Sunjah Posted January 13, 2009 Posted January 13, 2009 (edited) I am having trouble. I can get all skins to show up in my game, just not at the same time. Mr. Moose dude had a set of files that was supposed to make all of them "Play Nice" together. Here's my sitrep: A) Three of the four skin packs will work, names show up in-game, can choose them. One skin pack would not ever show up, until last night. So basically, I now think of it as my default set-up to have it so the three can be used (Mitch pack, DOSAAF, New Years). The names for the Canadian skins show up, but in game I get Inviso helicopter. B) I can install the Canadian Skins pack and then I have the normal 10 or so choices, plus the 4 Canadian ones. The others are completely gone in-game. C) Having all 4 at one time just will not work. I edited files (Ka-50.lua, Ka-50.skins, graphics.cfg, dbcountries.lua) to try and match it up so all 4 would work. I even used the files from Mr. Moose Dude that says all 4 should play nice, but they don't. It is either the Canadian pack OR the other 3. So, if someone can help, you will save me wasting about 4 hours a day (or more) trying to figure it out. I have the Canadian Skins.cdds file where it should be, but at "default" (the 3-packs working), they show up in-game as Inviso helicopters. I have the ka-50 file set to read them as choppers 41, 42, 43 and 44. When they are set as 22, 23, 24 and 25 in the Canadian pack, they work, but not as 41, 42, 43 and 44 in the "default" pack. Am I missing a trigger somewhere? Can anyone make a file that triggers them to be 41, 42, 43 and 44? I have another option. I really, really, really want the Navy one from the Canadian pack. I do not like the Digital Camo one at all. I could easily accept the Navy one showing up in game UNDER the designation of the Digital Camo, but when I fly it is the Navy skin. Again, I've tried editing the Digital Camo skin to have the Navy files, tried renaming the Navy.cdds (well, the whole Canadian one, and also one try to just have Navy files) to Digi-Camo, tried importing Navy.bmp/dds into the Digi-Camo.cdds file. Nothing works. Early on in my experimentation, I wanted to include Turkey1, Turkey, Desert 1 and USMC into choosable skins. Get this, somehow, I made it so when the sim started "in-world," the helicopters would sink right through the ground and explode. All of them, even "Standard" and "Black Shark" skins. Somehow, I made them incorporeal. HA! Still don't know how!?! Anyway, I am tired or experimenting. Bottom line, I would LOVE these Canadian skins in-game. I really want all 4, but if need be I can take the Navy one in place of the Digital-Camo one. There are also two New Years skins, one says 2009 and one doesn't. I would be able to deal with having the Search and Rescue (SAR) Canadian skin in place of one of these (don't care which one, they are the same, save the number "2009"). Any one who feels mercy in their soul, if you know how to help me get all 4 packs working together, or at least get those Canadian Navy and SAR skins in there (in place of Digi-camo and one of the New Years skins), I would really appreciate it. I have decided to stop trying, as I am wasting so much time on it I have barely flown these last 2 or 3 days. Whoever said that they made this incredibly difficult to add new skins, WOW! You weren't kidding!:cry::cry::joystick::megalol::cry::cry: Edited January 13, 2009 by Sunjah Remember, on Nov. 4th, vote for Black Shark for President!!!
TheMoose Posted January 13, 2009 Posted January 13, 2009 (edited) ... Mr. Moose dude had a set of files that was supposed to make all of them "Play Nice" together... That was not me lol :megalol: I would be patient, this sim is new & this community has ways to shine through such dilemma, aka: Modman Edited January 13, 2009 by TheMoose Antec 900 gaming tower, PSU: Corsair 750W, Q6600, Asus P5K, 8Gig Mushkin, Nvidia eVGA 280 GTX Superclocked 1G DDR3, SSDNOW200 Kingston Drive, TrackIr 3000+Vector, Logitech Extreme 3D Pro joystick, Saitek rudder pedals pro, Sharp 42" inch LCD Aquo. OS: windows 7 64bit.
Sunjah Posted January 13, 2009 Author Posted January 13, 2009 That was not me lol :megalol: I would be patient, this sim is new & this community has ways to shine through such dilemma, aka: Modman No, I think it was RCN Moose or something like that. I just know this is driving me bonkers! That Navy one is the most beautiful one I've seen from custom made skins, and the only way to have it now is to disable about 12 other skins. I do love the Black with Yellow stripes a lot, too, but I wish I could fly as a Canadian Navy-Flyboy! Remember, on Nov. 4th, vote for Black Shark for President!!!
RCN_Moose Posted January 13, 2009 Posted January 13, 2009 Sunjah, You will not be able to have all of the skins in the game at the same time. After a certain number (forget which) it stops working. I was unable to install my skin pack (all 4 skins), the Ney Years skins, Mitches skins and the DOSAAF skins. It just won't accept that many. The multiple skins file that I made was for my old skin pack which only had 3 skins, and did work fine. However, thats the beauty of MODMAN. You can keep all of the add-ons, and swap them out at the push of a button depending on what mood you're in.
Sunjah Posted January 13, 2009 Author Posted January 13, 2009 (edited) Sunjah, You will not be able to have all of the skins in the game at the same time. After a certain number (forget which) it stops working. I was unable to install my skin pack (all 4 skins), the Ney Years skins, Mitches skins and the DOSAAF skins. It just won't accept that many. The multiple skins file that I made was for my old skin pack which only had 3 skins, and did work fine. However, thats the beauty of MODMAN. You can keep all of the add-ons, and swap them out at the push of a button depending on what mood you're in. Okay, I understand. That stinks that it cuts out at a certain point :cry::cry:. I guess the number of available skins is 24, that is how many I have with the Mitch-pack, DOSAFF/Digital-Camo and the 2 New Years skins (plus the default 10 [or 14, to be more precise...I actually put Russia as having access to USMC Gray {Nice!}, Turkey {Very NICE!!!}, Turkey1 {ok} and Desert 1 {ok}, as well, so I really have 14 default skins). That Canadian Navy one you made, WOW! I think it is my favorite of all the ''user'' made ones I've seen. I like the SAR as well.:D Is there any viability to the idea of switching a few skins? Like, say, Digi-Camo for the Canadian Navy and New Years 2009 for the SAR? Can I just insert the pictures somehow/somewhere (over the rainbow?) so that it thinks it has the Digi-Camo/New Years, but what shows up in-game is Navy/SAR?:joystick: Just a thought...I know in my 3 days of fighting with the inner-workings of a few files, I haven't quite figured it out yet. If possible great, in not, I appreciate the help! :smilewink: ME = (NOT!!!) :smartass: (by the way...AWESOME SKIN! with that Canadian Navy:megalol:) Edited January 13, 2009 by Sunjah Remember, on Nov. 4th, vote for Black Shark for President!!!
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