Replacing default texture

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DxtBMP required, and an image editing program capable of editing .dds files such as photoshop or gimp and the knowledge on how to use these programs.

 

1.) Find your default F-86 skin at CoreMods/aircraft/F-86/Textures/f-86f.zip and make a backup of it somwhere

 

2.) Unzip the file to a separate location

 

3.) Take the skin you want, and look inside that skin folder for the files that are not .dds files, usually jpg and look at the name of those files. (Not description.lua or readmes or pictures of the a/c) There should be corresponding names in the unzipped folder but in the folder you unzipped they are .dds files. If one of the files is named after the skin, and it looks like a whole bunch of painted parts laid out it is probably 'F-86F_main_DIF.dds' that you are looking for in folder you unzipped

 

4.) Open the .dds files in the unzipped folder that correspond to the names of downloaded skin files that are not .dds format in DxtBMP (You don't need to do this with the .dds files in the downloaded skin folder)

 

5.) Send the file to the editor

 

6.) Take the non-.dds corresponding file from the downloaded skin folder that you are trying to use and lay it over the .dds picture

 

7.) Save the picture in your editor, then reload after edit in DxtBMP, then save it

 

8.) Repeat for any other files in the downloaded skin folder that are not .dds format

 

9.) Now that all of the non .dds files have been saved over the corresponding .dds', take the other .dds files from the downloaded skin folder and replace the ones in the unzipped folder

 

10.) Zip up all the files and rename it to what it was (f-86f.zip) and replace the preexisting zip file in your CoreMods/aircraft/F-86/Textures/ folder, or use JSGME if you know how

 

 

Default skin before: http://i.imgur.com/7HYpxd5.jpg

 

Default skin after: http://i.imgur.com/UOH8RJT.jpg

Edited February 26, 2015 by Schweehog

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OR!

 

You could probably just edit the correct lua file to reenable the overlaid textures again rather than going through the image manipulation. I remember seeing a post about it a few months back.