Looking for test skin tool

[assafm25]

Any one know for tool to check change i made on my dds skin file except of entering the sim?

[cichlidfan]

DCS World\bin\Modelviewer.exe

[assafm25]

can u explain me how to use it?

 

wuch file i need to open?

the dds?

[Home Fries]

If you use the liveries folder in your Saved Games\DCS folder, and/or you us a custom texture folder, then open autoexec.lua in DCS World\Config\ModelViewer and add the following lines:

mount_vfs_liveries_path("C:/Users/<username>/Saved Games/DCS/Liveries")
mount_vfs_texture_path("C:/Users/<username>/Saved Games/DCS/Textures")

Replacing <username> with your windows login folder name and adjusting your texture path as required. Note that you must use forward slashes, so you cannot just copy and paste the path from Windows Explorer.

 

Optional:

You can also use autoexec.lua to choose which model and skin comes up by default. This is useful if you're working on one particular skin. For example, when I was working on my HML-167 "Santa 1" skin I chose the ab-212 model (AB-212 is the civilian designation for the UH-1 Huey, so showing you this is why I used it as an example) and for the skin entry I chose the "uh-1h" livery folder and the Santa 1 folder name. Here are those entries:

LoadModel("Bazar/World/Shapes/ab-212.edm")
LoadLivery("uh-1h","USMC HML-167 Santa 1 1969")

Then just run ModelViewer.exe and have at it! If you want to look at other liveries or models you may want to select the View -> Dialogs menu and enable "Show Folder Browser" and "Show Liveries Dialog."

Edited April 26, 2014 by Home Fries

[assafm25]

tihs is the conten tof my autoexec.lua file

 

--autoexecute sample for model viewer

--mount_vfs_liveries_path("Mods/aircrafts/Wunderluft/Liveries")

--mount_vfs_texture_path("Mods/aircrafts/Wunderluft/Textures/base_zip_package")

 

--LoadModel("Bazar/World/Shapes/A-10.edm")

--LoadLivery("A-10C","184th FS Arkansas ANG, Fort Smith (FS)")

--SetArgument(0,1)

--SetArgument(3,1)

--SetArgument(5,0.75)

 

local FC_textures = "Mods/aircrafts/Flaming Cliffs/Cockpit/Resources/Model/Textures/"

 

 

mount_vfs_texture_path("Bazar/World/textures/CockpitsHDTextures")

mount_vfs_texture_path(FC_textures.."SU-27S-CPT-TEXTURES")

mount_vfs_texture_path(FC_textures.."A-10A-CPT-TEXTURES")

mount_vfs_texture_path(FC_textures.."SU-25-CPT-TEXTURES")

mount_vfs_texture_path(FC_textures.."F-15C-CPT-TEXTURES")

--LoadModel("Mods/aircrafts/Flaming Cliffs/Cockpit/Resources/Model/Shape/Cockpit_SU-27.edm")

 

 

i see its difrent the nwhat u tell me

i use the liveries for the dcs world\bazar\

 

my l

[Home Fries]

Both the liveries path and the other texture path (i.e. "Wunderluft" are preceeded by "--", remming out the line (so it doesn't actually do anything). Same with the LoadModel and LoadLivery commands. Everything else is default.

 

If you use DCS World/bazar, you don't need to add any paths to the autoexec.lua. What you have now should be sufficient. Just run ModelViewer.exe and as long as you don't get orange textures you should be fine.

[assafm25]

when i open the modelviewr.exe from the bin folder its say some error that he can locat file

 

its the some modelviewer from EDM thrade?

[Home Fries]

The one from the EDM thread is a modelviewer that can be run independent of DCS, but you won't have the default textures ready.

 

There's also a modelviewer.exe that comes with your DCS World install and it is located at DCS World\bin\Modelviewer.exe. Use that one.

[joey45]

make a .bat file with

bin\ModelViewer.exe

in your root directory.

[assafm25]

when i tray open this : DCS World\bin\Modelviewer.exe

 

i got some ddl error

[joey45]

The stand alone viewer is bugged.

[assafm25]

than i must use the one i download from the EDM thraed?

 

any place i can found explantion about how to bring my skin or DDS into it?

[joey45]

The one in the that's the one that's bugged...

The one that comes with the game does not work..

 

Open notepad++

Copy and paste what I wrote in my last thread

Save as Modelviewer.bat

Move to game folder.

[GeorgeLKMT]

Do what joey said, make a bat file and ModelViewer will open without any dll error.

 

Then:

 

1. Open your desired model (File -> Load model...). They're in \DCS World\Bazar\World\Shapes\ folder.

2. Go View -> Dialogs -> Show liveries dialog and select the model and the livery you need. Done. Of course, those textures must be installed in your DCS first.

 

If you make some changes to your textures, select View -> Reload model and select the livery in the liveries window again.

[assafm25]

i recive this error

 

[joey45]

Where are you saving the file?

[assafm25]

C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World