Adobe Phtoshop 2.0

[PAY1829]

Is it possible to do re-paints with this program? I tried re-painting Mike Stone's Cessna 404 the other day, and I was able to open the textures using Photoshop and edit them, and save them as .BMP, but the new textures won't show in FS2004. Any suggestions?

[Travis]

The textures most likely need to be saved in a certain format.  To do this, you need to get DXTBmp, which is a small freeware program that converts textures for all FS stuff.

Get it here:

Design Utilities

Read up on the net about it.  There's a lot of info on the types of textures used in FS and what they all mean.

[PAY1829]

Cool, I'll have to check that out. I saw Paint Shop Pro on there, is that Freeware?

[Travis]

Cool, I'll have to check that out. I saw Paint Shop Pro on there, is that Freeware?

Actually, I think PSP, in its current incarnation, is well over 100 US.  Just stick with Photoshop.  I've heard its a more userfriendly program.

[PAY1829]

Allright, I'll try DXT.Bmp and see how it goes. Thanks for your help.

[wji]

After Opening 32bit.BMP File in DXTbmp, Save As Extended DXT3 fileformat. Why? Read what Martin Wright (author of DXTbmp) states:

"You can either use the Extended 32 bit version in FS or convert a copy to DXT format for actual flying. The drawback with 32 bit is the filesize (4 or 8 times the size of the equivalent DXT) and performance (DXT formats are optimised DirectX formats and are stored and displayed using the Graphics card built-in DXT hardware). "

[Travis]

"You can either use the Extended 32 bit version in FS or convert a copy to DXT format for actual flying. The drawback with 32 bit is the filesize (4 or 8 times the size of the equivalent DXT) and performance (DXT formats are optimised DirectX formats and are stored and displayed using the Graphics card built-in DXT hardware). "

Of course, if you have a good graphics card, a GB or so of RAM and a terrabyte of HD space, you could just opt for great rendering instead of performance.  That's what 32-bit is for.  I've been playing with it recently, and now ALL my DXT3 files (with some exceptions) are 32-bit.  It just looks juicier . . .