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FSX changing pilot

robystar

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Hi,

Once in a while I like to joke around and so I thought of changing the pilot's face of the FS2004 Blériot, send a (with sepia filter converted) screenshot with photoreal background to a friend that knows nothing about FS but is a collector of postcards and newspaper cuttings of historical aircraft.
In short, I wanted to make him happy with a (faked, of course) historical photo.
So I opened the Blériot_FS9_PILOT_t.BMP with DXTBMP, sent it to the editor (paint.net) and edited the picture cutting out the pilot's face with moustache and pasting my own without moustache and saving it again as a DXT1.bmp equal to the original one.
To my surprise, my right side is moustacheless and a picture of me but the left side still is the original moustached pilot!
Can anyone explain how come (I took the original bmp out of the aircraft folder and saved it elsewhere)?
The above reads like I am joking again, but I mean it to be a serious question as otherwise, without a solution, it would spoil the joke.
Tks,

Roby
 
My guess is that the model uses two pics for the pilot's face, one for mapping the right side, one for the left, possibly at an angle both. Have a look at the other texture sheets including the large ones and see whether the face is embedded someplace else. Alternatively, successively create a black copy of each texture and check in the sim or better still in MdlViewer for a black version of the pilot, that's your cue then.
 
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