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Postby Garret » Mon Jan 12, 2009 4:47 pm

Most of the planes I download and put into my Sim object folder, do not show the thumbnail picture of the plane when I open the selection in free flight. How do I put the picture in? Please help!! Thanks a lot. :'(
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Re: Thumbnail pictures

Postby dave3cu » Mon Jan 12, 2009 6:06 pm

There is a little utility here-http://www.simviation.com/fsxutilities1.htm- called Autothumbnail v2, that will create the thumbnail.jpg files.

Else: you can take a screenshot of the aircraft and crop/resize the image to make your own. Standard thumbnails are 256x128 pixels saved in .jpg format, and must be named thumbnail.jpg. Just drop the .jpg into the relevent ....\\texture*\ folder for each paint.

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Re: Thumbnail pictures

Postby Garret » Mon Jan 12, 2009 6:17 pm

Thanks a lot for your prompt reply and help. Regards, Garret.
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Re: Thumbnail pictures

Postby MeekRN » Mon Jan 12, 2009 7:48 pm

yeah i wanted to know how to do that too, thanks. garret if you dont have photoshop, i do, just let me know, and i can edit the photo for you as needed.
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Re: Thumbnail pictures

Postby U4EA » Tue Jan 13, 2009 12:03 am

The one I use for add-on planes is a bitmap I made in "Paint" that has "Cool Add-On!" for text.
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Re: Thumbnail pictures

Postby Meck » Tue Jan 13, 2009 7:16 am

No need to resize the pic (if you don't mind the few extra kb) just take a screenshot, name it thumbnail (with ending *.jpg) and past it to the texture folder...
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