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I was wondering if there was a way to insert a picture of the add on in the place of the generic unknown thumbnail that appears with some addons.

Thanks

Yes...

Take a screenshot.. re-size it to a 256X128 jpeg and then put it in the texture folder.. name it, "thumbnail.jpg"

I was wondering if there was a way to insert a picture of the add on in the place of the generic unknown thumbnail that appears with some addons.

Thanks

Sure is. Generic unknown generally means a thumbnail wasn't included. At least that's my understanding of your question. You can make your own thumbnail with a picture viewer like IrFanview. Look at some of the thumbnails listed under texture of another AC to see the width and depth of it (ex. 256 X 190).

Take a screenshot that you want to use and resize to about the same size as what you may see with another thumbnail. Save it as a bitmap to the texture folder of the aircraft that you want. Some AC/Helicopters have more than 1 texture so be careful where you put it.

You now have a nice thumbnail you can use to identify the AC you want to fly.

Hope that helps.

Edit: Hells bells, Brett, you beat me to the punch And yes, you are right - save it as thumbnail.bmp.

You might be able to use a bitmap, but all the defaults are jpegs, so that's what I advised..

Autothumbnail V2-Automatically generates a thumbnail file for the currently flying aircraft. The image (shown in the "select aircraft" menu) is based on a screen capture. 186K

Dave

Thank you all very much for the information.