Simviation Forum - Anyone want a challenge?

Dec 2^nd, 2004 at 4:38am

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Hey

Anyone interested in repainting the Embreaer 170 in that cool 7E7 livery?

Find it here: http://www.simviation.com/fs2004jets19.htm, It's in Atlantic aviation colours.

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Reply #1 - Dec 2^nd, 2004 at 3:08pm

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If no-one else fanices a try then get back to me, I'm a little busy on other repaints and real life work just now, but I might be able to give it a try.

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Reply #2 - Dec 2^nd, 2004 at 4:26pm

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Hey
Cheers igorski
And btw, thanks for the DXTbmp link, i can open the bmps now.

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Reply #3 - Dec 3^rd, 2004 at 12:55pm

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No probs, any more probs feel free to ask, there are pleanty people here who know their way round a repaint.

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Reply #4 - Dec 3^rd, 2004 at 11:14pm

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Yea i have one question if thats alrite.

Could you tell me how FS9 reads the texture files, because they are all just flat images and it seems that they are placed on the bitmap in random positions? At the moment i can't repaint because i don't know how it works.

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Reply #5 - Dec 4^th, 2004 at 3:58am

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To be honest, with regards to the default FS aircraft, I havn't a clue, its just one of those things that just works, somehow. You've just got to look for the obvious bits, like which are the wings etc.. its easiest to compare a default one with destictive markings, and have FS open allongside the bitmap, so you can look and work out which bits go where. Most add-on aircraft have a more logical approach to where the textures are stored.

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Reply #6 - Dec 4^th, 2004 at 4:43am

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Hey
I have Paint Shop Pro right. And i was screwing around a bit and i couldn't figure out how to put an image behind an image while stilll seing both images. I tried "arrang" and sent it to back but i never saw the image afterwards.

Other than that Paint SHop Pro is much better than photoshop. i almost did a good repaint, lol

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Reply #7 - Dec 4^th, 2004 at 4:49am

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Are you trying to achieve a transparrent effect?
Do you know about PSP's layers?

if you want one bit of image to appear bove or below another, put them on separate layers and then move the layer. layers in psp also have transparency control.

If the layers pallate is not already visable, go View menu, Palattes, and click Layers. or hit F8

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Reply #8 - Dec 4^th, 2004 at 4:53am

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Hey
Yea i know about the layers, it's just getting them to both show on top or below eachother is a problem.

Do you know any good repainting tutorials btw?, there aren't many on simviation.

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Reply #9 - Dec 4^th, 2004 at 5:25am

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You've just gota move the layers about, and tweak the transparencies until you get the effect you want.

A swift web search will bring up many tutorials, or you can try this one for starts .

http://www.gjsmith.com/Tutorial/Tutorial.htm its fs2002 oriented, but should be ok for FS2004

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Reply #10 - Dec 6^th, 2004 at 3:58pm