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Something missing is the registration letters off the nose gear doors, this bmp I haven't touched on yet but there isn't anything on it that isn't obvious. posky757gear_t contains all of the mapping for the under carriage and doors. Here we can see bottom right are the nose gear and main undercarriage doors.
Having a close up view of the nose gear doors on a My Travel scheme, we can see the text is the same colour blue from the My Travel logo.
Go to one of the fuselage psds and locate the tail layer. Set it's mode to "Normal" and use the Eye Dropper Tool (I) to select the blue as the active colour.
Return the layer's mode to "Multiply" and return to the nose gear doors.
Select the Horizontal Type Tool (T) and with the AmarilloUSAF font selected, click somewhere on the nose gear door and type "MY"
Highlight the text by having cursor up close to the side of the text until the cursor changes, then click and drag over the text. Have the font size set to around 19. If you would prefer to use an image (I usually do), take a shot of the nose gear from a website such as (www.airliners.net) and place in the document like the image below. In the picture below I actually stretched the text a little by scaling it (Edit - Transform - Scale, drag the middle horizontal node). I also increased the gap between the two letters by open the Character palette. With the Type Tool (T) selected click on the "Toggle character and paragraph palettes" button.
With the text still highlighted, select an amount from the following drop down, if you want a greater amount than shown just type in the amount in the input box. (note: this feature may not be present in different programs, if it isn't then a perfectly acceptable way is to make a text layer with just one letter on it then link the two layers)
Duplicate the text layer and flip it vertically (Edit - Transform - Flip vertical) and horizontally (Edit - Transform - Flip Horizontal) With the Move Tool (V) selected use the up and down arrow to move the text on to the other door. We only use the up and down arrows as we want it to be in the same place on the other side
Save this file as a psd and check her out in flight sim (use the same method we used when saving the fuselage bmps).
It looks pretty good, if for any reason you aren't happy with it just edit the text in the ways you have learnt and keep viewing your edits on the model.
As the paint scheme is on a British registered aircraft it is a legal requirement for the registration to be displayed under the left wing. American registered aircraft do no have this requirement. Open the bmp named posky757lwing_t from inside the Wing Textures\Gray folder. On this bmp you can clearly see the two sides of the left wing, over wing and under wing. Select the Horizontal Type Tool (T) and select the font as AmarilloUSAF and the size to around 36. Click somewhere in the middle of the bmp and type "G CCMY".
Select the back ground layer (to allow you to add another text layer) then make sure you have the Horizontal Type Tool (T) selected. Keep the font size the same and select the font as Arial. Click around the area of the registration and type a hyphen (-). Select the Move Tool (V) and click on the hyphen to move it in to place (use the arrow keys for fine adjustments), go to Edit - Transform - Scale if you wish to change the length of the hyphen (click on the middle vertical nodes and drag horizontally).
Link the two layers by having one of the text layers selected, hold down crtl and click on the layer. Click the "Link layers" button at the bottom of the layers palette. Flip the two layers both horizontally and vertically by going to Edit - Transform - Flip Horizontal and Edit - Transform - Flip Vertical. We now need to rotate the linked layers, go to Edit - Transform - Rotate. Click on the middle of the text (inside of the now displayed box) and drag the text up to the tip of the wing area. Now click and hold on one of the 4 corners, the cursor should display a symbol. Drag the mouse from left to right to rotate the linked layers. Rotate the layers so they line up with the diagonal leading edge line. Depress the mouse button and click and drag on the middle of the text to reposition it if required, select another tool such as the Brush Tool (B) and apply the changes.
Save the bmp as a psd within the same folder, then check her out in flight sim (use the same converting method as the fuselage bmps).
The placing looks fine so we'll move on.
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