C-17a Skin 62nd Airlift Wing

[uscstaylor]

Thanks Vamp your a life saver..I had a headache after a couple of hours

Edited May 8, 2017 by uscstaylor

[uscstaylor]

Guys I finished the 5 skin pack of the C-17A and will post tonight in a new thread. Thanks for all the help in getting issues resolved.

[NRG-Vampire]

...will post tonight in a new thread...

:thumbsup:

[uscstaylor]

OK Guys I cant post the pack until I get this solved. I have all the other skins 5 in all ready but I can seem to get rid of the black square where the flag once was. As soon as I can find a solution Ill post...If anyone has any ideas Id love to hear it...Thanks

 

 

 

[Sierra99]

Try the same as for the F-16? Create a patch for that spot?

 

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Not sure how this works with the Heavy AI aircraft...)

[crazyeddie]

Try this, might work

 

 

livery = {

 

{"texture C17-OKRAS.bmp f2 g0",0,"C17-OKRAS-whatever.bmp",false};

 

{"texture nomera.tga f2 g0",0,"empty.tga",true};

{"texture USAF.tga f2 g0",0,"empty.tga",true};

 

}

 

name = "C17 whatever"

 

countries = {"USA","UK"}

Edited May 16, 2017 by crazyeddie

[uscstaylor]

OK, Will give it a try Eddie, thanks buddy!

 

 

Update this is what I have from Vamp!

 

 

 

livery = {

{"texture c130-fon+flag.bmp f2 g0",0,"empty.tga",true};

{"texture C17-OKRAS.bmp f2 g0",0,"C17-OKRAS-RAF.bmp",false};

{"texture C17-OKRAS.bmp f2050 g0",0,"C17-OKRAS-RAF.bmp",false};

{"texture nomera.tga f2 g0",0,"empty.tga",true};

{"texture USAF.tga f2 g0",0,"empty.tga",true};

}

 

 

I did have the flag there but after using this description in the LAU file it now shows the black square..Not sure how to get rid of it....Any other ideas....I could send you what I have if needed.

Edited May 16, 2017 by uscstaylor

[crazyeddie]

This gets a bit trickey !!

 

Checking my temp texturers folder all I have in there is an empty.png file, no empty.tga, but my liveries file has empty.tga in it as above, and the flag is gone leaving just the aircraft skin colour. You can just see the shape of the texture file, so its reading a texture file of some kind.

 

So, try this, pull out a copy of the file c130-fon+flag.bmp and plate over the flag bit in the same base colour as the C17 airframe of it then drop that in your temp textures folder, flag gone.

 

That's what I appear to have done, the only drawback being it removes that texture from the US C130 skins as well, but in that case I painted the flags back on where I wanted to and used empty in the description where I wanted the flag removed for the C130.

 

The empty tga and png files do not appear to work on the C17, might be something to do with the age of the model, its original and very ancient after all.

 

You could also try putting an empty.tga and an empty.png file in the temp textures folder and try both of those in the desc.lua. As the game evolved the skinning methods got more varied, some things work in one update but not the next, then they would stop working, then they would work again, I gave up trying to keep up. Sometimes they work with .png added to the desc lua, sometimes you have to drop the .png or the .tga bit, you end up pulling your hair out trying to figure out whats working in this update in this version, and all three versions of the game can be different.

 

Otherwise its easy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Edited May 17, 2017 by crazyeddie

[uscstaylor]

OK I'll look for the file "c130-fon+flag.bmp" and make the grey color of the airframe then place it in the livery folder and in the description file I'll name it to false so it reads from the folder. Let see if that works...

 

 

If that don't wotk then Ill try putting an empty.tga and an empty.png file in the temp textures folder. Cross your finger Big ED...

Edited May 17, 2017 by uscstaylor

[uscstaylor]

Well I was able to follow Vamp's info and did get it working but there's one very small black line on the RAF tail that I cant seem to get. Its not part of the c130 flag bmp. I will release the pack tonight and if anyone can find a solution to it then please have at it...Enjoy

 

https://www.mediafire.com/?1uq3028izkgj9qt

 

Edited May 19, 2017 by uscstaylor

[Gizmondo]

thanks man!

[Ghostmaker]

Hi all, i cant view the skins on the images, is the a skin pack for the really bad DCS C17? To make it look better than a lego looking plane

[ggrewe]

3 hours ago, Ghostmaker said:

Hi all, i cant view the skins on the images, is the a skin pack for the really bad DCS C17? To make it look better than a lego looking plane

Huge respect to the livery artists making the older models look much better

There is also a great mod made by fercho 1-1 for the C-17 (even flyable)

Link to Mod:

C17-Globemaster III by fercho 1-1 v.2.8

Link to Liveries:

C-17 Skin Pack 1.0

RCAF C-17 Globmaster III liveries

[Ghostmaker]

18 minutes ago, ggrewe said:

Huge respect to the livery artists making the older models look much better

There is also a great mod made by fercho 1-1 for the C-17 (even flyable)

Link to Mod:

C17-Globemaster III by fercho 1-1 v.2.8

Link to Liveries:

C-17 Skin Pack 1.0

RCAF C-17 Globmaster III liveries

Thank you for this ill have a look at this. Obviously i have the DCS C17a on my pc. Where do i install these to? Mods / Aircraft? For main globemaster?

 

Then for mods?

[ggrewe]

Hi

Drop the unzipped mod folder C17_Globemaster_III_(V.2.8) into your Saved Games Folder (not the main DCS game)

Should be on your C Drive, normally C:/ ..../ Saved Games/ DCS/

Under DCS folder, will have a sub folder "Mods" & under that "Aircraft" folder, drop the unzipped folder in there.

So full string would be:

C:/ ..../ Saved Games/ DCS/ Mods/ Aircraft/ C17_Globemaster_III_(V.2.8)

The downloaded liveries can be dropped into the C17_Globemaster_III_(V.2.8) / Liveries / C17_Globemaster_III folder.

Suggest using a mod loader like OvGME or JSGME, if you are going to use multiple mods

Hope that helps

[Ghostmaker]

i have a few mods saved, how does OvGME or JSGME Work?

[Ghostmaker]

just downloaded the

C17-Globemaster III by fercho 1-1 v.2.8 

however in downloads it only shows - Comm? and in this zip it says Comm Lua, is this correct?

 

[ggrewe]

Hi Ghostmaker

We've probably hijacked this thread enough

Best to PM (Personal Mail) me going forward if you have any more specific questions.

Just to answer the above:

-Link to the C17-Globemaster mod above is the ED website User Files section, which has a size limit for mods (+/-300MB?) so if you read the link, the Modder has an external download link C17_Globemaster_III_(V.2.8).zip (448M) So use this link to go to direct download.

Links to some Mod Loaders / Guides

-JSGME, pretty old, but relatively simple. The Ultimate DCS World JSGME Guide - If you use mods, you need this.

-OvGME, now disc., but I still use. Using OvGME to apply & manage Mods

-OMM, latest, but I haven't tried yet. Open Mod Manager

Search function is also quite good on this site, if you want to get more info.

Hope that helps