mods conflict Streaky, cloudy texture on instrument glass after cockpit refresh

[The Oligopolist]

I'm not sure if this is intended or not, as I can't see it in other people's screenshots or videos documenting the refreshed FC3 cockpits.

On my install all the steam gauge instruments have a cloudy texture over the top of them. Is this intended or an issue on my end?

I've verified my install, and obviously, I'm using the default cockpit.

Thanks!

Edited February 26, 2024 by The Oligopolist

[Skuva]

Are you 100% sure you are using the default textures? Because that extremely dark cockpit with the foggy instruments is exactly the symptoms of a custom skin in the new lighting system.

I know that because I made a custom cockpit for the Eagle and mine had exactly these problems, I had to do a lot of editing this week to get it working properly.

EDIT: Here is an example comparing a custom texture on the left and the new default one on the right

 

EDIT 2: In case you are sure the Default skin is selected in the Special Tab. Then you could attempt checking if the texture files really where updated. in the game directory "\DCSWorld\Mods\aircraft\Flaming Cliffs\Cockpit\Textures", see if the zip file was modified recently (all of them except the mig-29 should be modified after february 22th), if not, you can delete it and try verifying files again.

Edited February 26, 2024 by Skuva

[The Oligopolist]

10 hours ago, Skuva said:

Are you 100% sure you are using the default textures? Because that extremely dark cockpit with the foggy instruments is exactly the symptoms of a custom skin in the new lighting system.

I know that because I made a custom cockpit for the Eagle and mine had exactly these problems, I had to do a lot of editing this week to get it working properly.

EDIT: Here is an example comparing a custom texture on the left and the new default one on the right

 

EDIT 2: In case you are sure the Default skin is selected in the Special Tab. Then you could attempt checking if the texture files really where updated. in the game directory "\DCSWorld\Mods\aircraft\Flaming Cliffs\Cockpit\Textures", see if the zip file was modified recently (all of them except the mig-29 should be modified after february 22th), if not, you can delete it and try verifying files again.

 

I tried just that before I made my post. Going to try deleting the entire flaming cliffs folder and verify again.

Maybe it's an issue with the Steam version, which I should've clarified is what I'm using.

Edit:
The issue still remains afterwards. I found an additional F-15 texture .zip in the \bazaar folder and re-downloaded that also, still the same. It's either an issue with the steam build or there's another file lurking in my install causing mischief.

If anyone else running the steam version could check and see if they have the same problem, that would be appreciated.

Edited February 26, 2024 by The Oligopolist

[draconus]

10 hours ago, The Oligopolist said:

or there's another file lurking in my install causing mischief.

Check also the \saved games\dcs\liveries and \mods

and DCS settings > special > FC3 > select Default cockpit for F-15C

Edited February 27, 2024 by draconus

[The Oligopolist]

1 hour ago, draconus said:

Check also the \saved games\dcs\liveries and \mods

and DCS settings > special > FC3 > select Default cockpit for F-15C

 

Nice one.

The cause was the old F-15 SMTD mod I had sitting in the \Saved Games\DCS\Mods\aircraft folder.

Strange as you'd think if anything the mod would be the thing affected by the vanilla FC3 F-15C textures. I'm not sure why it cross-pollinated it's textures into the stock F-15C but I really don't know the nitty gritty of the DCS file structure.

Hopefully this thread helps someone else if they have the same issue.