Custom Skin helmets not loading

[AcetheWolf195]

Hey guys, I'm fairly new to making custom skins for aircraft in DCS, and I tried my hand with the JF-17 for fun (Unfortunate wording for anyone familiar with the plane). 

Everything looks great but I simply cannot get the helmets to work. I've attached my .lua file I'm trying to use and my buddy who has a TON more experience told me everything looks in order. The helmet texture loads no problem if I replace it in the Core textures folder, but I want everyone I'm flying with to have their own unique helmet. 

In addition to this: is there any way I can use the model viewer to look at my custom liveries in the Saved Games folder? I keep having to drag all my .dds and .lua files to a test folder in the CoreMods folder, and it gets tedious when you're busy with 4+ people's skins. 

 

Edit1: This is having the helmet loaded on the skin folder itself

 

VS in the CoreMods Folder, nothing about the name or anything changed

Thanks!

description.lua

Edited December 11, 2023 by AcetheWolf195

[BoneDust]

Bump this.  Same issue.

[uboats]

for your own skin dds files, it's better to have their own file names

    {"pilot helmet",DIFFUSE,"own_file_name", false};
    {"pilot helmet",ROUGHNESS_METALLIC,"own_file_name", false};    
    {"pilot helmet",NORMAL_MAP,"own_file_name", false};
    {"pilot",DIFFUSE,"own_file_name", false};

for modelviewer, there's config file for you to add texture folder path