Commander Paintkit

Woolies

Hi there, will there be a paintkit available for the Commander when it releases?

Thanks

ryanbatc

I think so

Woolies

Can't wait to design my own livery for it. I hope the Commander drops early tomorrow so we can all get going flying and learning it as soon as ....

Woolies

Commander installed and ready to go. I hope we get a paint kit soon so we can customise our lovely new aircraft.

McOatmeal

Yeah I gotta get an ATP Livery for the commander!

Tim-HH

Unfortunately, flightsim.to has introduced new restrictions, so I can't upload the paint kit today.

However, I have uploaded it to my Google Drive for now

https://drive.google.com/file/d/19l8XJHxkHHYYAaT7IUBKXN5Y-Ku5Tsti/view?usp=sharing

Woolies

Legend, thank you!

Woolies

Ok, just downloaded, again thanks. I have not used FBX and Blender before. Most paint kits I have used have PSD files that I work from. Is there a way to create PSD or similar via Blender and an FBX?

Appreciate any help

Flak

@Woolies In lieu of an official PSD paintkit you can roll your own using my new MSFS Livery Toolkit. I recently added the ability to extract the relevant parts of an aircraft, into a 2D and/or 3D paintkit.

You can download it here
https://theflaknine.github.io/MSFS-Livery-Toolkit/

Go through the setup to ensure it can find your aircraft folder(s), then go to the Paintkit Builder tab (bottom left). From there, hit DISCOVER AIRCRAFT and find the Commander 114 and pick the textures you want to generate into a paintkit. It will extract them and build layered PSD files, also with UV wireframe and paintable area layers (useful as a mask). You can optionally include AO, Roughness and Metal layers if you want.

Obviously it's not as clean as a real paintkit that has nice separate layers for dirt, panel lines, etc, but it'll give you something to get started.

Here's an example of the PSD it will generate.

Woolies

Oh, wow, cool. Will take a look. Many thanks