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How do I get the resolution of the cockpit's I am repainting higher?In these pictures I have up-loaded the yellow arrows point to bleed over and the red arrows point to dithering around the gaugesThe virtual cockpit file that is in the texture folder is clean but FSX makes it low rez, Why and How can I make it better.52Zebra

I'm trying to get an FS9 plane to work in FSX - all works fine except that, after a few seconds, the instrument panel of the vc starts to flicker and I can see the runway through it. It's not transparent but about 50%. If I zoom out enough this effect disappears. Any ideas how I could correct this please?ThanksDave

I'm trying to get a Jet City 717 paint kit. According to their website the paint kit was lost when the site was hacked, but the has not be re-uploaded. Would there be a chance that someone here would happen to have a copy of the paint kit saved somewhere?I've tried emailing them a dozen times and have never gotten a reply.Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.CheersAri

Hello, i'm 12 years old, im the smallest aircraft painter :DFor FSX FS9Credits :Aircraft : POSKY 737-800WReg. : TC-JFVName : TunceliAirlines: Turkish AirlinesPainter : Mehmetcan Özdoğan (memo1998)http://www.box.net/shared/pjx727xrqo

Guy'sAny ideia where a can get the MCDONNELL DOUGLAS and CONVAIR(for the 990) FONT'S? ThanksAndre

I opened a showcase for my X-Plane repaints.Ohh yes I know they are for "that ohter sim".The weird one with the American flag on it will be available for FSX/FS9 shortly.Have a peep!http://www.dutchfs.com/crew/leen/xpl/

I am trying to find the font for the Aer Lingus A320 Retro-Jet, have searched numerous font sites and have spent no less than 5 hours looking for a font to match what is on aircraft #3 with the registration EI-DEG"AER LINGUS IRISH INTERNATIONAL"If all else fails guess I will have to figure out how to create the font myself.Thanks,Robert

Does anybony know where to find a paintkit for this aircraft ... or blank textures for it ???Thanks in advanceJ J Gomez PrietoIVAO 142928

Snapped a couple of pictures of my new iFly 737-800 repaint while at the gate in Portland, OR this afternoon.

Gentlemen,Could someone tell me why my fancy new logo that I just added to my airplane presents out of focus? It's the default Beaver. I converted the DDS files with DXTBmp and edited them with Photoshop. The result looks fuzzy;The logo was created in Photoshop and looks fine as a JPEG. I did have to resize it to make it fit on the airplane, it was too big. Here's what I did, maybe you can spot what I missed. I opened the DDS texture file from the Beaver with DXTBump, flipped it and sent it to Photoshop7. The .bmp file has 1024 textures at 72 pixels/inch. I then saved the .bmp file as a .psd file, so I could add layers. I opened my logo file which was a flattened …

Having made the bird bare now its time for some paint again.Flying fast enough it will be back to bare soon.

Hi guys,I want to repaint the F4u7 Corsair: http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/syb2.cgi?section=vintage&file=F4U1ACorsairProject.zipI want to change the base colour from dark blue to any other colour i.e red, yellow or white and keep all the rivets, bolts and lines ectHow do I do this? The template is in .bmp format and not in a layered .psd?I have seen other re paints of this aircraft like the Coke Usa in Red which the painter has kept the Rivets and lines.Uly

Hello, I would like to make repaints of the CLS A330/A340 in FSRepaint, but every time I select the plane from the list, it says that FSRepaint cannot read or display the model. Is there any solution for this?

I made this skin for Carenado`s Mooney (X-Plane version)The paint is almost ready ( how ready is ready for a paint? )This will be freeware. ( as all my personal repaints are )Will be published shortly.Have a peep.http://www.dutchfs.com/crew/leen/X-Plane/pres2.png

Hi,I am working on the PMDG B-747-400 for my VA and once the day textures are finished, I am now dealing with the night textures. The default external night textures are two files "PMDG_747_FUSE_LEFT_L.bmp" and "PMDG_747_FUSE_RIGHT_L.bmp" but these only display the body fuselage. The day textures of the tail are in a file named "PMDG_747_Externals_T.bmp". There is no default "PMDG_747_Externals_L.bmp" and thus the logo cannot be seen using the default textures.I have followed Leen's indications to create a new night file for the tail part and I have named it "PMDG_747_Externals_L.bmp" but it is not seen although the file is int the right folder with the right name. Have I…

Hey guys, I recently got back into FSX and repainting, but I would still love to learn the techniques of the great painters. Now when I first got into repainting, I quickly mastered slapping paint onto an aircraft, giving it a simple "matt" look. Like this: http://www.flightsim...+ADV.jpg&idx=20(not my repaint btw, so no offence to who's ever it is)Then I learnt about Dirt, Shine e.t.c and my repaints improved from the "matt" look to something better, (no screenshot i'm afraid as I have lost all my old repaints)But I am really interested in learning the techniques to make repaints similar to POSKY quality. I'm not sure but POSKY repaints seem to be semi-photoreal, but…

Hi everybody, I´m new here but I´d like to propose one thing. Nowadays paintkits are avaiable widespread on AVSIM, Flightsim and other websites, but is difficult to find a good index of paintkits available. I´d like to sugest an index list, a pinned thread here maybe, of all the paintkits available. For example:Freesky/POSKYEmbaerERJ-135/ERJ-140/ERJ-145/Legacy 600 paintkits available at www.freeskyproject.comAerodesignsAirbusA318 - PSD - ad318_paintkit.zip (AVSIM)VistalinersBoeing727-200 - BMP - b72vlpkt.zip (Flightsim)Would be a lot easier to find the paintkits having an index like that, What do you guys think about this?post edited by moderator

...with a repaint for the default Bell 206 heli. I posted it into the library early but I thought I'd drop by and see what's new here too.

Hello all,I've been repainting aircrafts for a long time, using CLS planes LevelD PMDG... but I never tried one technique that I will explain.Usually when you resize a texture you can get a loss of quality and better performance, but what will happen when you make a double bigger size? It is supposed to have an improved and detailed texture as also a bigger file size. I've made a repaint for the PMDG747 with the Virgin Atlantic colours. I used their own paint kit, and doubled the size, then I worked with the bigger paint kit, so at first, in the game it should have a better quality.So finally the parts of the fuse and the tail where from 1024 to 2048 exported with DXTbmp …

Good morning,This is my first post in this forum where I hope to learn a lot and bother the less as possible.I have been painting aircraft for a few years and now I think I have reached an acceptable level of skills almost completely thanks to Leen de Jager who has invested (or spent, depending on the point of view) his time with me.I am now dealing with night textures for version 2011 of the aircraft of our fleet and I am not successful. I can proudly say that I am a "manual reader" and try to get information on written documents before bothering directly other people, but I have been unable to go through this although I have read the great manuals of Morgan Dainows and …

Hello all, I'm having some troubles with a repaint for this aircraft, I've done everything well in photoshop but I think it's some type of bug what you guys think ?Here are the files I edited:http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CLJHPCNPhttp://www.megaupload.com/?d=WMJIC7PRhttp://www.megaupload.com/?d=JYXP0QX1Here is what I get:http://img339.images...capturaron.jpg/Please help me, I'm going nuts with this!

Hello fellow painters,A while back, a few flight simmers with FSX developing experience decided to get together and develop a much loved aircraft in the aviation world, the McDonnell Douglas MD-11. We all loved the plane and realised that there was a gap in the freeware market for the MD-11. We looked into it and discovered the only reasonably complete free MD-11 out there was the freeware Overland one. We contacted Overland and they were happy to work with us. They gave us complete permission to make "MAJOR" changes to the freeware MD-11 and release it for FSX.We have edited almost every imaginable aspect, including flight dynamics, contact points, textures and a complet…

I saw this bird and I just fell in love with it, and I knew right away I had to paint her. Should be able to release her next week.

Okay you guys have helped in the past so I am back asking for help yet again.I want to paint a B707-700 in the livery of 1980's, the problem is I cant find one for FS9.The only thing I can think of is to paint over an existing livery. I have found one and that livery closely resembles the United livery, the problem I have is how to get rid of the old livery or create a template from that one. I am only doing this for my personal use, NOT FOR RESALE OR UPLOADING!Additionally I suck at repainting, I keep trying and it keeps me out of bars.Thanking you in advance for your considerations.Carl PS- I found the model at HJG, however they have a policy of not painting any airpla…

Shalom and greetings all my pals,I have been flying amazing and wonderful SGA DC-10-30 and freighter version without problem using many wonderful liveries that load into FSX without problems.I just downloaded new livery Arrow Cargo Air in cool lime green color for SGA DC-10 and it came out extremely bright and too glossy appearance. Is there anything I can do to correct this please?If more info on this texture is needed, it is as seen below:FS2004 Arrow Cargo Douglas DC-10-30F[ Download | View ]Name: dc-10-30f_arrow_cargo_sga.zip Size: 4,693,716 Date: 11-29-2010 Downloads: 804FS2004 Arrow Cargo Douglas DC-10-30F, registration N478CT. Includes SGA model. Painting by Erick…