I have tried for years to make two new texture of the same plane to show up in my Mission Builder and never been successful in the process until now.

My only solution before has always been to put the the same plane with different texures on different Hangers. That limited me on quantaty of the same plane I could use in the game.

Now let me show you how I was able to fix this old problem.

The first thing you need to know is what plane you would like to change its texture and use in the same hangar.

Iam going to use the Ki43 as example.

Down load the texuter from one of the many websites available with the texure you like.

Down loaded it, to a temporary Folder. Then go to your Microsoft / Combat flight Simulator /Aircraft folder/ Ki43 folder. Down size it.

Now go back to your Temp folder where you have downloaded your new texture and make a new Folder.
Change the the name of the new folder to Ki43 and the the add the name name of the new texture to it.

Example of a new name could bee Ki43 Malaysia. I recommen you give it same name as the new texture.

Go back to Aicrft folder/ Ki43IIB_OSCAR. Go back inside the folder and copy its cotent and paste it inside the new folder.

Unzip the new texture and copy and paste the new texture into  the new Ki43 malaysia foders texture folder.

Now comes the the most important part. Now go into the new Ki43 folder. Open the aircraf CFG file with your mouse. Scroll down to notepad and open it

[fltsim.0]
title=Ki-43-IIb Oscar
sim=Ki43IIb_Oscar
model=
panel=
sound=
texture=

Now where it says title=Ki43-IIb Oscar. change it to Ki43 Malaysia . Give it the same name you gave the new Ki43 folder.

Copy and paste into your CFS2 aircrasft folder. Both  planes should come out in game and in the Mission Builder.

You can repeat the same procedure for any plane that you would like to change its texture and would like use in the same Hangar.

I hope you enjoy them as I have.

This post was written for the benefit of the whole commnity.

James007

Thank you Hagar. You are right, I did not think of that. But when I have tried to place new folders of the same name with new textures the MB will not recognize the new texures. 

For me the only thing that worked was renaming the the CFG with the plane and with the new tex name for the MB to recognize it as with same plane with a new tex. In other words for the MB to recognize two of the same plane with different textures.

I do know about you but I had that problem problem for a long time.

But I" am willing to learn new mehtods.

James007

Hangar I"am not going to argue with because you have a lot more experience than I do.

But I tested my method with my backup CFS2 and so far it works. You are right. All I needed to do is to make is copy of the plane I wanted to change.

Change the name of the planes folder so it wont conflict with the original plane. I placed the new folder on the aircraft folder.Copy and paste the new texture.  Change the CFG file where it says tittle=by adding the new tex name. It worked for me.

Just try it Hangar and see if works for you also. Iam not saying my method is better. All I'am saying is that there  are different ways to skin a cat.

Try it and if your method is easier than mine, I will use your method instead.

Thank you Hagar