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Islander Repaints

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gajit

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Im working on this simple one to start with...

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Pegasus, Pegasus, Pegasus, I can't find a photo, but there was a freeware version of it out there for fs9 ported to fsx, and it was a chrome Beauty!
 
No, it doesn't come with a British Army scheme - that's one that probably should be on someone's list.

I've got Mrs. P doing the bright yellow Hebridean Air Service one to go with my little Colonsay scenery, because she has Photoshop Elements, which will actually open the paintkit (my PSP X2 threw a fit at the layers).

Unfortunately Colonsay won't be becoming available because phototextures for the UK are far from free and the only GeoTIFFs available for the area are Ordinance Survey at £36 per tile plus a license fee per year it is in use. I might release it for users of the commercial Scottish photoscenery when that area becomes available though, seeing as ACES missed it out altogether! :(

Ian P.
 
Smoothie said:
is the British Army Bird included? if not that'd be a simple paint...
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Aren't the Army ones BN-2T's with turboprops?

I would pray for an expansion pack in the future but I'm afraid that it's taken so long to develop that expansions won't be forthcoming.
 
UK HMCA could use a paint representation.
Or here is a few of Sifton Air up here in the Arctic. There basically the only operator of the BN-2 north of the 60th. If your interested in paint one for us Canadians, I can get more pics Saturday from the FBO at YZF.
 
My Photoshop elements does not like the paintkit on this product - it has to merge and repair some of the layers and so again i have the prob of not being able to change the alpha - so i seem to be stuck with a matt finish.

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Smoothie said:
aye thats right, either way still be nice to have a UKAA (United Kingdom Army Aviation) scheme...
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Too right, they've flown under a few different schemes with the RAF and UKAA over the years so it would be great if someone could go to town with them.

I'm feeling a lot of lovely fictional repaints coming on if the paintkit is well laid out...
 
gajit said:
My Photoshop elements does not like the paintkit on this product - it has to merge and repair some of the layers and so again i have the prob of not being able to change the alpha - so i seem to be stuck with a matt finish.
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It`s not really that hard to add the alpha layer to a repaint.
Here is what i tend to do: First, Export the existing alpha from one of the repaints allready in the package. (using dxtbmp) Then... Import it to your repaint bmp file. All you then have to do is to convert the bmp to dds. (I use imagetool for that)

Voila! a nice shiny plane. :)
 
WF442 said:
It`s not really that hard to add the alpha layer to a repaint.
Here is what i tend to do: First, Export the existing alpha from one of the repaints allready in the package. (using dxtbmp) Then... Import it to your repaint bmp file. All you then have to do is to convert the bmp to dds. (I use imagetool for that)

Voila! a nice shiny plane. :)
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Thanks WF - will give that a go.

Thanks again WF - it worked - at last i can do alphas - great advice

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