Greetings. I'm trying to paint the 900NGX using the new version Paint Kit, but I'm still getting the white line. I wonder if that issue was resolved, since all posts I've found are from at least more than 180 days old. You can see the infamous white line on the attached pic.

 

I've tried EVERYTHING. I use CS6, NVidia DDS pluggin, no mip maps, flatten master, flaten fuse psds, checked the edges at 800 % for any hint of line, both the texture and alpha channel layers, and nada.

 

The worst thing is that I also see the line on the AA and Continental liveris I downloaded from PMDG.

 

Any more ideas?

 

 

 

Many thanks

Martin,

 

The white line on the -900 is an issue we have been dealing with for quite some time. The white line is actually a gap between the fuselage 2 and Fuselage 3 sections. The white you are seeing is the interior color. The -900 paintkit also has issues with the main wingroot area in that the specular properties of that area are vastly different than the side fuselage areas. That can throw off the shading and color matching between the 2 areas.

 

The -800 does not have this wingroot color issue so I will assume it's somehow related to the properties coded into the model file for the -900. I had hoped that PMDG would have fixed this issue. You mention the "new version " paintkit. I haven't downloaded the -900 paintkit for quite some time. I'll have to see if there's one newer than the version I have.

 

Sorry I don't have a solution for you. It seems that having lower "anti-aliasing" setting can help that line go away or appear less prominent. Happy Holidays!

Sorry I don't have a solution for you. It seems that having lower "anti-aliasing" setting can help that line go away or appear less prominent. Happy Holidays!

 

I have a certain feeling that the anti-aliasing settings add a lot to it. I have never had those pesky linkes on the 800/900 version until making a few changes to my graphic card settings recently and voila the lines have appeared. I haven't treid tracking down the error by reverting those changes yet.

 

It would be nice if someone from the development team could give a short note on that issue and if it can be solved with a future Service Pack or if it's basically in an issue with the paints themselves. I am hoping for the first.

Thanks for the quick response, Steve. You know what, I was mistaken. The newer version paintkit I donwloaded was for the Level-D, which is called 2010 Paintkit. Not for the PMDG. I've just checked, and I still have the version 1.0, developed back in August 2011, so I guess there hasn't been any newer version since.

 

I think I'll avoid the 900 for the time being, until a fix is found. Back to photoshop to chop that lettering to fit the 800 fuse

 

Thanks again.

 

I have a certain feeling that the anti-aliasing settings add a lot to it. I have never had those pesky linkes on the 800/900 version until making a few changes to my graphic card settings recently and voila the lines have appeared. I haven't treid tracking down the error by reverting those changes yet.

 

It would be nice if someone from the development team could give a short note on that issue and if it can be solved with a future Service Pack or if it's basically in an issue with the paints themselves. I am hoping for the first.

 

Thanks Christian. As you can see on the attached pics, I'm still at the aircraft selection window, so I haven't stepped into the sim, thus anti aliasing is not applied here, AFAIC. And I think it could be considered a lame fix to use anti aliasing to "hide" the failures, don't you think?

They must fix it. Is a very complex aircraft, I'm sure about that, but these tiny details must be taken care of.

"I think I'll avoid the 900 for the time being, until a fix is found"

That's exactly what you should do I had to give up on a 900 repaint almost done and found out the belly issue and it is still a problem so do an 800 and you will not waste a ton of time, good luck.