Repaints troubleshooting

[C15_arnaud]

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I'd like to try and make repaints, but there are some things i do not understand.

First of all, I've got CFS2 (of course), photoshop and DXTbmp.

Do I need something else?

Could someone please explain to me step by step hte process, from the original aircraft to the repaint flying and visible, or give me a link to a good tutorial in order to achieve this?

Thank you very much.

Arnaud

[Hagar]

Hi Arnaud. Everyone has their own favourite methods for repainting. There is no right or wrong way of doing it. These tutes should give you the basic idea.
http://www.aluminumcloud.com/skinning.htm
http://www.simviation.com/gryphon/tutorials/p38tex.htm

You might have some texture conflicts with aircraft configured with multiple-textures in CFS2. This was not overcome until FS2002 was released. The best method is to configure each repaint as a completely separate aircraft. This involves renaming the repainted textures & hex-editing the MDL file to recognise them.