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[Günther]

Gunther,
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Updated it.

[btasm]

Wonderful plane but I have a skins issue:

After attempting to install the HD default and alternate skins:

1. I get a bright pink default skin;
2. The alternate skins do not appear in the skins drop down menu (and I have created a D510 skins folder).

What am I doing wrong?  Thanks so much.

[cgagan]

If you have installed the HD default skin, then all your skins should be 2048x2048 and your colour depth should increase to 24(bits or pixels I am not sure); you can do it in your D520 skins folder, using a program such as Irfanview

[btasm]

Bit lost here. I have Irfanview. The HD default skin is installed. The images say they are 2048 x 2048. The plane is still pink. When you say "you can do it" in the D520 skins folder, what is "it"? Am I do edit something? If so, how?

Thanks for your help.

[cgagan]

Go to your skins folder (specifically the D520 folder) and change the skins to 2048x2048, then  increase colour depth (I am not sure about terms as I am writing from my office computer) to 24bits (using the options in irfanview). Then save as "original folder", and you must be done

[btasm]

I'm sorry, but I must be a bit dense because I'm still confused. So here goes.

Irfanview has been my default imaging program for some time. After creating a D520 skins folder, installing the HD default skin (skin1o.tgb) into the aircraft folder (and overwriting the existing one), then loading the alternate skins, I ended up with a D520 skins folder that includes the alternate skins as .bmp files, for example, "bulgar2_2048.bmp", "Vichy.bmp" etc. Hence the skins are already 2048x2048. (There's no "default" .bmp in the skins folder, of course.)

After opening up Irfanview, and browsing to a skin (.bmp), an option under "Image" is "decrease color depth". This shows the default .bmps as "256 Colors (8 BPP)" but the only choice is to lower the colors and BPP. Is this what I want to change? I don't think so.

I did find that I could install and use the non-HD D520 skins available here at the Skin Shop provided I went back to the "original" default skin file. But otherwise, I get a pink default skin and the alternate skins don't appear as options when customizing the D520.

I hope I am explaining this correctly. Thanks.

[cgagan]

Let's sum up: If you get a pink default skin having installed the HD default skin into D520/3do/plane/D520(Multi1)/summer, then you must have issues with the HD mod (https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,33239.0.html).
What I did was to open my IL2.../Paintschemes/skins/D520 folder with Irfanview, from the "Image" menu I clicked on "Resize/Resample, then changed the "width" and "height" into 2048x2048, saved (original folder); then. in the same skin, I clicked on "Increase Color Depth" from Image menu again and chose 16.7 Million Colors (24BPP), saved again ("original folder") and that was it. Your non 2048 skins (Fly's and Stanislao's for instance") should allow you the option "Increase Color Depth". HD skins are aleady in that format so you only get the "Decrease Color Depth" as option...

[max_thehitman]

I dont like pink skins, I would like a yellow one with purple polka-dots 

[btasm]

Well, I feel foolish. I didn't realize the the HD mod was needed. That did the trick. Thanks for your patience and help.

[cgagan]

UR welcome!

[levine59]

I was two weeks in holiday and what happens... D520, He111A-E,Fiat Br.20! What a fireworks!
Special thanks to you Ranwers for a brave decision to create a new D520.  Previous D520 project seems to be in "two weeks" state too long time! 
By the way.. What you have now in queue?

[Whiskey_Sierra_972]

Missing only it's development NCC1701

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCC_1701