question: FB does not show my skin

[DVAS]

Hello to everybody

A quick question

I made a skin from a template (psd), i save it as a bmp, i placed it in the
aircraft folder but it doesnt apear in game

Could someone tell me what im doing wrong here

Thanks in advance
dimitris

[Serval]

When you work in Photoshop or Any other program then you work in 24 bit mode.
IL-2 expects its skins in 8 bit mode.

You can easily see by the filesize I guess your file will be 3 MB big. Note that all working skins are 1 MB.

You have to convert the skin to 8 bit/ 256 colors. Often called Indexed color.

You can do that with the program you use. But often Bright gives a better result.
You can find Bright with a batch file that turns your current 3 MB big BMP into a proper BMP for IL-2 or you can find it as a plugin for Photoshop. Then you can use File-Export-Bright from Photoshop to have your skins saved in the proper format.

[DVAS]

Thanks very much
Serval

My best wishes for Christmas
and keep up the good work

[Serval]

You're welcome

If you have problems with Bright, just ask.
Note that the program works in DOS mode only. So start it from a DOS or Command box.

This tutorial might help to understand some things about colordepth:
http://www.simmerspaintshop.com/foru...e-artists.html