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Hi Leen, If I can be of any help, I will do it with pleasure. Happy New Year, Lluís

Thank you Gary, Will watch it carefully at home this evening. Best regards, Lluís

Hi all again, I am very sorry for not replying but, I do not know why, I am not receiving any notice when there is a reply to this subject or others. I am trying to solve it now. Last week I could install in an absolutely new and top rating computer the FSRepaint V2 from Abacus. As I had many problems with my PC trying to open FS2004, FSX and P3D aircraft, as said, I tried my registered copy of FSRepaint in a new PC. I could confirm that it works perfect with FS2004 and FSX aircraft but it does not work with P3D's. Some time ago Abacus answered to me that they could not say if FSRepaint could deal with P3D files and now I have sent them a message confirming that it does not. I was using FSRepaint following the recommendation of Leen as I allowed me to render the results of the repaint without running FS2004. As said, now I cannot use FSRepaint for that. I assume that most of us do our repaints using Adobe Photoshop, but I wonder if there is any software that can be used with P3D to render the results of a repaint operation without running P3D which takes a lot of time. I am leaving for some holidays but I hope to have some reply when I'll be back. Thank you very much in advance for your suggestions and advice. Best regards, Lluís

Hi Johnman, Thank you for the information. I will follow your indications. Besides from that, I have P3d ver. 2.4 and I have used it but actually I will stay with FS2004. However, I need to repaint the P3D aircraft for the other pilots using it. Thanks again, Lluís

Good afternoon, I started repainting aircraft around year 2006 short after we founded our VA: Catalonian Airlines (www.catalonian-airlines.cat). At that time I had no idea at all even about using Photoshop and I had to start doing the repaints because nobody else in the company was available for that task. At that time (and still now) we fly Microsoft FS2004. I do not remember how but I reached Leen de Jager and from the first minute he gave me all the help I needed. Thanks to him, today I can say that I have enough repaint skills as to produce fairly good aircraft for FS9. I will always be indebted to Leen for his time, effort, kindness and patience with me, still today. In our VA we regularly receive applications from VATSIM members asking to become pilots of Catalonian Airlines, but FS2004 is no longer available in the market. To reverse that situation, the staff took the decision of make some tests with the simulators available today and we finally choose Lokheed Martin Prepar 3D. At this moment I am trying to start repainting the aircraft of our fleet for this simulator with our livery, but I must confess that I had not much success as P3D uses a different texture files (DDS) that I have never worked before. I would like to take the opportunity of this forum to ask for some help to any expert repainter of P3D aircraft who can give me some initial guidance and answer some questions I may have in this early period of my training. I am one of those rare people who reads the manuals to bother the minimum other persons, so I promise that I will do my best to fly/repaint alone as soon as possible. Said that ... is there anyone here willing to accept this challenge of mine? If so, thank you very much in advance and please contact me with a private message in this forum. Best regards, Lluís

Hi all, I have spent many hours and achieved rather good skills painting FS2004 aircraft (thanks to Leen de Jager for his patience and mastership) for my virtual airline. Now we are starting our migration to Prepar3Dv2 (P3D2) and another challenge begins. For those more experienced members of this forum, I would like to leave a few questions here hoping that someone could give me a hand: 1. P3D2 uses DDS textures. Hopefully I see that DXTBmp can open and save those textures. Do they contain the alpha channel embedded as the bmp for FS2004? 2. In FS2004 I used DXTBmp for loading the livery file and then import the alpha channel. Should I do the same with P3D2 textures? 3. Does anyone know how do night textures work in P3D2? Thank you very much in advance, Lluís

Thank you very much, I am now testing it and the only thing I can see is a somewhat "nose up" attitude in full landing configuration. Will continue testing. By the way, I am using FS9. Thanks again, Lluís

Good day, I have seen some posts on these issues but are too old and do not allow me to reply them directly. Thus, I had to create this new topic. On one side, Bob Scott gives a link (now broken) to download some FDE files to correct the approach attitude of the A340-300. I had a problem with the approach attitude of the A320 which was corrected changing the value of the lift_scalar. It seems that the same can be done with the A340-300. Could anyone confirm it and which should be the right value? On the other side, I have an "initial climb" problem with the A340-300 which looks like a fighter (in words of another member of this forum). It appears that the problem can be solved by setting the flex temperature to some two degrees above the OAT. Is that correct? Is there any other solution? Any help on this will let me fly the A340-300 again and more reallistically. Thanks in advance. Lluís

Hi, It appears that this old problem is fixed for FSX by fixing the dll.xml file. Does anyone know if a solution has been found for this missing VOR needle problem using FSInn and the Queen? Thanks, Lluís

Hi, It appears that this old problem is fixed for FSX by fixing the dll.xml file. Does anyone know if a solution has been found for this missing VOR needle problem using FSInn and the Queen? Thanks, Lluís

Hi, It appears that this old problem is fixed for FSX by fixing the dll.xml file. Does anyone know if a solution has been found for this missing VOR needle problem using FSInn and the Queen? Thanks, Lluís

Hi,Just my five cents after getting in trouble again because of this:The file msvcr71.dll was already in my System32 folder. I have copied it to the SysWOW64 folder too. Only with this, it did not work. I had to download the 1.1 version of ATN Gauge and use that "old" version of the msvcr71.dll (dated year 2003) to make the ATN Gauge ver 1.3.9 run correctly. Now everything is alrightBest regards,Lluís

Hi, Problem solved. It is already explained in another forum: http://forum.aerosoft.com/index.php/topic/27242-pmdg-md-11-and-the-fs91-update/ Simply use the original FS9.exe and then re-use the FS9.exe for NO CD. Cheers, Lluís

Hi, I am trying to re-install the 747 for FS9 and Windows 7. I have the FS9 SP1 installed in the spanish version. When I execute the installer using administrative privileges I receive the following message: "FS9 Version 9.1.0.40901 (FS9.1 at least) required. You only have FS9 Version 9.0.0.30612 installed. Please install FS9.1 or later to use this product." I have re-checked and the FS9 SP1 is installed. I had never this problem before but I had to re-format the hard disk and now I find this. Any help will be much appreciated. Lluís

Good afternoon idahosurge, It appears that I was infected by the virus affecting the file CI.DLL in Windows 7. After spending three days trying to recover my system I finally gave up and formatted my HDD. Now that everything is re-installed and I am adding stuff to MS FS9 to make it more attractive, Windows 7 has intalled the latest Nvidia drivers. Now I am using version 280.06 and, following your recommendations, I also installed NvidiaInspector. It worked very good yesterday and the aircraft quality is great, but the configuration appears to be lost when the computer is turned off. I have followed the instructions to change and save everything but there is no way to keep the modified configuration. Can you tell me if I am missing something? Thanks in advance, Lluís

Good evening, Thank you also. Give me a few days to test it. I must also train some controllers and I have to share the time between piloting and controlling. Also thank you very much for your effort.Best regards,Lluís

Hi, I have used it a couple of times and works fine for me. I am using the imperial system and I wonder when are you planning to deliver this version.Thank you very much for your time and effort.Lluís

Good evening, I cannot download it. Rapidshare asks me to create an account and I prefer not to do it. Could you give me an alternative download link?Thank you in advance,Lluís

Good morning Mike, I have the same original version (from 2004) and I also did the same question time ago . The good figure is that of 19,201 pounds.Regards,Lluís

Good afternoon "idahosurge",I am very grateful for the time you spent to find a solution to my problem. I keep your instructions concerning the newest drivers and in the next few days I will move to those. However, there are some CPTs in which I want to participate and prefer to stay with the old drivers to make sure all aircraft look fine.Again thanks,Lluís

Good evening, Thank you very much for the information.Today I restored my system to a point before the drivers were installed and the aricraft are perfect again. However, after you detailed advice, I will cross my fingers, reinstall the new driver and try to suceed.Best regards,Lluís

Hi gentlemen,Yesterday, my Windows 7 downloaded and installed the (apparently) latest drivers for my two NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ SLI bridge graphic cards. This morning, after the system was reset, I have again the ugly jaggies in my plane's edges.Before, when the computer was new with the original drivers and using nHancer, after some effort and following the examples I found in the network, the planes looked rather good (not as the ATI Radeon I have in my old computer, but acceptable). Unfortunately, now with those new drivers I could do nothing to fix this and I have spent the whole day looking in forums and changing the configuration without any improvement.Can anyone help before thinking about suicide?Thanks beforehand,Lluís

Hi,Thank you Leen and it is a pity. This aircraft has some problems and this is another one.Best regards,Lluís

Hi,I am working on the PMDG B-747-400 for my VA and once the day textures are finished, I am now dealing with the night textures. The default external night textures are two files "PMDG_747_FUSE_LEFT_L.bmp" and "PMDG_747_FUSE_RIGHT_L.bmp" but these only display the body fuselage. The day textures of the tail are in a file named "PMDG_747_Externals_T.bmp". There is no default "PMDG_747_Externals_L.bmp" and thus the logo cannot be seen using the default textures.I have followed Leen's indications to create a new night file for the tail part and I have named it "PMDG_747_Externals_L.bmp" but it is not seen although the file is int the right folder with the right name. Have I done something wrong?Thanks in advance,Lluís

Good morning, I am not sure if I have this one. I am at the office and the content of the AVSIM library is blocked. However, I have the official paintkit for these aircraft and I suppose is the same. Yes, I realised of that some days ago. I had to change my reference point when drawing the text and livery as I used the window frames. Yes, this is what I did yesterday and it worked in part ... I have done this too, but my windows are not bright enough. I will re-try as soon as I have some time free following your advise for night textures.Thanks again,Lluís