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Question on repainting the lockheed F-16 (viper) (Read 317 times)

Apr 26^th, 2004 at 8:39pm

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??? I have been repainting aircraft for a while now. I wanted to repaint The LOCKHEED MARTIN F-16 Fighting Falcon (VIPER) by Kirk Olsson but every time i change the paint when I use it on FS9 the aircraft is see through. ???

If any one knows about how to fix this problem it would be of a great help if you could tell me. Grin

« Last Edit: Apr 28^th, 2004 at 11:58pm by ryan6802 »

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Reply #1 - Apr 27^th, 2004 at 2:35pm

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hmm, do you use DXTBmp and if so, what is the alpha channel look like on it!?

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Reply #2 - Apr 27^th, 2004 at 8:14pm

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Yes i use DXTBmp.
what is the alpha channel?

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Reply #3 - Apr 27^th, 2004 at 9:26pm

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what is the alpha channel?

Ryan,

It's a bitmap that you add to the texture bitmap using DXTbmp. It controls the amount of shine that the aircraft has. Some aircraft don't support alpha textures as they were not added to the model when the aircraft was designed for FS. If you were to add an alpha texture to a texture for an aircraft that does not support alpha textures the aircraft would appear semi-transparent in FS.

Try loading the texture that corresponds to the part of the aircraft that is transparent and see if it has an alpha channel.

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Reply #4 - Apr 28^th, 2004 at 12:28am

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Thanks for the help i now have a newly painted aircraft Grin

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Reply #5 - Apr 28^th, 2004 at 12:40am

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Hey Ryan,

Glad you got it fixed

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You need to upload the image to Simviation first before you can use it in a post. There is an Upload Images link in the top left corner of the screen, you need to upload the image using that page. Just make sure that the image is under 100Kb and no bigger than 800x600 pixels

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Stratobat

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