Post by mick on Oct 2, 2005 20:30:37 GMT -5
Has anyone got Martin Wright's program ModelColor working?
I have it installed but I can't get it to work.
What prompted me to ask is that I stumbled onto something that would fill a big gap in our GW3 aircraft lists: a Boeing P-26 Peashooter.
Ted Simko released it a couple years ago for FS2002 and it works perfectly in FS9; it doesn't even lose its prop.
Alas, he painted it in an overall screaming bright lurid Kelly green, which is probably why the model seems to have been overlooked and forgotten. But it's a really nice model, apart from the paint job.
The way the textures map makes it impossible for the wings and the gear spats to be different colors, which rules out the original OD & yellow livery and the later blue & yellow livery, but some P-26s survived long enough to wear the pre-war overall silver livery. I spent much of yesterday afternoon painting it up in overall silver with the markings of the 19th Pursuit Squadron.
Alas, some small parts of the model aren't textured, so they still show that lurid bright green, which is the color of the bare model.
If I could change the model's color to a silvery gray, my repaint would look good and I'd release it. I got the model loaded into ModelColor, did all the right things to change the color, saved the changes - and the model stayed green.
Maybe someone else could make it happen?
If so, it would be OK to release the modified model, since Ted released it into the public domain.
I have it installed but I can't get it to work.
What prompted me to ask is that I stumbled onto something that would fill a big gap in our GW3 aircraft lists: a Boeing P-26 Peashooter.
Ted Simko released it a couple years ago for FS2002 and it works perfectly in FS9; it doesn't even lose its prop.
Alas, he painted it in an overall screaming bright lurid Kelly green, which is probably why the model seems to have been overlooked and forgotten. But it's a really nice model, apart from the paint job.
The way the textures map makes it impossible for the wings and the gear spats to be different colors, which rules out the original OD & yellow livery and the later blue & yellow livery, but some P-26s survived long enough to wear the pre-war overall silver livery. I spent much of yesterday afternoon painting it up in overall silver with the markings of the 19th Pursuit Squadron.
Alas, some small parts of the model aren't textured, so they still show that lurid bright green, which is the color of the bare model.
If I could change the model's color to a silvery gray, my repaint would look good and I'd release it. I got the model loaded into ModelColor, did all the right things to change the color, saved the changes - and the model stayed green.
Maybe someone else could make it happen?
If so, it would be OK to release the modified model, since Ted released it into the public domain.
