Brian_Gladden
SOH-CM-2023
Benoît Gaurant's Fokker from FSX/P3d has been upgraded to FS 2020 and is available at Simviation and flightsim.to.
Heads up... Fokker Mk500
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Priller
SOH-CM-2024
Daube
SOH-CM-2024
Ah sorry, in fact I was wondering about the FSX/P3D model of that aircraft. Sorry my initial message was not very clear
Even if I never fly it, I'll be downloading this one if only to support the dev!
K5083
SOH-CM-2024
It is a very nice plane.
I found that liveries done for the FSX version will work on this one, with a little tweaking.
If you want English cockpit labels even on the French marked aircraft, either copy the texture.cfg file from the texture.white folder into the texture.it68 and texture it.80 folders, or edit the texture.cfg in those folders to change the first fallback from texture.vcit to texture.vcen.
August
I found that liveries done for the FSX version will work on this one, with a little tweaking.
If you want English cockpit labels even on the French marked aircraft, either copy the texture.cfg file from the texture.white folder into the texture.it68 and texture it.80 folders, or edit the texture.cfg in those folders to change the first fallback from texture.vcit to texture.vcen.
August
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Brian_Gladden
SOH-CM-2023
Must be old school for navigation as I couldn't get the HSI to respond to the GPS. Otherwise, nice bird 
Brian_Gladden
SOH-CM-2023
What tweaks are needed because I just found an Air New England livery on AVSIM I want to adapt
K5083
SOH-CM-2024
Can you post a link to that skin? I can't find it. Here are a couple I did find:
Nordair and Northwest Airlink, https://simviation.com/1/search?submit=1&keywords=fokker+nordair&x=0&y=0
Royal Netherlands AF, https://sim-outhouse.org/sohforums/threads/fokker-f27-friendship-rnaf-vip-flight-zip.151554/
These repaints already have the texture files in DXT3 DDS format, so the tweaking is pretty easy. The steps are:
- In your Community/bgt-f27500-v2/SimObjects/Airplanes/Bgt_F27500v2 folder, create a new folder for each livery, such as texture.nordair
- Into that folder, copy the files f275bgt_T2,dds, f27bgt_T3.dds, f27bgt_T4.dds, f27bgt_T5.dds, f27bgt_T6.dds, f27bgt_T7.dds, and thumbnail.jpg from the FSX skin's texture folder. You won't need any other files from the FSX package.
- Load each of those dds files into an editor that can handle dds files, such as paint.net, and flip them vertically (in paint.net the command is Image/Flip Vertical).
- Save the flipped file as f275bgt_T2_ALBD.PNG.DDS and so on - in other words, insert .ABLD.PNG before the .DDS extension in each file name. Use DXT3 or DXT5 format, it doesn't matter.
- Copy the files F275BGT_T2_ALBD.PNG.DDS.json, F275BGT_T3_ALBD.PNG.DDS.json, F275BGT_T4_ALBD.PNG.DDS.json, F275BGT_T5_ALBD.PNG.DDS.json, F275BGT_T6_ALBD.PNG.DDS.json, and F275BGT_T7_ALBD.PNG.DDS.json, from the texture.white folder to your new texture folder.
- Create a texture.cfg folder in your new texture's folder with the following lines:
[fltsim]
fallback.1=..\texture
fallback.2=..\texture.vcen
fallback.3=..\texture.common
- Edit your aircraft.cfg to create a new [FLTSIM.x] block for the new skin. You can copy the FLTSIM.2 block for the white aircraft and just change a few of the entries, most importantly set texture = "texture.nordair" or whatever your new skin's folder is, and change the description, ui_variation, atc_id, and whatever other entries you want as appropriate.
- Back out to your Community/bgt-f27500-v2/SimObjects/Airplanes/Bgt_F27500v2 and rebuild the layout.json file using any of the tools available for that purpose.
The new skins should show up in your livery picker, with thumbnails, the next time you load the sim.
August
Brian_Gladden
SOH-CM-2023
The skin is on Avsim. I might just try a repaint since it's only 1024 so It's pretty low quality