I am trying to paint the 32bit textures of the above aircraft but when placing files(nomenclature of files is correct)in the FS9, it closes down. I basically at this stage just wanted to have a look without changing the Air cfg.At I convert the PSD to copy bmp then rename the file,place in but no joy,should the CFG be changed if i say change the ATC ident on the tailplane.Regards Patrick.

I'm a little confused as to what you're trying to do, but I'll point out that I haven't had any luck using 32 bit .bmps straight out of PhotoShop (assuming that's what you're using) without first opening them in imagetool.exe and simply saving them again. Without this step, the PhotoShop .bmps will crash the sim every time.Here's a copy of imagetool if you need it:http://www.cat-tamer.com/downloads/imagetool.zipJust extract it to a folder somewhere and double click it to open it. Then just drag your finished .bmps into the imagetool window and do "File > Save" before you try to load the new textures in the sim.hope that helps,Jim

Thanks Jim,i will try that and see what happens,i have had image tool for some time now,have actually done that i think but will give it another go,CS2 has its own conversion To bmp,All a little mystyfying had no troubles before,thanks Patriclk:)

Painting programs will save the bmp as a raw 32bit file which Flight Sim can't handle, as said above you'll need to convert it to 32bit in ImageTool (I use DXTBmp).

Yep that done the trick!,thanks fellas much appreciated. Regards Patrick.

Glad you got it working Patrick :) .jim

Thanks all,regards Patrick.