I don't have FS.X

Can you see two entires now in the chooser??

Sorry mate

I made a error in that cfg..I've corrected it, can you try it again and see if you get two different aircraft in the chooser..just paste that whole section in as before

garryrussell wrote on Jun 25^th, 2008 at 8:44am:

Hi Garry. Perhaps I should have qualified that by saying it works on FS9 on my system. I obviously can't speak for every combination of OS + video card/driver + display settings etc.

tas03. I can't confirm this as I don't have FSX. It might also depend on whether you have SP1 or SP2 installed. I suspect your problem is caused by using DXTBmp to save the repainted textures in DXT5 DDS format. I've been told that this will not work & you have to use the latest Imagetool I mentioned earlier. You could try saving them in Extended DXT3 BMP format & see what happens. You might have to flip the images before saving for them to display properly.

Hagar

I was think that myself afterwards and some folks have various plug ins to aid thing.

I have been on with tas03 this afternoon and there is an ingrained problem and two others since I spoke to him have a problem as well.

The question of DXTBmp and DDS came up.

Problem with formats is they look OK

If I turn a DDS to 32-888-8 I can't transform it at all in photoshop....all that is greyed out indicating a bad bit depth but it checks out OK via the numbers.

However in PSP7 there is no BMP option and the BMP can be scaled and rotated. Almost as if Photoshops ability top handle different types of BMP see a conflict where as PSP just gets on with it.

It's a minefield and that's why I tend to stick to the save in 24 bit and bring in separate alphas.

As you quite rightly say different set ups mean different things

My first model is in beta and one gets it doing odd thing others not so bad some not at all.....same model, same version, different setup.

One good thing about this thread is the amount of oddities that have shown up...all good to know

TD Horse.yep  your problem was of no surprise to me as it is common, but some don't seem to get it.

So frustrating when all you need to do is see it and it won't show.

I hope not too many potentially good painters have been put off by this.......but thread like this will hopefully sort them out.

Garry

garryrussell wrote on Jun 25^th, 2008 at 1:54pm:

Ah, I think I understand it now. Photoshop can't handle Extended BMP textures direct but it should work if you load the texture into DXTBmp & send it to Photoshop for editing in the usual way. That's the reason I never had these problems.

I wouldn't expect a standard graphics editor (even one as advanced as Photoshop) to be capable of working with compressed Extended BMP images including an Alpha Channel. That's what the texture converters like DXTBmp were developed for. They split the Alpha channel from the main image when opening textures so both can be edited separately.

One thing puzzles me about all this. What is the advantage of saving from Photoshop in 32-bit BMP format? I believe Targa format (.tga) is more suitable for creating FSX textures.

Try Imagetool.