Guy Jennings

I am trying to create a chrome look to the white spinner on my RV 7 repaint using GIMP. The common folder has a file named btsspinnerchrome.dds with the alpha channel. I understand that to get the chrome look I need to retexture to dark grey. What are the correct steps after loading the file into DXTbmp, sending to GIMP and retexturing to the dark grey?

I have a similar scenario: spinnerChrome.dds in the common object file. Load it into DXT bmp and it shows up as a dds DXT5 128x128 image with it showing in the alpha box in the upper right side. It does not show up on the model as chromed as the thumbnail shows. I accomplished the Steam file verification procedure. Still no joy. I really would like to resolve this issue because I am doing a repaint of my buddys real plane and it had the chrome spinner. Can anybody out there help?

I just finished up a simple repaint of the XPlane 11 G650 using Gimp. I want to try the livery on my real life 206 to the carenado Cessna 206 using the plain white texture but the texture sheet looks intimidating to me...particularly the fuselage parts located in various places and the design from the real airplane being some what complex. Can any painters out there comment on how to get various fuselage sections with the new design to line up fairly easy....besides a lot of trial and error. GJ

I am doing an FSX repaint with GIMP 2.10.24. When done with an editing session, i cant figure out the correct method to save the file, prior to DXTBmp reload after edit and then send to FSX. Any insight out there for me?

Im having issues loading the G5 software into my carenado cessna 206 for xplane 11 running on windows 10. When i start xplane and the 206 instrument panel shows, I dont see any prompts in the plugin dropdown menu or either of the popout instruments. Ive tried a second download from x-aviation and an uninstall reinstall on the aircraft and no change. Possibly a line is wrong in the cfg folder?

Problem solved with the reinstall. Thanks for the help.

Im using FSX Steam on Windows 10. UAC is enabled. There was no reality xp activity in the anti virus log. There are no rxp gauges in the fsx\gauges folder, only in the two aircraft I've installed the gns530 to as evidenced by checking in panel.cfg What is the correct entire folder address for the rxp software to install to? I will uninstall and reinstall again.

The only log files shown in documents were for rxpGNS2_menu.dll.log only show info edit panel

I am not able to get to the config panel because the gns 530 doesn't appear....what i see is a black rectangle where it should appear and disappears after 1 second. In panel.cfg on my aircraft, Ive gone back into window 2 and reloaded the original GPS that came with the aircraft (gauge00=fs9gps!gps_500, 0,0) and it functions properly. This also occurs on other aircraft I've tried to install rxp on. Also, I have 64 bit and I see in USERS: C:\ users\all users\realityxp\rxpGnsSim32.dll C:\ users\all users\realityxp\rxpGnsSim64.dll Would this be an issue or is this correct?

Yes, thats correct.

I did an rxp uninstall and reinstalled v 2.4.21. I saw a post recently that a simmer had a similar black screen complaint that was supposedly fixed by 2.4.14 but not in my case. Also, gns trainer lite v 3.30 installed okay. The initial install was to default (C drive), the second install was custom (to D drive which fsx se works from) Both the default and custom installs produce the same 1 second black box. I have installed only windows 10 and have only been using fsx steam now for a year. Btw, I've attempted to install on several different aircraft...same result. So when I open up my aircraft and select setup from ADDON, Ive tried configuring using pop up windows and replace gauge with auto detect but in both cases, I never see configuration panel in ADDON, just SETUP.

Reality xp GNS 530 screen will not load into vc panel ( Fsx-se) ie shows as black for 1 second. Also I notice that in addons, after completing the setup, that the options menu will not show up under addons > reality xp gns. How do i resolve this?