February 10, 200719 yr Yesterday I made a repaint of the default FSX Baron. All well and good. But something happened while I was installing it into the sim, and it started showing the fallthrough white paint. So I played around a bit, and now EVERY Baron shows up just as the fallthrough white paint.The only files I (knowingly) changed were in my new texture directory, and the only part of Aircraft.cfg I changed was the addition of a new texture entry corresponding to the paint. It was a copy/paste of one of the others, name changed and altered to point to the new texture.I made a second install of FSX on a different PC, and my new paint works fine in that. So I'm convinced there's no problem with the paint itself. In fact I completely deleted the Baron 58 direcory in Simobjectsaircraft and copied over the directory from the PC I'd just seen working. But still I only get the white paints!I went to a backup of my FSX.cfg directory, also no difference. Obviously something has flipped, but I have no idea what. HELP!!!! :)
February 11, 200719 yr Assuming the FSX aircraft.cfg works the same as FS9.. did you change the fltsim number to be the next one along? Can't really think of anything else. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
February 11, 200719 yr Author I did make that mistake, but that just made the paint not show in the picker. I can't see why it should have turned all the paints (even the default ones) white.Then this morning I lad a lateral thought: If FS is showing the fallthrough white texture, why not copy my paint into the fallthrough texture folder? (obviously backing up the white paint first!). I did that, and sure enough, my paint showed up! Not only that, but all the other paints showed up too!. :-)Now I've copied the white texture back again, and all the paints are still showing. So why it didn't display them before, I still have no clue.
February 11, 200719 yr It seems FSX is even more mysterious than FS9! :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
February 12, 200719 yr FSX has one main texture folder and other numbered texture folders. The texture.# folders must be linked with the enclosed text file to the main texture folder (the texture folder without a number).texture.txt code:[fltsim]fallback.1=..texturefallback.2=........SceneryGlobaltexturefallback.3=............SceneryGlobaltextureSome Main texture folders in FSX are three-times the filesize as the numbered ones
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