DCS Livery Manager (DCSLM) is a Console/Terminal UI tool to help install, manage, and optimize liveries for DCS. Installing liveries from DCS User Files can be difficult at times as there is no standard way to package them! This tool makes that process as simple as possible by only taking the URL or ID of the livery and resolving the folder hierarchy within the archive to install it in to the correct aircraft directory in your DCS Saved Games folder. Using 7-Zip, DCSLM can handle any archive format, any kind of folders within (or lack of), and also livery packs.
You can also use DCSLM to optimize installed livery packs as it will find files that are the same between the different livery folders and change the description.lua files to point to the shared files, and then remove the unused ones. DCSLM can also check for updates to liveries from DCS User Files.
To install, just place the DCSLM.exe inside of the downloaded zip file in your DCS Saved Games directory. DCSLM also allows for setup with a mod manager tool like OVGME or JSGME. This will place the installed liveries within their own folder to make it easy to install through a mod manager.
DCSLM relies on having 7-Zip installed and available in the windows environment path. 7-Zip is a free application and is available at
https://www.7-zip.org/download.html
Windows Defender may falsely flag the .exe as an untrusted application, so you might need to add an exception to this application to stop it from automatically removing it. All of the source code is available at the github project for DCSLM, as well as a more in-depth README with descriptions of the available commands:
https://github.com/pearcebergh/DCSLiveryManager
For any problems, or feature requests, please use the Issues page on the github site, or make a post in the DCSLM thread on the ED Forums.
https://forum.dcs.world/topic/286346-dcs-livery-manager/
Release Notes -
v1.2.1 (11/16/2023):
* Fixed OVGME mode unable to generate install paths
v1.2.0 (11/16/2023):
* Added installing directly from an archive file
* Added automatic unit detection from livery description.lua based on livery parts
* Added unit detection when the livery folder is already within a unit's folder
* Added installing to multiple units from one pack
* Added additional DCSLM upgrade method using DCS User Files
* Added F-15E, Black Shark 3 (Ka-50_3), Mirage F1BE to units
* Fixed FA-18C DCS User Files name
* Updated J-11A unit default parts
v1.1.4 (4/10/2023):
* Fixed install error with incorrect DCS User Files download url
* Fixed upgrade unable to download new exe
v1.1.3 (7/18/2022):
* Added colors to units command to differentiate between official and unofficial modules
* Added reminder message to check for updates to liveries
* Added message of the day with info on registered liveries
* Added output of removed files during optimization
* Added progress numbering to install, uninstall, and optimization
* Removed forced width on console window
* Fixed extremely long livery names breaking livery list table
* Fixed error when listing liveries for units that no longer have a config
* Fixed break in uninstall preventing uninstallation of multiple liveries
* Improved error messaging when trying to hash missing file during optimization
v1.1.2 (4/30/2022):
* Added Apache to default units and Mosquito DCS User Files name
* Fixed issue with installing livery with no root folder
* Added 'all' arg to 'uninstall' and 'optimize' commands
* Fixed optimize hash function only looking for .dds images
v1.1.1 (1/8/2022):
* Fixed failed parsing of datetime on github release page
* Fixed DCSLM exiting on failed github releases parse
* Fixed DCSLM trying to create unit folders without DCSLM root directory
* Fixed setting working directory from exe argument
v1.1.0 (1/1/2022):
* 7-Zip will now be the preferred program for extraction if installed
* Fixed path generation for WinRAR
* Fixed parsing GitHub release page for upgrade information
* Added verbosity (-v, --verbose) to install command
* Added screenshots (-s, --screenshots) to install command to download livery screenshots from DCSUF
* Added executable arguments for running commands on launch (use help for more info)
