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David Sweetman Senior Member Offline Ex C-130 Aircraft Engineer Posts: 1457 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Nov 13^th, 2005 Gender:	Re: Sweet Textures - Boeing House Colours Reply #15 - Oct 31^st, 2011 at 8:18am	Print Post
	Dan, what program are you using to work on the paint kit? In Photoshop you just right click over the layer in the "Layer" menu and duplicate. � The way I fix it is I flatten the layer with the forward section. �Copy a slice from the flattened layer where it meets the next PSD over to the center section. � I then play with the different layers until the colour matches. �Works most of the time for me. Hello Edwin I also use FS Repaint but I take into account some of the warping effects. �I have what we call a "waterline" on my paint kits. �I single pixel line that runs from nose to tail. �I get it to align on the fuse, in game. �Then when I come to the PSD's I have a level. reference point to work with. I also normally make a "FUll Fuse" PSD which makes things a lot easier. �Unfortunatly, due to the way the 737 is cut up, I can not do it make one. �It wouldn't work. �I am lookin for a way around it though. Here is as an example, the one I made for the 777 From this point I make a set of "actions" in photoshop that cuts the kit into it's required sizes and saves them as DDS files. Dave


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ayster Full Member Offline Posts: 127 Location: Manchester, UK Joined: Mar 8^th, 2008	Re: Sweet Textures - Boeing House Colours Reply #16 - Oct 31^st, 2011 at 12:46pm	Print Post
	Nice, thanks Dave, been waiting for this one!

	Cheers, Ayster
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Edwin Full Member Offline Posts: 225 Location: Netherlands Joined: Jul 27^th, 2010	Re: Sweet Textures - Boeing House Colours Reply #17 - Nov 4^th, 2011 at 11:31am	Print Post
	Thanks David, I use fs repaints only to review how the plane looks in FSX, but i see you attached some pictures in this thread that i do not believe come from fs repaints. When i look in fs repaints to the 737 i see some black parts which are i believe the animated parts. So i cant get a nice picture outside of FSX. I checked MLD viewer, but that program crashes on my pc, so that's a no go. I dont know any other program that can look into the textures without booting up FSX. Edwin


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David Sweetman Senior Member Offline Ex C-130 Aircraft Engineer Posts: 1457 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Nov 13^th, 2005 Gender:	Re: Sweet Textures - Boeing House Colours Reply #18 - Nov 4^th, 2011 at 1:27pm	Print Post
	Hi Edwin Your black parts could be down to several things. I have had some black parts on the -200 repaints. FS Repaint only uses the fallback file for the base aircraft IE. Doing a -100 repaints is ok as the fallback doc points to the base 737-100 folder. A -200 repaint also points at the 737-100 folder. This causes black patches on my aircraft two. That's the reason I did in game screeshots of my Air California 737-200 repaint. It could also be down to the alpha and specs too. The biggest patch I get on the -200 is where the landing lights reflect of the airframe. You could make a repaint only folder which contains all the textures that are found in a repaint and from the folder named "texture". Just a thought.


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Markoz CS Team Offline Posts: 12372 Location: Victoria, Australia Joined: Apr 24^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: Sweet Textures - Boeing House Colours Reply #19 - Nov 4^th, 2011 at 3:14pm	Print Post
	You could copy the entire texture folder from the 737-100 into the 737-200. Then edit the texture.cfg in the texture.XX folder(s), so it looks like this: [fltsim] fallback.1=..\texture fallback.2=..\texture\bump fallback.3=..\texture\spec fallback.4=..\texture\LM fallback.5=..\..\B737_800\texture And then when you load it into FS Repaint, it will look like this: It sure took a long time to load the CS737-200 into my FS Repaint. If I try doing anything else while it's loading, I'm guaranteed to have it stop responding. Mark

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Aflex Senior Member Offline Posts: 340 Joined: Sep 28^th, 2011	Re: Sweet Textures - Boeing House Colours Reply #20 - Nov 5^th, 2011 at 5:06pm	Print Post
	Did the same experience with FS Repaint. I even took all textures ( bump, LM, spec) and copied them into the aircraft's root directory avoiding any fallbacks. It still took 3.5 minutes. But no blank spots anymore. I abandoned FS Repaint and usualy load the plane directly in FSX. If not OK I pause, minimize FSX. Return to the paint, correct and load the texture. Then back to FSX I simply reload the aircraft and the livery updates. I admit you need a tough PCU �. Latest at 2 o'clock in the morning all cooling fans run at high speed. I also agree with Dave that it is not possible to build one giant texture including upper and lower fuselage in one. So far I combined textures 4, 5 & 6 for the lower fuselage as well as 7,8 & 9 for the upper fuselage. As the textures overlap I recommend you use panelfinder (freeware, just google.) and maybe panelfinder-extension. Make an aircraft with all textures made from panelfinder bmp and fly. Take a lot pictures especially at spots you have problems. Put a copy of PF in your texture files and acc to the pictures taken you can adjust / join your textures. Same for the tail. Very nice to see where the rudder fits in your texture (stretch, rotate...) � For the center layer on top of the fuselage you have to play with the coloring. f.expl if your fuselage is white, take a white like 220 220 208. for the center part only try 233 233 226. Just give it a trial and see if that's working out for you. nice weekend Lex


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Karim Amr Full Member Offline Posts: 5 Joined: Jan 4^th, 2015	Re: Sweet Textures - Boeing House Colours Reply #21 - Aug 31^st, 2015 at 11:48am	Print Post
	David Sweetman wrote on Oct 31^st, 2011 at 8:18am: Dan, what program are you using to work on the paint kit? In Photoshop you just right click over the layer in the "Layer" menu and duplicate. � The way I fix it is I flatten the layer with the forward section. �Copy a slice from the flattened layer where it meets the next PSD over to the center section. � I then play with the different layers until the colour matches. �Works most of the time for me. Hello Edwin I also use FS Repaint but I take into account some of the warping effects. �I have what we call a "waterline" on my paint kits. �I single pixel line that runs from nose to tail. �I get it to align on the fuse, in game. �Then when I come to the PSD's I have a level. reference point to work with. I also normally make a "FUll Fuse" PSD which makes things a lot easier. �Unfortunatly, due to the way the 737 is cut up, I can not do it make one. �It wouldn't work. �I am lookin for a way around it though. Here is as an example, the one I made for the 777 From this point I make a set of "actions" in photoshop that cuts the kit into it's required sizes and saves them as DDS files. Dave hello sir , regarding the "Full Fuse" , does it comes ready with the paint kit ? because i don't find it , and if i need to make it manually , can you please help me doing this ? is there any trick to make this happen or what ? Thanks in advance


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speck Full Member Offline Posts: 190 Joined: Sep 8^th, 2009	Re: Sweet Textures - Boeing House Colours Reply #22 - Sep 7^th, 2015 at 3:15am	Print Post
	David Sweetman wrote on Oct 30^th, 2011 at 2:46pm: Hi Dan I tend to just use Google images. �Stick a tail number or simple description. �For the Boeing demonstrator, I just used "N73700" and "Boeing 737-200 demonstrator" and "Boeing 737-100 House colours". Airliners.net is by far my favourite though. �Lots of very good images. Best way to get the tail done is make a PSD on the tail complete. �Make a duplicate of the tail. �Move the rudder in to position. �Then when you have it aligned. �Transfer it over to the master PSD. Like this http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/1795/tailtemplate.jpg Dave That tail was brutal for me. That's why I made 1 skin with my limited skills.


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