Help Please - Liveries (Some) Not Populating

[Cobra_B39]

Looking for a little help with my liveries. If there's already a thread that answers this, please share the link as I can't seem to find one. I've had DCS for a little over a year and have successfully installed many F/A-18 skins in my Hornet folder without issue. However, I have a few existing skins that are showing in my Hornet liveries folder but no longer populate as options in game. I thought perhaps the files were corrupt so I uninstalled/reinstalled (no luck). I've also tried installing some new skins (some populate but others don't). Since most are working fine, I think my mapping is correct (see below). Any help to solve this would be much appreciated - thanks!

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[razo+r]

Some skins may also be restricted to certain countries only. To check if that is the case, either check the description.lua of the skin and look for any entry of countries, or set the country of your F-18 to one of the CJTF Blue or Red and see if the skin appears there.

[Cobra_B39]

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm in the US and checked all the .lua files for each of the files not populating and for "countries" they all USA.

[razo+r]

And did you also install the folders correctly? It depends on the creator, some skins can be directly placed into the path you mentioned, some have the actual skin folder within a folder within a folder, so in that case you should move the actual skin folder to the correct place.

[Cobra_B39]

Thanks. Yes I'm assuming the issue is on my end but I'm not familiar with another option to add skins. When I download the zip, I extract all into a new folder on my desktop. With files that have multiple skins, I make sure each skin has it's own folder and name. I open the path and drag these individual folders into my hornet liveries folder.

With my above process this morning, I was able to successfully add VFA-143: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3300614/  

However, following the exact same process, I was able to add VFA-34 CO and VFA-34 XO skins to my hornet liveries folder but they don't populate in the game: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3336665/  

The existing skins that I'm having issues with are VFA-41: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3300797/   I extracted 4 of these Black Aces files into my livery folder and they used to work but since March or so, they no longer populate in game. All my other skins seem to be populating just fine.

 

Edited June 16, 2024 by Cobra_B39

[Cobra_B39]

SOLVED - yup, user error. I went through the problem folders and clicked each. Instead of opening straight to the page with the LUA and graphic files, for some reason, the ‘broken’ folders were opening a 2nd (duplicate) folder. Once I removed the dups. they all loaded in the game.