Hi thereI'm looking to convert some FS9 bmp aircraft textures for use with FSX.... I'm using DXTBmp, but there's a shedload of different formats available.Which should I use please?Thanks

Open DXTbmp. Click file. Browse to the texture you want to change. Open it. Click file. Click "Save as". DDS texture is your first choice. Give the file a different name if you don't want the save to copy over the original. Or open from a backup copy. This is also the software you can use to send the texture to a program to repaint it.Bob

It would probably be DDS DXT3.The main differences in all the different DXT formats are how they blend and interpolate the colours, and what sort of stuff it supports (such as alpha channels for transparency, and all that kind of thing), but DXT3 is usually a good bet. If you want to know what all the different DDS formats do in relation to FS, there is an article on it in relation to the FSX SDK on the FSInsider website.Al

I guess we need to know what you are trying to do. I was just looking and some default textures. The pannel was a DDS DXT1 file, while the body was a DDS DXT5 file. Not sure you can save an FS9 texture as a DDS and see any difference. But I'm no expert. I'd like to learn something here,too.Bob

I guess we need to know what you are trying to do. I was just looking and some default textures. The pannel was a DDS DXT1 file, while the body was a DDS DXT5 file. Not sure you can save an FS9 texture as a DDS and see any difference. But I'm no expert. I'd like to learn something here,too.Bob

Thanks guysIt's a set of FS9 Air Canada (blue) textures for the PMDG744. A folder with 20 or so bmp files. As it stands, if I add the textures to the FSX plane and update the cfg file, it doesn't even show up in the FSX preview.While i'm on the subject, I once had an FSX Continental paint for the 744, but lost it. Anyone know where i might find it?Thanks

I changed on of my DDS textures to bmp, and the plane still shows OK. Doesn't seem like bmp format is the problem. Bob

I changed on of my DDS textures to bmp, and the plane still shows OK. Doesn't seem like bmp format is the problem. Bob

Interesting. Thanks Bob. Will check further tmrw. Off to bed now. Eeek! 1.35am for me!