Vanilla Planes disappeared from selection menu

[giopanda]

hello guys,
i'm having a problem and it's pretty straightforward.

following this thread > Adding a 3rd Party Aircraft, where a Stock One Already Exists
i wanted to add the (3W) tag at both vanilla A-10 to separate them from mods.
once i edited the files the planes disappeared from the selection menu, so i went back and restored the files as they were.
but now both planes are still missing.
no problem with the mods before or after this change, only the vanilla planes.
it's not game breaking as i'm planning to use modded planes, but i was wondering what went wrong.

thanks!

[Gepard]

What excactly have you edited? Did you only renamed the files or did you change something in the files?

[Wrench]

easiest way to bring them all back, is RENAME the existing mod folder, then run the exe again. That'll rebuild it. Then, and ONLY Then, start re-adding your mods.

And just to be sure DO NOT RENAME THE EXISTING 3RD WIRE AIRCRAFT !!! You want to make a "special version", clone the original and rename that one. That way, hopefully, you screw up the existing one(s). And honestly, there ain't nothing wrong with the stock ones.

The instructions I wrote in the linked post was simply because a shitload of MiGs were arriving, and we needed some way for DUEs to deconflict the stock ones.

And just to be clear, what EXACTLY were you attempting to do???.  Describe in detail, please. The only modded Hogs I know of, are add-ons, not 3W. 

[giopanda]

3 hours ago, Gepard said:

What excactly have you edited? Did you only renamed the files or did you change something in the files?

this is what i edited:
folder A-10A became A-10A_3W
A-10A.ini became A-10A_3W.ini
AircraftFullName=A-10A Thunderbolt II became AircraftFullName=A-10A Thunderbolt II (3W)

same for the A-10A_78

 

 

2 hours ago, Wrench said:

easiest way to bring them all back, is RENAME the existing mod folder, then run the exe again. That'll rebuild it. Then, and ONLY Then, start re-adding your mods.

And just to be sure DO NOT RENAME THE EXISTING 3RD WIRE AIRCRAFT !!! You want to make a "special version", clone the original and rename that one. That way, hopefully, you screw up the existing one(s). And honestly, there ain't nothing wrong with the stock ones.

The instructions I wrote in the linked post was simply because a shitload of MiGs were arriving, and we needed some way for DUEs to deconflict the stock ones.

And just to be clear, what EXACTLY were you attempting to do???.  Describe in detail, please. The only modded Hogs I know of, are add-ons, not 3W. 

well i was trying to do what the title of your post says, just to recognize vanilla planes at a glance in the selection menu

 

edit:

i moved the Aircraft folder on the desktop, restarted the game and in the newly rebuilt folder both vanilla planes are there.
weird that the new folders and files are exactly the same as the one that don't work 

Edited 2 minutes ago by giopanda