As I said in my presentation as newbie, I've reinstalled FS9 on my old PC for my museum.
I'm president of a military airbase museum in Belgium and we have made a simulator box for childrens.
For that, I'm preparing my PC with FS2004 (it's only what I can run on it, and the only one original version of FS that I have)
Historically on this base, used by the belgian air force between 1946-1967, the pilots had first Gloster Metor end finally Hawker Hunter.
 

I've buyed the model presented by Virtavia, and having the repaint for the Alphasims version with the Belgian levery, I tried to install this repaints on the Virtavia version.
I had to modify some lines in the Airplanes.cfg, and I succeeded to have a perfect result.

By the way, The repaint is not really exactly the one I want, and I'd like to create new repaints of my Hunter for the 3 squadrons in place on my base.
And probably with the Red devils levery... Why not! 😊
I've downloaded the DXTBmp software and have also Photoshop.

How could i do this work?
Is there a tutorial for create repaints for FS 2004 from an existing texture?

Thanks for all.
 

 

Usually one would start with a "paint kit", which comprises various levels of detail on different PaintShop layers, then add the paint job to the appropriate layer before recombining for use in FS.

Trying to remove/replace livery details on a pre-painted aircraft without losing a lot of surface detail in the procedure is usually a thankless task.

Good luck.

7 hours ago, chris_eve said:

On commence généralement par un « kit de peinture », qui comprend différents niveaux de détail sur différentes couches de PaintShop, puis on ajoute la peinture à la couche appropriée avant de recombiner pour une utilisation dans FS.

Tenter de retirer/remplacer les détails de la livrée d'un avion pré-peint sans perdre beaucoup de détails de surface au cours de l'opération est généralement une tâche ingrate.

Bonne chance.

Effectiveley, I don't want to replace or retire details, but only modify the levery, nose and immatriculation.

I've this model:

To this one:

2 hours ago, PhilMibac said:

Effectiveley, I don't want to replace or retire details, but only modify the levery, nose and immatriculation.
 

Exactly what I said - you need a paint kit. This will retain all the panel details etc. and you simply paint the areas you wish.

Unfortunately, if a paint kit is unavailable, it all becomes very hard work 😞

You may be better served looking for an alternative model (with a paint kit) to start with.

I would have though that if it is only a case of replacing a few details, it should be possible with a half-decent graphics programme (I use one that allows layering during the preparation) and a conversion utility such as DXTBMP: https://www.mwgfx.co.uk/programs/dxtbmp.htm

The latter allows you to change the textures to something editable. My experience is limited to changing incorrect registrations on third-party aircraft and I have every success with that method. But as Chris says, if you want to do more than that it gets a whole lot more complicated!

Good luck,

John

Hi, after long research, and study about the manupilation for repainting planes, I've finally found the templates for the modifications.
Then, I've worked a lot on it and i'm satisfayed of my works. It's the first time that I repaint planes on FS2004.
I've made the repaint of the Hunter based on Chièvres with the 7th wing,
The 7th squadron:


The 8th squadron:

The 9th squadron:

And finally, the Red Devils (Belgian acrobatic team):

Very nice job, kind of rewarding isnt it? 😉