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I am not an expert too, so lets hope a real expert will tell. Most important is NOT to install X-Plane under Program-files. Just in its own folder , no matter on wich disk in your computer. If you do that there is no need for giving the x-plane exe files the administrator status. I have been using X-Plane onder various Windows versions for many years now and I never had the need to give X-Plane administrator-rights. Place X-Plane in its own folder on one of your harddisks and NEVER place the X-Plane directory in Program-Files.

I strongly advice NOT to do this. X-Plane will only search for this files in its own directory. When windows placed those files elswhere X-Plane is getting in trouble. But even when those things do not happen, doing it will cause X-Plane files being stored outside the X-Plane folder wich is not very handy when making a backup of X-Plane anyways.

I have several friends,not having X-Plane, who like to "fly" occasionally. When I visit them I take my WD Elements 1Tb portable harddisk (containing a copy from my X-Plane install,) my Disk1 and my joystick with me. Put my Disk1 in their DVD-player, plug in my joystick and fire up X-Plane from my portable disk. (yes, directly from the portable USB3-hard-disk) Whatever the Windows version ( Vista and later ) it NEVER failed. Yesterday I installed my complete X-Plane ( without payware, I removed that first at my home) on a friends PC. He purchased the X-Plane disks himself and flies completely legal with his own Disk1 in the drive. It only saved him some weeks of installing hundreds of airports, orthofotos, freeware-aircraft with hundreds of liveries, plugins etc. Also this time on a Win10 machine. We just had to calibrate his joystick ( we do not have the same ) and assign some buttons. It took less than an hour and works flawless. Nothing wrong with Win10 & X- Plane

Yes John , I did not really expect him to be waiting anymore. Nevertheless I would like to give a signal in general about how OP`s tend forget to respond in a civilised way. NOT saying everybody is to blaim. Cheers Leen

@ mk99aul ( and many others ) I wonder, why it seems to be so hard saying a friendly "Thank You" after being answered to a question.

Yes thats the idea. Let me explain it in my own words, I would have done it like this ( though there are many other ways) Make a layer and create the pattern on it. ( layer1 ) Now make a layer on top of that one having your texturesheet with the wings. ( layer 2) Set layer 2 to 50% tranparency ( =50% opacity) and move the pattern on layer1 until the pattern shows well positioned on the wing. Set layer2 back to 100%opacity ( =0% transparency) Select the surface of the wing you want to have the pattern on with your selecting-tool. When its selected make layer1 active. Now choose the option COPY. Then make layer 2 active again and choose the option PASTE. What happened : The selected shape of the wing will be copied from layer1 to the selected area on layer 2. How to work with your paintingprogram is something wich you can learn from hundreds of explanations on the internet ( also in french ) Take my word for it , it takes far more time to learn how to work with a paintingprogram during painting , than studying som basic manuals first.

I think I have the same point of view as you Azertylolilou. We at AVSIM too, welcome everybody from anywhere and we certainly do not forbid anyone to post in his native language ( if thats the only language he is able too) lets hope there is another visitor who can help out in the same language. BUT We appreciate it very much when visitors try to communicate primarily in english (we do not mind the langauge-errors ) . Writing the same question in his/her native language the same time is OK. Whenever a question, put in another laguage than english ,is being answered we would like to see the question and answer to be translated into english by the one who answers the question , for the benefit of the whole community. We cannot have questions and answers being put here in just another language than english. I am dutch and my english is not better than yours. Groeten Leen p.s. Je moet er toch niet aan denken dat ik dit hier allemaal in het Nederlands zou schrijven, alleen John zou het begrijpen hij spreekt als Engelsman perfect Nederlands. Lets not think about me writing this all in dutch, just John would understand, though he is english, he can cummunicate in ducht perfectly.

About the question and the answer. In a nutshell, I think this is the complete story ( including Mike Adamo`s answer ) Azertylolilou wanted to fill a wingsufrace with a pattern he made himself. He tried to copy and paste his texture to fill the wingsurface but did no succeed. This was caused by the fact the texture weas not simmetric ( not all cubes have the same size ) He should have started with one correct cube and paste a complete texture by duplicating and pasting this cube to a large texure , large enough to cover the complete wing. Simply cut out the desired part and you are done. As my knowledge of the french language is minimal ( Je ne parle pas francais ) it would be great when MikeAdamo would be so helpfull to translate my answer. Regards / amitiés Leen de Jager

Sorry friends I thinks its time to give my opinion. Jonhn wrote So after less that 6 hours you are complaining that no-one answered ? You might not believe it , but most painters here do have a life outside flight simming and probably work during the day You do not explain exactly what you are trying to do either , so how can you expect any useful feedback ? John was totally right giving his comment about the impatient reaction of Azertylolilou. ( the second time * the OP placed his question on the forum !! , I removed the first one just a moment ago. ) I did not see this untill now, when I had been here before John , John would not have placed his reaction because I already had done something similar. About the language, here I agree with John likewise. On this AVSIM forum the language is english. Questions and answers must be put in english to benefit all visitors of this forum. Does that mean helping someone in his native language is forbidden. No certainly not, but we must do it in a bi-langual way. Questions and answers in BOTH languages ( if possible ) but always and at least in english. So, our french friend must put his question in english ( as good as possible) and he is free to put this on this forum in french too ( its always easier to express in a native language, I understand) Is someone provides the answer to the question he must do that in english and when he is french speaking too, he is welcome to give the same answer in french too. It would be great to have MikeAdamo`s answer in english as well, maybe someone can give an even better answer and thats the way this forum should work. Things like this do not happen very often on this forum, so there is no need to make a lot of fuzz about it. On the other hand , keep in mind, I want to keep this forum in english and do not allow posts and answers that are put in french, dutch,german, chinese whatever, only. * Repeating a question by posting the same question within a few days/hours, on the same forum, is NOT DONE !!. Such posts will be removed by the mods.

No problem with Nvidia drivers whatsoever. Got myself a new rig with GTX 980 Ti 6gb works super.

Really awsome effect, my compliments. This makes clear, for now the secret lies in "noise" in different layes/files. The same time we see.... we need more pixels to get to the ultimate effect. I made this effect once on 8K , not in FSX, I made this for an experimental version of FLYII ( FLY-Legacy ) , was worse than your achievent, but had a huge potential.. For now I think think is ....................5 stars at least. Chapeaux !!!

Try to find a repaint from this model and then contact the maker of this repaint and ask him to share the paintkit.

The secret of metallic paints lies in the fact millions of metal reflective particles are present in a varnish-like colored layer. They are not lying flat in the paint , they all have different positions and reflect the sunlight under different angles, wich makes the glitters "glitter". To have real glittering enamel on a aircraft, we need dynamic mirroring on all those millions of particles. Dynamic mirroring is not something a painter can paint. You might experiment a bit with colors. The best way to achieve something wich comes close , is to make a nomal-file with some noise (extreme low level) and a specular layer wich identical noise. As I said real reflective particles in the paint......................................I think we will end op with 2FPS. I have never seen it in a flightsim. A little experiment: Cut a piece of a picture showing a fancy sports-car in brilliant metallic paint Paste this piece of metallinc surface on your aicraft. As long as the aircraft is static and the viewer is static too, it might look nice ( MIND ,you need an extreme high resolution for the plane, to make it show a bit realistic ) The moment things get moving.................it looks awfull.