custom liveries folder names

[peachpossum]

Hello,

 

I run into this problem almost every time I add custom skins to a new a/c - what is the proper name for the a/c folder to place in ~Saved Gamed\DCS World\Liveries ? I've tried using the same names found in my program folder - ~DCS World\Mods\aircraft\ but this is not a surefire method to get the correct name that DCS recognizes.

 

The latest names that are perplexing me - the Mi-8MTV2 and the SA-342 - folders with these names placed in my ~Saved Games\DCS World\Liveries\ folder are not working.

 

How do I find a consistent way to figure out the proper names for the a/c Liveries folders?

[Rudel_chw]

19 minutes ago, peachpossum said:

How do I find a consistent way to figure out the proper names for the a/c Liveries folders?

 

All DCS aircrafts are stored on the path \Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\Mods\aircraft\ ... one subfolder for each aircraft.

 

If you now examine the folder of the Mi-8 (Mi-8MTV2), there should be a file named entry.lua ... every aircraft has one of these files.

 

Open the Mi-8 entry.lua with Notepad++ (or any other good text editor, Windows Notepad is not good), and you will see something like this:

 

 

The "type" variable, in the logbook section, tells you the name that the liveries folder must have. Thus for the Mi-8 the Liveries should be saved at \Saved Games\DCS.OpenBeta\Liveries\Mi-8mt\

 

For the Sa-342 you will need 4 folders, one for each variant:

 

 

Best regards,

 

Eduardo

 

 

[toutenglisse]

Yes. And you'll also find the right folder name in "coremods" folder. For exemple for F18c :

C:\DCS World OpenBeta\CoreMods\aircraft\FA-18C\Liveries\FA-18C_hornet

or Spitfire :

C:\DCS World OpenBeta\CoreMods\WWII Units\SpitfireLFMkIX\Liveries\SpitfireLFMkIX

and

C:\DCS World OpenBeta\CoreMods\WWII Units\SpitfireLFMkIX\Liveries\SpitfireLFMkIXCW

[peachpossum]

Excellent! - I really appreciate the feedback and help Rudel_chw and toutenglisse.

[wowbagger]

On 12/22/2020 at 10:11 AM, Rudel_chw said:

 

All DCS aircrafts are stored on the path \Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\Mods\aircraft\ ... one subfolder for each aircraft...

 

 Thanks man. You are one of the most helpful people on this board. I always enjoy reading your contributions.

 

Cheers

[Slippa]

On 12/22/2020 at 6:11 PM, Rudel_chw said:

All DCS aircrafts are stored on the path \Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\Mods\aircraft\ ... one subfolder for each aircraft.

Cheers for this Rudel, three years later it's just as helpful when it's what I was looking for.