FS2002 Bell UH-1H Huey U.S. ARMY 1st Cavalry Division
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Re-paint tips:
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I used an "OD" color, as close to the original color of my photo as I could. Everything was fine until I went to make the windows transparent, when I did this the entire color of the current texture.bmp changed to a much lighter color.
In order to get away with this I made a small "green" square in each of the texture.bmp files.
After the texture files are loaded in fs2002, I then go to Abacus FSDS, go to "file", then to "Make Transparent Texture" then to where your files are;
(set an opacity level, then click "Set All" to affect entire bitmat, or click on the image to set a single palette entry.)
Clear Solid
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Opacity 0 Set All
Levels 0
O.K.
(If a value is entered in the "level" field, "Set All" creates a graduation from fully transparent to the Opacity level using color index 0 to the color index in "levels". All other colors are set to the Opacity specified.)
In Opacity, replace the 0 with 255 click "Set All" the box will turn white.
replace the 255 with 100, then click on the "green" square in the texture.bmp.
In Levels, replace the 0 with a 1
Select O.K.
This is only for the texture files with no windows.
For the texture files with windows do the same thing except in the "Levels" replace the 0 with 15.
Each time you are asked to overwrite the existing file say yes...
Exit Abacus and go fly.....
This small procedure will allow all of your texture repaints to have the same color.
I found out the hard way that if you alter any of the texture.bmp's and you don't change the opacity in the individual files they will revert back to the original "OD" color and it does not look good.
I've only found this problem with color's with alot of solid black in them, "OD" being one of them.
