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-====== Aircraft Repaints and Previews ======
+====== Aircraft Repaints ======
 In this tutorial you will learn how to manually repaint an aircraft and insert your newly painted aircraft into the aircraft's preview.  In this tutorial we will add a new repaint to the Cessna C172. **Note** - the designated name of this repaint is **YellowN172UC**.
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 ===== Prerequisites =====
-   * Aerofly FS 2 Flight Simulator - Must be installed
    * Photoshop or Gimp- Needed if you want to use the PSD templates
-   * Aerofly FS 2 SDK package. 	Download it from [[https://www.aerofly.com/aerofly_fs_2/sdk/]]
+   * Aerofly FS 2 SDK package, see [[sdk:intro|SDK introduction]].
 ===== Setup =====
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 {{:wiki:tutorial_code2.jpg?400|}}
-   * Now use Gimp or Photoshop to repaint the templates.
+   * Now use Gimp or Photoshop to repaint the templates. **See [[sdk:Coloring|Repainting Tutorial]] for a detailed tutorial on this.**
    * Save 24-bit BMP. **Note** - The result should look like this.
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 **Note** - This tutorial can change to reflect changes to the SDK. A special thank you to “Karl-Heinz” for the writing of this tutorial.
+===== Repainting Your Aircraft  =====
+This is a description of the PSD templates.
+You have to use **Photoshop** or **Gimp** to take advantage of the predefined layer structure.
+This tutorial will not explain how to use Photoshop or Gimp. Please refer to the related manuals.
+In this example we will use the files for the **Cessna C172**.
+   * **Open the fuselage01_color.psd and fuselage0_color.psd.**
+{{:wiki:color_1.jpg?700|}}
+{{:wiki:color_4.jpg?700|}}
+This is the structure of the layer groups that you will see in PS or Gimp.
+{{:wiki:color_2.jpg?300|}}
+This is a directory listing of the graphics files that you will see in Aerofly FS 2 aircraft folders.
+{{:wiki:color_3.jpg?300|}}
+**Note** - As you can see, the PSD layer structure corresponds strongly with the files of the c172.
+This means, you can use the layer groups to output your repaint to the required BMP files.
+==== UV layer group ====
+This group contains the display of the 3D mesh. This will give you orientation while repainting the aircraft.
+If left on when saving a BMP, the gridlines will appear on the aircraft.
+During repaint process the mesh can help to localize certain positions on the aircraft.
+Before we finally save a BMP, this group has to be switched off!
+{{:wiki:color_5.jpg?700|}}
+Here the fuselage00_color.psd has been saved with both layer groups on: **Color + UV**.
+The 3D mesh on the aircraft facilitates the identification of positions.
+{{:wiki:color_6.jpg?700|}}
+==== Detail of 3D mesh on UV layer ====
+{{:wiki:color_7.jpg?700|}}
+==== Color layer group ====
+This is the main layer group for our repainting.
+As you can see below, the Color layer group contains several subgroups like Effects, Liveries, Metal, Blank.
+{{:wiki:color_8.jpg?700|}}
+**Next, switch off all layers except the single color layer. Now let’s change the basic color of our aircraft to yellow.**
+{{:wiki:color_9.jpg?700|}}
+{{:wiki:color_10.jpg?700|}}
+   * **Do not place lines, text and other objects onto this layer. **
+   * **Use separate layers for other objects. This allows easier adjustment of a line above the color drawing.
+You can move it, bend it, cut it without touching the base layer.
+Also you can copy and mirror the line layer to cover the other side of the fuselage or wing.
+The same is valid for text information. I even have separate text layers, which allows different fonts, positions, text sizes etc.**
+==== Liveries Group ====
+In the template you can see the design layers in the Liveries group.
+{{:wiki:color_11.jpg?700|}}
+**Adding new layers with your designed content makes it easier. **
+{{:wiki:color_12.jpg?700|}}
+**If you finished repainting, switch on all necessary layers of the color layer group, switch off all other layer groups and save your work as _color.bmp, 24 bit. This will be used for conversion to the final _color.ttx file.**
+==== Ambient layer group ====
+In computer graphics, ambient occlusion is a shading and rendering technique used to calculate how exposed each point in a scene is to ambient lighting. In aerofly FS 2 it is a 24 bit grey scale map.
+{{:wiki:color_13.jpg?700|}}
+**Note this groove line between the wing and the wing tip.
+In the color layer there  is just yellow color.
+In the reflection layer we see the elevated rivets.
+But in the ambient layer the groove line is clearly visible.**
+{{:wiki:color_14.jpg?300|}}
+**Note the rivets as small circles in this example
+(note: contrast has been modified for the tutorial).**
+{{:wiki:color_15.jpg?300|}}
+   * If you modified the ambient layer group, switch on all necessary layers, switch off all other layer groups and save your work as _ambient.bmp, 24 bit. This will be used for conversion to the final _ambient.ttx file.
+==== Specular and Specular_Alpha  layer group ====
+-bit color map with each color value representing the brightness for the Red, Green and Blue (RGB)
+{{:wiki:color_16.jpg?700|}}
+   * As you can see, this group contains the signs of the original painting (note: for better demonstration, the black layer has been switched off)
+   * **If we do not modify these layers, the shimmering will be visible on our aircraft.**
+{{:wiki:color_17.jpg?700|}}
+**If you modified the specular layer group, switch on all necessary layers, switch off all other layer groups and save your work as _specular.bmp, 24 bit. This will be used for conversion to the final _specular.ttx file.**
+==== Reflection layer group ====
+This group controls the reflection strength of a surface.
+In aerofly FS 2 it is a grey scale layer group  where black means no reflection and white means 100% reflection.
+{{:wiki:color_18.jpg?700|}}
+**In this example I copied the aircraft lines onto the reflection layer and selected a bright grey**
+{{:wiki:color_19.jpg?700|}}
+If you don't switch on the black layer the reflection layer will show white showing a perfect polished aluminum
+{{:wiki:color_20.jpg?700|}}
+**Here is another detail of reflection layer group**
+{{:wiki:color_21.jpg?300|}}  {{:wiki:color_22.jpg?300|}}
+**The yellow is all plain-colored over the whole color layer.
+But in the reflection group the surface is not a uniform grey tone, it differs slightly in kind of patches.
+This creates a very realistic surface structure
+(note: contrast of screenshots has been modified to better display the patches).**
+   * If you modified the reflection layer group, switch on all necessary layers, switch off all other layer groups and save your work as _reflection.bmp, 24 bit. This will be used for conversion to the final _reflection.ttx file.
+**As we have seen there exist several layer groups corresponding to different .TTX files of the aircraft.
+It is important to check and modify all of the related layer groups for our repaints.
+We output several different BMP files with fixed naming conventions.
+The structure is given by the templates provided by IPACS, the aerofly FS 2 developers.
+The result will be a high quality texture for our aircrafts.**