Hi Simmers,This forum post is to announce that a GJSmith.com Encouragement Award has been presented to Vern Opperman for his MelJet B777 GE engined Royal Canadian Airforce Livery.http://www.gjsmith.com/images/Award--ENCOURAGEMENT-small.gifThis excellent texture was one of Vern's first for an FS2002 aircraft and has demonstrated a considerable amount of effort in the primary graphics and a maturing understanding of the Alpha channel reflective effects, and he has gifted this hard work to the Flight Sim Community for our flying pleasure.Please see the commendations for Vern at:http://www.gjsmith.com/awards/awards.htm and navigate to the [blue]Encouragement Awards[/blue] page.Congratulations to Vern for a Job Well Done.http://www.gjsmith.com/images/gjsmithdotcom-2.gifGarry J. Smith at http://www.gjsmith.com RAAF RetiredAircraft Texture TinkererAvailable on my site:GuestBook, GuestMap, Mailing List, Forum, Graphics Tutorial, hundreds of FREE textures

Way to go Vern!! Alpha textures are not the easiest, took me awhile to get them down. Really cool of you Garry to acknowledge Vern for his efforts, nice to see some support with all the negativity lately!Keep'em coming guys!! Regards, Michael

Thanks for responding Michael,Your nice words for Vern will go a long way to encourage him and others to do more textures for our flying pleasure.Acknowledging work and the free gifts we get from these texture painters will always be encouraging for our many artist who are painting textures out there and positive support is always welcome.How can we possibly loose if more and more texture tinkerers push the boundaries of graphics programs and pass on these efforts for free to us to fly and enjoy. Just a little bit of encouragement and support is all that we need to offer and we all win. http://www.gjsmith.com/images/gjsmithdotcom-2.gifGarry J. Smith at http://www.gjsmith.com RAAF RetiredAircraft Texture TinkererAvailable on my site:GuestBook, GuestMap, Mailing List, Forum, Graphics Tutorial, hundreds of FREE textures