Can't Remember Where Custom Skins/Liveries are to be Saved ?

[SnowTiger]

Hello y'all. I have been away from DCS for almost 4 full years and only now getting back into it.

I had several Custom Skins for the P-51, TF-51 and the Christen Eagle II.

I recall saving Custom Skins or Liveries in Bazaar/Liveries/   "Specific Aircraft" however I did not see the CE-2 there.
I found it in Mods/Aircraft/Christen Eagle II which has it's own Liveries and Textures Folders. In fact, Mods/Aircraft has folders for each of the Aircraft Modules.

SO now I'm confused whether I am supposed to put the Custom Skins/Liveries in DCS Open Beta Bazaar/Liveries OR in Mods/Aircraft/Liveries or wherever ?  Maybe Both Locations ?

Can someone please straiten me out on this matter. I'd greatly appreciate it especially if I can get a fast, accurate reply while I can still find the Custom Skin Folders that I seem to have hidden on a backup drive (new computer).
Please Help !

Thanks in Advance

 

[razo+r]

If there is a folder in CoreMods put it there otherwise in the bazar directory. 

[Rudel_chw]

2 minutes ago, SnowTiger said:

SO now I'm confused whether I am supposed to put the Custom Skins/Liveries in DCS Open Beta Bazaar/Liveries OR in Mods/Aircraft/Liveries or wherever ?  Maybe Both Locations ?

None of those, place them at c:/users/your-user/saved games/dcs.openbeta/liveries, like this:

 

 

each livery on its own subfolder, inside the folder of its respective vehicle.

[razo+r]

It doesn't matter if you put it in the saved games directory or not. It works in both places.

[Rudel_chw]

21 minutes ago, razo+r said:

It doesn't matter if you put it in the saved games directory or not. It works in both places.

yes, but placing user content on the sim’s folder is inelegant and prone to issues like a DCS repair deleting those extraneous liveries … I prefer to use ED suggested approach for custom liveries.

[razo+r]

It asks you if you want to keep these files or not, so it's not deleting them by itself.

[SnowTiger]

I appreciate the replies. However, I am still a bit confused.
I can understand that Updates and Repairs may well eliminate custom files and I would like to avoid that but for example, the Christen Eagle II does not even have a folder in Bazaar/Liveries. I could only find it in "mods/aircraft".
That said, I like the idea of my custom skins being in Saved Games however, there is No Folder called Liveries in my Saved Games Folder.

Do I create a Liveries Folder there ?
And are each of the folders you show in your attached image, all custom liveries OR did you copy each of the DCS Bazaar/Liveries folders to put in Saved Games and only added custom skins to those modules you want when you want ?
I apologize is that is a bit confusing they way I wrote it.

[razo+r]

Just now, SnowTiger said:

I appreciate the replies. However, I am still a bit confused.
I can understand that Updates and Repairs may well eliminate custom files and I would like to avoid that but for example, the Christen Eagle II does not even have a folder in Bazaar/Liveries. I could only find it in "mods/aircraft".

You will find the folders to put liveries in either in \DCS World\CoreMods\Aircraft or in \DCS World\Bazar\Liveries. It depends on how new the module is in which of these two locations it will be. New ones are in CoreMods, old ones are in Bazar. Then it's just a matter of finding the aircraft you want and copy the files there.

The \Mods\aircraft directory is NOT where you put skins for aircraft.

Just now, SnowTiger said:

That said, I like the idea of my custom skins being in Saved Games however, there is No Folder called Liveries in my Saved Games Folder.

If you do not see a liveries folder, create it.

Just now, SnowTiger said:

Do I create a Liveries Folder there ?

Just like you see in his picture, create a folder for the unit you want to install liveries and then drop the liveries for that unit in the newly created folder.

 

 

 

[SnowTiger]

Okay. That seems simple enough.
Thank you very much for your time and assistance. I'll give it try.
Have a great day.
PS> I will reply with my results as soon as I get it done and can confirm success.

[Rudel_chw]

24 minutes ago, SnowTiger said:

...  I like the idea of my custom skins being in Saved Games however, there is No Folder called Liveries in my Saved Games Folder.

Do I create a Liveries Folder there ?

 

Yes, create a "Liveries" folder inside the DCS.openbeta folder.

 

24 minutes ago, SnowTiger said:

And are each of the folders you show in your attached image, all custom liveries OR did you copy each of the DCS Bazaar/Liveries folders to put in Saved Games and only added custom skins to those modules you want when you want ?

 

I created a folder manually inside /Saved Games/dcs world.openbeta/Liveries, one for each vehicle (not only aircrafts can have skins, ground vehicles and ships can have too) ... the name of the folder needed for the CE is "Christen Eagle II" ... inside this folder, each livery goes into its own sub-folder, which can be named however you like, for example these are the liveries that I have for the Viggen: