I did a Continental Airlines repaint on a Carenado Piper Arrow. Something different! I saved the file as a BMP which is what the original image was. Now when I go to select that texture from FS9 it crashes to desktop! Did I save the image wrong?

TXGrunt wrote on Nov 7^th, 2010 at 11:44pm:


What program did you use to do the repaint & save?

Not all .bmp files are the same, and if you saved as the wrong one, this would cause your problem. 

Did you call it into DXT.BMP and resave as an extended biutmap???.....if not your sim will crash as you describe.

Garry

TXGrunt wrote on Nov 8^th, 2010 at 8:32am:



First, if you don't have it, you will need the program, DXTBmp.
You can download it here, and it is free: http://www.btinternet.com/~mnwright/programs/dxtbmp.htm


Next, open the original texture that you are going to repaint in DXTBmp, and note what format it is,

like this:

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Now, at this point, it's probably a good idea to save a copy as a 24bit .bmp,
as this is what most graphics programs work with.

This can be done like so:

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NOTE! - don't save this copy in the same folder, as it will overwrite the original file!! Save the copy in a different location. 


Use the copy to do all of your repainting & editing with, so that you always have the original to fall back on. 

Finally, when you are done with your repaint, load the texture into DXTBMP again, and go to the file menu in DXTBMP, and select "Save as --> Extended bitmap"

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and then you will be able to select the proper .bmp format for your selected texture from this menu:

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Hope this helps you out!