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Texture Files?

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Does FSDS create texture files. I don't find it in the tutorials. What the show is the textures applied to the model directly.

Bob Macklin
Seattle, Wa.
 
No, like most modelling tools you have to create the textures yourself. After that you can map them on the object.
 
I have been wading through the FSDS documentation and I think I am figuring it out. There does not seem to be anything that makes understanding it simple.

I'll just keep HACKING on it!

Bob Macklin
Seattle, Wa.
 
Hi,

I don't think the FSDS documentation will cover how to create a texture, since that is normally not something you do in the modelling tool. You will just use the textures that are available already (or that you have made in some way).
 
FSDS has a facility to make texture templates. I have made a template for a single part. I am trying to learn to make a template for multiple parts.

I have software to edit the templates into texture files.

Bob Macklin
Seattle, Wa.
 
The very basics

Texture files must meet certain criteria:
Sizes: 128 x 128px or 256 x 256px or 512 x 512px or 1024 x 1024px. Sizing must be exact - FSDS will not open any file that is not sized to one of these settings

Textures can be made with your favorite graphics editor - even PBRUSH for very basic textures. These "raw" textures will be what is known as 24bit. I have had great luck with Photofiltre.

You simply paint your walls and roof colors in one of these blank images. You can also paint your windows and doors on whatever wall you desire. The file is saved as a .bmp file.

For the texture to be usable in FS, it must be converted to DXT1 format (as a rule of thumb) - other formats may be required depending upon if you wish to have transparencies or other eye candy. Conversion can be made with DXTbmp (good) or ImageTool (better). ImageTool is on the FSX SDK.

Once the textures are made and converted, they can then be used in FSDS to "paint" your models. The Textures must be in the Texture folder of the airport you are building which is in the Addon Scenery Folder.

Hope this is written well enough to be understandable.

This is the very basics but should be enough to get you going. At least you will know the procedure.
 
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