The Paint Shop - The Aircraft Painter's Forum - How To

Hi There, I am nugget, just started learning how to paint. I've got the tools, PCS3 a book on how to use it and so far I have been doing Ok with getting colour on the .psd files. My problem is getting them to work in FSX. I painted a bmp yellow, because I am still learning, no fancy images just all yellow. From the paint kit I have 3 layers, 1.) fuselage, 2.) paint (which is the colour layer)3.) Details I checked in 'channels' and there already is a alpha channel so I didn't have to fiddle with that. So no problem, I painted it layer 2 yellow and as instructed in the paint kit... "New in the FSX Repaint Kit:Lightmaps have to be generated separately now: When you finished …

Hello all,I am currently looking for an established virtual airline to paint for. you can contact me at [email protected] for more details and a sample of my work.Thankyou,Jeremy

I know what I used to do in DXTBMP to reduce 32bit testures to DXT3 in FS9 - and just tried to do the same in FSx (saving to DDS DXT5 textures instead) -- but WOOPS - it did WEIRD things to the a/c.Could somebody kindly point me towards a walkthroughThanks Barry

Hi there. I hope this is the right place for this, but I am having a tough time with Dieter Barthelmeus' repaints of the new Republic EMB-170s painted with the Frontier animals. I have all of his repaints installed on this AIA model and also have 2 Shuttle America and 2 USAir repaints as well. I'd say about 80% of the time, the Republics show up black (no textures). I have no problems with the other four repaints.Can anyone help me with what is causing this? I am running FSX on a 8800GTS 256MB video card on a 3.0GHz dual core Athlon processor. These are the only repaints I have problems with, and I have a ton of WoAI and custom AI installed. Thanks.

Is there a software limit or can one make them as big as the hardware could handle???Cheers!

Hello together,I was searching for a long time for a LH Regional Repaint of the CRJ900, but couldn

I am looking for FSX PMDG-747 TWA repaint . Any luck??Sanal

This may be a dumb question (and if you believe there are no dumb questions watch a video of the news hawks at one of Rumsfeld's briefings during the early phase of the Iraq invasion) but I'm gonna ask it anyhow. Here goes.How would one go about turning OFF the registration number on a model that is configured to do so? Until yesterday I had never assayed to repaint one of the default models. All was well until I brought the new livery up in FS9. Lo and behold there, behind the reg # I put in the fuselage texture, was the reg # in white in smaller letters.How can I get that built in reg # to go away? CAN I get the built in reg # to go away?Crossing fingers, toes and …

Hi,As I am finishing up and testing my AC I have noticed a difference in the shine on one side of the fuselage vs the other side and I was wondering if there was a way to "strip" the aplha layer off.If I added white as an alpha or something just a touch grey will there be less shine?Thanks,

Hi.I`m searching for a creative, hard working fleet painter, for a new virtual airline. This new virtual airline will have apx. 20 different aircraft types. Fleet painter will have all possibilities to make the layout and paint of the new aircrafts. :DPlease contact me at: ceo at virtualwideroe dot org

Hello All, Today I editited the paint of the right vertical stablizer on an Air Tahiti Nui Repaint repaint for Wilco's Volume II Airbus series (repaint is found on their website). I did the edit with the default Paint program and saved my work. After loading the aircraft on flight sim 2004, the whole right side of the aircraft was blank (the texture that i edited). I'm really new at painting and am realy hoping someone can help me out!Dylan

Hi, This is from Wilco Airbus Vol 2, Rolls-Royce Variant. All they provided in the paintkit for the engines are .bmp's (one layer). I am not very good at drawing yet and I was wondering if anyone has created a layered version. In the meantime I am trying to figure out how to create a version that I can work with... add color other than white as many airlines paint thier engines.

Hi all, I am new to the repaint forum, but have always wanted something. There are some good repaints in Virgin Atlantic colours for the PMDG 747, but not G-VXLG? This was the well known aircraft that was used on ITVV VS019 (LHR-SFO). Is there anybody who can maybe just change the registration of an existing repaint, or create one?Thank you a lot James Andrews

Does any one know where I can find a paint kit for the FSX default Grumman Goose and Learjet 45?Alternatively, how would I go about creating such paintkits myself?

I'm a newbie here so please bear with me.I'm trying to paint the Tinmouse II. I can get the wings and tail ok. But I cannot seem to get the fuselage right. The fuselage in the paintkit comes with one template in psd format. I see that other people who have painted the same model have four different bmp's for the fuselage. What is the process to get four bmp images out of the one template? Thanks in advance. I have read other posts on this topic and I am still confused. Thank you.

I noticed recently that in some of the repaints I have for the PMDG 747 the texture for the tires are missing. I thought about just copying the textures from another repaint but I have no idea which one to copy or if that is even possible. Could someone help me figure this out?

I am creating a repaint for the PMDG Beech 1900D, but in fsx the textures don't appear. The whole aircraft appears black. How to I fix it?

Hey all,I am practically brand new to painting and just started painting a PMDG 747-400F paint and have gotten about halfway done with it and have been attempting to load it into FS9 with no luck so far. I have FSRepaint and it loads into FSR just fine with no problems.I saved the BMPs as DXT3's in DXTBmp and made, what I think, is the proper entry into the Airplane.cfg entry in the 'PMDG747-400F' folder. I copied the entry from the first paint entry [fltsim.0] and just changed the texture reference folder to my aircrafts folder and the number in the sequence. I haven't been able to find out why it loads properly into FSR but not in FS9. The texture name doesn't even s…

Does anyone know of a repaint of the MAAM DC-3 Passenger version in Lake Central Airlines livery? I have found one for the default FS9 DC-3, but nothing for MAAM's version...Thanks,Steve in Kansas

Can any of the great painters out there please paint this one. The Tokyo Disney Seas JAL was an amazing paint job. It would look great on the PMDG 747-400.Thank you,Jonathanhttp://www.airliners.net/open.file/0291296/L/http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0275685/M/http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0600008/L/

This is the first time I am painting a small (in fact really tiny) jet trainer.For this livery I use the fantastic Fouga Magister by A. Chancel, J-P Langer, J-P Bourgeois, B. Dube and M. Hardouin which can be downloaded from http://restauravia.comSome screens to give an impression.I welcome comments.Leen de Jagerhttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/186353.jpghttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/186354.jpg

Sorry for the dumb question. I am doing repaints using Photoshop Cs2 and I want to view my progress and to see if lines fit. How do I open up my work so I can view it using FsRepaint? I have the free demo version. Thanks ahead.

Is there anyone out there that has managed to get FSRepaint to work with Vista 32-bit. I have Version 2.0 and it won't load. The system gives a DX Error indicating there is no 3D device blah, blah. I've talked to Abacus and the developer until I'm blue in the face. They were supposed to be working on a solution but I haven't heard from them in months.fb

Although I do render graphics and so forth, I've not tried doing a repaint before.Here is my first repaint, and is 'work-in-progress'.It is for the C-130E by Captain Sim.Since I am only a casual simmer, I'd appreciate any feedback from you serious simmers about this fictious airline livery. Does it look right, does it make sense.I notice many commercial schemes have bare metal on the underside, is there a technical reason for this?Cheers!

Hey guys, I'm having trouble figuring out the FSX version (had a similar issue with the FS9 version) 747 belly. The color is ALWAYS mismatched, and I can't seem to figure out how to get it to match with the main fuselage.I've been looking around and I've found various files that fix these problems in textures already produced, but I can't find how this is done with the photoshop layers, etc. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!