I have a great repaint for the PMDG 747 that was made for FS9 and I'm trying to bring it over to FSX. To get a proper night lighting I have to put the correct alpha channel in the FS9 repaint. But when I copy over an alpha from another made for FSX repaint using DXTbmp, it becomes much more pixalated. Why is that? Both are DXT5 dds files. Can someone tell me how I can copy over the correct alpha so the landing and tail lights work properly on the converted fs9 repaint? Thanks!

 

-David

The problem could lie with the size of the alpha. Fs9 only allows 1024 textures, while fsx can do larger. Check the size of the textures first. I suggest opening the fsx texture, saving tha alpha as a separate bitmap, resize it if necessary, and then import it into the fs9 texture, always using dxtbmp. I have done this often, and it should work, as long as they are the same size..