Simviation Forum - repaints

Jan 8^th, 2006 at 8:37pm

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How do you do repaints, i would like to make a repaint of a 747 that is personalized for me. Can anyone help me?

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Reply #1 - Jan 9^th, 2006 at 8:05am

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Click the link in my sig for a beginners guide to repainting.

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Reply #2 - Jan 9^th, 2006 at 4:16pm

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i did all that but then when i went on the game to try it, all that happened was that all the panels that i was paiting and everything only came up as a decal on the side of the plane any suggestions??

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Reply #3 - Jan 9^th, 2006 at 6:36pm

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That sounds weird, can you post a screenshot of what it looks like?

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Reply #4 - Jan 11^th, 2006 at 5:22pm

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how do you post screenshots?

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Reply #5 - Jan 11^th, 2006 at 6:42pm

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At the top of this page, there's a thin blue bar across the screen. In the middle of this bar, click where it says 'Upload Images' and follow the instructions there.

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Reply #6 - Jan 12^th, 2006 at 4:37pm

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[img]http://www.simviation.com/yabbuploads/img]

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Reply #7 - Jan 12^th, 2006 at 4:38pm

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Reply #8 - Jan 12^th, 2006 at 4:40pm

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Reply #9 - Jan 12^th, 2006 at 5:28pm

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Quote:

[ img]http://www.simviation.com/yabbuploads/img]

You almost got this one right, except for two things.

First, you chopped off the [ from the /img] at the end of the line.

Second, you need to change the line to replace "yourpic.jpg" with the name of the file you uploaded. In this case, it would be [ img]http://www.simviation.com/yabbuploads/b747.jpg[/img]

(And you can ignore the space I put at the start of the [ img] code, I just did that to make it visible here)

But for some reason the picture's not working ???

Is the file too big, more than 100kb?

You could just send the file to me, my email is in my profile, and I'll take a look and post it here for you.

Keep trying, we'll get it sorted out!

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Reply #10 - Jan 14^th, 2006 at 7:06am

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You'll be glad to know there's a simple solution to your problem

Here's what you were trying to post earlier:

The textures on a 747 are saved as several different files, one of these is b747_400_T.bmp which contains most of the external colours like this:

That's the one you did your repaint on, obviously.

But there is also one called decal_b747_400.bmp that is just a logo for Global Freightways, like this:

(It appears right way around on the plane)

When you saved your repaint, you replaced the Global logo instead of the big file with all the external colours. So FS9 continued using the default texture, and put your repaint where the Global logo used to be!

The solution is simply to open up your repainted file again, and this time save it over the top of b747_400_T.bmp instead.

Let us know how it goes!

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Reply #11 - Jan 14^th, 2006 at 8:34am

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kool that worked

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