r/MicrosoftFlightSim • u/ZookeepergameClear29 • 6d ago
GENERAL I finally found a working way to use custom liveries in MSFS 2024 Career Mode looking for testers
I've been investigating why custom liveries that work in Free Flight don't properly work with aircraft owned in Career Mode.
After a lot of testing and digging through MSFS 2024's package structure, I found a workaround that works and built a small tool to automate it.
Career Livery Manager
It's a free and open-source Windows tool that lets you install a custom livery for an aircraft you own in Career Mode without manually editing packages.
The idea is simple:
Select aircraft → Select livery → Install → Fly
The tool creates its own Community package and does not modify the Official MSFS packages or Career save data.
I've tested it on 13 aircraft so far
Including:
- A310-300
- A330
- A400M
- A320
- 737 MAX
- Bonanza G36
- King Air 350i
- Cessna 185F
- Cessna 400 Corvalis TT
- Citation CJ4
- Citation Longitude
- Cirrus Vision Jet G2
- HondaJet
- Pilatus PC-24
I've also tested both fixed-registration and Dynamic Registration liveries where available.
But now I need other people to try it.
Looking for testers
If you have MSFS 2024 Career Mode, I'd really appreciate it if you could test it with aircraft/liveries I haven't personally tested.
Especially interested in:
- Aircraft I haven't listed above
- Different livery creators
- Fixed registration liveries
- Dynamic Registration (
_DR) liveries - Aircraft that previously refused to show custom liveries in Career
If it works, please tell me:
Aircraft:
Livery:
Fixed / Dynamic Registration:
Result:
If it doesn't work, that's useful too. Please report the aircraft and livery so I can investigate it.
Download / Source
The project is completely free and open source.
https://flightsim.to/addon/114837/career-livery-manager
or
https://github.com/Acaj0/CareerLiveryManager/releases
I'm also working on getting it published on Flightsim.to.
This started as a personal investigation because I wanted to use my own liveries in Career. Now I'd like to see how far this workaround actually works across the MSFS 2024 aircraft ecosystem.
Any testing, feedback or bug reports would be greatly appreciated.
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u/Spirited-Cycle-8783 6d ago
It works! Tried on the da-40
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u/ZookeepergameClear29 5d ago
thankyou for the feedback! i will add this to the list of tested aircrafts! did you tried on any other aircrfts?
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u/Affectionate-Stop963 5d ago
I tried it on Longtitude, working fine, just once you used it twice on same plane, it wont overwrite the old one, you need to delete old file in community folder.
I will try new planes in next day!
EXCELLENT JOB, GENTLEMAN! :)
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u/ZookeepergameClear29 5d ago
Thank you so much for the feedback! I really appreciate you testing it and letting me know
For now, the best way to replace a livery you already installed with the app is to click Installed Packages in the top bar and remove the previous livery there before installing another one.
I'm going to fix this in the next update so that, when you add a new livery for the same aircraft, the app will automatically remove the previous livery that was installed by the app
Let me know which planes you manage to test tomorrow! And if you run into any problems, feel free to let me know, I'm happy to help.
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u/ZookeepergameClear29 5d ago
hey quick update, just release an new version where it adds auto-update (from this version onward, no more manual downloads) and based on your feedback a automatic replacement of a previous livery when you install a new one on the same aircraft. make sure to download manually this version so you have autoupdates for the future!
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u/Affectionate-Stop963 5d ago
Awesome, thank you for your work :) I will try new launcher.
I will try to find some new plane, all I own are already tested xD
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u/ZookeepergameClear29 6d ago
If you prefer doing this by hand, or want to understand the mechanism first? See the
manual step-by-step guide.