Repainting Virtualcol Aircraft

[PhrogPhlyer]

Does anyone have experience with repainting Virtualcol aircraft?

I am creating a repaint of the Virtualcol ATR 72 series. Their repaint kit  has each individual file needed, and the actual repainting (using paint.net) is quite straight forward.

The problems for me arise when I attempt to set the proper bmp format using DXTBmp. I've tried saving in several formats (DXT5, DDS, with/without alpha, with/without mitmap, etc.).

No matter which bmp format I use, the aircraft appears black.

I emailed Virtualcol, with no response yet.

If you have repainted a Virtualcol aircraft, which format do the bmp's need to be saved?

Thank you. PhrogPhlyer

 

[tiger1962]

They're usually DXT3 .bmp with alpha, but to make sure just open one of the existing livery bitmaps with DXTBmp and it'll tell you what the format is.

Don't be like me and forget to double check your aircraft.cfg [FLTSIM.XX] entries!

[PhrogPhlyer]

Thanks Tiger. DTX3 did the trick. It's the one format I didn't try. Figures.

 

[PhrogPhlyer]

Tiger, btw, you mentioned opening the file with DXTBmp, and you can see what format it is in.

Where does it show this information, I've looked and don't see it.

Thanks.

[tiger1962]

Bottom left corner, below the function icons; filename, pixel size, mips, format:

[PhrogPhlyer]

18 minutes ago, tiger1962 said:

Bottom left corner, below the function icons

I feel like a noob. All the times I've used DTXBmp and I've missed this each time.

This will make life a lot easier.

Thanks for pointing this out!