Quick question regarding “arguments”

[Dieselmadness]

Had somebody do this for me with the F18 and was hoping it was possible for the harrier “default” paint scheme to have a livery selection without the pilot in external view..or can I add a line to a LUA file or something to make it so that I can select that livery without the pilot? 

[prccowboy]

the default aircraft animation argument to remove the pilot from the external view is arg=50. can't say for sure without seeing your custom hornet livery, but most likely you could copy that section of the description lua code and paste it into your custom AV8 livery

or just copy/paste this (preferably with a lua capable editor like notepad++) to the end of your livery's description lua file (note: in the av8, this also removes the ejection seat)

custom_args =
{
[50] = 1.0, --remove pilot
}

 

Edited September 1, 2022 by prccowboy
added code

[Dieselmadness]

damn, I tried this but it didnt do a thing..im trying to have the "Default" Livery with no covers or anything, just the empty plane with no pilot..only thing i can get is the AI "uncontrolled" with all the engine covers etc. Added exactly that and nothing. any chance someone would be willing to try a LUA to make this work for me?

UPDATE...ok I noticed that it does exactly what I wanted, no pilot (but also no covers) but it only shows in the mission editor when I select the "livery"..when I load a flight, pilots back in the cockpit no matter what livery i selected...what am I missing?

Edited September 2, 2022 by Dieselmadness

[Dieselmadness]

ANY ideas? Should I be doing this in the main game folder or the saved games location?

[prccowboy]

not sure if what you want can be done with just a livery change. the method I showed above only works for static or uncontrolled aircraft. the game engine will put the pilot back in the cockpit as soon as it is "controlled" Any other method I can think of is not related to liveries (would require changing core code). maybe check with whoever did it for you before