miloguy Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 G'day again guys, thanks for all the help latley got a question on repainting planes, I did a lot of my planes with fs repaint v2 but thats since given up the light of day.. so been trying to repaint my new a2a Cessna now but having headaches with working with it.. Some times Ill get the plane just how I want it and then save it in the planes folder in fsx but then when preview at plane selection in fsx its all wierd and looks like the painting has flipped or something, very darn confusing, some times I use paint, some times photo shop.. the later does my head in, actually all of it right now.. what do you guys use.. thanks again.. mil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Robinson Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Sounds like the ole .dds flip-a-roo to me. Don't know how you're saving your textures but to go from .dds to .bmp (for editing etc.) you need to flip the image and alpha vertically, likewise going from .bmp to .dds - same thing. In DXTBmp there's a menu item for "Flip image and alpha", if you use Imagetool it does it for you automatically. I'd suggest PhotoShop and save your work as a .psd. Imagetool can open a .psd, you can use Image > Format and then choose DXT1 or DXT5 depending on your alpha channel (basically use DXT5 if you have alpha, DXT1 if not). If you want mips use Image > Create mip maps, then save it in the aircraft texture folder as "whatever.dds". The flipping gets handled automatically. The .psd remains intact with layers and everything so you can open it back up in PhotoShop for further editing. Imagetool here if you don't have a copy already: http://cat-tamer.com/flightsim/downloads/imagetool.zip Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miloguy Posted January 30, 2014 Author Share Posted January 30, 2014 yikes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Robinson Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Child's play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd Harrell Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 I believe NVidia has a plugin for Photoshop that will do the flipping for you when you save as a dds file. You have to have an NVidia GPU of course. Todd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjrhealth Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 I use the lates tree version of the gimp. It does all that with the DXT plugin, it also can use PSD files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miloguy Posted January 30, 2014 Author Share Posted January 30, 2014 i have an ati card Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maurice_King Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 We can do a remote session with something like TeamViewer and Photoshop is the only way to go IMHO , Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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