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[Vokial]

To add a livery to a plane is quite simple and you don't have to create another whole aircraft folder...
You have to go in the aircraft folder: you'll see some dir named "texture" or "texture.whatever".
You have to create a new texture folder with some name and edit the cfg file of the plane to add the new livery...

Example:
You just downloaded the british airways livery for your Boeing 737 that comes with FS9
Enter in the /Aircraft/b737_400 folder
create a dir named "texture.british" and put the livery in here (be sure that the img files are there and not in a subdir)
go back to the /b737_400 folder
edit the aircraft.cfg with a text editor (wordpad will do)
you should find some informations about the plane grouped in [fltsim.X] where X is a number starting from 0
copy a whole [fltsim.x] part (it doesn't matter which one) and paste it just below the last already existing one
change the fltsim.x with the next number (if the last is [fltsim.4] you have to put [fltsim.5])
change the aircraft information accordingly to your new livery and pay attention to the "texture=whatever" line... the "whatever" is the name of the
subdir you created for your texture without the "texture." part... so in our example we will have "texture=british"
And there you go... start FS9 and select your B737... open the liveries menu and choose your new livery...

The same example than above, only viewed in the aircraft.cfg

[fltsim.4] ---this one is the last one if you have only default textures---
title=Boeing 737-400 Paint4 ---this line has to be modified to make FS "see" your new livery as a different plane
sim=Boeing737-400
model=
panel=
sound=
texture=4 ---this line has to be modified otherwise you won't see your new livery
kb_checklists=Boeing737-400_check
kb_reference=Boeing737-400_ref
atc_id=N737T
atc_airline=World Travel ---this line too, but only to make ATC recognise the right airline ("Speed Bird"??)
atc_flight_number=1123
ui_manufacturer=Boeing
ui_type="737-400"
ui_variation="Linee aeree World Travel" ---this line changes the name of your new livery in the menu
description="..."

And now for the new livery (modified lines in blue):

[fltsim.5] ---remember, increase by one the number of fltsim parts you have<---
title=Boeing 737-400 British
sim=Boeing737-400
model=
panel=
sound=
texture=british
kb_checklists=Boeing737-400_check
kb_reference=Boeing737-400_ref
atc_id=N737T
atc_airline=Speed Bird
atc_flight_number=1123
ui_manufacturer=Boeing
ui_type="737-400"
ui_variation="British Airways"
description="..."

That's ok... don't change anything else (you might change the description and the atc_flight_numver if you want to, but it isn't necessary)

-Vokial-



Post Edited ( 08-24-05 03:34 )