Custom textures not showing in FS9

[cj75s]

Hi

Have a wee problem.

I have designed several custom shaped buildings pertinent to Sumburgh airport and decided to use digi picutures I have of them for textures to walls etc. I resized the pics in paintshoppro to 512x512 and saved them as a bitmap .bmp file 24 bit. Tried that on the walls and it was ok in EOD so transeferred the .bmp files to my main flightsim directory. Using scenegenx I placed my api where I wanted it, saved it and compiled it. The building shows up but just with white walls - the texture is missing. Can anyone tell me where I am going wrong Pleeease? I am pulling my hair out here!

look forward to being educated

Rgds
chris

[tca9083]

A couple of thoughtsif you haven't done so already...

1. Make sure your texture file is stored in one of your FS texture directories. Try FS9>Addon Scenery>Textures first.

2. Try using DxtBMP to save the texture image in dxt format.

Cheers,
Mike

[andyjohnston]

That's right, 24-bit bitmaps don't work.

[cj75s]

Used DxtBMP as you suggested and it worked a treat. Thank you very much. I am now a wee bit further forward in my Sumburgh design.

All I need to do now is retake some of my photo's as they do look a bit squiff to say the least now they are on the buildings.

Rgds
Chris

[jyarddog]

Might want to mip map (create mip maps) as well as dxt1. addon scenery\texture is good. If doesn't work move the texture files over to FS9\texture (main folder).