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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.

Apologies accepted (naturally) I am happy this solves the problem. Cheers Leen

My pleasure TREVG, its always good to see some appreciation. Asking for help on a forum is fine. Getting an answer or positive response is even better. I am always disappointed ( and a bit angry) when I get no response from the initial poster of the question. Some people ( obviously like shazam ) seem to think this forfum is a place to ask and be answered, likewise an answering machine. Kinda free service a visitor is entiteled too. NO shazam , this is friends helping friends and reacting positive on being helped is the least you could do. Leen

Old eyes? That pointer is so tiny and hardly visible, I agree. Very hard to see our vertical movement in a glimpse. I have two answers: No you do not violate any copyrights when relocating some gauges for your own use only. Publishing it is something else. Changes to a model wich effect the default aircraft and all its liveries is completely different from a "repaint" of a part of that plane. A better solution is to make the pointer on the digital altimeter more visible. I am not a guy just shouting things ,so I did the job for you right away. Quickest paintjob I ever did , just repainting a pointer and some figures. Just unzip this zip into the objects folder of the Centurion. If you do that all liveries will have the new pointer and figures. When you place the files in the objects folder of your favorit livery, this livery alone will benefit it. Its always wise to make a back-up from the files involved. Download here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19900507/downloadables/Centurion-objects.zip Now you have a very good visible pointer and whats more important,especially by night. Enjoy, Regards Leen de Jager P.s. I`ll add this extra visability to the altimeter in my next repaint ( to be published shortly) https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19900507/Centurion%20Tiger/Car_Centurion_7.png

In my opinion HD textures of the aircraft (exterior) have not such a huge impact on the FPS as generally supposed. Farid is talking about low FPS IN the VC and high FPS seeing the aircraft from outside. For years I am experimenting with textures and their impact on the FPS. HD textures for the exterior of the plane have not really a big impact on the FPS. Lots of avionics AND HD texturising of the VC can be killing indeed. The power of the PC , its configuration and its video-sytem and many other things can give very different results even when testing the same aircraft. No need to say there will be a huge difference in results when flying under different conditions. Complexity of scenery, different weather conditions , its all part of the game. Farid is talking of different results with the same aircraft. Was it on the same airport, with the same weather, the same season/time of the day?

Hi Folks Though there is a growing interest in X-Plane and the X-Plane fora at AVSIM have an inceasing amout of visitors......................we did not welcome many X-Plane-Painters at the AVSIM Painters-forum yet. The question is Why ?? I cannot imagine the AVSIM community has no X-Plane-Painters. Maybe its the misunderstanding the AVSIM Paintersforum is just for MSFS and P3D painters. I can assure you its a fine place for X-Plane painters as well. Questions about painting for X-Plane are welcomed there too and and they are answered the same way as questions about painting for MSFS and P3D. Its also a fine place for conversations about painworks and paint-tips and tricks. Painters feel free to visit: http://www.avsim.com/forum/200-the-paint-shop-the-aircraft-painters-forum/ Leen de Jager Aircraft-Painters-Forum moderator / painter for X-Plane

Making a paint-kit for your own use only, is never a problem. ( copyright-wise spoken) When you made a paintkit and want to publish it , its always wise to ask permission from the maker of the original model (textures) . So..... thats the simple answer. How to make a paintkit..............................thats another story. The answer however is even more simple. To make a real paintkit , you must be familiar with painting with layered files. There are hundereds of tutorials about working with layerd files in painting programs available on the internet. Study these tutorials ( just a few will do) and the moment you are skilled to make layered paintings yourself.....................nobody needs to tell you how to make a paint-kit.

Yes this is a ligit site. BUT Please download the FREE demo FIRST and give it a try. MIND!! The real-time painting functionality on the 3D model in FSRepaint is nice, but, ONLY to see how a paint fits on various textures ( texture-sheets ). The build-in painting-program itself however is very VERY simple and cannot be used for real serious painting. This realtime-painting can NOT be performed when using other "supported" painting programs. The way the program is advertised gives the impression its possible, but its NOT. ONLY very simple and basic paintworks wich are made with the build in editor on the 3D model (realtime) can be saved. When paintworks are done in real painting-programs like PS, PaintshopPro, Giimp and Paint.NET FSRepaint can only be used as a viewer. I have been working with FSRepaint for many years , using the freeware version only. Apart from that, there are many models wich do not show-up correctly or do not show at all. I have the impression it`s an old program wich is not really up to date. Its interesting to see its not advertised for being able to handle files for Prepar3D`, when its was, it certainly should have been communicated in uppercast. Its advertised to be Compatible with Microsoft Flight Simulator FSX, 2000, 2002 and 2004 native aircraft Built in texture editor editor with several useful tools. External image editors are supported as well. External editors are only partially supported ( edited paint in and out FSRepaint just to view, NOT the realtime painting on the 3D model) As I do not make paints for MSFS or Prepar3D these days, (working for X-Plane now) I cannot tell how the latest version performs. As the version I used was named FSRepaintV2 too I think there will be no significant changes to the program in its latest version. When FSRepaintV3 would be released it might be more interesting. Anyways......... Make sure to give the demo a good try first to avoid disappointment. Leen

Great!!

Great paint ! Cheers Leen

Excellent repaint as usual. Forgive me some remarks. Lower cheatline on original is darker blue. Text on cargo-bay should be in blue instead of grey. Registration is most likely blue too. Spinner should be alu polish. Nevertheless super-paint. Leen

You`re welcome. Nice paint.

When a paint looks good on the texturesheet and does not show up properly on the aircraft, it might be due to mipmapping. Try saving the file again without mipmapping. OR read here: Painting FAQ`s 17 : TEXTURE_MAX_LOAD SETTINGS ( or “why high res repaints sometimes show disappointing” )......................Answer 17