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Title: f-18d paintkit and repaints
Post by timothyj67 on Nov 15^th, 2010 at 6:21am

Hello.
Ive done a few fsx f-18 repaints succesfully with the fsx acceleration paintkit and it worked just fine..
I tried my hand at the CS f-18 d ..First I couldnt find a plain white texture for repainting.
Then when I went to view the sample paint job the stabilizer had the new paint scheme over lapping and it looked terrible.
I save the bmp file as a DDS 3 file.
So what happened?

Title: Re: f-18d paintkit and repaints
Post by David Sweetman on Nov 15^th, 2010 at 8:18am

Hello Timothy and welcome to the CS forum.

What you need to do is flip the image vertically before saving it as a dds.

Give it a try adn let me know how you get on.

Dave

Title: Re: f-18d paintkit and repaints
Post by timothyj67 on Nov 15^th, 2010 at 2:34pm

Thank you for the reply I will let you know how it goes..Also I was told by a fellow repainter that you need to do some editing with the other texture files such as canopy and wing pylons that come with the standard fsx acc. but not the cs paintkit??

Title: Re: f-18d paintkit and repaints
Post by timothyj67 on Nov 15^th, 2010 at 3:13pm

Okay that worked..As for the cockpit ..Do I need to repaint them? Also, do I need to flip every texture that I repaint ?
I think Im going to fix the angle of the bat.

Title: Re: f-18d paintkit and repaints
Post by David Sweetman on Nov 15^th, 2010 at 5:57pm

Yep you need to flip all files before saving as dds.

You can use the CS F/A-18D paint kit for the Acceleration F/A-18A. You just need to get your head around how the canopy is mapped.

Title: Re: f-18d paintkit and repaints
Post by timothyj67 on Nov 16^th, 2010 at 4:52pm

Okay..ARGH!! This is silly.. I flipped the texture before I saved it and the MARINES came out upside down..
Now what is going on??

Title: Re: f-18d paintkit and repaints
Post by nath2889 on Dec 3^rd, 2010 at 1:19pm

befor saving file the marines text in ur screen shot needs to be fliped virtical and also hotisontal that way the writing will be the right way up and going the right way when you flip ur repaint for saving in DDS format