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FSX Cockpit Re-texturing

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Hi, Im new to all this and I need some advice :)

I just bought the BBA330/40 and the flight deck textures are appalling. I would like to know how to re-texture the panels for the VC in a way that I would be able to make the resolution higher and add readable text etc. I hope Photoshop and 3DS Max so that should not be a problem, just need to know where to get started :)

Cheers

Lewis
 
First, if you are asking about the resolution of the VC gauges themselves, it depends on if they are 2D gauges or 3D where that texture will be found. If 3D, the textures will be somewhere in the plane's texture folder, and you can increase the size of those textures (if smaller than 4096 x 4096) and repaint them to get higher resolution (this requires a cfg file tweak, I believe). You'll probably need to open them in a tool like DXTBmp. The only way I know to improve the 2D gauge textures is to increase the size of the dummy $ textures in the panel.cfg file. I don't know the largest allowable size in FSX.

If you mean the background panel textures, I don't have that plane but it would depend on how the panels are textured. Some earlier models use large panel/gauge polygons that are either transparent or have a a day texture found in the panel's folder. These are in 24 bit format.

Most later models use small VC gauge polygons (about the size of each gauge) and have separate VC panel textures inside the plane's texture folders. These would be handled in the same way as the 3D gauge textures.
 
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