A Trick With Carenado

[tgycgijoes]

I am not sure that this will work with every Carenado Aircraft they have created for MSFS but this one worked for me. I reinstalled my Carenado Beech Twin D18S into Prepar3D V4.5 yesterday. Not having flown this OR the other versions for awhile, I, as i usually do, went online to find tutorial videos on Youtube and was very successful. It appears at least to me that the MSFS version and the P3D version are controlled the same which is authentically as they should be. In one of the videos, I found Matt Younkin's Magic By Moonlight D18S which he flies all over the country (for real) and fell in love with the texture at first sight. I Googled it for the Carenado but unfortunately it was only for MSFS over at Flightsim.to with a lot of other cool repaints. Well, I downloaded it anyway to see if I could use the noseart and create the rest myself on the blank texture download. Well...when I opened it up I found that the textures that differ are only on two sheets for the whole exterior and that the MSFS can be merged in Adobe Photoshop and resaved for P3D V4.5. Then, since MSFS does not use alpha channels but other textures to achieve that, I opened up my new 32bit bmp's and added the alpha channels from the P3D blank repaint texture the MSFS dds files are flipped from the P3D files but after I discovered that, with DXT BMP that is no problem and here is the result. I am so tickled that I resurrected some of my small Georgia airports that I created which are threads here to fly this afternoon.
When I first opened it up in P3D, the VC was original but I discovered that I could just rename and flip the MSFS interior 1 and 2 files and get the modified panel too. So cool! As Hannibal said: "I love it when a plan comes together".

 

[expat]

Nice work and paint. I would like to learn how to convert more MSFS Carenado paints to work in P3D.

P3D version also available here: https://edrm-repaints.com/aircraft?id=b18

 

[tgycgijoes]

Thank you for edrm. Surprised that my Google Search netted nothing but the MSFS. I just downloaded his repaint. It is for the Carenado D18 Prepar3D.

 

[gray eagle]

Too bad these don't work for the Larry's D18S.

 

[tgycgijoes]

For What Sim is "Larry's D18S?

 

[gray eagle]

P3D4.5 also works in V5.4

link is here

 

[Tako_Kichi]

For What Sim is "Larry's D18S?

It's the Milton Shupe/David Carroll D18S for FSX that I recently converted to P3D v4.5 standards with PBR textures. It's available here: https://sim-outhouse.org/sohforums/resources/p3d-beech-d18s.27762/

 

[tgycgijoes]

It's the Milton Shupe/David Carroll D18S for FSX that I recently converted to P3D v4.5 standards with PBR textures. It's available here: https://sim-outhouse.org/sohforums/resources/p3d-beech-d18s.27762/

I flew that in FSX before I got the Carenado. It is really very nicely done. Since I know gray eagle flies V4.5 that is the version he's referring to. Since that texture is so complex I am not inclined to create it since I have it for the one I am flying.

 

[tgycgijoes]

I won't call it a trick anymore but a technique. The MSFS tutorials for the Legacy Legends D-18S are conducted in Scotland so I dusted off my ol' UK2000 Edinburgh Scenery and was able by specifying the directories to get it installed successfully into Prepar3D V4.5. I just had to manually install if from the Addons into the sim no problem. It is a few years old but I own it so whatever like the kids say. I found the repaint over at AVSIM and used the same overlay technique in Photoshop successfully. I am to fly the tutorial in a little while from EGPN (Dundee) to EGPH (Edinburgh) and maybe I may even have a controller or two online in VATSIM which will be fun. I flew from KACK Nantucket (ORBX) to KASH (Boire Field-my scenery) and made a beautiful landing (even though it was wheels up, not my fault, there was apparently a glitch that put it up as I was landing, DUH!) Made me so mad! As is the case with the sim if you are GPS navigating, it always brings you (well me anyway) too high with not enough time to go down so I went around and then perfectly lined up, descended well the rest is what i said about wheels up. I tested it after dinner with a circuit around the airport and there was no problem at all. We'll see what happens over in Scotland. More later...

 

[tgycgijoes]

After one flight of glitchy landing gear...it retracted just as I was setting down on the runway on its own...and yesterday again a beautiful landing and the aircraft nosing over, also was a slightly glitchy landing gear, I uninstalled it and went back to a simpler ga aircraft. Had a beautiful hour long flight from 60J to KPXE ( I created this airport-post here) Perry-Houston in Georgia and it was perfect. I am going to stick with my simple Cessna 172 Skyhawk no stress no mess.