Transfer livery from the A to the G?

[AvgeekJoe]

Hey, how do I transfer liveries - say Polish liveries - from the A to the G, especially as the Poles got a lot of G transfers and I want the G cockpit?

Also maybe from the A to the C/S variant please?

 

Thanks as I tried last night and couldn't figure it out.

[SharkWizard]

Haven't done this myself, but it should probably be enough to copy from the MiG-29A folder to the MiG-29G folder inside the liveries folder. 

[AeriaGloria]

A to G I can see. But S has a couple different 3D model differences, namely the different spine, where the livery won’t work without changes

[Rudel_chw]

1 hour ago, AeriaGloria said:

A to G I can see. But S has a couple different 3D model differences, namely the different spine, where the livery won’t work without changes

Yes, correct, A and G can share the same liveries, in fact I use a hard link (created with windows command mklink /j) so that both MiG-29 variants use the same folder for the custom liveries, so to not duplicate them and waste disk space. The S requires its own liveries.

[AvgeekJoe]

10 hours ago, Rudel_chw said:

Yes, correct, A and G can share the same liveries, in fact I use a hard link (created with windows command mklink /j) so that both MiG-29 variants use the same folder for the custom liveries, so to not duplicate them and waste disk space. The S requires its own liveries.

Thanks, can you plz share how you use the hard link?  

11 hours ago, AeriaGloria said:

A to G I can see. But S has a couple different 3D model differences, namely the different spine, where the livery won’t work without changes

Copy.  Considering the fact the Poles got all the G-model MiG-29s; they probably should have its avionics and cockpit.  Some other country also may be getting the Polish Gs...

[Rudel_chw]

9 minutes ago, AvgeekJoe said:

Thanks, can you plz share how you use the hard link?  

here is a tutorial:

 

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/

 

use the mklink /J variant.

[303_Tees]

Hi try to copy skins from A to G but it`s not working for me i can select copied skin but its not loaded into model any idea?

[Rudel_chw]

18 minutes ago, 303_Tees said:

Hi try to copy skins from A to G but it`s not working for me i can select copied skin but its not loaded into model any idea?

 

The G and A liveries are no longer interchangeable, the Mig-29G model now has different skin element names than the MiG-29A.

[303_Tees]

1 minute ago, Rudel_chw said:

 

The G and A liveries are no longer interchangeable, the Mig-29G model now has different skin element names than the MiG-29A.

Thanks any idea how to convert it??

[Rudel_chw]

38 minutes ago, 303_Tees said:

Thanks any idea how to convert it??

 

No sorry, I only know how to use the liveries, not how to create or modify them

 

[Mateo]

If somebody would want to convert livery from A to G here is the way based on my example:
 

You have such lines in decription.lua of your livery:

livery = {
	{"mig29_tex1", 0 ,"mig-29_tex01_pol",false};
	{"mig29_tex2", 0 ,"mig-29_tex02_pol",false};
	{"mig29_tex3", 0 ,"mig-29_tex03_pol",false};
	{"mig29_tex4", 0 ,"mig-29_tex04_pol",false};
	{"mig29_tex5", 0 ,"mig-29_tex05_pol",false};
	{"mig29_tex5_BN31", 0 ,"mig-29_tex05_pol",false};
	{"mig29_tex5_BN31", 3 ,"mig-29_numbers_pol",false};
	{"mig29_tex5_BN32", 0 ,"mig-29_tex05_pol",false};
	{"mig29_tex5_BN32", 3 ,"mig-29_numbers_pol",false};
	{"mig29_tex6", 0 ,"mig-29_tex06_pol",false};
	{"mig29_tex7", 0 ,"mig-29_tex07_pol",false};
	{"mig29_tex8", 0 ,"mig-29_tex08_pol",false};
	{"mig29_metal", 0 ,"mig-29_metal",false};
	{"mig29_nose", 0 ,"mig-29_nose_pol",false};
	{"mig29_nose_BN31", 0 ,"mig-29_nose_pol",false};
	{"mig29_nose_BN31", 3 ,"empty",true};
	{"mig29_nose_BN32", 0 ,"mig-29_nose_pol",false};
	{"mig29_nose_BN32", 3 ,"empty",true};
	{"pilot_mig29_body", 0 ,"pilot_MiG",false};
	{"mig29_metal", 0 ,"mig-29_metal",false};
	{"su27_k36", 0, "su-27_k36_59", false};
        {"mig29_parachute", 0, "parachute_paint", false};

 You need to replace major 'mig29' lines for 'mig29g' as below:

livery = {
	{"mig29g_tex1", 0 ,"mig-29_tex01_pol",false};
	{"mig29g_tex2", 0 ,"mig-29_tex02_pol",false};
	{"mig29g_tex3", 0 ,"mig-29_tex03_pol",false};
	{"mig29g_tex4", 0 ,"mig-29_tex04_pol",false};
	{"mig29g_tex5", 0 ,"mig-29_tex05_pol",false};
	{"mig29g_tex5_BN31", 0 ,"mig-29_tex05_pol",false};
	{"mig29g_tex5_BN31", 3 ,"mig-29_numbers_pol",false};
	{"mig29g_tex5_BN32", 0 ,"mig-29_tex05_pol",false};
	{"mig29_tex5_BN32", 3 ,"mig-29_numbers_pol",false};
	{"mig29g_tex6", 0 ,"mig-29_tex06_pol",false};
	{"mig29g_tex7", 0 ,"mig-29_tex07_pol",false};
	{"mig29g_tex8", 0 ,"mig-29_tex08_pol",false};
	{"mig29g_metal", 0 ,"mig-29_metal",false};
	{"mig29g_nose", 0 ,"mig-29_nose_pol",false};
	{"mig29g_nose_BN31", 0 ,"mig-29_nose_pol",false};
	{"mig29g_nose_BN31", 3 ,"empty",true};
	{"mig29g_nose_BN32", 0 ,"mig-29_nose_pol",false};
	{"mig29g_nose_BN32", 3 ,"empty",true};
	{"pilot_mig29_body", 0 ,"pilot_MiG",false};
	{"mig29_metal", 0 ,"mig-29_metal",false};
	{"su27_k36", 0, "su-27_k36_59", false};
        {"mig29_parachute", 0, "parachute_paint", false};

 

I don't know why ED changed it lately - just a month earlier there wasn't a need to change anything.

 

 

[draconus]

7 hours ago, Mateo said:

You need to replace major 'mig29' lines for 'mig29g' as below:

But you left some, is it correct?

[Mateo]

Yes. You can open description.lua of any working MiG-29S and G liveries and compare to description.lua of MiG-29A. You will notice which files should have the letters c(Russian S) or G to make it work.