Classic British Flight Sim

Hi guys

I've begun having problems with my repaints. As you all know the default aircraft in FS9 are very poor textures so I download other a/c and repaint them. I find a lovely 'sharp' detailed looking plane and repaint it using the usual tools - DXT bmp editor etc. I carefully update the ALPA and save as a DXT 3 WITH alpa. Using PSP as the editor.

However once I save the aircraft and fly it it has become all blurry and the detail lines and rivets I have spent HOURS drawing in are just a grey mush. The result is a totally FUBAR looking texture.

someone PLEASE what am I doing wrong here?

Have you saved the textures with mip-maps? Some video cards seem to like them, others don't.

Concurr with DG

Sound like you are saviung with mips and shouldn't be

Make sure the box on DXT BMP is UNCHECKED

Garry

That's another annoying thing about DXTBmp.. it leaves MIPS ticked by default :axe:

ATB

DaveB :tab:

oh wow thanks guys

I spent AGES repainting a VC10 as my personal 'flagship' AS If I won the lottery (a small indulgence) and she looks great on the design page, maybe now I can fly her to KORD.

I used to work on the sultans jet and OH BOY would I like one the same if I could - a flying palace. The bedrooms were great for a kip if night shifts were quiet!!

I use the latest version of DXTBmp from http://fly.to/mwgfx/ and it remembers my settings each time, including the ticked-off mips setting. Give it a try as things only get better with age. Only my memory gets worse so I never have to remember that "irritating MIPS" tick. So it's hany that the program remembers for me

Someone should really sticky this blurry textures thing. I've seen it posted about 3 times!