In order to not have the wing sprites flicker you must go into the Wingcat mod files and replace the default sprites with your desired cosmetic. (It's not as hard as it might sound, I promise.)

First, you get the .png file of whatever cosmetic you wish to use. If it's from the workshop, go into the cosmetic's mod files and copy the .png file.

The file path should be C drive > program files x86 > steam > steamapps > workshop > content > 312520

From there you search for the workshop ID, which you can get by clicking on the share button of a workshop item. The string of numbers at the end is the ID.

Then you go into the mod's "dressmyslugcat" folder, and find the desired cosmetic among the folders. The .png file should be named "wingcatwing".

Now go back and search Wingcat's workshop ID (Should be 3021911328), go into the "atlases" folder, and delete or rename the wingcatwing.png in there (DO NOT TOUCH THE TXT FILE). Then paste your own wingcat cosmetic in. Make sure that your cosmetic .png is named "wingcatwing" or else the game will not load!

Finally, open up the game and ensure that you have "default" selected in the DMS menu. Your cosmetic should now be working with no flickering whatsoever!

This workaround is not perfect. While it does solve the flickering issue, changing wing cosmetics is inconvenient and in multiplayer everyone is forced to use the same wing cosmetic.

If you plan on switching wing cosmetics often, I recommend pinning the Wingcat Atlases folder to quick access and putting all the .png files of the cosmetics you wish to use in there. Whichever .png is named "wingcatwing" is the one that will be used. Just ensure that only one .png is named "wingcatwing" at a time!

An alternate solution is to replace the default Wingcat wing sprites with an empty (completely transparent) .png file and selecting cosmetics through the DMS menu like normal. This reintroduces the flickering issue, but it looks better than if it were flickering between two different sprites, and allows different players to use different cosmetics.


I hope that one day the DMS issue will be fixed and this guide will be obsolete.