Question about changing afterburner effect in skin for F-15E

[Type01Pun]

I found some F-15E_eab.dds, and I successfully changed my afterburner effect, but unfortunately, only the inner afterburner effect. I mean, the effect in the engine nozzle.

Inner effect changed

You can see only the inner has changed. I edited my outer effect texture at a very weird color to make it easy to see did I succed or not.

So what I really want to do is not only change the inside, and both outside. The question is I can't find a way to link my afterburner effect dds files. Does anyone know how to link those files?

This is what I written in lua file.

This is the original texture zipfile and the dds file.

DDS file 1, afterburner_f-15e_se
DDS file 2, afterburner_f-15e_se_circle.dds

Edited July 17, 2024 by Type01Pun
fixed wrong layout it looks weird

[BlackReef]

Did you ever figure this out? I am trying to change the DDS afterburner image of the SR-71 and when I can not get it to update in-sim.  It keeps showing the original afterburner.

And yes I do the plugin with Photoshop to edit DDS files.  I save it and re-zip it and place it in the correct directory.  Any ideas?

[Type01Pun]

I've searched F-15E's livery lua and I didn't find the correct directory. I saw jf-17 have a afterburner directory but it doesn't work on F-15e. Maybe I should just give up.