Australian skins messed up

[Scrim]

Don't quite know what it's called, but the Australian skins are sort of misplaced. The paint is in the wrong places so to speak, e.g. the camouflage is on the rotor blades instead of on the fuselage, the flag is inside the exhaust, etc.

[SUBS17]

I found another bug for the Aussie chopper, when selected in F2 view it shows NASA skin in F3 flyby view it shows what could be an aussie skin.

[Spasticatedtoad]

Dang! After posting this, I found I have placed it in the Wrong Sub-Forum. I should have paid closer attention as to where I was posting. I thought I was posting under the Mi-8 Sub-Forum.

 

If Moderators deem this to be in the wrong place, please Move/Delete this post as you see fit. But I would really appreciate it if someone could advise me of what is going on before Deleting this Post.

Thanks in Advance.

Toad.

 

 

Hmmmmm. When I went to film my latest youtube videos, featuring this model, I tried to change my Heli to Australian ( because I saw that Australia was added to the list of available countries ).

But when I went looking, Australia was not even in the list of countries to pick from. I'm running then latest Version of 1.2.6 and as far as I am aware, Australia should be selectable.

I know I can be pretty thick between the ears sometimes, but shouldn't Australia be showing up in the list of Countries, depicted in the images below?

 

Also I have noticed that there are no listed Colourschemes for almost all countries. I'm not sure if this is the way things are right now while in Beta, or maybe I have a problem with my install that I am not aware of.

 

I get no error's or CTD or BSD, and with each patch my FPS just keeps getting better and better, so I didn't really think anything could be amiss until I read this Thread and realized that I didn't dream that Australia was added. It really should be there.....somewhere...shouldn't it?

 

P.S.

I tried to upload the said images, but after the images have been processed and waiting for a reply from ED.site, I get an error stating :-

 

"Your submission could not be processed because a security token was missing.

If this occurred unexpectedly, please inform the administrator and describe the action you performed before you received this error.

 

I clicked the link to report it to the Administrator, but the link just took me to a Web Page that stated the same thing.

 

Anyway, this is the list of available countries I see that I can pick from when creating a misssion.

 

USA

Russia

Abkhazia

Belgium

Canada

Denmark

France

Georgia

Germany

Israel

Italy

Norway

South Ossetia

Spain

The Netherlands

Turkey

UK

Ukraine

 

When I select my aircraft in the Mission editor, the Dialogue box appears so you can customize the details of the flight and Aircraft including if the Pilot is Controlled by A.I or Player. In this Menu, at the top, you can drop down a list of countries that you can switch to. This is where I got the list of countries ( shown above ) and I assumed Australia would be in this list.

 

Have I totally mis-read what I am looking at? Or should Australia be listed in there, and seeing as it is not, that maybe I should clean install 1.2.6 ?

 

Any advise you have to offer would be greatly appreciated.

Edited September 27, 2013 by Spasticatedtoad
Placed in the wrong Sub-Forum.

[Lizzard]

hmm..just tried it myself...I can pick Australia?! No Problems here.

 

First Test would be to rename your work/saved Games/DCS Folder, restart the Game and see what happens.

Second would be a repair I guess

[Lizzard]

Scrim and SUBS17 try that

 

http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=1862984&postcount=16

 

(1.2.6 messed up the UH-1 Skins)

[zaelu]

regarding the hueys skins.

 

Some problems are appearing because the "civ" section from their correspondent description.lua . At least this is what I and my squad mates have experienced.

 

to fix this I created this mod:

 

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=114329

 

I had some pictures of the messed up skins that looked like the OP description but they were hosted on a image hosting site that is offline now.

 

edit.

 

I missed Lizzard post that links to a similar fix.

Edited September 27, 2013 by zaelu

[SyntaxError]

This is really messed up. You can't have the proper UH-1H with no weapons without it switching to the civil version.

[Lizzard]

This is really messed up. You can't have the proper UH-1H with no weapons without it switching to the civil version.

 

You mean you want a Huey like in 1.2.5?! So you can set up a armed Huey with only Rocket Pods, and jettison them..

[SyntaxError]

You mean you want a Huey like in 1.2.5?! So you can set up a armed Huey with only Rocket Pods, and jettison them..

Yup, except in 2.5 you didn't have to jettison anything as you know, since we only had the one version.

 

Belsimtek have really screwed the pooch for me on this one. Either they fix the current bug of the skin switching when no weapons are loaded or add wire cutters to the civil.

[Spasticatedtoad]

Its all good now.

 

hmm..just tried it myself...I can pick Australia?! No Problems here.

 

First Test would be to rename your work/saved Games/DCS Folder, restart the Game and see what happens.

Second would be a repair I guess

 

Hi Lizzard. Thanks for your advice. I followed both sets of advice you offered me and after I had done it all, there was still no difference.

 

BUT..... a deeply buried memory was triggered to come to the surface, and I realized that maybe I had not set up the Coalitions. I remembered the Dialogue panel from Back in BlackShark 1, but had not used it since.

 

I searched and searched for the Button to set it up but couldn't find it.....until I created a New Mission from scratch.

 

Thats where I found that there must have been a problem with my DCS WORLD because I have created 4 new missions lately and never once did the Coalitions screen come up.

 

After updating WORLD to each new Edition/Patch , I always Clean up my system, restart it and Run the 'Repair DCS WORLD' wizard to ensure there was no missing files.

 

After upgrading to 1.2.6 , I did that and it seemed fine. But after following your advice to Rename my DCS Folder, the Repair Wizard took a very long time to check my install and then found an update for it. It applied the update and now I can see the "Coalitions" prompt when starting to Build a new Mission.

 

Thankyou very much for your prompt reply, you have saved me a lot of hassle and headaches.:thumbup:

[Lizzard]

Glad I could help, strangely renaming that Folder and let the Game create a new one solves around 50% of all DCS Problems:)

[Scrim]

Scrim and SUBS17 try that

 

http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=1862984&postcount=16

 

(1.2.6 messed up the UH-1 Skins)

 

Cheers mate, that did the trick!

 

Just one question: I'm a bit new to DCS and all these jury-rigs that seem to be required at times to, eh, make it work. So, should I delete the uh-1h file made by Esac and replace it with the original when the next patch comes out, or should it work?

[Lizzard]

Cheers mate, that did the trick!

 

Just one question: I'm a bit new to DCS and all these jury-rigs that seem to be required at times to, eh, make it work. So, should I delete the uh-1h file made by Esac and replace it with the original when the next patch comes out, or should it work?

 

Good Question..depends on BST..whether they Fix that Skin Issue with the next Patch...better keep a copy of Esacs Folder..just in Case:)

[SUBS17]

regarding the hueys skins.

 

Some problems are appearing because the "civ" section from their correspondent description.lua . At least this is what I and my squad mates have experienced.

 

to fix this I created this mod:

 

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=114329

 

I had some pictures of the messed up skins that looked like the OP description but they were hosted on a image hosting site that is offline now.

 

edit.

 

I missed Lizzard post that links to a similar fix.

 

You have a LUA error in one of your Italian skins.:doh:

 

description.LUA and this is from both files from yours and Lizzards link.

Edited October 5, 2013 by SUBS17

[SUBS17]

The devs IMO should fix this and it should be 2 separate UH1s 1 with exhaust pointing up and one with it removed. That would IMO fix the problem so that when people create a flight if they select UH1 Slick that is what they should get, because you can still have a Huey without weapons so the Huey hog should still have a clean configuration because in fact its 2 separate helicopters. And a slick can still have door guns so maybe having that option as well as having crew as well and the option to select how many.:thumbup:

 

This would also allow for them to create other versions maybe in the future such as ambulance etc.

 

Glad I could help, strangely renaming that Folder and let the Game create a new one solves around 50% of all DCS Problems

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No it does not.

Edited October 5, 2013 by SUBS17