Just snag it as an eval and try it with an open mind.
I know it sounds like heresy, I still do my detail work with PSP and DXTBMP but FS Repaint is the bomb for doing quick and dirty work.
I wanted to add some squadron shields to an F-15. I had it knocked out in about two minutes. And, I wasn't sure where I wanted to add them.
You can
quickly map out textures for new projects. I run FS Repaint and keep it linked to *gasp* MS Paint and it does great work. MS Paint has gotten better in Win 10 and 11.
One thing, still, about DXT textures. They "stick" to the MDL better and display better at high offset angles. Stuff like when the tail texture turns blurry, etc.
I don’t understand what you mean by DXT displaying better at high offset angles. What you describe is something I’ve never seen or heard of before. It sounds like some kind of system issue. Even so, it would seem that an imperfection that could only be spotted at certain angles isn’t as bad as the reduced definition, corrupted details and color shifts all over at all angles all the time. I’ll continue to avoid DXT textures like the plague.
Seeing the skin on the model without booting it up in the sim would be nice, but I don’t know how much time it would save me. It only takes maybe seven seconds to boot the sim and check the work on the model.
Mapping out textures for new projects sounds useful but that wouldn’t do me any good since I don’t have the knowledge or skills to initiate new projects. I don’t have enough time to paint other people’s projects. And I never have time to fly anyone”s projects. I thought that I’d have time to make my own models and to do some flying, but noooooo. I feel busier and more pressed for time now than I did when I was working. I know others who found the same thing when they retired. And I know of a couple modelers who gave up the hobby when they retired because they no longer had time for it.
I still use MS Paint too! I use it for everything that doesn’t involve angled or curved lines, things that need to be antialiased to look smooth. We’ll, almost everything else. For more complex things I use PSP.
Despite my scorn for the old DXT format, I do like old some old things, like Paint and PSP. Many years ago Paul Clawson gave me his PSP7 when he got PSP8. That was when PSP came on a CD-ROM complete with a hard copy manual the size of a medium-sized city’s phone book. (Remember phone books?) I still haven’t completely learned it but I love it. Recently I’ve started to learn to use it for photo work as well as FS textures. Some time later I received PSP10 as a gift and I hated it. By then the franchise had gone from Jasc to Corel and I thought Corel ruined it. Ten struck me as being clunky, cluttered and bloated, and more difficult to use. I stuck with seven and passed ten on to David, who seems to be OK with it, probably because he wasn’t spoiled by seven, and because highly complex and detailed paint jobs aren’t in his job description.
I loved Paint though my WinXP rig. When I got my Win7pro confutor I was appalled at how bloated, clunky and user unfriendly they had made Paint. I made myself a copy of Paint, set it to run in XP compatibility mode, called it OldPaint, and it works that way in Win10pro.
Once in a while, usually with photos rather than textures, I use MS Photo Editor, which came with MS Office 97 and was written for Win95. I have a few other software items that go back to Win95 that I still use. When we moved from MS Office 97 to Office 2000 I found it loaded with Microsoft bloatware. I was surprised and happy to find an item in settings where with a click in a checkbox I could “turn off all features introduced since Office 97.”
Yeah, I yearn for the days of wood burning confutors and simple software. Some would say that all of us in the FS community are mired in old, simple software. But I do prefer FS9 to earlier versions. Yet I feel no desire to move on to FSX or 2020.
I see that Win10pro includes MS 3D Paint as well as regular Paint. After I get the new rig all set up I’ll have to check it out.
Anyhow, I have no doubt that FS Repaint is quick and easy. It just doesn’t sound very much quicker or easier than doing it the usual way.
