01-14-2006, 07:16 PM
Hi all,
First off let me say that this is my initial attempt at painting an aircraft. I did it using Adobe Photoshope 8.0. The plane looks much better in Photoshop. I painted the plane, copied them to their respective targas, and saved them as BMP...BUT...at 3meg, I guess they were too large for FS9 and it would crash to desktop when I tried to boot up the plane. To get it working, I used DXTBmp utility and saved the painted files as extended bitmaps...The following is a screen shot of the result....not very clear...What I need to find out is...how do I get the texture quality that will work in flight sim...and two....How do I add alpha to add some shine.
I have looked at countless utility tutorials...If anyone as a simple 1,2,3 steps (very basic) for what I am looking for I would be much appreciative.
Below is my freight racer for tomorrows first leg.
![[Image: FreightRacer254.jpg]](http://upload2.postimage.org/12072/FreightRacer254.jpg)
First off let me say that this is my initial attempt at painting an aircraft. I did it using Adobe Photoshope 8.0. The plane looks much better in Photoshop. I painted the plane, copied them to their respective targas, and saved them as BMP...BUT...at 3meg, I guess they were too large for FS9 and it would crash to desktop when I tried to boot up the plane. To get it working, I used DXTBmp utility and saved the painted files as extended bitmaps...The following is a screen shot of the result....not very clear...What I need to find out is...how do I get the texture quality that will work in flight sim...and two....How do I add alpha to add some shine.
I have looked at countless utility tutorials...If anyone as a simple 1,2,3 steps (very basic) for what I am looking for I would be much appreciative.
Below is my freight racer for tomorrows first leg.