Repainting

[caleb1 27]

Registration number changes are really easy to do by yourself.  I do them all the time, mostly to change a non-US one to a US one.

Simply open the textures in DXTBMP and send them to your editor and edit them out and reload the image after edit in DXTBMP and save it and you're done.

[rightseat 277]

2 hours ago, caleb1 said:

Registration number changes are really easy to do by yourself.  I do them all the time, mostly to change a non-US one to a US one.

Simply open the textures in DXTBMP and send them to your editor and edit them out and reload the image after edit in DXTBMP and save it and you're done.

Sounds easy enough. Are there any free editors out there that work for P3D paints?

[scottb613 1,188]

Hi...

Gimp is probably the best free one - Photoshop is subscription based so I would steer clear of that - I use Paint Shop Pro X9 - you can pick it up pretty cheap on Amazon... One advantage of PSP and PS is that you can use the NVidia plugin to read and write DDS files directly... If you need help just ping me...

Regards,

Scott

[fppilot 4,354]

On 6/5/2018 at 7:47 PM, Bert Pieke said:

And we need someone to change the "8008 Integrated Flight Control" label, to "800B" which is the proper designation (I told Alabeo, but they do not seem to care..)

Found it tonight in Common Textures/win_texts.dds and took a stab at it.  Replaced the wrong "8" and also all of the countless texts in that file came back blurry.  Will try again tomorrow, saving an Alpha channel first and then applying it back. Stay tuned!

[fppilot 4,354]

On 6/5/2018 at 7:47 PM, Bert Pieke said:

And we need someone to change the "8008 Integrated Flight Control" label, to "800B" which is the proper designation (I told Alabeo, but they do not seem to care..)

Found it tonight in Common Textures/win_texts.dds and took a stab at it.  Replaced the wrong "8" and also all of the countless texts in that file came back blurry.  Will try again tomorrow, saving an Alpha channel first and then applying it back. Stay tuned!

[Bert Pieke 7,584]

I believe the night textures also need changing.. which makes it more challenging.. 

[fppilot 4,354]

10 hours ago, Bert Pieke said:

I believe the night textures also need changing.. which makes it more challenging.. 

There are actually three related textures but I failed again this morning.  Looks great in Photoshop and DXTbmp, but when loaded in FSX all of the labels on the panel are blurry.  Not sure what to try next.  Last night I had used the text tool to create a B and place over the erroneous 8.  Today I cut and pasted a B from elsewhere on the panel.

[scottb613 1,188]

Hi Frank,

Did you try "no mipmaps" ?

Here's a link to Nvidia's Photoshop Plugin - read/write DDS files directly... This will also load the Alpha into PS at the same time the main image is loaded... 

https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-texture-tools-adobe-photoshop

Regards,
Scott

 

 

Edited June 7, 2018 by scottb613

[fppilot 4,354]

4 hours ago, scottb613 said:

Did you try "no mipmaps" ?

More information please? Scott. I am not aware of this, or its effects.  Only know that with two simple edits the file size grows from 16 mb to 23 mb.  

[Bert Pieke 7,584]

24 minutes ago, fppilot said:

More information please? Scott. I am not aware of this, or its effects.  Only know that with two simple edits the file size grows from 16 mb to 23 mb.  

In DXTBmp, there is little box to the right that has MipMaps ticked.. if you untick this, a 16 MB file will be saved.

[Bert Pieke 7,584]

5 hours ago, scottb613 said:

Hi Frank,

Did you try "no mipmaps" ?

Here's a link to Nvidia's Photoshop Plugin - read/write DDS files directly... This will also load the Alpha into PS at the same time the main image is loaded... 

https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-texture-tools-adobe-photoshop

Regards,
Scott

 

 

I tried installing that plugin, but my Photoshop does not like this DDS file and claims it is not  "the right kind of document"..

[fppilot 4,354]

Got the plug in already. Had to fool around a bit to discover the right setting for saving alpha channel. Heading out to dinner with wife but my first stab, just covering up the last "8" was successful.  No time right now to post a screen shot. 

So my earlier method of finding a "B" in the panel and pasting over that 8 should work.  That worked in Photoshop before the plugin, but just did not translate well to the panel.  Also completed a repaint of sorts today. One where I merely recolored some striping and changed the tail number.  Came out good.

 

[scottb613 1,188]

 

44 minutes ago, Bert Pieke said:

I tried installing that plugin, but my Photoshop does not like this DDS file and claims it is not  "the right kind of document"..

Hi Bert,

i use PSP which it wasn’t made for and it works there so we should be able to get this going for you... I think you had to maintain the folder structure in your “plugins” directory...

To see if it’s properly installed - can you save file and see if it allows the DDS file type ?

i don’t have my laptop with me - I can get a snapshot of how I installed and post here - tomorrow...

Regards,

Scott

[Bert Pieke 7,584]

17 minutes ago, scottb613 said:

 

Hi Bert,

i use PSP which it wasn’t made for and it works there so we should be able to get this going for you... I think you had to maintain the folder structure in your “plugins” directory...

To see if it’s properly installed - can you save file and see if it allows the DDS file type ?

i don’t have my laptop with me - I can get a snapshot of how I installed and post here - tomorrow...

Regards,

Scott

Hi Scott,

It does not offer DDS file types in the Save-As dialogue..

There is a dds64 item in my plugins folder.. I'll try the 32 bit version instead..

[scottb613 1,188]

Hi Bert,

I’ll look at my setup n the AM and we can compare notes - we’ll get it working - I definitely use the 64 bit version - it truly makes life much better...

Regards,

Scott