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Reply #15 - Dec 23^rd, 2012 at 11:43pm

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Ya, I should of told ya, don't rely on any of the programs to just automatically Save the file in the format you want / desire,,,got to always check before saving a file , what format the program will actually SAVE it in,, usually you have to go up into the menu box and SELECT the format you want, which is either going to be BMP or DDS,, and nothing else !!!! its one or the other for flight simulator !

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Reply #16 - Dec 24^th, 2012 at 5:17am

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If you save as as BMP in Gimp and then call that into DXTBMP and re save in the format you want there should be no issues.

Auto saving is always risky.

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Reply #17 - Dec 24^th, 2012 at 10:45pm

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Yup, Gimp has its unique .xcf format, and that's what you get if you just hit save. Dunno what i was thinking, saying I'd try to get screenshots up today, forgot how busy I'd be. For sure in the next couple days though.

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Reply #18 - Dec 26^th, 2012 at 12:05am

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FFS, now what? I'm getting DXTBmp to show me the changes I made, so I click "save as" and overwrite the original file, it says it does... but it doesn't really! I load it in FSX and it's still the original white texture. If I open it again in DXTBmp, it loads the original white texture. What is going on here? I get the confirmation because the file exists already, I hit overwrite, it says it updated the DDS file, but it doesn't actually do it.

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Reply #19 - Dec 26^th, 2012 at 12:25am

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Strange... if I use the Abacus package as my file converter, but Gimp to paint with, no problem, the changes show up in FSX. Seems to be just DXTBmp lying to me about changing the DDS file. And yes, I'm remembering to flip the image upside down again, and export as a .bmp, DXTBmp is showing me the changes I made, just for some reason it doesn't change the DDS file.

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Reply #20 - Dec 26^th, 2012 at 2:00am

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Strange... if I use the Abacus package as my file converter, but Gimp to paint with, no problem, the changes show up in FSX. Seems to be just DXTBmp lying to me about changing the DDS file. And yes, I'm remembering to flip the image upside down again, and export as a .bmp, DXTBmp is showing me the changes I made, just for some reason it doesn't change the DDS file.

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Reply #21 - Dec 26^th, 2012 at 2:09am

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did you get my PM I sent you ???? like 2 days ago ,,,,

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Reply #22 - Dec 26^th, 2012 at 3:57am

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Brian Z wrote on Dec 26^th, 2012 at 2:00am:

Seems to be just DXTBmp lying to me about changing the DDS file. And yes, I'm remembering to flip the image upside down again, and export as a .bmp, DXTBmp is showing me the changes I made, just for some reason it doesn't change the DDS file.

You seem to be having more than your fair share of problems. Rather than blaming the software, look for something you're doing wrong. The first thing I would check is to make sure you're saving the edited files under their correct file names to the correct location.

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Reply #23 - Dec 26^th, 2012 at 10:39am

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Saw the PM last night, for some reason I can't reply. "invalid user name or names, or person has you on their ignore list."

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Reply #24 - Dec 26^th, 2012 at 12:55pm

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Alright, with Abacus anyway I was able to finally save a flyable draft. Still not sure what's up with DXTBmp, and it's probably important to figure that out, since Abacus can't open every DDS version, only DXT1, 3, and 5 it looks like. Anyway, took a screen shot, still needs a little touching up, and I haven't done anything with the alpha channel, the text and the pinup shouldn't be so shiny. Also from somewhere I picked up the monkeyed-with chrome file, which is making the spinners black. Once I figure out how to post a screenshot here or on my profile I'll let you know, the "right-click for help" thing isn't very helpful.

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Reply #25 - Dec 26^th, 2012 at 1:05pm

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[img][c:documents_and_settings/Brian_Zaenglein/my_documents/Jolly_Roger.jpg]

See if this works? Um, no... ok, when they set up stuff like this, they need to see if their mom can follow their directions. Anyway, once it's a bit more polished, I'll upload the texture to simviation.

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Reply #26 - Dec 27^th, 2012 at 2:36am

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You're trying to link to a pic on your own computer

You must upload images to this site.

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Reply #27 - Dec 29^th, 2012 at 1:03pm

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Ah, thank you, I thought it might need to be on a website somewhere first, but I didn't see where. Pinup is "Rum Runner" by Amano Jyaku

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Reply #28 - Dec 30^th, 2012 at 6:47pm

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Glad you're sorted.

Nice effort on the King Air Wink

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This site requires you to upload to and use the links

For other sites you need to upload to Photo Bucket, Image Shack or something similar.

Whatever, the result is the same. You upload to the site and post a link.

But here they do not allow external links as it can slow things down and they prefer to maintain control.

You can not upload direct from your computer into a page on any forum.

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Reply #29 - Jan 2^nd, 2013 at 2:48pm

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The OTHER thing you could have done is use Abacus FSRepaint to create your variant AND set Gimp! as your actual texture editor.. That way you can save the painted textures as a Gimp! default file, and still use FSRepaint to place your textures.

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