Flogger23m Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 Having a bit of an issue working on a skin. Whenever I edit a .lau file using Notepad, the skin I am working on will no longer show up in the ED Model Viewer or in game. Essentially, the last skin that has been viewed will appear in its place. I get no error when saving the .lau file. What I can do is exit the texture template files and replace a current skin. I can drop my new .DDS files in place of old ones and I can view the changes that way. I can create a new folder, copy an existing description.lau file and I can view it in the ED Model Viewer fine. But as doing this will not change the in game display name, you can not view it in game. Typically I will edit the name here: } name = "Insert In Game Name" And remove bort numbers if needed. But again, as soon as I make a small change, merely changing the name = part, the skin will simply not show up. This means I can not add the new skin to the game, and only replace one of the default ones. I have made a number of skins before and never had this issue. I am running Windows 10 Pro 64bit, and I have recently installed the Anniversary Update. I am not sure if this update has changed anything that might be causing this problem. DCS is installed in Program Files x86. The last time I made skins was for the F-5E skin contest a few months back and I never had this issue. The only thing I can think of is an update to DCS or the Win 10 Anniversary Update. If anyone has any pointers to solving this issue I would appreciate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uboats Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 check the encoding of the lua, make sure it's utf-8 [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] My DCS Mods, Skins, Utilities and Scripts | Windows 10 | i7-4790K | GTX 980Ti Hybrid | 32GB RAM | 3TB SSD | | TM Warthog Stick | CH Pro Throttle + Pro Pedal | TIR5 Pro | TM MFD Cougar | Gun Camera: PrtScn | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nero.ger Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 also ,use something like Notepad++ instead of the windows editor 'controlling' the Ka50 feels like a discussion with the Autopilot and trim system about the flight direction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flogger23m Posted February 10, 2017 Author Share Posted February 10, 2017 I will re-download Notepad++ when I get a chance. I decided to give Wordpad a try, and that seems to have worked. I assume Anniversary Update changed something with Notepad, as it reset most of my settings. Thanks for the help everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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