Help with adding aircraft textures

[capndon]

Hello folks

   I downloaded some 757 American Airlines textures from Project AI and cant seem to get them to work.
 I already have a 757 United Airlines plane that works fine.  I created the [fltsim.1]  section in the aircraft .cfg file. I only had the one plane in the the 757 folder,  the new AA plane would be the second.  I put the texture files in a texture folder called Texture.AAL and made texture=AAL in the [fltsim.1] section.  The plane shows up all gray (unpainted).  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks Don

[magicman]

You want to check if the Texture is the same spec as your original Aircraft. There is variations of for example, engines and I had the same problem. Check at PAI if there is different versions of 757

[Graycat8524]

Hey CapnDon,

You may wish to first check and see if the textures that you downloaded from PAI are compatible with the aircraft first.

I think that's what Magicman is referring to.

[capndon]

Thanks for the replies.  I really need an education on how texture files work I guess.   Am I correct is saying that when I want to add new textures to an existing aircraft that I already have,  then the new textures must have the same name as the existing textures that are in the existing aircraft.

   For example:  My exisiting aircraft has 2 textures named  B752PW_T.bmp and B757PW_L.bmp.  The new aircraft textures that I want to add are named 7572_T.bmp and 7572L.bmp.  So they want work right?

   Is it just the xxx_T.bmp and xxx.L.bmp that are important here because I notice that some aircraft in addition to those files have all kinds of other  xxx.bmp files?

[Graycat8524]

Absolutely correct.