Fw190A Cockpit Liveries Function (Extra) Broken, and Misplaced Cockpit Textures

[Magic Zach]

So ordinarily for cockpit liveries will half work for modules.  Either:
1) Modules that come with different language cockpits will have different cockpit liveries for each pre-installed
2) If one was to make a custom cockpit livery as intended, they would create a new folder in Mods/aircraft/aircraft/liveries/Cockpit_Aircraft.  When done this way, the livery will appear on the drop-down menu to select in DCS via the Special Options tab in the DCS Menu.  However, this will not be practically applied.  While the drop down will list your custom cockpit livery, DCS will not render it ingame, and will use the default cockpit livery instead.  Thus....
3) ....to add/create your own cockpit livery, you must overwrite a pre-existing one.  This tends to be the cockpit livery called 'default' as is the case with the warbirds.
This is already very aggravating to do, as it's a method to work around a broken system that plagues many modules by Eagle Dynamics.  See the Apache for a modern example.

Now, with the 190A8, none of these options are working.  It appears that the module is now ignoring the Mods/aircraft/FW-190A8/Liveries entirely.

As to where DCS is drawing its textures for the 190A from, it appears to be Mods\aircraft\FW-190A8\Cockpit\Textures in the "open air", outside of the zipped folder as they usually are.  The 190A doesn't seem to be drawing from the textures contained within the Cockpit_fw190_a-8.zip.  You'll notice this if you delete the "open air" textures that are outside the zipped folder, and run the 190A in DCS.  You'll encounter the Missing Texture, despite the textures it needs being contained in the zipped folder.

Edited July 20, 2024 by Magic Zach