Simviation Forum - Repaints

Jan 8^th, 2006 at 5:35pm

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Can anyone tell me how you do repaints?

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Reply #1 - Jan 9^th, 2006 at 7:52am

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You'll need a paintkit and good imaging software... Adobe Photoshop and Jasc Paint Shop Pro recommended... And a few other bits and bobs, such as Imagetool and DXTBmp...

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Reply #2 - Jan 9^th, 2006 at 7:54am

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You'll need a paintkit and good imaging software... Adobe Photoshop and Jasc Paint Shop Pro recommended... And a few other bits and bobs, such as Imagetool and DXTBmp...

Corel bought JASC actually, and are royally messing up what was a fine program but oh well... What's image tool?

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Reply #3 - Jan 9^th, 2006 at 7:57am

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Imagetool is a program by Microsoft, originally included with FS2002 Pro, but omitted from FS9. It's available at http://www.projectopensky.com/files.

Without it, I (and I think every other repainter) couldn't be able to paint. It's the program that allows you to save your TGAs as 32bit BMPs etc.

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Reply #4 - Jan 9^th, 2006 at 8:19am

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What is the difference between saving it in Photoshop as 32bit bmp and that Microsoft tool?!

btw.. some people are using the free GIMP for skinning too!!

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Reply #5 - Jan 9^th, 2006 at 9:36am

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Corel bought JASC actually, and are royally messing up what was a fine program but oh well... What's image tool?

PSP 8.0 was a dog; PSP 9.0 much better, but PSP X is a heck of a lot better.

Of course, I still have PSP7.0 co-installed.

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Reply #6 - Jan 9^th, 2006 at 3:12pm

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where can i get any of these?

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Reply #7 - Jan 22^nd, 2006 at 6:11am

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What is the difference in the way repaints are done?
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Reply #8 - Jan 22^nd, 2006 at 6:36pm

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For Paint Shop Pro, you just have to visit

http://store.corel.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/HomeDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=1...

For Image Tool, you can get it from one of the SDKs provided by Microsoft.

http://www.microsoft.com/games/flightsimulator/fs2004_downloads_sdk.asp#gmax

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Reply #9 - Jan 23^rd, 2006 at 1:35am

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Without it, I (and I think every other repainter) couldn't be able to paint.

Not really. DXTBmp does the same thing, and I think there are at least a couple of others out there that will do it, too, including a paint program that has that feature built in.

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Reply #10 - Jan 23^rd, 2006 at 6:49am

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Not really. DXTBmp does the same thing, and I think there are at least a couple of others out there that will do it, too, including a paint program that has that feature built in.

DXTBmp is probably more 'flexible' than imagetool = although having/knowing imagetool is not a bad idea.

AT A MINIMUM - Microsoft MS Paint and DXTBMP can be used for repaints.

Recommended, a paint program with layers.

There is FS Repaint! from Abacus which has the advantage of being able to use an external paint program and you can see your changes directly without having to fire up FS.

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Reply #11 - Feb 7^th, 2006 at 6:40pm

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Ive done a lot of repaints and i use 3-4 programs to get the job done, the easiest for me is Adobe Photoshop, MS Paint, DXTBmp and then well FS2004 to view my projects to get them as accurate as possible.

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Reply #12 - Feb 10^th, 2006 at 8:34am

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Ive done a lot of repaints and i use 3-4 programs to get the job done, the easiest for me is Adobe Photoshop, MS Paint, DXTBmp and then well FS2004 to view my projects to get them as accurate as possible.

I don't get it. If you have Photoshop & know how to use it what possible use would you have for M$ Paint? ???

There's no need to spend out on expensive graphics editing software. Pixia is Freeware including Layers & other features used for repainting. http://park18.wakwak.com/~pixia/

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Reply #13 - Mar 4^th, 2006 at 2:42pm