Hey guys.
I've done a repaint and when I select it in the FS it crashes for some unapparent reason. I've had a look at all 70 pages in the aircraft painting forum and all suggestions have tried and failed.

Ok here's the lowdown. I'm an absolute noob at painting and I wanted to do a posky 777 since I couldn't a PAL texture that would work, so I followed a video from youtube posted by flightsimy called "(HQ) how to repiant aircrafts for flightsim [part1]"

I followed it up to the point where he finishes the actual paint. At which point I open the files in DXTBmp, do the alphas, uncheck mipmaps and save as DXT3 but I have tried saving them as Extended 32 bit 888-8. I put them into a texture folder in a pre-existing posky 777 file and changed the aircraft.cfg (the default is the Qatar):

[fltsim.0]
title=Project Opensky -- Boeing 777-300ER Qatar Airways
sim=Boeing 777-300ER
model=
panel=
sound=
texture=QATAR
checklists=
atc_airline=QATAR
atc_id=A7-BAE
atc_flight_number=232
atc_heavy=1
atc_parking_types=GATE,RAMP,CARGO
atc_parking_codes=QTR
ui_manufacturer=Boeing
ui_type=777-300ER
ui_variation=Qatar Airways
visual_damage=1
description=Project Opensky Boeing 777-300\nVersion 2-2008.1.0\n\nModel Designers\n   Hiroshi Igami\n   Yosuke Ube\n\nMaster Textures\n   Yosuke Ube\n\nFlight Dynamics

Designer\n   Brandon D. Henry\n\nFlight Dynamics Assistant\n   Philip Foglar\n\nSound Designer\n   Emil Serafino\n\nTechnical Resource\n   Aaron Seymour\n\nTest

Pilots\n   Project Opensky Members\n\nMaximun Range:\n   7,930 nautical miles (14,685 km)\n\n\nTypical city pairs: \nSan Francisco - Tokyo\nTokyo - Singapore\n

Honolulu - Seoul \n\nPainted by\n Carlos Eduardo Salas
atc_id_color=0x00000000
atc_id_font=Verdana,-11,1,600,0

[fltsim.1]
title=Philippine Airlines
sim=Boeing 777-300ER
model=
panel=
sound=
texture=RP-C7777
checklists=
atc_airline=PHILIPPINE
atc_id=RP-C7777
atc_flight_number=990
atc_heavy=1
atc_parking_types=GATE,RAMP,CARGO
atc_parking_codes=PAL
ui_manufacturer=Boeing
ui_type=777-300ER
ui_variation=Philippine Airlines
visual_damage=1
description=Project Opensky Boeing 777-300\nVersion 2-2008.1.0\n\nModel Designers\n   Hiroshi Igami\n   Yosuke Ube\n\nMaster Textures\n   Yosuke Ube\n\nFlight Dynamics

Designer\n   Brandon D. Henry\n\nFlight Dynamics Assistant\n   Philip Foglar\n\nSound Designer\n   Emil Serafino\n\nTechnical Resource\n   Aaron Seymour\n\nTest

Pilots\n   Project Opensky Members\n\nMaximun Range:\n   7,930 nautical miles (14,685 km)\n\n\nTypical city pairs: \nSan Francisco - Tokyo\nTokyo - Singapore\n

Honolulu - Seoul \n\nPainted by\n Carlos Eduardo Salas
atc_id_color=0x00000000
atc_id_font=Verdana,-11,1,600,0

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to get this sorted?

If you need any more info, just ask

Thanks in advance

Club508 wrote on Sep 14^th, 2011 at 3:47pm:

None of that will fix a crashing sim.

Make a backup copy of the Qatar texture folder, then move your textures into the Qatar folder one at a time, then test.

By using your textures in a working texture folder you will know which one is causing the crash.

It is most likely a texture format issue.

cheers,
Joe

JoBee wrote on Sep 14^th, 2011 at 4:16pm:

Sorry, I have both and repaint for both, so I get a bit confused.  And I've never seen some of the lines in those so I was thinking it confused the program and caused it to "crash".

And by the way, would you mind giving me a more specific explanation than crash?  Do you mean the textures don't show?  An error message that pops up saying its not compatible?  FS fails out and stops responding?

Nice to see you got it working again!