Hi there!I'm all set and determined to change the textures of FS2004. I don't like these 'jaguar spot'-like looking hills with trees, some fields of shrubs etc.

Alcazar disco defenders. Jan 20, 2006 - Note: The path of the 'Flight Simulator 9' folder is normally 'C: Program Files Microsoft. Gauge32=dsd_xml_sound3!dsd_xml_sound3, 2,2,5,5. To install the texture conversion utility, copy the two files 'imagetool.exe'.

I will use some other textures and overlay them to some parts of the old ones.However I have this reoccuring problem: each time i want to open these textures in a image editor i get the message of incompatabimity of the specific BMP that FS use. On other instances, however, all these textures suddenly become browsable and usable as any regular BMP--i can open them on Photoshop.So, i can't figure, which is the factor that makes these BMPs switch to normal BMP format? I simply don't know after which of my actions they 'change'.

All i know is that FS doesn't care if they are regular BMP or 'special' BMP.thank you for your attention and Happy New Year! >Hi there!>>I'm all set and determined to change the textures of FS2004. I>don't like these 'jaguar spot'-like looking hills with trees,>some fields of shrubs etc. I couldn't agree more. Many of the textures are covered by black blotches that look awful from low or medium altitude.

I think they're designed to look good from high altitude - but as I generally fly at low altitude, that doesn't help. With the aim of getting rid of those black blotches, I made about half a dozen of my own textures for my scenery design. I may be a bit biased, but I think my textures look several million times better than the default ones! (only joking). They're not perfect and they do show some tiling effect (i.e. The joins along the edges of squares don't match perfectly).

It's well worth having a go yourself. The textures are of the DXT1 format with mipmaps. Most paint programs won't load these, which explains your problem. You need the Microsoft Image Tool program, which is available in several of the SDK's, including the autogen one. You can get it here: Image Tool will load the texture. After creating your new texture, load it into Image Tool, add mipmaps and convert it to DXT1. Save the texture to FS and you're ready to go.

Best regards and happy new year, Chris. Thanks Chris! I'm absolutely sure you textures are much cooler than the default ones.Concerning the tile effect, i was planing to overlay patches/blotches of new texture over the old, yet without erazing the edges of the default texture. This is because i noticed they use 'generic' edges--same edge for a whole bunch of textures to avoid tile effect. For example if i want to put some nice photographic trees and bushes over these black dots 'jaguar skin', i thought of overlaying the new trees on large 'spots'/patches that resemble islands where you have 'vains' of the old texture inbetween them, plus the old edges.but these are not essential things-i'm sure you have fun and don't even notice the tile effect when you fly.I have the microsoft tool for their textures yet i know that for some reason, at different times these bitmaps suddenly used to turn to ordinary, browsable with photoshop BMPs. I don't know if this was happening as a weird side effect of my using Ground2k (extremely cool program:) or something else.

My point is that, if i am to use the Microsoft Image Tool program, i have to open each texture file, save it as an ordinary BMP, open it again in Photoshop, do my overlay operation, then save it again in FS world/texture folder.As if these BMPs were again being able to be opened straight into Photoshop this would be much simpler for me (especially if i do like 60 textures).so who knows which thing makes these BMPs suddenly turn into ordinary BMPs. I noticed the same shift of format in my 'clouds' textures: after adding some clouds, all clouds turned to normal BMPs. Then suddenly they all turned into the other nonbrowsable format. I don't know what triggers that.***.