My first Repaint

[CAY165 - Liam]

Heres the deal. I got bored earlier on today and decided to look into A/C repainting. Now this was something i knew nothing of or about so i was flying blind. Anyways After more than 5 hours i got the hang of things and managed to produce a Gipisland G8 Airvan in the livery of Air Antilles (a airline i fly for on fspassengers) Anyways here it is, dont be too harsh :-)

http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/4947/myfirstrepaint.jpg (http://img33.imageshack.us/i/myfirstrepaint.jpg/)

http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/2418/myfirstrepaint2.jpg (http://img30.imageshack.us/i/myfirstrepaint2.jpg/)

[CAY165 - Liam]

And my second one, much improved on the first. Sexy aint it :-)

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/9648/my2ndrepaint.jpg (http://img5.imageshack.us/i/my2ndrepaint.jpg/)

[CAY102- Jon]

Noticeable improvement, strong work. Now just look into painting a better model :joy:

[CAY253- Guy]

Great stuff Liam, much better than my first try! That is an awesome plane, never heard of it! :lol:

[CAY147-Sam]

Really great for your first try! A quick question to anyone with an answer. Can you use irfanview for repainting and if so when I tried my plane turned black in the game, do I have to convert anything or am I using the wrong program?

[CAY253- Guy]

I don't know what irfanview is but if your textures show up black in the sim then they need converting. You need a program called DXTbmp (free). You load up the textures in DXTbmp
>Send to editor. (Choose your favorite editor, be it MS Paint or Photoshop)
>Do all your painting...
>Save in the editor, just press Ctrl+S.
>Image/Reload after edit. (very important)
>Save again but this time from DXTbmp as 'Extended Bitmap'-DXT3 or 32-bit. Save into your texture folder.
>Make sure you have 'Include mip-maps when saving' unchecked!

It is good to see more people trying out painting! Liam, have another go!

[CAY165 - Liam]

I don't know what irfanview is but if your textures show up black in the sim then they need converting. You need a program called DXTbmp (free). You load up the textures in DXTbmp
>Send to editor. (Choose your favorite editor, be it MS Paint or Photoshop)
>Do all your painting...
>Save in the editor, just press Ctrl+S.
>Image/Reload after edit. (very important)
>Save again but this time from DXTbmp as 'Extended Bitmap'-DXT3 or 32-bit. Save into your texture folder.
>Make sure you have 'Include mip-maps when saving' unchecked!

It is good to see more people trying out painting! Liam, have another go!

Exactly, this is the best way to do it

[CAY165 - Liam]

http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/7849/my3rdrepaint2.jpg (http://img62.imageshack.us/i/my3rdrepaint2.jpg/)

This is best recent try. Thought id post it as the thread has been dug up stuart