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I've installed new textures and they come up white! This is extremely frustrating so why are they doing it?

.....think you need to expand on that chuboy..otherwise how can anybody help ....what textures and for what, would help..and are you experienced in installing stuff?...commoner

I have the same problem with a couple of downloads: RAF Scampton, Truro and Swansea all come up with the buildings and major structures all white. I know in FS 2002 there was a patch for the Scampton one, but I just ignore, the runways and local mesh is ok.

You may need to get ahold of imagetool.exe or DXTBMP manipulator. From what I'm gathering, the bitmap formats may be incorrect, causing Flight Simulator not to recognize them.

I experienced the same problem when I did my first repaint.

First of all we need to establish which files you're having problems with & whether they're scenery or aircraft textures. Secondly, are you certain you installed them correctly? Is this your first attempt or have you done it successfully before? I'm always pleased to help figure out problems but it's pointless speculating without more specific details.

Hagar, I too have the same problem with white texture  but only on the outside of a P51 Mustang that's called the  Sliver Lady downlaoded form this place. I was hoping to get the silver texture on the outide skin of the plane; the inside looks great and the plane is a pleasure to fly.
Any help's for me too?
JFG

Hi JFG. I'll do my best to help you or anyone else providing the files you're having problems with are posted here at SimV AND providing you help me to help you. It makes things so much easier if you tell me the exact page this P-51 is posted on so I can download it & check it out.

[quote]Hagar, I too have the same problem with white texture

I've installed new textures and they come up white! This is extremely frustrating so why are they doing it?

Definitely need more info to be sure what your problem is but if it's a scenery file you may need the Nova textures. Google for the Nova website. There are textures there that a lot of scenery designers use in their sceneries. The designer doesn't provide them so you have to get them from the Nova site.

Also, if it's a problem with trees your scenery may need Gerrish Grey's tree sets. That file should be here at SimV in the download section.

I've also run into a couple sceneries where the textures want to be placed in the default FS "Textures" folder instead of the textures folder inside the scenery folder. It's worth a try moving the textures over. Just make sure they don't overwrite one in the default textures folder. The file may have the same name but be completely different. Make sure you click "No" to any request to overwrite.

For aircraft it's a different matter. If the reflections checkbox fix mentioned in this thread doesn't work then you will need to post a link to the airplane you are having difficulty with.

Often however if you run into an add on aircraft texture that shows up white and it isn't because you don't have the reflections checkbox checked, it's because the texture file you are using is made for a different aircraft. There is sometimes more than one designer making an aircraft and even sometimes the same designer making two completely different versions that can't share textures.

I'm using Windows 98, and I'm installing textures for use on AI aircraft. I've made sure that the textures are assigned properly and Ive done it before too!

HAGAR
Have the reflections check box checked already. The plane is on page 18 the same as yours. What I get is a pure white texture and in the air against the sky a nice shinny white one.
Maybe its the 128 mb PCI viedo card I have,the only one that works with my XP2400 AMD chip and motherboard.
I still like the plane even thought its white, maybe I should call it The White Knight instead of The Silver Lady and leave it alone.
Thanks for You quick reply.

JFG