you make a proper roughmet for your livery. If you are using Gimp I suggest you learn how to compose and decompose images by channel, and that will get you started.

You can move the saved games to any drive.

That is the correct path. You are selecting the correct model and livery database in MV, right? Not any of the first ones here, but the one after the F-86F entry.

Model viewer doesn't look for liveries in Saved games, it looks for them in Coremods. There is a lua script for getting MV to pick up the liveries from saved games, but I could never get it to work. Sure its here on the forum somewhere.

113 didn't have the CV name painted on the side when they were on the Reagan. I did a 4K VFA-113 skin earlier this year based off that image and the default ED one.