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I'd like to introduce Livery Link, a desktop application for managing custom liveries. I've been working on this for a few months now and although it's still incomplete, there are a few people using it and I think it's in a state where I'm happy to share with the wider community. The primary function is to make it trivial to install liveries (see the video below). In addition to this, it can also automatically share liveries with other people. So far, I loved building this, I really hope you enjoy it! Download Visit https://github.com/Camble/LiveryLink for more information click the download button for the latest version. See it in use: Key Features Paste in a User Files URL to automatically install a livery The Livery Browser displays your installed liveries with nice thumbnails Plenty of options in case you don't like a specific feature Automatically share and download liveries (with other users of Livery Link) Installation No installation required, extract anywhere you like and run. FAQs Q. How does Livery Sharing work? A. In order to share liveries to other players, they must also have Livery Link, and the server you are flying on must be running Livery Link Server. Q. How do I enable livery sharing? A. Simply install liveries with Livery Link, and use those liveries on a Livery Link enabled server. Q. How do I send liveries to people? A. If you're sporting a livery that was installed with Livery Link, it will be shared automatically as soon as you take off. Q. How do I receive other people's liveries? A. If connected to a Livery Link server and a player shares a custom livery, Livery Link will download and install it automatically. Q. What if I don't want to share liveries? A. This feature can be disabled, or tweaked to your liking. -
Hello all, Mgone here. As some of you know from previous posts, I love DCS, its international users. I also have a lot of time on my hands . . . I got tired of making configuration changes by having to Alt-Tab or endlessly opening desktop folders to find my applications icons etc. I decided to create what I call "DCS Flight Panel. I have been working on this for a while now and have had to wait until there was some commonality, amongst developers. For instance, DCS adopting OpenXR. Renaming dlls and the like got old. I still change dxgi.dll to enable/disable reshade in the local file for I never got reshade-global to work in DCS. Here I am completely self-contained. I can open the Panel and never once go to the desktop to launch programs. Here, I have access to all installed plugins, mods, configuration panels and basic system functions. I very much enjoy the "DCS Update Utility" however, once you've become familiar with all the .lua configuration files, I find it easier to just open the files and edit them manually rather than relying on the other utilities to make changes. Often the changes have give you unexpected results. What I like most is this . . . I never have to Alt-Tab or close DCS to check something or make changes as long as they do not interfere with the current running DCS. The panel right now reflects my installation and configuration only. I would like to expand on this to cover other's hardware and applications so that I might offer it to other DCS users. One issue that I am working on is a system-wide scan of installed programs to create the variables for pointing to individual user installation folders. Once I figure this out, I will only have to pass the variable rather than hard-encode the program's installation folder. You can get an idea of the types of items included . . . I've even added the ability to use my screenshots. I am looking for a little feedback . . . What do you think?
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Hello everyone, Just wanted to present the "Autonomous Ground Force Tasking" project to the forum. Project goal Download here Getting started Visit project repository https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqv3Mj-Ss58 Any feedback is highly appreciated. If you have any questions or want to see more usage examples, feel free to ask. (WARNING: The code is under development. The various links, code snippets, and discussions found throughout this thread will be subject to change. The project repository, the examples found there and this (initial) post will be kept up-to-date.)
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I use the custom presets in the DCS system options menu to toggle between my preferred 2D and VR presets. I would love if DCS itself could be launched with a flag (e.g. "--custom2-preset") to apply the desired profile from a Windows shortcut. That way, I could combine it with the "--force-enable-VR" flag to create direct-launching DCS 2D and DCS VR shortcuts which pre-load the relevant settings profiles. No mess, no fuss. There are a handful of extremely useful DCS launcher utilities already in existence which variously get close to this. I've tried a few and found them chockful of features, but haven't found that any provides a way to do exactly what I want (at least, not that I've figured out!). So I knocked up my own, which works exactly like I wanted, and figured I'd share it. Usage: dcs_launch.exe [OPTIONS] [ARGS] Arguments: ARGS Arguments to pass to DCS executable [optional] Options: --dcs-bin PATH [required] --dcs-saved-games PATH [required] --profile-id INTEGER [required] --help Show this message and exit. Simply create a shortcut to this launcher, and set the --dcs-bin, --dcs-saved-games, and --profile-id options in the shortcut target. You can add any additional arguments as well, which will be forwarded on to DCS. The launcher will pick up the custom profile options in your saved games folder and integrate them into the options.lua file before launching DCS. By allowing you to specify the DCS bin directory, you can create separate shortcuts to ST and MT as you wish. Example shortcut target: C:\Users\<username>\Downloads\dcs_launch.exe --dcs-bin "C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\bin-mt" --dcs-saved-games "C:\Users\<username>\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta" --profile-id 2 --force_enable_VR Why is it 8-freaking-MB!? Because I knocked it up in Python, and so the .exe includes an entire Python DLL (I used Nuitka for packaging). I'll include the extremely short Python script for anyone who wants a look-see. Just - please - if you want to try this SAVE A COPY OF YOUR OPTIONS.LUA FIRST. This script rewrites the file, and while it hasn't been a problem in my extremely limited 5-minutes of testing, consider yourself warned. dcs_launch.exe dcs_launch.py
