Paint kits usually contain only the main fuselage and wing textures and sometimes the interior however there is nothing stopping you from changing any of the other textures if you so wish.Jigsaw wrote:There is nothing that I could do about the engine, though. Its textures aren't part of the paint kit and I don't think that I'm allowed to uses them and include them in a repaint.
To weather the engine parts proceed as follows:
- 1. Find the 'engine.dds' file in the 'A2A_PiperJ3_share' folder and copy it.
2. Paste the copied file to whatever location you are using to store you WIP textures.
3. Open the file in your paint program of choice and save it as the default type of file for your program (i.e. as a PSD file if using Photoshop).
4. Add weathering on new layers until you are happy with it.
5. Save the file and then either 'Save As' a DDS file or convert the file to DDS (depending on your paint program and methodology) using the same 'engine.dds' file name.
6. Move the new DDS file to your 'texture.XXX' folder and NOT the 'A2A_PiperJ3_share' folder where 'XXX' is the name for your new paint scheme.
7. Ensure that your 'texture.XXX' folder contains the 'texture.cfg' file present in the stock A2A texture folders, if the file is not present copy and paste a copy from one of the stock A2A texture folders.