Custom skin?

[N1thecaptain]

Hi, I'm new to DCS. I mainly started playing because a friend forced me to at gunpoint convinced me to, and we've been having fun so far. We also noticed that there's custom made skins we can download from various sites.

Issue is, in customisation I don't really like downloading what someone else made, so I was wondering how I would go about making my own DCS skin? What software should I use, how do I import it into the game, etc. Thanks in advance!

[Troll Norris]

4 seconds of googling.
https://www.airgoons.com/w/How_To_Make_A_DCS_Livery
https://youtu.be/CtSK2CqXuwA
https://youtu.be/60cRC8U_3m0
https://youtu.be/jVGPP8h63Cg

[N1thecaptain]

Originally posted by Troll Norris:

4 seconds of googling.
https://www.airgoons.com/w/How_To_Make_A_DCS_Livery
https://youtu.be/CtSK2CqXuwA
https://youtu.be/60cRC8U_3m0
https://youtu.be/jVGPP8h63Cg

I usually find YouTube tutorials to be long, tedious and unhelpful, hence why I asked here first, but thanks anyway.

[Troll Norris]

Thing is - there is no short answer.

[Insônia]

Issue is, in customisation I don't really like downloading what someone else made

Ironically, by looking into other peoples work is one of the best way to learn a job. and those will also tell you how to install/import skins, and what file structure looks like, and what manifest/meta file you need create to able to be recognised by game.

[Troll Norris]

I started to write full procedure "how to". And in the quarter of text I gave up and used google to find some links. Because it took me over 15 minutes to write just that.

[N1thecaptain]

Originally posted by Troll Norris:

Thing is - there is no short answer.

I have no problem with a long answer, I was just saying, YouTube tutorials are generally unhelpful in my experience. And there's no point in watching a tutorial if it doesn't teach you how.

Originally posted by Insônia:

Issue is, in customisation I don't really like downloading what someone else made

Ironically, by looking into other peoples work is one of the best way to learn a job. and those will also tell you how to install/import skins, and what file structure looks like, and what manifest/meta file you need create to able to be recognised by game.

Yes, that's how I learned to make skins for my planes in War Thunder as well, but I still needed a friend to explain to me what software I would need to actually make the skins, as well as how to get access to the necessary files to make it easier, etc.

[Troll Norris]

I have problem to write long answer. It takes too much time to write something which already exists.