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Need some help repainting

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Thomas Pattison
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Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 8:30 am 

Hey everyone i am trying to paint my own plane, i can get the textures into the editor and re paint them and save them but then once i see them back in fs they come out all blurry, why is this?
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Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 9:57 am 

Could be several reasons - you do not say if you are using DXTBMP.exe to reconvert the bmp files from your photo editor, to extended bmp's.

If you are then, take the option - Save without MIPS

There could be other reasons but difficult to tell with the information given.
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Thomas Pattison
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Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 10:01 am 

i use the DXT progrma as mentioned above and edit the textures in either adobe photoshop or just ms paint
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davec
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Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 10:08 am 

How are you saving the edited texture file in DXTBMP.exe?

Very good tutorial at -

(dead links removed)

select the Painters Learning Centre

there is also a tutorial there on getting rid of MIPS
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Thomas Pattison
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Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 10:56 am 

thanks for those links, it has cleared everything up for me. Much appreciated
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