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Robert Gillespie

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Hello! I had a new hard drive fitted last week and the shop managed to save the majority of my data. However,I am having a texture problem on new objects made in FSDS V3.5.1 The textures appear normal until loaded on to FSX where they show up as black. I made a test cube shaped object with different textures on the 6 sides. Any old texture are displayed correctly but the new textures are still black. The default FSDS colour is grey. The textures are made or converted in Photoshop and are saved as bitmaps. I have tried saving them as 16, 24 and 32 bit and the image as 512 x 512 and 1024 x 1024 but the results are always the same. I do convert the textures to 16 or 32 bit in FSDS. Please help me resolve this very annoyng problem. I expect it will be a settings problem. Thank you very much.
 
Objects that appear black are normally caused by missing textures. Check to make sure that the textures you make are installed in the correct texture folder for your scenery.

Farfy:D
 
Robert Gillespie said:
Thanks for replying. My new textures are in the same folder as the ones that do work so this does not seem to be the answer.
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Belaboring the obvious ...

Do the copied textures have the same NAME as assigned in FSDS?

If you checked "uses dds textures" did you convert the textures to DDS?

Do the texture names have spaces in the names?
 
FS does not read 24 bit BMP file, it is best to convert your textures to DXT format for use in FS.
 
Thanks for your help guys. My problem seems to be resolved. I save my textures to a sub folder called mytextures in the FSX textures folder. I copied the relevant textures directly into the textures folder and they worked. However I am sure I did not have to do that before. Maybe FSDS did it automatically, but not any more. I don't know for sure but I am now happy anyway. Being quite new to this scenery designing hobby, I am not sure what Arno means by using DXT textures. Is this conversion done by FSDS and if so is there some instructions somewhere because I can't find them. Once again, thank you.
 
You convert your texture to DXT with “Image Tool” which you can find in your SDK, in the terrain folder, I think.

Or you can get “DXTBmp” from Martin Wright’s web site

http://www.mnwright.btinternet.co.uk/index.htm

DXTBmp is very good to have, as it is very good for making transparent textures.

Farfy :D
 
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