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/yabb Design Forums >> Aircraft Repainting >> Chrome spinners turn black or wrong color? /yabb?num=1338950566 Message started by HSUred on Jun 5^th, 2012 at 10:42pm

Title: Chrome spinners turn black or wrong color?
Post by HSUred on Jun 5^th, 2012 at 10:42pm

Has anyone else encountered this? After repainting a Cessna 172 the chrome spinners turned either black or ridiculously shiny white? Another thing is that it somehow did this to other Cessna 172 textures that I did not repaint.

I was using FS-Repaint, if that is any help.

Thanks anyone who can tell me what is up with that! :(

Title: Re: Chrome spinners turn black or wrong color?
Post by skoker on Jun 8^th, 2012 at 11:43pm

Try resaving them in .dds format with this. I have seen problems with fsrepaint not working properly and also I would never get an abacus product... ;D

Also if you can take a screen shot of it in the program above and post it that would help a lot. ;)

Title: Re: Chrome spinners turn black or wrong color?
Post by HSUred on Aug 13^th, 2012 at 4:26pm

Thanks Skoker. I found the answer in a discussion between Hannibal and Alrot here:

/yabb?num=1339135652

It seems the default textures "GlobalEnv_AC_ Chrome" and "GlobalEnv_AC_Chrome_32" had been inadvertently modified by someone else. Apparently I downloaded those textures into my FSX without knowing it.

Big thanks to Hannibal and Alrot; this solved the problem for me. :)

Title: Re: Chrome spinners turn black or wrong color?
Post by Travis on Aug 19^th, 2012 at 12:38am

Just so you know, HSUred, it's always a good idea to go through a download and check it's contents. I have had to reinstall the entire program from scratch (and all addons) just to correct a problem I couldn't track down. And if it's an auto-installer, just point it to some temp folder for installation, and then copy things manually. And if you run into a situation where you don't know what a particular file is used for, the forums are always here. ;)

Title: Re: Chrome spinners turn black or wrong color?
Post by HSUred on Sep 8^th, 2012 at 1:06pm

Excellent advice!

Title: Re: Chrome spinners turn black or wrong color?
Post by Brian Z on Jan 25^th, 2013 at 1:37pm

Sorry to be resurrecting an old thread, but I've found the same problem. Turns out, it is, indeed, Abacus doing this... it opens the chrome dds file whenever you open the textures for an aircraft, and when you save, it apparently doesn't save that texture properly. What I DO like about the Abacus program is the 3d preview model, so whenever I save a repaint, I overwrite the chrome and test dds files with a backup copy.

Title: Re: Chrome spinners turn black or wrong color?
Post by Brian Z on Jan 25^th, 2013 at 1:41pm

And speaking of chrome, does anyone know how to apply chrome to an area where it didn't have it already? I'd like to plate things like exhaust pipes, if I could figure out how. I know it can be done, I've seen repaints that chrome-plated entire aircraft.