Texture format question (Jankees??)

[Brian_Gladden]

Here's what I have guys, Back in my P3d V3 days I was fairly proficient in any repaints I wanted. FS 2020 seems a dark art to me. I've been trying to slightly edit an existing texture to add in the area's for the radome and wire cutters on the HPG E135. I can turn on the model extras easily but repainting the sections of the existing texture sheet is a confusing mess. I know what parts of the sheet to edit but when saving, I run into issues. I try to save in DXT1 no Alpha and no joy. Yet that format works on another model. I'm just so confused. Also, I wonder why someone hasn't tried the paint job I really want for the 135 as it was a default for the Nemeth EC-135 for FSX. I'd love to have a Working DHART paint job to fly around my home patch.

 

[Spook48]

what program do you use to paint , Brian ?

 

[Brian_Gladden]

An old copy of Paint Shop Pro I've had for nearly 20 years that has been on at least 4 computers. I use DXTBMP to convert the various formats

 

[lagaffe]

Under FS20, you can paint with many programs which can save in *.PNG format.
Then copy/paste from the SDK a livery project and copy in your PNG files.
Using a drag&drop of your XML which describe your project on a copy of fspackagetools (fs20 SDK) will compile the project and create the *.PNG.DDS that you need in FS20.

The same can be used on FS24.

 

[Spook48]

I used to use Paint Shop Pro aswell but since FS20 , I switched to Photoshop with the nvidia dds tool installed.
It can be found here: https://developer.nvidia.com/texture-tools-exporter
I don't think this works for Paint shop though but i never tried.

 

[jankees]

I use Photoshop, with the nvidia dds plugin, and save files in the BC7 RGBA 8bpp format. I have no idea if dxtbmp does that as well, I haven't used it for a while.

 

[Brian_Gladden]

Since Photoshop wants a small fortune and I'm unemployed, I'll stick with my almost 20 year old copy of PSP... And I have an ATI Card not NVIDIA

 

[Tom Clayton]

For what little I do (mostly changing baked-in reg's to my personal N721TC), I use Paint.net and Gimp. Gimp does a little more, but won't open some 3rd party dds files. For that, I open the file in Paint.net and then resave it. Once I do that, Gimp will open the file.

 

[Spook48]

Since Photoshop wants a small fortune and I'm unemployed, I'll stick with my almost 20 year old copy of PSP... And I have an ATI Card not NVIDIA

I don,t think it matters what gpu you have.

 

[Tom Clayton]

Gimp and Paint.net are both free!

 

[Priller]

I don,t think it matters what gpu you have.

It doesn't, and here is where you can get it.

Priller