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FS Repaint by Abacus Software

Final thoughts:

 

If some additions were made to this program, I could honestly see buying it on the spot.? It already is an very nice program, and some say an incredible program.? For what it states that it can do, it does, and does quite well.?

 

If you wish to do basic repaints of already painted planes and you simply want to make color changes, and you wish to see the plane before you save it and load it in FS, then this is the program for you.? You will be very happy with it.?

 

If you wish to power use this program to do custom paints from scratch or use textures that are not currently part of your aircraft library, and want to do more advanced editing (which you can in external edit mode...so I can't complain much here) then you may find this a bit wanting.

 

Pros:? This program is very good at what it does do.? The fact that you don't have to load the textures into DXTBmp then convert, load into PS, edit, save, load back into DXTBmp and save converted again, and then run FS to see your work is GREAT.? The lighting feature is fantastic and so helpful and easy.? Almost worth the cost itself.

 

Cons:? You can't load textures that are not part of a current aircraft.? You can't use the internal editor for heavy duty repaints or new, from scratch, paints very easily.? You have no layers to work with to get things just right before flattening and saving.? Text work is basic and not easily edited AFTER you finish with the text tool.

 

Enjoy this program and if cranking out repaints of existing paint jobs is what you want, you will not find anything that does it as well as FSRepaint.

 

Added: May 6th 2004
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