[MERGED] White Boxes on Skin And/Or White Sections of Aircraft

[Scooternutz]

There are a lot of skin bugs, even with the default skins. There are white squares on several of the modules.

[SkateZilla]

There are a lot of skin bugs, even with the default skins. There are white squares on several of the modules.

 

Remove any mod you have that uses a empty.tga or empty.dds

 

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=176561

[Scooternutz]

Don't have any of those.

[Andryl]

1.5.5 missing textures

 

Hi everyone,

i've just updated to 1.5.5. and noticed that in the encyclopedia some objects have missing textures.

I've already tried to disable all mods (btw, they were already disabled while updating) and to run a repair, but no joy at all.

 

Any clue?

Is it already known?

 

Here it is an example:

 

EDIT: just checked: in the sim textures are ok, they only miss in the encyclopedia

Edited November 12, 2016 by Andryl

[BIGNEWY]

just checked mine it seems ok, do it again and attach your log we may find a clue

[Coxy_99]

Missing texture also

 

[Coxy_99]

Im not sure on this either but who uses it? :)

 

 

[Coxy_99]

F-15 missing texture

 

re-tested

 

[KIZIR_77]

F/A-18 C

 

An other trouble here... Any help is welcome for {"F-18C_Tactnumbers", 0, "empty.png", false}...:)

 

 

Trouble fixed! Thank you...

Edited November 12, 2016 by KIZIR_77

[kdc]

Look slime we see all having some problems after latest update

[Nealius]

Skate: Some default textures use empty.tga. The Mi-8's "RF Army Standard (Weathered)", for example.

[Andryl]

just checked mine it seems ok, do it again and attach your log we may find a clue

 

Hi Bignewy,

here you are the log files of 1.5.5 and 3.0 open alpha:

il seems I have a similar problem in both versions and in both log files there are a lot of DX11BACKEND ERRORS (like: ERROR DX11BACKEND: texture "f5e-cpt-instr-02" not found; ERROR DX11BACKEND: texture "dno-1.tga" not found; ...).

Or "WARNING DX11BACKEND: Shader terrain/shaders20/regularafter20.fx:DIRECTX11=true;FOG_ENABLE;LIGHT_SUNCOLOR; is outdated."

 

Any help is much appreciated

dcs (alpha).zip

dcs.zip

[BIGNEWY]

Hi Bignewy,

here you are the log files of 1.5.5 and 3.0 open alpha:

il seems I have a similar problem in both versions and in both log files there are a lot of DX11BACKEND ERRORS (like: ERROR DX11BACKEND: texture "f5e-cpt-instr-02" not found; ERROR DX11BACKEND: texture "dno-1.tga" not found; ...).

Or "WARNING DX11BACKEND: Shader terrain/shaders20/regularafter20.fx:DIRECTX11=true;FOG_ENABLE;LIGHT_SUNCOLOR; is outdated."

 

Any help is much appreciated

 

Thanks that has been reported internally

[berk.kp]

texture issues on ALL aircrafts

 

On all aircrafts, bort number fields or even whole parts of the plane just appear grey.

[Angus]

Same thing :(

[razo+r]

look in the forum a bit, there are already more than 3 threads with the same thing

[SkateZilla]

There are 2 Variations of this Anomaly:

 

-White Boxes where Bort Numbers are Located

-White Sections of Aircraft (WING, TAIL, FUSELAGE)

 

These are Caused by Skins that use "EMPTY.TGA" In the Description File of Addons/3rd Party Liveries/Skins.

 

For Aircraft Liveries that Use Empty.tga in the Bort Numbers, you'll see white boxes where the Bort numbers are.

 

For Aircraft Liveries that use empty.tga in the decals layer (ie F-15s), you'll see it on large sections of the Aircraft.

 

Delete Any Instances of EMPTY.TGA from any Livery Folders and Change EMPTY.TGA to EMPTY in the Description LUA

[Winston 60]

All A-10 skins that have detail/insignia on the rear part of the engine nacelles have a graphics bug now.

 

[SkateZilla]

All A-10 skins that have detail/insignia on the rear part of the engine nacelles have a graphics bug now.

 

 

This is a Separate Issue, and has also been reported to dev team.

[Nauter]

DCS does not pay us to fix your mistakes. Bug fixes, that's what they have to do

[SkateZilla]

DCS does not pay us to fix your mistakes. Bug fixes, that's what they have to do

 

DCS Evolved beyond using the Empty TGA,

The Base DCS Install does not have any EMPTY.TGA FILES, Nor to any of the Stock Liveries Description.lua Files Make calls for Empty.TGA From 1.5.5+

 

Deleting/Editing any Calls to EMPTY.TGA (To EMPTY) and Deleting any Instances of EMPTY.TGA itself resolves the issue.

 

This should only apply to 3rd Party Skins/Mods.

 

So You are not Fixing DCS's Mistakes, you are updating 3rd Party Mods that were not updated by the author themselves.

[berk.kp]

So you're expecting us to take several hours to delete all Empty.Tga files and edit every single livery description (in my case more than hundred for sure)?

[berk.kp]

Skatezilla I tried your method it does not fix anything.

[Coxy_99]

DCS does not pay us to fix your mistakes. Bug fixes, that's what they have to do

 

No your right, But i like bug finding and helping ED :thumbup:

[SkateZilla]

So you're expecting us to take several hours to delete all Empty.Tga files and edit every single livery description (in my case more than hundred for sure)?

 

The ONLY Liveries that would contain EMPTY.TGA are 3rd party Liveries, nothing in the DCS Base Install Contains EMPTY.TGA

 

It is not Eagle Dynamics Responsibility to Update or Maintain 3rd Party Applications or Mods, That Responsibility falls on the Original Author.

 

Takes like 2 minutes Tops for a Average user.

 

Open Notepad++, Press CTRL+SHIFT+F To Bring Up Find In Files menu,

Find What: "EMPTY.TGA"

Replace With: "EMPTY"

Filters: *.lua

Directory: SET TO your Base /DCSWORLD/ Folder or your /Saved Games/ Liveries Folder if they are located there.

Search Mode Normal

Check Box for Subfolder

 

Click Replace In Files... and Done.

 

copy the empty.png to any livery that contained the empty.tga

 

Start, My Computer, Navigate to your Base /DCS World/ Folder in the Search box Type "empty.tga" Let it Search, Delete any copies it found.

Edited November 14, 2016 by SkateZilla