hi. .....may have been answered before forgive me, but i noticed that aluminum aircraft seem too glaring white in the sun in fs9 where as in fs2002 they look great.

just in case....pent 4-1.8
asus p4t-e intel 850 mainboard
512 rdram g-force 4 tit. 4200.....  by the way....within the limits of this system, how far can i go to upgrade this video card.  .....(getting average 15-20 fps)
another by the way.....would extra ram (if findable) make any difference?
thanks for your attention...............vic.

This will be due to the alpha channel in the paint of that aircraft.

Which plane is it? Bill lyons swift for fs2002 works fine in FS2004 but glows white.  I increased the darkness of the texture by 18% and altered the alpha channel so it to was darker though I cant remember the percentage.  U need and editing prog to do this, like PSP7 and somthing like DXTbmp to convert it into DXT3 with the alpha channel.

Looks good now, though I cant find the prop spinner texture so that has stayed a glaring whit chrome colour

Ok here is your texture fix!! Your Swift will look like this after the fix.



Click link below to download it.

http://www.ascl30.dsl.pipex.com/Swift_Fix.zip

Note there fix for the classic Swifts are in there too!

I dont have the F-86 so cant change it.

I dont know any sites for learning about re-paint, I just kinda picked it up and asked a friend about bits here and there.

Oh yeah!