ModelViewer

Loading Textures

Some Additional configuration is needed to load textures from your custom EDMs.

Navigate to "C:\Users\{YOUR_USERNAME}\Saved Games\edModelViewerTrunk\" and open the autoexec.lua file, if it doesn't exist, create it.

Copy and paste this lua code into the autoexec.lua file.

Then edit line 13 to point to your saved games/DCS install. This could look like:
local saved_games_path = "C:/Users/{YOUR_USERNAME}/Saved Games/DCS/"
local saved_games_path = "C:/Users/{YOUR_USERNAME}/Saved Games/DCS.OpenBeta/"

Leave everything else untouched and you're good to go

log.set_output('animator-log', 'ANIMATOR', log.ALL, log.MESSAGE)
--autoexecute sample for model viewer
--mount_vfs_liveries_path("Mods/aircrafts/Wunderluft/Liveries")
--mount_vfs_texture_path("Mods/aircrafts/Wunderluft/Textures/base_zip_package")


--LoadModel("Bazar/World/Shapes/A-10.edm")
--LoadLivery("A-10C","184th FS Arkansas ANG, Fort Smith (FS)")
--SetArgument(0,1)
--SetArgument(3,1)
--SetArgument(5,0.75)

local saved_games_path = "C:/Users/username/Saved Games/DCS/" -- Edit me with your Saved games path

animator = 
{
    statistics_enabled = true;
}


local lfs = require("lfs")
local function service_file(file)
    return file == "." or
           file == ".." or 
           file == ".svn" or 
           file == "_svn" 
end


function scan_for_environment_cubes(path)
    local lower_case = path:lower() 
    for file in lfs.dir(path) do
        if not service_file(file) then
            local fn = path.."/"..file
            local attrMode = lfs.attributes(fn, "mode")
            if attrMode == "file" then
                local ext = string.sub(file,-4) 
                if '.dds' == ext then
                    AddEnvironmentMap(file)
                end
            end
        end
    end
end


function scan_for_textures(path)
    local lower_case      = path:lower()
    if lower_case:find("liveries") then
       mount_vfs_liveries_path(path)  
       return
    end
    local is_texture_path  = lower_case:find("texture") ~= nil
    local mounted_already  = false 
    for file in lfs.dir(path) do
        if not service_file(file) then
            local fn      = path.."/"..file
            local attr    = lfs.attributes (fn)
            if attr ~= nil then   
                if attr.mode     == "directory" then
                    scan_for_textures(fn)
                elseif is_texture_path then
                    local ext = string.sub(file,-4)
                    if '.zip' == ext then
                        mount_vfs_texture_path(fn)          
                    elseif not mounted_already and (
                     '.dds' == ext or
                     '.bmp' == ext or
                     '.jpg' == ext or
                     '.png' == ext or
                     '.tga' == ext) then
                        mount_vfs_texture_path(path)
                        mounted_already = false
                    end
                end
            end
        end
    end
end


print("----------------------------------------------------------------")
print("scan for environment cubes")
print("----------------------------------------------------------------")
scan_for_environment_cubes("Bazar/EffectViewer/envcubes")
print("scan done")
print("----------------------------------------------------------------")
print("mount extra stuff")
print("----------------------------------------------------------------")

scan_for_textures(saved_games_path .. "Mods")               -- Your path Check DCS or OpenBeta
scan_for_textures(saved_games_path .. "Mods/Aircraft")      -- Your path Check DCS or OpenBeta
scan_for_textures(saved_games_path .. "Mods/Tech")          -- Your path Check DCS or OpenBeta
scan_for_textures(saved_games_path .. "Liveries")           -- Your path Check DCS or OpenBeta


print("scan done")
print("----------------------------------------------------------------")


mount_vfs_liveries_path     (saved_games_path .. "Liveries")    -- Your path Check DCS or OpenBeta
mount_vfs_textures_path     (saved_games_path .. "Liveries")    -- Your path Check DCS or OpenBeta

mount_vfs_liveries_path     ("CoreMods/tech/USS_Nimitz/animations/liveries")
mount_vfs_animations_path   ("CoreMods/tech/USS_Nimitz/animations/animations")
mount_vfs_models_path       ("CoreMods/tech/USS_Nimitz/animations/models")
mount_vfs_textures_path     ("CoreMods/tech/USS_Nimitz/animations/textures")

mount_vfs_liveries_path     ("CoreMods/tech/Animals/Liveries")
mount_vfs_models_path       ("CoreMods/tech/Animals/models")
mount_vfs_textures_path     ("CoreMods/tech/Animals/Textures")
mount_vfs_animations_path   ("CoreMods/tech/Animals/animations")

mount_vfs_models_path       ("CoreMods/characters/models")
mount_vfs_textures_path     ("CoreMods/characters/textures")
mount_vfs_animations_path   ("CoreMods/characters/animations")
mount_vfs_animations_path   ("Mods/tech/WIP/Animations")
mount_vfs_models_path       ("Mods/tech/WIP/Shapes")

mount_vfs_textures_path("Mods/terrains/Caucasus/Models/Communication/Communication.texture.zip") 

mount_vfs_liveries_path     (saved_games_path .. "Mods/Aircraft")   -- Your path Check DCS or OpenBeta
mount_vfs_models_path       (saved_games_path .. "Mods/Aircraft")   -- Your path Check DCS or OpenBeta
mount_vfs_textures_path     (saved_games_path .. "Mods/Aircraft")   -- Your path Check DCS or OpenBeta  
mount_vfs_liveries_path     (saved_games_path .. "Mods/Tech")       -- Your path Check DCS or OpenBeta
mount_vfs_models_path       (saved_games_path .. "Mods/Tech")       -- Your path Check DCS or OpenBeta
mount_vfs_textures_path     (saved_games_path .. "Mods/Tech")       -- Your path Check DCS or OpenBeta

print("done")
print("----------------------------------------------------------------")