Support for full livery/pilot/cockpit mod in user folder, without breaking pure textures.

[tribbin]

Having custom skins for a squad is quite tedious and when fully implemented, every player even has to make changes to texture files that will break 'pure textures' so you can't play on multiplayer servers.

It would be nice to be able to make one 'package' that people can install in their user folder and be done with it.

It should not just change how you see yourself in the cockpit, but also how others (which have the same mod) see you, without changing core DCS files.

 

Edited 13 hours ago by tribbin

[SharpeXB]

What’s the point of using custom liveries online? Nobody else will be able to see them as it’s unlikely they will have those installed. My guess is Pure Textures are enforced to prevent cheating. 

[tribbin]

e.g. In our squad we have all installed this skin.

The livery can be installed in your user-folder and will be available as an additional livery, therefore not breaking pure skins and servers decide for themselves what they allow and don't allow, so on Enigma's/Heatblur's and other servers we can use it.

For the MiG-29 Fulcrum It is even possible to change the pilot (e.g. change helmet) as an extra cockpit option (besides English/Russian/...) without breaking pure skins, but that will not be visible from outside the cockpit-view, e.g. when making recordings.

So there are more skinnable aspects to the game in various directories with different rules. That should be much easier.

[SharpeXB]

Custom liveries are very cool. But the only way for other players to see them is to have them installed. That’s not too likely. If there was a way for players to submit these to the devs and then have those released as official packs, that would work. But I don’t see that happening.