Hello!

I'm attempting my first repaint. It's a Carenado C206, and I'm using the blank BMP textures downloaded from Carendo's website. I've done a good bit of research into tutorials, examples, etc. in order to get just this far.

My process has been as follows:

-Open the BMP file with DXTBmp
-Send to editor (in my case, GIMP)
-Repaint in GIMP, adding layers in multiply mode
-Save in GIMP (overwriting the imported file norm.bmp)
-Reload after edit in DXTBmp
-Test DDS (they all look OK - or at least, they look like the original BMP files)
-Flip image & alpha
-Save as DDS3

The aircraft textures in FSX will appear as desired. The problem is that the windows are black and non-transparent. You can't see out the windows in VC, although you can in the 2D cockpit.

I should also mention that I've downloaded another C206 repaint (G-PLUM) and have been using it as a guide. I can detect no differences in those DDS images and mine, but the G-PLUM aircraft works fine, and mine doesn't, sadly.

Obviously I'm missing something simple (I hope). Can anyone lend some advice?

Thanks!

 

Make sure to reload the alpha layers from the original into the new file.
Without this alpha no transparency on the windows.