Am I flogging a dead horse here? I don't have any of the betas installed - so this question relates to the current/standard version of MSFS 2024.

Is there a way of adding new liveries for aircraft bought/installed in Marketplace? I'm under the impression that you simply can't do that yet, as Marketplace content is encrypted and not accessible from added/new liveries. Is it a no-go - or is there a convoluted way of doing it after all?

I'm not a painter (much as I'd love to - never managed to figure it out), but as an avid consumer of repaints I certainly haven't seen a single one made available anywhere yet so I assume it's not possible at the moment.

Which is a great shame. I've removed plenty of the default aircraft simply because I can't stand the look of them in the ridiculous MS liveries. Why they had to go and change the format I've no idea, but then I'm not convinced they could explain why either. Another one of those "infinite number of monkeys and infinite number of typewriters" moments probably.

It seems the only good way to create 2024 liveries for the actual default aircraft is to use a method where we would create a very thin model part based on our design, and attach it to the model.  Some devs have been doing this since early 2020.

I can't really begin to look into this for freeware purposes.  Painting in 3d (blender/substance painter) is hard enough.