repainting??????

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repainting??????

Postby firemonte007 » Fri Oct 26, 2007 4:58 pm

I dont know if i have this posted in the right spot if not would a moderater please move it. My question is i downloaded the FSX repaint kit of the default cessna 172. How do you repaint the AC's? what program do you use?

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Re: repainting??????

Postby Ashar » Fri Oct 26, 2007 7:59 pm

Download this lesson:

http://www.projectopensky.com/files/pai ... Lesson.zip

and this tool:

www.oxidesigns.com/projectairbus/extra/imagetool.exe

It'll be easier if you have Photoshop ;) ;)
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Postby DonAlfonsoRoKil » Sat Oct 27, 2007 6:18 am

Imagetool is an alternative to DXTbmp, isn't it?
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Postby Fr. Bill » Sat Oct 27, 2007 3:03 pm

Imagetool is an alternative to DXTbmp, isn't it?


Well, it's rather the other way around, actually!

Imagetool.exe is the MS/ACES graphics tool.

DXTBMP.exe is Martin Wright's freeware graphics tool.

Both are extremely valuable. I use DXTBMP.exe a lot during development, but use Imagetool.exe for finished, commercial product release, as DXTBMP.exe does have a small problem with "artifacting" and "image degradation" at times.
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Re: repainting??????

Postby LeFeaoux » Thu Nov 08, 2007 6:56 pm

I have a question on this also.  ;)

I DO have Photoshop and I am trying to learn to repaint also but my problem is, whenever I try to open-up any repaint file in PS it tells me the document could not be opened due to disk error. What am I doing wrong?
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Re: repainting??????

Postby Evader DX » Thu Nov 08, 2007 11:30 pm

[quote]I have a question on this also.
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Re: repainting??????

Postby LeFeaoux » Fri Nov 09, 2007 3:46 pm

I have a question on this also.  ;)

I DO have Photoshop and I am trying to learn to repaint also but my problem is, whenever I try to open-up any repaint file in PS it tells me the document could not be opened due to disk error. What am I doing wrong?

If it is not working, it could be because the scheme is in DXT format.  All you have to do is go to Save, and scroll down the list and save it as a extended bit.  Then you could work on it.

Thanks. Yeah, I figured that out last night. I got DXTbmp and now I can convert them.
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