Shared textures across multiple liveries

[Wavehopper]

Hey folks.  I'm currently working on 12 F14B liveries for my current squadron and I'm trying to reduce the file sizes by sharing the Pilot and RIO textures.

 

My goal was to use one livery as the master, that has the pilot and rio textures.  The other liveries were then to retrieve the pilot and rio textures from that master (so I don't have to include those textures 12 times thus saving 500+mb in disk space).

 

At the moment, the master has the unique Pilot and Rio textures and that works fine.  However, trying to use the description.lua in the other liveries to use the textures from the master wont work (shows the green textures instead).  I've attached one of the description.lua's here in the hope that someone can see something obviously wrong with what I'm doing.

 

The liveries (unzipped) have all been placed in C:\Users\xxxxx\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\Liveries\F-14B

 

Does anyone have any guidance or know of any tutorials on how to do this as I'm stumped.

description.lua

[Rudel_chw]

36 minutes ago, Wavehopper said:

Does anyone have any guidance

 

You need to use relative paths, as they stand now they are absolute ... for example change "/VF-103 (101) Test/HB_F14_EXT_PILOT" for "../VF-103 (101) Test/HB_F14_EXT_PILOT"

[Wavehopper]

Thank you Rudel, you are a star.  That did it.  Very much appreciated, you've just saved a lot of people a lot of disk space.

 

Edit - For anyone who comes across this post, I've added the amended lua to help you along.

description.lua

Edited October 29, 2024 by Wavehopper
Added more info