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Greetings everyone! To make a long story short, I've always wanted to do a fleet project, and I have started by working on the All Nippon Airways 777-300ER fleet. I will be making them as accurate as possible as I have access to primary internal resources (Unfortunately I cannot share with anyone ;( ) but I will do my best to make them as accurate as possible. As PMDG prepares to rollout the -200/ER, I will do those aircraft accordingly. Enjoy! I have no experience with PBR, so when the time comes, I may ask anyone who is willing to assist once that update is public. I can't wait to give you all the most accurate depiction of this beautiful fleet. Details which wi…

So, I've been wanting to change some aspects of the Jabiru from Iris on a couple of their Liveries to match the NNumber that I usually use when Flying in MSFS. What format do I have to save the altered file to with the new N-Number? Is there also a config file I have to update for it tread the new NNumber like the prior versions? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!

I recently shared a youtube link (in another post here) to a video tutorial for painting directly onto the 3D model - here's another one which basically tells you the same but is slightly more useful in that you can scroll over the timeline and navigate to whatever part takes your fancy by reading the titles on the timeline. 3D painting tutorial What does become apparent, however, is that if you are unfamiliar with Blender, you can miss a lot of different ways to do certain things. In the tute above the guy shows you how to hide all unselected parts of the model. This is really great, so how do you unhide? He doesn't mention it - so for an old knacker like me y…

Hello Is there an easier way to paint winglets than what I am doing now? As you can see in the attached pictures its impossible to paint within the lines this way. This particular file does not have layers so I am not sure how to isolate a certain area. I am very new to repainting. I am using Photoshop CC 2019. https://prnt.sc/vdl1jj https://prnt.sc/vdl1wb

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Everytime I open a different aircraft to try making a different texture I get a new problem. The image below shows my dilemma on the Extra 330. I've solved the matter of hiding the aircraft registration decal, but despite blanking out the decal albedo texture (as you can do on the C172) I still get the main airframe paint decal forced upon me by the model. Those grey areas are in fact mirror-like when you have the sun shining at them and, more to the point, they physically overlay any user desired paintscheme. The two small white patches (nose and tail fin) are the Extra logos - and before you tell me these MUST be there, I could point you at realworld versions that do no…

After much pain and agony, I am starting to understand the texture layout of the msfs 2020 default C172 When this is finished, I hope it'll look like the one I did for the A2A C182

Sorry drag the MSF stuff into this tranquil corner of AVSIM, but has anyone got any insider knowledge of painting possibilities in MSF? I hate to think my last paint will be for P3D.

Well, I bought Alpha Ka-27/32 Helix, But the Korean on the side (해양경찰, Coast Guard) with Ka-32S, But the writing was little bit annoying. So I tried to edit the skin, but... I couldn't edit the skin. It doesn't work with DXTBmp, and other dds viewers. I changed name the .bmp with .dds, the texture broke. How can I see/edit the locked? .bmp texture?

Good evening everyone, First time poster here and have an interest in repainting aircraft. I would like know what kind of software/programs you use. I travel for a living (not so much now unfortunately) but wanted to know if you can do this type of work on a tablet, more specifically a Microsoft tablet. I have a MacBook pro but I am pretty sure that wont cut it since its apple. Any info/advice is greatly appreciated! Kind Regards, Ryan E.

Hi there, I am new to the world of livery painting I am currently making a livery for the NGXu, and I have run into an issue. I am not able to change the vc registration plate. can someone please explain to me, how to change the plate in Photoshop thank you !

So, I'm getting to grips with making new liveries - currently mostly GA - and one of the problems that seems to be causing me a real headache is getting the angles correct when a curved shape (i.e like you see here - https://murmerair.com/wp-content/gallery/paint-schemes/pilatus-pc12-scheme-2.jpg ) runs across multiple parts of a texture sheet, or even an entirely different sheet. I can line up the two shapes (with a hefty dose of trial - error - shift it down by 3px etc) but whenever I try to make a new shape to continue a smooth bezier curve on another part of the sheet, I just can't quite seem to get the angles 'right'. Is there some tip / trick to getting this r…

Hello guys. Sorry for starting new topic, but I did not find any information. The problem is. I painted a new livery for PMDG Boeing 737-600NGXu for P3Dv4, but it incorrectly displays with black reflection on it. Livery for 737-800NGXu displays correctly. Who knows what the issue? (Sorry for link, I don't know how to insert image) 737-600

Hi Folks. I am fairly new to re-painting although I have reworked a few registrations on various fuselages. I am using FSX and Paint Shop Pro 2020 (PSP) in Windows 10 64 bit. I am re-painting the Carenado Phenom 300 and I know that it is a difficult one to start with. However, I am quite patient and careful and am taking my time. So far I am reasonably pleased with my work on the engine cowling registrations. I have not attempted the bezier curves yet for the stripes. Something to look forward to!! Anyway, I need some advice and perhaps a tip or two regarding the DDS texture Alpha channel. It has disappeared from DXTbmp!! Here is my work flow, bear in mind that …

Good evening, who by chance has the paintkids of the C208 wilco / feelthere, I need it to make some textures for personal use, thanks

I am not sure if I open this topic in the correct section... I really love this airplane. I got it o Steam and it came with 3 paints (1AF,1 KLM, and all others are full blanc/white). I am with fsx for years but I am new to Steam Edition. As far as I know, in Steam Edition, the aircrafts bought from Steam Store goes to DLC folder in fsx directory. I don`t have any folder that belongs to CLS DC-10 in simobjects so all the CLS DC-10 folders are in DLC - Aircraft Folder - Simobjects - Aircrafts - Aircraft Folder(s) I downloaded various liveries including official ones...And tried to install but I don`t see any of them. My question is: I am sure I ins…

Hey Everyone, It's my first time on this forum and i dont know if im correct here but i've got a question: I want to repaint several Dutch F-16B models for the iris F-16D but I dont have the paintkit anymore! Is there maybe anyone who can help me? Kind Regards, Timo Brouwer

Goodnight: We are starting to update the liveries that our V.A. to update in IVAO. The previous ones are very old and we have nothing of the previous paintings. We will paint them in photoshop that a colleague who has some experience in the program takes care of. We are looking for painkits and I do not know how to do it because I have found several on the web but I do not know if they are copyrighted, and before making mistakes I prefer to ask and get help from more accustomed people. To start we will paint a320 / b738 / c172 and b744. Could you give me a hand where to get the blank painkits to start from there. Thank you very much for your hel…

Hello all, I have recently been attempting to recreate G-BXAB Onto the carenado PA28 Archer II. Unfortuationally I am having quite a few issues. Could someone assist me please? I am happy to send the files over. https://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewsimpson85/26903012896

It's been several weeks since I opened up this project and I forgot what the hexcode was. Pressing alt+b does not give me the same color as the rest of the color on the repaint. Am I screwed?

Hi , good afternon I've been painting a personal texture for the c182, but I can't make it work. I leave photos below, in advance thank you very much Spoiler

For my first repaints I'm giving a few BA world tail 747s a go: So far my experience is quite nice. It is nifty using a stylus instead of a mouse for a lot of work. Right now I am trying mobile Photoshop. Next I am going to try using Easycanvas to use the iPad as a drawing tablet for desktop Photoshop, and finally, Procreate. Has anyone else tried repainting with an iPad or other tablet? How did it go?

I been looking around for a very long time for a repaint ERJ 175 of Horizon Air they do fly them but way have no one made a repaint for ERJ 175 they made repaint for every other ERJ 175 but not for Horizon Air they only have one I know of for FS2004 but I have P3Dv4; yet I haven't seen any repaint. can someone help me to find one please

Hi all, I have made a repaint on Photoshop, matching what I found as a template from a working livery B 737-800 from X plane 11. The repaint "image " looks great! But when I load the plane , the livery does not appear! what are the files that need to be created, and then in which folders do the go???

Recently I've been looking around for a paintkit for the TFS A330-300. After messing with the Wayback machine a little bit I found a text-only version of the TFS website and tried to see if I could get anywhere with that. However, the download links for the specific A330 paintkit I was looking for were broken. I was wondering, are the TFS paintkits available anywhere else on the web? If not, are there any other good A330 AI models with a paintkit that I could use?