Hi

Just thought I'd give those of you proficient enough in texture editing the heads up, though I bet many must have found out already ;)

The layout of the 707 Captain texture files is very close to the Legendary  707 for FS9 ones, meaning with a little bit of rotating images around and converting them to the right format, Legendary 707 textures can be used on the FSX 707 Captain.

Of course transparency doesn't work exactly the same and the FS9 textures have a much lower resolution so you'll loose some of the visual awesomeness of the new model. The result is far from perfect, but those old textures work just fine as placeholders while we patiently await the CS liveries from the 1.1 upgrade (and possibly some McPhat ones ;) hint hint )

My next flight will be in Lufthansa colours :D

I'm not going to go into details on how to make those textures work on the FSX model, I'll let you figure it out (pretty easy...) and I will not share the liveries I've converted, because for one thing they're someone else's work and because they don't help showing the new model in all the positive light it deserves. It won't be long before 1.1 is released and they'll all be made completely obsolete anyway...

Cheers

Nico

We advisedly used Legendary 707 exterior textures layout on the 707 Captain to provide maximum of compatibility with the Legendary 707 free liveries.

All details on the Legendary 707 free liveries conversion to work with the 707 Captain will be given in the manual Part I upon the ACE and Repaint Kit release.

For now, for those who are willing manualy convert and add the Legendary 707 free liveries to the 707 Captain:

1. Take bmp files b1,b2,b5,b6 from any Legendary 707 free livery zip.

2. Create new texture.yournewliveryname subfolder in ...\SimObjects\Airplanes\CS_B707-300 and copy the b1,b2,b5,b6 files there.

3. Create and copy 256x126 thumbnail.jpg into the same subfolder.

4. Convert the b1,b2,b5,b6 bmps into DDS as follows:
b707_b1_t.dds - DXT3 WITH ALFA
b707_b2_t.dds - DXT3 WITH ALFA
b707_b5_t.dds - DXT1 NO ALFA
b707_b6_t.dds - DXT1 NO ALFA  

5. Add new [fltsim.XX] section to aircraft.cfg

Thank you very much for clarifying how to do that Captain Sim. That will tide me over until v1.1 comes out. ;D

Mark

Thanks !