thornx Posted November 5, 2020 Posted November 5, 2020 Greetings :-) Does anyone know if inheritance is possible with Liveries? In the DCS Liveries folder, skins are always completely new. The default livery seems to be a fallback. We are currently creating skins for our wings (50+ skins). The difference between the skins is the name on the cockpit. Since each skin requires 60MB+,.. well quite a lot. It would be great to use one parent skin and create "child objects" from it. Is that possible? Is it possible to define a "fallback skin" via the .lua? Or use the textures from other directories?
joey45 Posted November 5, 2020 Posted November 5, 2020 The only way I know of is to put the parts of the livery that will be reused in the Temp Textures folder in the main folder. IF ED can put some code to have one in the saved games folder that would be cool. The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. "Me, the 13th Duke of Wybourne, here on the ED forums at 3 'o' clock in the morning, with my reputation. Are they mad.." https://ko-fi.com/joey45
Megalax Posted November 6, 2020 Posted November 6, 2020 Yes you can do that. You need to add '../foldername/skin_name' to your lua. For example: {"f18c2", 0 ,"../COMMON/F18C_2_DIFF",false}; Where Common is the folder name for all the stuff I don't want to duplicate. Then the 49 other folders just have the file that is customized along with it's lua. 2 Megalax's Livery Studio My Liveries in the User Files I'll stick a maple leaf on anything...
joey45 Posted November 6, 2020 Posted November 6, 2020 Cool, I'll try that. The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. "Me, the 13th Duke of Wybourne, here on the ED forums at 3 'o' clock in the morning, with my reputation. Are they mad.." https://ko-fi.com/joey45
MPalmer Posted November 9, 2020 Posted November 9, 2020 Another way... Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\ Config in the " autoexec.cfg " (add the lines below for each zipped) --add the zip file names (ensuring they are not conflicting with other texture files) usersgpath = os.getenv('USERPROFILE') table.insert(options.graphics.VFSTexturePaths, usersgpath .. "/Saved Games/DCS.openbeta/Textures/VFA-15_FA-18C") table.insert(options.graphics.VFSTexturePaths, usersgpath .. "/Saved Games/DCS.openbeta/Textures/VFA-11_FA-18C") in the Texture Folder of DCS.openbeta add the zipped textures (all-in one) VFA-15_FA-18C.zip VFA-11_FA-18C.zip in the description.lua of each aircraft just end it with a " true " argument. since all the files will inside the zipped file Marvin "Cactus" Palmer DCS:World 2.5(ob) Gigabyte Z390 Designare i7-9700K (4.6GHz), 32Gb RAM (3600MHz), GTX2070, 40" 1080p Monitor, TM Warthog, Saitek Rudder pedals,TM Cougar MFD, and an ipad.
joey45 Posted December 14, 2020 Posted December 14, 2020 (edited) Megalax way is easier. Edited December 14, 2020 by joey45 The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. "Me, the 13th Duke of Wybourne, here on the ED forums at 3 'o' clock in the morning, with my reputation. Are they mad.." https://ko-fi.com/joey45
chrisgrind Posted December 23, 2020 Posted December 23, 2020 thanks. Posting so I can find this in future when I get around to doing liveries. Ryzen 5 3600 | 5700 XT | 32gb | NVME
joey45 Posted December 23, 2020 Posted December 23, 2020 Using it for my Viggen liveries and it works like a charm. The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. "Me, the 13th Duke of Wybourne, here on the ED forums at 3 'o' clock in the morning, with my reputation. Are they mad.." https://ko-fi.com/joey45
chrisgrind Posted December 24, 2020 Posted December 24, 2020 (edited) Can anyone please point me in the right direction to understand how to do just a section (ie. tail, or pilot name as per this thread) in one smaller file? I decided to try and make some skins for my guys, but I can only see the main files (eg. for hornet:F18C_1_DIFF to do the names, F18C_2_DIFF to do the tail, and FPU_8A...to do...not sure yet. haha). So editing those files is working for me, but if I can just do name and tail as above that would be great. Currently it's only the hornet I've done, but looking to do F16 and the files are much bigger. Edited December 24, 2020 by chrisgrind Ryzen 5 3600 | 5700 XT | 32gb | NVME
joey45 Posted December 24, 2020 Posted December 24, 2020 (edited) From my Viggen pack livery = { --Diffuse ----------------------------------- {"LNS_VIG_EXT_FUS_T", 0 ,"../TempTextures/FUSELAGE_T_G",false}; {"LNS_VIG_EXT_FUS_L", 0 ,"FUSELAGE_L_43_G",false}; --unique file {"LNS_VIG_EXT_FUS_R", 0 ,"FUSELAGE_R_43_G",false}; --unique file {"LNS_VIG_EXT_WING_L", 0 ,"../TempTextures/WING_L_G",false}; {"LNS_VIG_EXT_WING_R", 0 ,"../TempTextures/WING_R_G",false}; } name = "RAF 43 Sqn Grey" TempTextures is a folder in the >>Saved Games\DCSVersion\Liveries\AJS37 folder. Edited December 24, 2020 by joey45 1 The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. "Me, the 13th Duke of Wybourne, here on the ED forums at 3 'o' clock in the morning, with my reputation. Are they mad.." https://ko-fi.com/joey45
chrisgrind Posted December 29, 2020 Posted December 29, 2020 thanks. will see what I can do Ryzen 5 3600 | 5700 XT | 32gb | NVME
WHOGX5 Posted April 13, 2021 Posted April 13, 2021 On a related note to this topic: Would it be possible to save even more space by having the base textures set in a common folder as in @Megalax's example and then create some sort of decal layer with transparency for the names for each individual aircraft? 1 -Col. Russ Everts opinion on surface-to-air missiles: "It makes you feel a little better if it's coming for one of your buddies. However, if it's coming for you, it doesn't make you feel too good, but it does rearrange your priorities." DCS Wishlist: MC-130E Combat Talon | F/A-18F Lot 26 | HH-60G Pave Hawk | E-2 Hawkeye/C-2 Greyhound | EA-6A/B Prowler | J-35F2/J Draken | RA-5C Vigilante
Sajarov Posted April 13, 2021 Posted April 13, 2021 That's brilliant. It will save tons of bytes for my squadron liveries.Sent from my Moto G (5S) using Tapatalk :megalol:
Megalax Posted April 14, 2021 Posted April 14, 2021 On 4/13/2021 at 4:35 AM, WHOGX5 said: On a related note to this topic: Would it be possible to save even more space by having the base textures set in a common folder as in @Megalax's example and then create some sort of decal layer with transparency for the names for each individual aircraft? Not that I'm aware of. 1 Megalax's Livery Studio My Liveries in the User Files I'll stick a maple leaf on anything...
Tubesnake Posted July 15, 2021 Posted July 15, 2021 On 4/13/2021 at 9:35 AM, WHOGX5 said: On a related note to this topic: Would it be possible to save even more space by having the base textures set in a common folder as in @Megalax's example and then create some sort of decal layer with transparency for the names for each individual aircraft? That would be a REALLY nice touch!
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