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Problems with painting Carenado planes

AussieMan

AussieMan

SOH Staff .."Bartender"
As the wonderful folks at OZx have hit the ground running with a new package of airports, including YSBK, Bankstown, with more on the way I decided I would have a go at painting some planes that travel into and out of Bankstown.

The first of the Carenado aircraft I am attempting is the Piper Navajo. I have made a copy of the White texture folder and added an entry into the CFG file. When I load the aircraft with no changes to the texture it loads perfectly but as soon as I splash some paint on to it whenever I try to load that aircraft both P3D V3.3 and FSX both come up with a FATAL ERROR message.

Any idea what is causing this problem?

Several painters have previously mentioned that Carenado aircraft can be a***holes to paint.
 
Pat, thanks for the heads-up on Bankstown, I was wishing on a star for that one.

Did you give your repaint a new unique title in your aircraft.cfg? I guess you knew to look for that, and it would give you a message but probably not a fatal error message. Are you certain that it is the repaint that is the cause here?

If you want I can test out your paint and see if it causes any issues on my end.

Mark
 
Carenados can be a pain due to the way they map their textures and overuse mirroring.

However those issues won't cause the sim to crash.

That sounds like possibly a texture format issue.

I don't have the Navajo so can't check, best way is to use the same format Carenado used.

cheers,
Lane
 
Yes same here. Although I generally limit myself to the 'template' paint schemes that are provided. I just change colors, change reg numbers, add decals and logos where needed, and voila. Every so often I might mess with one that requires some actual talent and creativity on my part -- then I learn my lesson and go back to the template method.

I really should upload a few but I am not a big fan of making the screenshots to make the thumbnail images. Anybody will to help a brother out with that? I have a few dozen to share (assuming they are any good and worth sharing).
 
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