I'm guessing these liveries were not included by default because the product we have tends to represent later, mid 70s variants of the 707. I'm certain with time some skilled texture artist will produce these skins. The BOAC is another sorely missed all time favourite of mine I'd like to see being made one day (actually working on one)

Mark, thank you for useful information! It was added to KB#5998 and will be added to next version of Manual Part I.

Hi ayster.

The textures being misaligned sounds like it will one of the following reasons.
1. You did not flip the images vertically before converting the .bmp to .dds
2. You flipped the textures horizontally instead of vertically.

I can get the textures from the Captain Sim free liveries for the Legendary 707 to show nicely. Here is how I did it with the John Travolta Qantas textures for the Legendary 707 (FS9):

1. I downloaded the file from Captain Sim.
2. Unpacked the textures to FSX\SimObjects\Airplanes\CS_B707-300\texture.qan2ek
3. Renamed the following files:

   b707_a1_t.bmp to b707_b1_t.bmp
   b707_a2_t.bmp to b707_b2_t.bmp
   b707_a5_t.bmp to b707_b5_t.bmp
    b707_a6_t.bmp to b707_b6_t.bmp
   qan02ek.jpg to thumbnail.jpg

   Theses were the only files I needed from the zip file.

4. Added the entry into the aircraft.cfg as follows (fltsim.15 was my next available number):

   [fltsim.15]
   title=CS_B707-300 Paint 15
   sim=csx701
   model=b
   panel=
   sound=
   texture=qan2ek
   kb_checklists=
   kb_reference=
   atc_id=N707JT
   atc_airline=Qantas
   atc_flight_number=701
   atc_heavy=1
   ui_manufacturer=Boeing
   ui_type=707-320B
   ui_variation=Qantas 2002, EK
   ui_typerole=Commercial Airliner
   ui_createdby=Captain Sim
   description=This represents John Travolta’s 707 painted for the 2002 Spirit of Friendship tour.

5. I added a texture.cfg file with the following entries:

   [fltsim]

   fallback.1=..\..\CS_B707-300\texture
   fallback.2=..\..\CS_B707-300\texture\night
   fallback.3=..\..\CS_B707-300\texture\spec
   fallback.4=..\..\CS_B707-300\texture\bump

And the added image shows how it looks.

If I wanted to change the .bmp files to .dds, I open them with DXTBmp.exe, flip image and alpha, save as DDS Texture > DDS DXT3 (or DDS DXT5). After that, I would delete the .bmp files.

Here is the result:


Hope this helps.

Mark

Hi Nathan.

The textures in use when I took the screen shot are the BMP files from within the zip file I downloaded. You DO NOT need to flip the BMP files! Only the DDS files. I did not edit them in any way at all, that is exactly how they looked straight from the zip file.

Mark

EDIT: I have flipped and converted to DDS DXT3, but absolutely no other changes to the textures.

I've just been doing a couple of things with DXTBmp and I noticed that the options for flipping the texture are as follows:

Flip Image
Flip Image and Alpha.

I always use the Flip Image and Alpha if it has alpha channel and Flip Image if it does have the Alpha Channel. Which is obvious.
There is no Flip Horizontal or Flip Vertical. They are found in MS Paint. Sorry for the confusion.

Mark

Raul wrote on Jan 27^th, 2011 at 1:53am:


hi, i think you got things mixed up. Let me make it clear

1) Cargo 707 doesnt exist yet. It hasnt been released. You cant convert legendary to Captain cargo model.

2) Instructions say to use b1,b2,b5,b6. Thats all. They say nothing about night textures. Dont touch night textures.

hope clear.

Hi "Kapitan", y know, y know captain 707 cargo FSX not exist already, thanks you, y was trying to explain if there is something to do with night textures from legendary 707 cargo models to get them working
on captain 707 FSX (previous conversion) with cargo repaints from legendary, y mean to make them more realistic, (light windows off, etc etc).
Thanks you again.
Raul.