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Hello, still flyign FS2004 and the PMDG Beechcraft B1900D and fly for Infinity-Air.de. So I wish to make a livery for the Beech but cannot find on PMDG Site precisionmanuals.com any paintkit for the aircraft Also on my DVD isn't anything but the liveries. what are shipped with the Box. Anyone an idea, where to get the templates? Thanks a lot Julian

Hi Folks, Would anyone be willing to modify a texture.bmp for me that replaces the N-Number on the Carenado "Electric Blue" texture - T210 for Prepar3D v4? Although that model is not representative of a 1981, I had a 1981 T210 with an N-Number of N274HA, and I would very much like to change the N-Number on the Electric Blue to N274HA. Appreciate anyone's help. I don't have photo shop or DXTBmp. Paul D. Williams [email protected]

Hello all of Avsim forums :) I'm Ben Now I've been having some problems with my A2A C172. When I download a repaint that says it has cockpit modifications and install the repaint. And install it correctly, I go into the sim thinking that the cockpit will have changed. Well, the exterior has changed but the cockpit hasn't. I know for a Fact there are cockpit modifications because Matt Davies-Belynz Has used them. Please Help! :) Ben :)

Greetings, I'm new to P3Dv4 with a question - I've read FSX aircraft textures are not necessarily compatible with P3DV4. What I'm looking to do is change a stock registration in the Carenado T210M from - N782S (stock red paint) to my custom registration - N77CP using the same stock red paint. Is that easily accomplished? Thanks / Les Parson

Can a FS2004 repaint file be imported for use in FSX?

Its a well constructed model with a quite a fair bit of detail, if you have your realism settings turned right up, its a great thing to fly anyway, a new developer who knows how map and include spec and bump mapping and doesn't promise the world in fde is always a great start now the paints begin

Hi community, I sterted with my first ever AS repaint about two weeks ago. I started and finished painting flyNiki opd. by Belair HB-JOU. Everything went fine and everything looks perfect. As this livery is finished, I started a new one. OE-LCG. Painted and painted, converted all the necessary .psd files into .dds files (with DXTBmp) and put it into one texture folder. Created the entry for the aircraft.cfg and started P3D. The result shows me darker textures on almost the whole fuselage. A screenshot: https://abload.de/img/screenshot5065mpu3.png

Just wondering if it's possible to add bump and spec layers to freeware aircraft such as Posky and TDS. Without them, the aircraft looks very matte, flat and boring.

Well...I fell as though I'm suffering from "Buyer's Remorse". lol I'm a big fan of the Cessna 310R, and I already own the MilViz 310R, so I purchased the Alabeo 310R II a couple of days ago because I was hoping that it would be that much better than my MilViz version. Only seeing the video and a few screen shots, I couldn't wait to make my purchase. I loaded the new 310R II and started up FSX, selected the paint scheme that I wanted and, vuala, I'm the pilot of a...dirty old farm truck?!? Not really what I was wanting. So...I looked for a paint kit, but couldn't find one. Alabeo still hasn't replied back, and the blank scheme that they supplied us with is just as di…

Just a question for all painters here . As the title says , If a developer uses one of your repaints in the product ( DVD , download ) , having asked for permission to do so , would you expect to get paid for it ? Same applies to a mention in the product manual . John Glanville

What's the font? I'm repainting an aircraft for FSX and I've wanted to know the mysterious font that AA uses on their tail reg. It's not the AA font (American Sans) for all I know. If you can, please try to give a font that looks similar to the one below:

Hi guys, Well I'm doing my first paint and I've tried to do everything on my own but I'm starting to get stuck. I'm having an issue getting the textures to wrap correctly on the fuselage. Picture attached, please forgive the Alaskan tail as I borrowed that as my base file and haven't painted the tail yet. Makes ZERO sense to me why the center of the vertical stabilizer is NOT the center of the paint area. I know about the gap between the white and grey stripe, that's on me not the wrapping. Any tips on how to get this thing mirrored correctly? I figured out the trick with setting up the lines correctly on between fuselage sections 2 and 3... …

Hello Just wondering if anyone could do the repaints attached in the word doc. Thanks in advance.https://www.dropbox.com/s/cn7claoha6srssc/Doc1.docx?dl=0

For those who might be interested in repainting aircraft for P3DV4, FS RePaint has just updated their product! http://www.fsrepaint.com.br/fsrepainting/ Best regards, Jim

Today a devoper made me very unhappy ( or he just trried , in an XP11 related discussion ) He wrote: I think custom liveries will disappear when real PBR textures will be released. since they are impossible to properly produce without having the source object it will be the end of home-made liveries. I say that proper editing of PBR files are made using 3D tools such as substance painter (which requires the 3D model), not photoshop or similar. All is in the term "proper", which for instance does not apply to the XP11 version of XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX by XXXXXXXXX If this is true it will mean repainting will not be possible anymore , as painters do not ha…

I have the Chipmunk by Khamsin for a few years now. Great plane love it. Now a new version for XP11 is available V1.2. This is about the same verion as the one for XP10. I could not withstand the temptation of making a bare metal levery. Just added the command NORMAL_METALNES to three OBJ files and made some textures and normals. https://www.dropbox.com/s/c1g8qbcljjem5pm/Desktop 07.19.2017 - 19.25.09.02.mp4?dl=0 Download and play in your best video-player ,

Went to save an important dds texture I was working on and windows 10 crashed so now that dds file will not open with DXTBmp. Is there anyway to fix it or is there a program that can open a corrupt dds file?

I downloaded the A2A 172 pilot headset mod from the library. I replaced the 'characters' (dds) file in the 172 main texture folder after renaming and moving the original. I still get the pilot without the headset. I tried changing to a different pilot and back. I tried rebooting. I don't know what else to do. Where could it be getting the original pilot (without the David Clarke headset? Does it cache this somewhere? Is there something else I have to do or get to make this work?

Hi all I have a really frustrating problem. I have followed numerous tutorials on youtube for using the 737 ngx paintkit and everything goes well until I load it in fsx. The wings and tail show up perfect but the fuselage and wingtips have disappeared. So just wondered if anyone has any idea what I might be doing wrong. Thanks in advance, Pete

Hi there everyone. While waiting for addon aircraft to become available for P3Dv4, I copied and pasted the CRJ700 from FSX into P3D and it worked great, but the textures leave a lot to be desired, Panel text being extremely difficult to read on a night flight, so I have started to retexture the VC night lighting, all text and panels with double the texture resolution from scratch as seen below. Typically, I have just bought the Virtualcol CRJ pack, so may not need to use these much anymore, lol, but someone may like them? I have also started to remake MyTraffic 6 liveries to their newer updated versions, so far done some Airbus : Mexicana, China Eastern,…

Hi folks. After being out of painting for a while I am wanting to get back into it. Needless to say, I am out of practice and am in search of a good graphics editor that won't break the bank. I am somewhat familiar with Photoshop (I did use CS2 but no longer have it), but the cost for CC is just not in my budget. I have considered GIMP, but my past experiences have not been very positive in that it was not very intuitive. Maybe I should give it another go? I have been doing some research on Photoshop alternatives and came across a newer software called Affinity Photo, which costs about $40 USD. It looks like a solid performer but it cannot save files in DDS format. H…

Hi, I'm in the process of doing a repaint on the PMDG 747 and am having a little trouble aligning a logo that runs from the tail down and onto the rear fuselage. Does anyone know know how to achieve this so it all lines up perfectly on the model when loaded in the sim. Thanks John

HI, can someone link me the repaint G-SARD HM Coast Guard for the ICARO AW139 for FSX/P3D, ive been looking everyone but cant find it much appreciate if someone could thanks

Hi everyone, I have seen different textures painted by very good people in this community. But what I would like to know is, how do you add subtle effects to textures? I'm talking like the little shine across the tail which makes it look so much more realistic and all of them little nitty gritty parts which make a repaint look that much better. I'm currently painting on the CLS A330 fwiw, N388HA Hawaiian 2017 Revised Livery.