How to Install PMDG DC-6 3rd Party Liveries?

[Treetops45 1,082]

Anyone got a Step by Step on how to do this?

Not sure how to feed them into the PMDG Op. Center Liveries Section.

T45

[Zangoose 1,631]

10 minutes ago, Treetops45 said:

Anyone got a Step by Step on how to do this?

Not sure how to feed them into the PMDG Op. Center Liveries Section.

T45

Is it a .ptp file you have downloaded? If so, open up PMDG Operations Centre. Then click "Aircraft and Liveries" at the top. Then choose "Liveries Utilities". Then just make sure your sim is on MSFS and you have chosen the correct installed product (DC6). Then you should see an "Install from PTP File" and you just need to choose the file.

Edited June 19, 2021 by Zangoose

[Treetops45 1,082]

1 hour ago, Zangoose said:

Is it a .ptp file you have downloaded? If so, open up PMDG Operations Centre. Then click "Aircraft and Liveries" at the top. Then choose "Liveries Utilities". Then just make sure your sim is on MSFS and you have chosen the correct installed product (DC6). Then you should see an "Install from PTP File" and you just need to choose the file.

Looks like a .zip file, probably requires 7Zip to open.

What happens if its not  PTP?

T45

[Zangoose 1,631]

5 minutes ago, Treetops45 said:

Looks like a .zip file, probably requires 7Zip to open.

What happens if its not  PTP?

T45

You will need to extract the zip to see what you have. PMDG liveries are normally done via .ptp file. The ones that are on flightsim.to at the moment (3 of them) are all PTP files once you have extracted them. 

[TomCYYZ 215]

I downloaded the DC6A “Buffalo”  texture and it was not the .ptp file type. Similar to P3D livery installs, after opening the zip I simply drilled down to the “texture” folder and copy and pasted into the appropriate aircraft folder. Then copy the included “aircraft.cfg” information into the PMDG “aircraft.cfg”, remembering to change the [fltsimxx] to the next sequential entry (eg. If the last entry was [fltsim03], change it to [fltsim04]. You should be good to go.

[Bobsk8 12,722]

 

[Tektolnes 184]

Finally a nice and simple way to install liveries. If a livery is not .ptp I wouldn't be interested in it. Having to drill down into folders, copy and pasting stuff, etc. to get a livery ready for us is a crazy process.

[Zangoose 1,631]

11 minutes ago, Tektolnes said:

Finally a nice and simple way to install liveries. If a livery is not .ptp I wouldn't be interested in it. Having to drill down into folders, copy and pasting stuff, etc. to get a livery ready for us is a crazy process.

It’s rare to see PMDG liveries not be PTP files these days. I think repainters should follow the official method in my own view. 

[solito 65]

I have downloaded  liveries as PTP files and used the PMDG Ops Center without problem, and liveries which are just plain Community placed addons files which also works OK. 

[flyinion 280]

Curious about the difference between the two types. Is there a chance the community folder kind could cause issues vs the PTP version installed with ops center?

[Pat Mussotte 92]

23 hours ago, TomCYYZ said:

I downloaded the DC6A “Buffalo”  texture and it was not the .ptp file type. Similar to P3D livery installs, after opening the zip I simply drilled down to the “texture” folder and copy and pasted into the appropriate aircraft folder. Then copy the included “aircraft.cfg” information into the PMDG “aircraft.cfg”, remembering to change the [fltsimxx] to the next sequential entry (eg. If the last entry was [fltsim03], change it to [fltsim04]. You should be good to go.

This "old" method doesn't work! What do you do of the the "layout and manifest" files included?

[dobee51 348]

Every time I try to install an add-on livery for the DC-6 , I get a CTD.

Doesn't matter which type.

[Pat Mussotte 92]

42 minutes ago, dobee51 said:

Every time I try to install an add-on livery for the DC-6 , I get a CTD.

Doesn't matter which type.

If you use the PMDG Ops Center for the ptp file it should work flawlessly! 

[solito 65]

I downloaded and installed a couple of liveries within the community folder without any problem.- Also I used the Ops Center and installed another couple of PTP version liveries 

[TomCYYZ 215]

8 hours ago, Pat Mussotte said:

This "old" method doesn't work! What do you do of the the "layout and manifest" files included?

Agreed, ya I found that out after I tried to load the livery in MSFS. When I posted I assumed it would work the old way. My apologies, It does work if the folder is placed in the Community folder as a mod, following MSFS’s addon protocols.