Please re-fresh my aging brain!

I've had Erick Cantu's Frontier B737s running in FS2004, (both color schemes-the Crescent Tail, and the Red/Orange color scheme), and they work really well. Now, for my situation. I've managed to get the Crescent scheme working in both FSX boxed, and Steam. However, I cannot get the red/orange scheme to appear. The problem, as I see it, is that the B737TAIL_L textures, (although they are BMP format), are only 64k in size, while the Crescent ones are 1 meg.

I guess what I need to do, and know, is how/what program do I need to use to change the 64k file?

Am I making sense here, or just confusing everyone?

I'd really like to have both color schemes in both versions of FSX.

Thanks for any guidance.

Darrell

I'm just going by some of the older FS9 planes that I've repainted and such, but I

don't think the "L" texture is actually the texture that is used as the main paint

for that section of the plane. There should be a matching "T" texture if I'm thinking

right. And it might be missing, which would explain why you are not seeing it.

Also, the L textures are usually a lot smaller than the T textures, which judging by

the description you give, makes sense.

Are there any T textures with the same file names? Also see if the ones for the

working version say T or L.. I sort of suspect they are, or include, T textures.

This image should show the differences.

Crescent scheme on left, red/orange on the right. If I open the Crescent Tail with PSP, it looks just like it is here. If I open the same file of the orange/red Tail files, this is what I get

Darrell, what do you mean by "the plane does not appear"?

Do you mean that is is not available in the plane selection screen or it does show up yet when you load it in the sim it is invisible?

FWIW, the size of the texture should not prevent a plane from showing up in the sim.

Texture file sizes depend on 2 things, the pixel dimensions and the file format.

Many planes, especially older planes, have very small lightmap textures and they work OK.

The larger file might be a custom lightmap whereas the smaller one is a more generic one.

peace,

the Bean

I've copied, (I think), everything from both aircraft into FSX, but only the Crescent aircraft is listed and flyable. Panel.cfg, sound.cfg, are the same in both aircrafts folders. Red/orange livery is not listed/accessible in FSX.

i may have missed something, so I'll double check again. This has me baffled, especially since they both work just fine in Fs9. I must have missed something.

There is no B737_400 in FSX. There is a b737_800. (!?). Perhaps if you Alias the 'no show' to the b737_800 it might work. Remember: in FSX-If there is 'No Panel', then No Airplane model will be loaded (ie: won't 'show').

Chuck B

Napamule

I've put all the components from the Crescent livery, (which works fine in FSX and Steam), into the red/orange aircraft, but it just doesn't want to show its colors. Same panel, same sounds, etc. So I've got to believe it's something funky in the textures.

Everything in both aircraft are the same except for the textures.

Will have to dig into it a bit deeper when I get some free time.

These are actually fs9 B737-200s, but one shows in FSX and one won't. Strange!

There is nothing in the texture realm that will keep an aircraft from showing in the plane selection screen.

It is most likely an error in the panel reference or the model reference.

Look at those closely.

peace,

the Bean

Success! Had some funky things in the aircraft.cfg. Changed them a bit, and there she is!

Thanks for all the suggestions, etc. I knew it should work, just didn't look to closely at the right file.

Darrell

I WAS going to suggest you get the B737-200 Adv by Eric Cantu (and 'get it over with') but I see I too late. It flys very good (no-EXCELLENT) in FSX Accel. Oh well. Glad you found the prblem.

Chuck B

Napamule

Glad you got it going. I was thinking you were not showing the tail texture.

Didn't realize the whole plane wasn't showing in the menu..