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[_haphadon_]

I know what your thinking, not another one of these threads were the guy needs to know how to repaint even though Robin. has perfectly good tut's in the knowledge base. But I followed those tutorials perfectly because I wanted to add dirt to a CLS A330 paint and add a couple other things. So after following how to add dirt and shadows I saved it as a .bmp at 32 bits and and then I tested it out in the sim. But the plane is a blank texture except for parts I didn't edit!

So my question is what format do I have to save it as in photoshop?

[TopDollar]

Are you attempting an FSX or FS9 repaint?  I never did any FS9 repainting, but with FSX you will want to download the Nvidia DDS plugin for photoshop.

http://developer.nvi...ds_plugins.html

And save the texture as DXT1 RGB No Alpha.  It also gives you a preview of what the saved texture will look like.

[_haphadon_]

 TopDollar, on Jul 17 2009, 08:07 PM, said:

Are you attempting an FSX or FS9 repaint?  I never did any FS9 repainting, but with FSX you will want to download the Nvidia DDS plugin for photoshop.

http://developer.nvi...ds_plugins.html

And save the texture as DXT1 RGB No Alpha.  It also gives you a preview of what the saved texture will look like.

for this repaint fs9 Do you think that would work with FS9?

[TopDollar]

Ah, well I don't think FS9 supports .dds format.

[_haphadon_]

Well after a bit of research I found out I had too use a tool listed in this thread called DDXTBMP: http://www.flightsim...howtopic=160189

And then after playing around with it I found our I had to change it into an extended BMP file Thanks for all your help TopDollar I was also wondering what I had too do to get into FSX for my next reapint

[WF10]

Hi

When I make skins, I save as 24bit bmp, then change to DXT 1 using DxtBmp.

The plugin just saves 1 step I believe