I am having a problem with the repaint kit for the FSX Alphasim AS365 Dauphin. I hope one of the many more knowledgeable people on this forum can help shed some light on this problem. First, I have a mediocre repaint knowledge already. I have numerous Nemeth helicopters and use their repaint kits and have zero issues. Anyone familiar with the two companies will know there is a fairly big difference between the repaint kits. The Nemeth kits are blank layered PSD files that have text included like

Did you try flipping the textures when converting them? Many paintkits need to be flipped when coverted to dds (the majority do). I would also recommend using ImageTool to do your conversion from .bmp to .dds. It's included in the SDK at \\Microsoft Flight Simulator X SDK\SDK\Environment Kit\Terrain SDK\ImageTool.exe

Did you try flipping the textures when converting them? Many paintkits need to be flipped when coverted to dds (the majority do). I would also recommend using ImageTool to do your conversion from .bmp to .dds. It's included in the SDK at \\Microsoft Flight Simulator X SDK\SDK\Environment Kit\Terrain SDK\ImageTool.exe

Thanks. I'll try both recommendations and report back.And thanks for the quick response. This community is awesome!

First, the support at Alphasim was tremendous and helped me with this issue.The problem was with the alpha channel. To get the new textures to show I had to save them as a 32 bit bmp, then import the alpha channel from a current dds texture and apply it to my bmp file.