Editing Texture files.

[R683AD]

I am totally new at trying to repaint or edit aircraft textures. Can Anyone out there tell me why I cannot open FS9 aircraft texture files, so I can modify them.. specifically painting on new N Numbers... All I get is a white screen in paint-shop. Some aircraft however open fine, and I am able to edit with no problems.... I would say most of the aircraft I can repaint or edit seem to be those I have downloaded. Default FS9 aircraft I cannot edit at all. Thanks in advance.

[Boikat]

Are you using DXTBmp to open you texture files before senfing them to your editor?

I've noticed that some of Ito's textures can be directly edited, but usually, as a rule, you have to use a "translator", for lack of a better word, since the textures for FS9 are extended BMPs (Native FSX uses .DDS format).  But I think photoshop has a plug-in, and  the SDK has "Imagetool". which does the same thing as DXTBmp, and does .DDS files.