Painting CFS3 skins?

[Bulls_i_]

On the 18 a WWI add on for CFS3 called Over Flanders Fields will be released. This is my favorite time frame of aviation and I would like to do some skins for the planes. How do I do this? Is it very difficult? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[bzhyoyo]

Hi,
if you know how to skin for any sim, skinning for cfs3 is not any different except for
- the format used. DDS DXT1 is the most common one used. (there is a thread here about dds - search for it).
- the use of specular textures : these textures are greyscale and they define the amount of shininess of parts, which can be of great use to weather a plane very realistically.

Maybe you'll get more information at the two most active cfs3 forums :
- http://www.sim-outhouse.com/
- http://forums.netwings.org/forums/index.php