Hey all, need a little help. I've been painting for some time in FS9 so I'm pretty familiar with but I'm trying to learn to paint in FSX and having a hard time with the alpha channels. For FS9 it was easy, just edit the alpha from DXT and presto your done..my problem is DXT doesn't handle the .dds files required for FSX, so I'm stuck...right now I'm working on an Eaglesoft Twin Comanche, I've got the paint looking right but there's no shine, there are two alpha channels in the paint layers but activating them doesn't work, it only blocks out the paint....how do I apply alpha channels in FSX? any help would be greatly appreciated.Thanks!

Hey all, need a little help. I've been painting for some time in FS9 so I'm pretty familiar with but I'm trying to learn to paint in FSX and having a hard time with the alpha channels. For FS9 it was easy, just edit the alpha from DXT and presto your done..my problem is DXT doesn't handle the .dds files required for FSX, so I'm stuck...right now I'm working on an Eaglesoft Twin Comanche, I've got the paint looking right but there's no shine, there are two alpha channels in the paint layers but activating them doesn't work, it only blocks out the paint....how do I apply alpha channels in FSX? any help would be greatly appreciated.Thanks!

In fact DXTBmp can handle the DDS files.The only thing you have to do is ,go to Martin Wright`s DXTBmp page http://www.mnwright.btinternet.co.uk/ and download DXTBmp en the DLL set.Now you will have the latest version of DXTBmp wich handles DDS files perfectly.RegardsLeen de Jager

the missing picture ( wich disappeared from my post above )

Thanks for the help, I did some digging after I posted this and the DXT converter I had was supposed to be able to handle the DDS files...after playing with it for awhile I figured it out and indeed it did. I was succesfully able to edit & save my alpha files into the repaint and convert to DDS so all is good! Here's a shot of what I'm working on jusst to show it off a bit, this is the Eaglesoft Twin Comanche..

Ohh..... this looks very good.My compliments.Leen