I can't get away with anything can I?
This one is so random and pretty annoying. One day I realized a blank 747 at ORD. After some waiting I found out it was a KLM, so I tried a number of things, including modifying the texture to see if it was corrupted. No fix.
I then attempted to just replace the textures with ones found online and... nope! Same issue.
I checked the "syntax" or the spelling of the .cfg files making sure nothing was spelled incorrectly, even copying and pasting the text after texture= directly onto the texture file, but still no success. I then hypothesized what if it was the model that was having issues?
I check out FRA which has lots of 747GEs and yes, it seems that all paints associated with this particular model appear to be blanked out.
I checked again the syntax, making sure there were no bad fltsim.# entries, but no, they're all in order.
I then decided to replace the model entirely with a new one online, directly from AIA, pasted all the textures back, pasted all the fltsim entries back in.....
Still blank!!
It's so annoying, it's as if the simulator has a bias towards this aircraft and that is something I cannot really change or troubleshoot. Has anybody ever had an issue where one particular ai aircraft, no matter how much you troubleshoot, blanks out all the textures for that given aircraft? I'm out of ideas right now. This would be incredibly overkill to have to reinstall the sim from scratch because of one lousy ai model.