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Sep 25th, 2007 at 9:23am

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Can someone tell me what went wrong please. I decided to try and repaint the default 737-800. I used DDS Converter to change to image to jpeg so that I could view/play with it. As I have never tried this before, I changed the logo on the tail and the base colour only to see how it would turn out before I spent time doing something that would not work. I converted it back, placed it back in the directory it came from and then ran FSX.
What I did looked quite good except for the following. The aircraft was a patchwork. The tail had painted windows, my new tail art was wrapped around the fuselage, basically, nothing was where it should be, it looked like something out of The Matrix  Sad

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Reply #1 - Sep 25th, 2007 at 9:25am

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Try flipping the edited image before converting back to DDS format.

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I used DDS Converter to change to image to jpeg so that I could view/play with it.

You would be better off using an uncompressed format like BMP or TGA to edit.
 

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Reply #2 - Sep 25th, 2007 at 10:09am

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Hagar wrote on Sep 25th, 2007 at 9:25am:
Try flipping the edited image before converting back to DDS format.

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I used DDS Converter to change to image to jpeg so that I could view/play with it.

You would be better off using an uncompressed format like BMP or TGA to edit.



Thanks Hagar, I had turned the image for ease of "painting" and forgot to place it back in the same orientation  Roll Eyes Roll Eyes

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