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I am looking for an American Eagle repaint for the Wilco CRJ -700. Can anyone help me?

I am using the paintkit for PMDG's B1900C. There is no template for the underside of the elevators, just the top. When I open the bitmap file for the L side in the FS directory it is just black. I assume it is the inverted side of the top of the elevators. I've painted the top side but the underside doesn't show as being painted.Is there any way to paint the underside of the elevators for PMDG's 1900C?Any help most appreciated.Ken

Dear All,this is my first post on this forum so please be kind :)I have installed all the PAI packages and would like to gain framerates by reducing and converting the ai bitmaps.Ideally I would like to loose any effects and slowdown by scaling down and converting the ai bitmaps.I heard in another post I can create a batch file "imagetool -dxt1 -nomips c:whateverwhatever*.bmp"; here're the questions:1) is it possible to include a scale down by 50% in the batch file? if not, is there a quick way to do so? a program I can use?ideally a bmp dxt filter for photoshop would do: I can the setup a batch in photoshop.2) are there some bitmaps I should not convert? I heard of pro…

Gents,I am going to install FS2004 again and this time I want to add many ACFT only for AI. This includes all ACFT that are not AI specific too. Can I reduce the default's acft texture size and any other add-on acft to increase fps (I do not care about quality)? If yes, wich format? Is DXTBMP a proper tool for this? Other thing: I know that "Alpha Channels" refer to the reflections of some metal parts of the acft and I do not intend to keep it either. Can I take this out too?Is it possible to remove the Virtual cockpit too? I want my AI ACFT down to very small sizes.Pilot_76

Hi there. I've been repainting some cockpit bmps, which are in 24 bit format, using Photoshop. I've applied a smoothly gradated shadow, which looks great in Photoshop, but comes out looking very layered and ugly when loaded in the sim aircraft.Does anyone know how to avoid this layered look? The model won't accept any other format (eg.32 bit).Thanks,Mike F.

Hi where can i get the new sterling liveries with winglets for pmdg 737-800

Hi!I am having some problems with one the three repaints I have done of FSQuality's SAAB 105. The textures themself look fine, but in external view they cause the ground textures to blur and load a lower quality mip map. Has anyone else experienced this problem and does anyone know what might cause it?The textures are in Dxt3 format with no mip maps. I have attached images showing the problem. If I press "Alt" so the menu shows, the graphics are reloaded and some times, but not always, the ground textures are ok again.Thanks,Roger

Does anyone know of a Adobe PS tutorial?Thanks,Hollister

If there any thing free I can download to paint with instead of spending $700 on photoshop?

I am not literate in painting a/c. Could someone kindly paint the Level-D B7676-300 in Air Niugini (National Airline of Papua New Guinea) colors? Airliners.net should have the paint scheme there.Thanks.Graham

Does anyone out there knows how to rpair/rcover damged bmp files? Can't do any repaints at all, almost all of my airplanes textures are corrupted though FS works fine, planes are displayed OK, doesn't matter which paint program i use to open texture files (Paint Shop, Pixia, Paint) the results are alway the same, however if I use DXTBmp textures are displayed fine. Any idea? Please Help

I'm trying to repaint the default learjet for FS2002. More accurately I'm trying to make some sort of paint kit for it, nothing fancy. I've gotten that bit done but the problem is I can't get FS to recognize more than one paint scheme for the plane. I finally got it to recognize my repaint kit texture, but now it won't recognize the original white and brown texture. I've checked the aircraft.cfg file a thousand times, but maybe I missed something.[General]atc_type=Learjetatc_model=editable=0performance=Cruise SpeedtnMach 0.81 464 kts 859 kmhnnEnginestnAllied Signal TFE731-20 3,500 lb thrustnnMaximum Rangetn2,200 nm 2,532 sm t 4,074 k…

Hi!I have started to paint the SAS OC for Level-D B767, but when I go to Spot view, the right side iof the plane is kind of blury, but when I zoom in and out again, I goes normal again. But then if I go back to cockpit and out again, the prob is still there.Any help? or is it my comp?Specs:2.5 GB of ramRADEON 9800PRO3.7 Ghz AMD 64 bit

Hello everyoneI've been painting a new paint scheme for the Kittyhawk 738. I'm almost finished, and I wanted to take it for a test drive. I fired up FS(2004) and looked for my paint, and lo and behold it wasn't there. Come to think of it, NONE of the paints I had been working on were there, at least for that aircraft. Which was odd, because I had painted other aircraft using the same method, and they all showed up. I had even installed downloaded textures for it without problems. My best guess led to something being wrong in the cfg, but it looks kosher. Can anybody give me some assistance? Here's what my cfg section looks like for that new paint...[fltsim.5]title=Boeing…

Hi!Do any of you painters know how I can preview what I have painted without starting FS? I have FS Repaint, but that program uses as much time as FS use to start, and then I can just use FS. Any suhestions?Greetings from a frustrated painter

If there is anyone out there who might like to take on a nice re-paint, i would really appreciate you considering a Private 767 owned by Roman Abramovich, (Russian Billionaire).He owns P4-MES, if you anyone is interested or knows of anyone who might take on this request, please let me know. I will send you pics of the aircraft if you are interested or you can look it up on www.airliners.netI haven't purchased the aircraft yet, and will only do so if this paint job can become a reality.Thank youJason

Thought you guys might like a link to view the latest alaska airlines boeing 737-400 Disney Paintjob :0)http://vacations.alaskaair.com/as/vacation...and/Tink737.aspFly safeDave in Alaska

Hi there,I'm a newbie on this forum with some painting kits and tutorials to start with. I've recently downloaded another one - GJSmith's painting tutorial to add texture on default B737-400 .bmp and software PSP 7.0 to edit it but have a problem with mirroring the name of airline on both (left and right) sides of the aircraft, as when I hit Ctrl+M (mirror) BOTH texts flip over when only the text on the right side of the fuse should do. Maybe someone knows how to fix this problem? Thanks.IMPORTANT: I would also like to ask if anyone knows where to get default (blank) quality texture files for default MSFS2004 Boeing models (737-400, 747-400, and 777-400)? Sometimes those …

The only thing that I liked was the way you could easily do curves. I only use Photoshop (CS) now and I doubt I'd go back to PSP.. and learning how to use the path tool it is just as easy to do curves. If you have a few monents, could you kindly give an example on how to use the Path Tool to make a curved line.Thanks in advance,Ed

Hi,Have a tutorial how to make night textures (with Alpha Channel in PSP). However there is a question...I want to make a night texture of an airport apron.Concrete.r8 is used for the day, so how must I proceed ? The name must have a ..._LM, but with this .r8 I am confused. I want also to apply a light impression on it from the ramplights.Or... ?Further: I am not sure to have sufficient light by giving more brightness to the ramplights so that the apron is good illuminated at night.Greetz. Jos

I am new to repaints, but I am getting the hang of it. I have been using Paintshop Pro 9 to do some repaints of the Wings of Power P-51, which has a paint kit. Thanks to this forum for some good advice and tool suggestions!I have tried to do some repaints on planes that do not have a paint kit. I used DXTBmp to create a targa, which I could play with in PSP.I really don't understand how one goes about repainting a plane that does not have a paint kit. Is there some way to extract or save the panel lines and rivets, or do the repainters have to draw those again by hand?Sorry if this is an ignorant question. Any suggestions would be appreciated!

Hi,I have started to repaint a blank PMDG 737 with a livery, but im having trouble with the tail. I am trying to do a livery where the artwork on the tail flows onto the fuselage. Does anybody have a blank texture where the tail and fuselage is joined?Thanks in advanceJonathan

Hi.Check out my first ever repaint.PSS A320 Jenna Jameson here....http://forum.projectopensky.com/index.php?showtopic=12431Let me know what you think.Eddie

I have a special request for a PSS Airbus repaint for a project I'm working on. If anyone could help me out, or is interested, drop me an e-mail at: [email protected] or [email protected] a bunch..BeachAV8R

Obviously I'm new at this task and I'm finding it it challagening. I'm trying to put an airline name on the side of a fuselage while letting the texture colors show through around the lettering. I tried setting the text layer to 60% opacity but that lets the colors bleed through everything. I'm using PSPro 8 to do my editing with. Any sugjestions?