Anyone know how to avoid the shine when installing some liveries. i installed the corsairfly Livery pack and all repaints have that shine over them. can this be fixedcheers guys

If you are talking about FSX and DDS textures, the file you want to be messing about with will not be the main paint job texture file, but the related texture file that has the extension '_spec' on the end of its file name. This is the one that controls the specular highlights for the main texture, and if the alpha channel on that is not in the correct format, then you will probably get a shiny texture. Typically, you will want it to be a DXT3 ARGB file, at 8 bit with a 1 bit explicit alpha.You will see the options to select all that when you save the DDS file from Photoshop in a drop down menu, so if you make sure that your alpha channel (on the spec file, not the main texture file) is fairly mid tone greys and you choose a DXT 3 file with a 1 bit explicit alpha, you should be in business.Al

Was that in English??? :(

Was that in English??? :(

yes,but no.

If you are talking about FSX and DDS textures, the file you want to be messing about with will not be the main paint job texture file, but the related texture file that has the extension '_spec' on the end of its file name. This is the one that controls the specular highlights for the main texture, and if the alpha channel on that is not in the correct format, then you will probably get a shiny texture. Typically, you will want it to be a DXT3 ARGB file, at 8 bit with a 1 bit explicit alpha.You will see the options to select all that when you save the DDS file from Photoshop in a drop down menu, so if you make sure that your alpha channel (on the spec file, not the main texture file) is fairly mid tone greys and you choose a DXT 3 file with a 1 bit explicit alpha, you should be in business.Al

Thanks I'll give it a go

Hi Dylan,From my limited experience in painting aircraft, you may want to look in the specific aircraft textures folder as Al suggested to find the _spec.dds files. If there is one present, as Al suggests you can update it yourself. Also another option may be, if the _spec file is present, you may just want to move that file to a temp folder. This way the aircraft should default to the std PMDG spec file which is in the default texture folder. This may also help take the shine off things!Try it and let us know how it works out?Cheers,

ok just downloaded a virgin repaint off Flightsim.com. it has the shine but no _spec files. i'm starting to think that it may be a compatibility problem as these were made for Fs9. If i find one i=with _spec files i'll let you guys know cheers

FS9 the shininess is hard coded into the model.