white boxes on most aircraft after most recent update

[Steve_]

game version: 1.5.5.58642

tried clean install/repair/no mods/skins

[predattak]

Yes , i have this on my MiG-15 skins and on SU-27 too.

[SkateZilla]

Please ZIP and Attach your /LOGS FOLDER

[Steve_]

Fixed, Thanks for the reply.

[Blaze]

Yeah we figured out the problem. If a mod you have uses an empty.tga DCS will use it instead of the new empty.png and just draw it as an opaque white texture.

[msalama]

:thumbup:

 

U da maaan Blaze! I have an old cockpit MIP fix mod which had an empty.tga - converted it to PNG & replaced and those ugly white squares are now gone. Thank you Sir!

[davewhite]

Good day Gentleman, I please need help.

 

As per Blaze's advice I have deleted each and every empty.tga file I could find within my entire DCS directory.

 

I even deleted all the liveries and ran a repair to reinstall the stock ones on all planes but the problem persists.

 

All my mods are via GME and I have disabled all of them.

 

Any suggestions?

[Buzzles]

Have you checked your C drive?

C:\Users\[username]\Saved Games\DCS

 

AFAIK, it's possible to set up overrides in there for things like description luas.

[davewhite]

Hi Buzzles, yes I did there are no empty.tga files either.

 

This is beating me.

[kdc]

Just updated 1.5.4. stable to 1.5.5 White textures and boxes over most aircraft, whats going on ?????

Cn I revert to 1.5.4 or can someone help ??

[kdc]

I am having exactly the same problem as the previous screen shots !!!

[kdc]

Sorry but new at this, how do I report this problem as a bug, can it be fixed with a hot fix or further update ???

[Ironhand]

:) This thread is already reporting it...

[kdc]

So do you think ED will acknowledge and patch a fix or do you think we should copy over toms skins from 1.5.5 beta. ?

[ebabil]

i saw same think with some liveries i installed. i thought that only non stock liveries corrupted due to change of external models. but it seems stock ones also have problems

[kdc]

Yes a big problem, hoping someone can help out, don't want to do a reinstall

[Nealius]

For those of you who fixed it, an explanation would be nice. I saved the file as PNG and deleted the original TGA, problem persisted. I deleted the file entirely and just got the typical green missing texture texture.

[Ironhand]

This is what I did to fix the 3rd party skin issue for myself:

 

First, it'd probably be best to back up your skins. After that, go into the skin's folder and open "description.lua" with something like NotePad ++. Change any reference to "empty.tga" to "empty.png".

 

The quickest way to do this in NotePad ++ is to open description.lua, press the CTRL-F key combo on your keyboard and click on the "Replace" tab in the window that opens. Type .tga into the "Find what:" box and .png into the "Replace with:" box. Click the "Replace All" button. Save. Repeat as necessary for the rest of your malfunctioning skins.

 

I also found that some skins were missing a line and wouldn't work until I added it. The line above "countries =" should be "name =". If it doesn't exist, try adding it. So if the skin's folder name is something like: 641GvIAP-3, that line would read: name = "641GvIAP-3" with the name in parentheses and a space on either side of the equal sign.

 

This worked for me but use at your own risk.

Edited November 12, 2016 by Ironhand

[kdc]

But it's now the issue with stock skins not showing correctly, white textures and white boxes everywhere ((((((((

[Nealius]

My Description.lua files don't have an "empty.tga" but they do have an "empty" with no file extension listed.

[kdc]

Yep agree with that, don't know what to do to resolve issues with pretty much all aircraft

[Ironhand]

My Description.lua files don't have an "empty.tga" but they do have an "empty" with no file extension listed.

That would be a problem, I think. Try replacing "empty" with empty.png" and see what happens. This is a text file, so the suffix isn't going to be hidden like it might be in a file name depending on your Windows settings.

 

I'm using the Openbeta version of 1.5.5 rather than the Release. So I can't check myself. But if you're only seeing "empty" rather than "empty.png" in the LUA, that's a problem I would think. If you can, attach a sample LUA and I'll check it. You might have to ZIP it in order to upload it. Not sure what the Upland Manager will allow you to upload.

Edited November 12, 2016 by Ironhand

[kdc]

The text empty without tga or ping occurs in pretty much each stock aircraft other than the ones we have already modified from tom

[Nealius]

I'm on 1.5.5 OB.

 

I tried replacing "empty" with "empty.tga" and "empty.png" with no result. Instead of a white box I got the standard DCS missing texture texture (that green digital thing).

 

What's bizarre is that all of the livery description.lua files have "empty" with no file extension, with the majority of them all being perfectly OK. Only a few liveries have these white boxes, all correlating to bort numbers that would be overlayed over the texture. All of these liveries also have an "empty.tga" file in their folders, while the liveries that do not have this problem do NOT have an "empty" file at all. Deleting the file entirely also does not solve the issue.

 

There's no consistency as to why some liveries have these boxes and others don't.

[kdc]

Its a real problem, almost thinking I should do a clean install without any mods, but I think the same will happen again. Ed needs to help us out here )))))