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Hi,Trying to get from this:to this:Worn out metallic textures clearly hard to do. Have not found any tutorials on how to go about making these. Any ideas/? Thanks in advance,regards,Macs

The team behind the real-world version of this have put their paperwork in for the Permit to Fly and I have been given permission to "...do go ahead and release your wonderful version of G-KLAW!"The livery is so new that I actually had it airborne before the real plane took off, and now all visitors to my website can help themselves to a copy. In fact, I ma well even upload this to the library...

I have several F-4 models in FSX that the cockpit glass is not visible. I am running SP1. I looked at the texture bmp's and have the UV bmp's but I have no idea at all as to what I have to do with the textures to make the glass visible. Can anyone please help me to get the glass visible on these planes? Someone told me it was because SP1 does not read the textures correctly. If I look at the models in FS Repaint the glass shows up OK. The planes are imports from FS9. Many other my FS9 imports do not have missing glass. Thanks, regards, Bob.

Hallo guys!I´m trying to make a Air Berlin paint for the Wilco A319 because I wasn´t able to find a existing paint for Air Berlin!The 32-bit bmp looks like that:But in flightsimulator it looks very blurred!Look at the "AIRBUS" and compare it with the .bmp file:Can you see the difference?So what is wrong?I saved the texture as "32-bit bmp 8-888"and the aircraft setings in Flight Simulator are ultrahigh.Please help me!

I'm writing to ask assistance. I'd appreciate hearing from someone who knows how the textures are mapped for Bill Lyons' FS9 Goose.The mapping scheme is quirky and difficult to sort out. There are areas that I'd like to modify, but, even after much effort, I can't identify. Also, If anyone has the model from the original windrifters payware release, I would appreciate a copy. I believe the mapping was changed from the original for the freeware release.My thanks.Michael Verlin

As the title says, this is just something I am working on while I wait to finalise other projects... Enjoy.

Hi there,I am looking to do an SAS repaint but I need to know how to get the silvery white fuse colours for the aircaft. I am looking to do the paint for Captain Sim 767, If anyone can help me out it would be great,thanks in advance hellifieldlad

Does anyone here get involved with small aircraft painting? All I see are posts about jet liners and it makes me think almost that Avsim readers are only interested in these. Just curious...

Hello can someone tell me why my request is been deleted?I am please waiting on a explanation why is [email protected] you.

And here is another livery that has been approved by the real world copyright holder:This one is now downloadable on my website - go help yourselves and read the readme for copyrights etc.The next one due out of my paintshop will be this one:

I have painted a wilco a380 in my own custom livery, but when i load the plane into fsx the whole plane is all metal like and reflective. Not even close to resembling my livery its like it cant draw it.... help plz this is driving me crazy

Hello all,I am trying to edit an existing paint into something slightly different and I am using paint.net to go about it. The paint textures are .dds files. My question is, how are these 2d drawings interpreted by FSX as 3d? What exactly is the process? I would like to understand the inner works of how FSX uses these .dds files.

I was pointed in the direction of this website by a fan and immediately fell in love with that multi directional flip-flop effect. So I just had to do it...She's readyHave a play and then compile your list of faults for meYou can find this download at the bottom of this page.This one was an interesting challenge to repaint for the sim. First of all, the real world one is a Pitts and there are now really suitable Pittses for FSX - YET. Secondly, the real livery is all flip-flop paints and really irridescent.(I know, I should also upload this to the Avsim Library, but ever since the hackattack, my backlog is almost three hundred paints to be checked and re-loaded. I need a …

737-400 Citybird OO-CTW "WoodPecker" ^_^

I've attempted myself on a repaint of the Wilco A340-600. Now, what I did was basically edit the bitmap in Photoshop, save a new textures folder and of course add that to the CFG. Now, what the problem is, which I can't work out, is that the bitmaps that I have edited, now appear to be a shiney metal colour on the aircraft rather than what I had intended. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Hi guys,I am working on a new livery for my airline, and i am about to go nuts. The last piece i want to paint is the front wheel cover. I use DXTBmp to convert the original texture to bmp, edit with Photoshop and reconvert it with DXTBmp again to extended textures. But it never shows in FS. When I apply the same procedure to 737-700 instead of 777-800, i can paint the texture and it shows in FS. I also tried to copy the working texture from 737 and paste it to 738, but i was not successful.Please help me keep my sanity.

Good day everyonefollowing the arrival of Alitalia's first new Airbus A330-200s, i have decided to design their livery for the Wilco "Airbus Series Vol2" model. The paint itself is complete, photoreal for as much as possible and including both exterior and interior. The problem is that a friend of mine reports a problem with the texture alignment between the mid and aft sections of the fusolage which doesn't show up when I run the livery in FS9. I have aligned the two sides differently for this purpose: the left side is the configuration that comes out aligned in my system and the right side is with the textures aligned as per paintkit. To him, they both are not aligned. …

Repainting that now... , is the Project Airbus model for fsx

Hi there, can someone please posts a walkthrough tuto that explains step by step how to paint the pmdg 747-400's paintkit (for fs9)?I have photoshop cs2, dxtbmp, the gimp and photophiltre but i don't know how to do.Thank you in advance for your help.Sobou.

This is a repaint of the Project Airbus fsx model A320 in the colours of mexican airline Interjet: ...

Alright, I just recently copied and edited the main fuselage section of the United Airlines 757-200 from PSS, I put it into the configuration file and matched it with it's proper texture but it still is not showing up on my aircraft selection.

Hey guys,I tried for hours trying to paint this myself and watched numerous tutorials, i just couldnt get it down. Would someone be able to help me out and repaint the default lear 45 as shown in the pictures above. The only change is the registration went from N103LS to N719JB and theres no longer a decal on the tail (Its and all white tail)! Thanks so much!!Edited by LeenPlease read this http://forum.avsim.net/topic/292763-avsim-airlinersnet-policy/AND a Repaint Request schould be posted at the Repaint Request Forum. http://forum.avsim.net/forum/217-the-paint-request-forum/

United Airlines old colours 747-400

I am currently working on a repaint for the PSS 777-300ER in the Singapore Airlines Livery. I have completed the right side of the aircraft (Hand Painted) as well as the vertical stab. I have exported them both to the PSS 777 template and it looks great! However, I don't know where to go from here! All of the files are .PSD and I don't know whether the left side of the aircraft needs to be mirrored or not. Help is greatly appreciated! Thanks, operateenI

Hello, I have just released my F-16I Sufa, it can be found here: http://www.mediafire.com/file/5x6xjgbja5ku9ls/f16i_sufa.rarThis is a repaint of the Kirk Ollson F-16D CFT Model, modified and enhanced to form the F-16I Sufa. The repaint is an Israeli Air Force F-16I Sufa, of the Negev Squadron, noticably the "Blue Falcon Tail" Israeli F-16. The repaint and tail is photorealistic with many photos used to create the repaint. if you have any comments or questions, please visit my website at: http://www.highskygraphical.co.cc/The original model is made by Kirk OllsonRepaint made by Joseph Botros -------------------------------------------This is an FSX-ONLY Model and Repaint, …