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Hi im a new commer and got no help on my last post so lets see about this one! Im trying to repaint Robert Versluys 7e7 model and when ever i do get a dl that i can repaint in MS Paint it wont show up when im done. Can anyone plese help me?? do i need something other than MS Paint? and y is it that when i download some airplanes it says preview not available? Help me please i love painting airplanes and want a 7e7 in my own livery! Pat

Not sure whether this is the right place to as however....I have downloaded a few repaints for the above, all I might say are very good, what I noticed though was when flying at night, when you put lights on, the aircraft becomes semi transparent, fuselage, wings everything.Anyone know what causes this and how I go about curing it.ThanksPaul

Hi guys!I would like to know if anybody out there has a clear tutorial or guide about how to use the "PSS paintkit". I have no experience on painting but I really want to learn to paint these aircrafts... and the instruction they have is not to good that we could say.Just in case, I'm using Corel Photo-Paint 11.Any help or suggestion will be highly appreciated.Thanks in advance.EDRC

I have two aircraft one is the excellent Kittyhawk 737 in AeroMexico livery and the other is the First Choice version of the A320 from iFDG both are very nice aircraft, and I thank their creators.However both use 32 bit textures with no Mip Maps and 1024 x 1024 resolution on the fuselage.When I pan around the outside of the 737 the textures remain crisp, not so the A320; beyond a certain viewing angle the textures on the A320 become very blurry - this is very puzzling.Is there a way to cure the problem?Geoff

Greetings everyone.I hate to ask a rather stupid question, but would anyone know what the best font would be for use on the registration on SWA aircraft?Simple answer I'm sure, but I figured I'd ask. :)Cheers,

Hi, I am in the process of replacing the AI fleet on UT with the more FPS models of AI aardvark.I noticed that the UT textures use MIPS and Aardvark does not.Of course the Penalty of UT would be the size of the file: 1.3Mb against the 1.0Mb for the Aardvark planes at 1024X1024 My question is: PERFORMANCE WISE... MIPS or NO MIPSI have a High end System and run AI at 100%, but a friend of mine has a slower machine and we are trying the ultimate tweak to get most bang out of his rig.

Does anyone know if there is a paintkit for the freeware Maule M-7-260??I've tried a search here at Avsim but came up empty.Thanks in advance!!

I have been all over trying to figure out what font is used for the Boeing logos. Hoping somebody will know. Thanks

Hi,Would it be possible for somebody to repaint one of the PMDG Boeing 737's in the livery of NovAir International Airways from the late eighties, early nineties. This airline holds many happy memories for me and I would love to keep it alive in Flight sim 2004. Please click the link below for a picture.http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=106648I hope that somebody can help.Many Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Nathan

Hi, Im kinda new to paiting planes. I dl alot of planes but i can only edit certin ones cause most say No Image. But if i can edit it i cant put the right color, i try to make it yellow and its red! OR i paint the plane and when i open FS its blank??? I do not have Painter Pro or anything special i got MS Paint!! Can anyone help??? Also when i DL planes i got a problem with lots of them not having any landing gear? it looks like they r floating?? can u help with this 2???Thanks PAT

I've searched the FSP sites and have not found the paint kits for these two aircraft. Does anyone out there have these kits?ThankssuperfishPS If you have one or both, please send to [email protected]

Hi,Maybe the wrong forum, but is there a painter who can paint all the different repaints of the 737-800 fleet of Transavia Holland from Kittyhawk? I'm looking for them. They are not in the library.Thanks.

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Does anyone have a decent dirt layer for the PMDG 737NG series of planes? I've been experimenting with different techniques and the resulting paint looks like I smudged chocolate icecream down the fuselage.Any help wouold be greatly appreciated.Dave HChief Operating OfficerEagle Express Virtual Airlineswww.EagleExpressVA.com

Hi there,I'm looking for someone who would be interested in painting a fleet for a new VA, which would consist of things like Airbus A320s, Boeing 737s, CRJ 900/200s, AVRO RJ100s/BAe146s etc etc. We would be based in Luton Airport with seasonal charters from Stansted, Gatwick and also places like Birmingham, EMA, and Manchester, possibly even Scotland.The name of the VA is Ima, which means "Now" in Japanese. We would be based on the Vatsim network, but possibly later FPI and/or IVAO. These are the early days of the VA, and we still need a painter and a few staff members (if you're interested, any non-painters) so email me at [email protected] and I hope to be…

Hiya folks!I am VERY new to re-painting airplanes. My first attempt just failed! :(I took one of the airplanes from the "Flight Simulator 9" folder (not one of the defaults). And I opened one of the textures and I "repainted" it using Paint.When I went to Flight Simulator when I was done, and I select the aircraft that I want to fly, the aircraft model appears in the "preview pane" but there are no textures! :'(I tried to do the exact same thing with another airplane, but it doesn't work!Also, some of the texture files on some airplanes (*.bmp) do not show or cannot be opened at all. Don't know why. Any tips!?THANX!

Hi Dan,I am the guy that once asked you to repaint a 340 in Iberia livery. Now I figured out how to repaint myself and have published a few files already.I have repainted the PSkyworks 717 in Hawaiian livery but I found that the fuselaje template is only one that acts as a mirror for both sides, resulting that the right side of the AC has the Hawaiian word inverted (naiiawaH). Does anyone know how to fix this, if possible? I post a pic attached.Also, in the readme file PSkyworks are really strict when it comes to upload a repaint of their 717, so I asked them for permission but they are not answering. Does anyone know how to get a quick answer from these people.Thanks,Leo

Hi,After a huge reading on this Forum regarding DXTbmp and Imagetool, I came up with this...I want to have minimum texture sizes and good frame rates with AI traffic and I do not care about reflections so I saved the files in DXT1 format. OK, but in order to do that I am using Imagetool with a batch file and is extremely boring to copy the imagetool.exe and the .bat file all the time to the acfttexture folder and when it's done I then cut both files and paste them to the next texture folder and so on. It's a semi-automatic process so if anyone has a program that has a simple command as below would be helpful.xxxx.exe c:fs9aircraft -DXT1 -nomips -*.bmp /S the /S means it w…

G'Day gents.I have been working on a repaint on Mike Stones PBY Catalina.Whenever I load up FS to view the progress of my work, I can't help but notice that the starboard main gear and nose wheel are invisible. Sometimes they are there for a short while but wind up disappearing.I believe the problem is associate with an XXXX_L file as when the lights are turned on, the 'invisible' wheels appear intermitently in time with the flash of the lights.I even downloaded someone elses repaint textures to see if perhaps I was missing a bitmap image in my file sets. No dice, problem still there.Has anyone else experienced this, and more importantly, know how to fix it?regards,Heathe…

I would love to have a go at a repaint on this Aircraft, however I have not got a clue where to start. I have Photoshop and PSP 7 plus some of the Martin Wright stuff. But how you go about actually paintinh:-hmmm Are there any good tutorials out there, plus does anyone know of an existing repaint?ThanksPaul

Hey, folks. An extreme Newbie here (JUST started learning this craft this morning...lol).Anyway, a couple of questions if you don't mind.1) what exactly are mip maps and their purpose? I was working on repainting one of my favs (PSS A320). I put text on the livery, followed the steps in the 1st tutorial listed above to save etc, opened it up in FS9 (FSrepaint crashes my system for some reason). There, the Text and aircraft were very blury. COnfused, I went back into DXTbmp, and noticed the save mip map function and deselected it (I remember readin in threads "remove the mip maps!") and the worked. So, I would like to know what the heck they are--if there's a simple exl…

Does anyone know where i can find blank textures to repaint the stock777-300 orthe stock 747-400 that come with Flight Sim 2004?I can't seem to find them anywhere ...thanks!

Hello folks,I've got a little problem here ... I load a texture in Imagetool, it's in DXT3 format and the status pane says "Alpha: Alpha". Changing the format to any other format causes that to change into "Alpha: Colorkey", and after changing back to DXT3 format it still says "Alpha: Colorkey". The reason why this is a problem is that if I edit the texture in Photoshop and Illustrator and then convert it back to DXT3 in Imagetool I can only get it to say "Alpha: Colorkey", never "Alpha: Alpha", and the result is that the texture doesn't show up in the sim at all (it's becomes completly transparent). This is a problem with a particular texture, and I've never come across…

Been wanting to do a United 767-200 repaint on this model for ages - but I can't since it seems as if the base fuselage textures are not included in the .zip file. The 767-300 ones are, however, so I thought maybe renaming '763A_fuselage_t.bmp' to '762A_fuselage_t.bmp' may at least make the textures show up on the model, but they didn't. I was just wondering if anyone had any tips on how to get the fuselage textures to show up on the 767-200, or what the correct file name may be? Hope my post isn't too confusing :)Thanks.Jeremy

Hi folks,I am starting to do some changes to an existing panel.Most things I have been able to figure-out but one thing puzzles me.[Window02]Background_color=0,0,0 size_mm=456,378window_size_ratio=1.000 position=8visible=0ident=GPS_PANELwindow_size= 0.370, 0.380window_pos= 0.620, 0.480gauge00=fs9gps!gps_500, 0,0,0,0size_mm=456,378 What does this mean.Window size and position I can understand , but what is the meaning of this size-mm.The size 456,378 is bigger than the window_size, ?????Just for an experiment I removed the figures just leaving: size_mm=Nothing changed all things kept working well.Please give me an explanation?RegardsLeenhttp://forums.avsim.net/user_file…