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After my initial joy about this terrefic job Gavin and his partners have done with these FSX conversions, I realized the terrible amount of work that lies ahead. To convert all textures and add the new alpha channels - I guess nobody knows better what this means than myself

After having checked that there is indeed no solution to solve that issue with any tool, I contacted Martin Wright and explained him our situation. He agreed to help, and made a set of console tools for conversion and alpha channel adding. I wrote a warpper for these tools that allow to operate them in batch mode.

As an initial test I have converted all P-3 textures from all MAIW packages and gave them to Gavin for detail check. His feedback was that the textures are matching the manual conversion.

I will make these converted paints available here in the download center after a few things have been cleared regarding approval etc.

I am also willing to do the same job for the whole set of C-130 textures. Batching or not... this will take some time. But the good news is that nobody has to do this manually.

Martin Wright is very generous man, and a great person to work with. His contribution has made this FSX conversion project really doable.

Wow that's huge, Martin! This will save many of us hours of tedious work.

Do you plan on making the tool itself available as well?

I am happy to share the wrapper once it is completed... you know right now I am still a bit distracted by AIAE...
And I am sure Martin will provide the tools if he is asked nicely...

Only used together it becomes the time safer.


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Any update on this, Martin?

It looks like we're in need of such a tool more than ever.

You are right, Greg. No, I have not followed on that recently and I also have not yet published the P-3 FSX update (which I will do now) .

I am not sure whom I asked, but I now remember that I was waiting for somebody confirming the P-3s are okay... Let me check....

Hi! Need help too, to convert everything in my P3Dv4. Is there anything to download to solve the problem?

Severin wrote: 20 Aug 2017, 12:27 Hi! Need help too, to convert everything in my P3Dv4. Is there anything to download to solve the problem?

Severin - you appear to have asked the same or a similar question in about 10 different threads. I will answer you here.
Over on the Alpha India Group forums there is a discussion board specifically about P3D / FSX conversions.
http://www.alpha-india.net/forums/index.php?board=220.0
On it you will find a number of civilian FS9 models that have been converted (all HTAI public domain models, the OSP ATRs, some of the TFS & some AIG models). You will also find a draft document that I wrote where I tried to explain what is involved in converting a model from FS9 to FSX or P3D.

thanks
Gavin