The Perfect Idea [Hopefully] For Cfs2

[Corsair Freak]

"The Perfect Idea" [Hopefully]

I Downloaded DXTbmp A Few Weeks Ago And Discovered That When You Repaint The Stock
Planes All Youre Doing Is Painting The "Left" Side So When You Start The Game The
"Right" Side Is An Exact Copy of The "Left Side" Flipped Horizontally.
But My First Question Is: Do The Model Files Figure Out Where To Put The Textures?
My Second Question Is: Can You Edit The Stock Planes Models? If Yes Than My Idea Should
Work [Emphasis On "Should"]. If You Take And Open The The Texture "t" [f4u1a_corsair_t]
And "d" [f4u1a_corsair_d] And Flip Them Horizontally. Rename The Horizontally Flipped Texture
[f4u1a_corsair_tr] "r" For Right Side. Then Tell The Model To Put That On The Right Side.
Then The Writing Wont Be Backwards. It Will Be Harder To Add Pictures Though.
If You Think Its A Good Idea Or Think It Wont Post "Feed Back" Please.

P.S. I Dont Have FSDS So I Couldnt Do The Model Files

     `                                    8)Brandon Buchanan8)
       

[Hagar]

Brandon. You're not the first person to suggest this & won't be the last. The texture mapping is hard coded into the MDL file. Basically, the default visual models cannot be modified so you're stuck with what you have. You could not do this with FSDS, Gmax or any other 3rd party application.

The only way over it is to use markings that look the same when they're mirrored. This is possible with a little imagination. Even better, forget the defaults & use 3rd party aircraft.

[Corsair Freak]

:-/ Hagar:
What If Someone Were To Make An A/C That Was Exactly Like It[ Based On The CFS2 Model] Would It Then Work? Then They Could Choose Which Textures To Put Where, Right? Cause I Hate That Mirroring So Much, If I Download A Repaint Of The Stock Planes That Has Writing On It And Its Mirrored Then I Dont Use It, So Now I  Know To Only Download Repaints Of The Stock Planes If They Dont Have Writing Or Numbers. I Think Theres Way To Fix This But I Dont Know What??? Someone Might Have To Make An Entirely New Hellcat, Corsair, Wildcat Etc...

P.S. The Thing About Repainting 3rd Party A/C Is The Textures Sometimes Have Numbers Already On Them
And If You Try To Put New Numbers On Them It Looks Funny.

                                Brandon Buchanan:'(