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FlightFactor 757 Slat Improvement 1.0.0

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Tired of waiting for a reluctant developer to fix a modeling defect that's been running for almost 10 years? Well, I was! I love the 757, and the FF rendition just hasn't done the aircraft justice.

What I tried to do here was to more accurately capture the texturing on the 757's slats, and I think that I succeeded! They are segmented, weathered, painted where they should have been, and the material at the wing root was changed to match.

Included are both DDS and PNG files for the wings, as well as a PNG for the wings_NML file. Copy and paste into the (757 Main)/Objects/757/ location, or freely modify for your liveries as I did to the excellent United paint in the screenshots by al_ayyubi on the inibuilds forums (link: https://forum.inibuilds.com/files/file/2341-united-flightfactor-757-200-pack/)

You need to modify the livery file using GIMP or Photoshop (GIMP is free!) to add the coloring from the livery you wish to use, otherwise the winglets and tail will be blank. Make a copy of the improvement files, then paste into the liveries you wish to apply it to. In GIMP coloring the wing texture file is easily accomplished using lasso select in the livery's original wing.dds file, then selecting the winglets and the tail faces (separately, one at a time), copying the selection, then "Paste in Place" into the copied wing.dds file with the new slats. Export with DXT3 compression and make sure to generate new mipmaps.

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DEDE115

Beautiful thank you! There was a livery that included a slat fix some years back but I couldn't find it after that but yours is actually so so much better. Again thank you.

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On 2/10/2023 at 5:05 PM, DEDE115 said:

Beautiful thank you! There was a livery that included a slat fix some years back but I couldn't find it after that but yours is actually so so much better. Again thank you.

Yeah! That inspired me! Delta "Keep Climbing" livery, can still be found at Aerosoft. Unfortunately his animation fix is based on the old wings.obj, so the winglets and flaps are a bit broken with the current version of the 757, but the textures are pretty good. Still lacks some accuracy - incorrect panel gaps, number of slat elements, and a non-representative texture scheme.

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On 2/18/2023 at 1:33 PM, FOGShinano said:

are you able to upload the modified wing file for the United livery?

 

I would need to get permission from the original livery author, I have now updated the posting with instructions to modify liveries you have using GIMP. It's pretty easy if you're relatively familiar with the software.

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On 2/9/2023 at 9:48 AM, FreshWaterPlimpy said:

Should submit this beauty to Flight Factor lol

I've spread it around their discord, got some attention from a dev or two. No inquiries yet...would be a lovely thing to have included out of the box. It literally took me an afternoon to make this improvement, imagine what their experienced devs could do with just one day! If only they cared

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On 2/20/2023 at 10:56 PM, chris_flies said:

I've spread it around their discord, got some attention from a dev or two. No inquiries yet...would be a lovely thing to have included out of the box. It literally took me an afternoon to make this improvement, imagine what their experienced devs could do with just one day! If only they cared

have you done one for the FF767?

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On 2/26/2023 at 2:56 AM, FOGShinano said:

have you done one for the FF767?

Nope, I don't fly it nearly as much, and it doesn't stand out as particularly awful. 

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9 hours ago, Southwest_aviation said:

It doesn't load on the -300

Wings.dds applies to all variants, you must have installed wrong.

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