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FS2002 Blurred repaint

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Hi,

I repainted a Project Opensky 737-800, but when i watched the result in FS, I saw that the edited textures were blurred. And the texture images aren't blurred. The other (downloaded) paints of Posky planes are working normally.
I hope somebody knows why the textures are blurred.

I used MS paint for editing the textures, and imagetool.exe (in the fs2002 GMax gamepack) for converting it to 16-bit bmp. There were three kinds of 16-bits:

16-Bit (555)
16-Bit (565)
16-Bit (444)

I selected the last one, is this the problem? If not, what do those numbers mean at all?
 
Hi,

Those numbers refer to the amount of bits used to store the different colours. So it determines the colour resolution you get. But that is not your problem here. Like it was suggested, have a look at the mipmaps.
 
I had a look at it, and I didn't see any MIP maps in imagetool, and imagetool didn't say there were MIP maps (smaller versions of the texture, aren't they?). But I looked to a other version and my version and saw the following difference:
downloaded repaint: alpha channel: alpha
my repaint: alpha channel: none

what's an alpha channel and can it cause this kind of problems if there isn't an alpha channel?
 
Two suggestions -

(a) use GIMP or Paint.net; both are freeware and much better than vanilla Paint.

(b) Get Martin Wright's DXTBMP program, and do your final FS texture sheet conversion there. DXTBMP is more explicit in what it does than Imagetool.

For FS9, which I take it your project is concerned with, the output format could be either dxt3 or 32-888, both allowing an alpha channel, normally used for reflection in _t type textures, or for transparency in others. Re-use the alpha channel of the original file to begin with, merging alpha and normal maps via DXTBMP, and you can save and manipulate it using DXTBMP.

Dxt3 is a compressed format, achieving small file size at the cost of some distortion here or there. 32-888 creates large files but has no distortion whatsoever.

As mentioned, don't do MIPs.

Edit. Tutorial here:

http://www.calclassic.com/repaint.htm

If you need more pointers let us know.
 
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I solved it: I exported alpha channels from the other planes and imported it in my repaint. And the result: it works!

Thank you for your DXTbmp tip!
 
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