How do you edit aircraft textures?

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Q:

I have not edited aircraft textures in the past, so I was just wondering about the procedure. Is there any more to it than overwriting the original bmp with the modified one? Since the textures in FS2K are read only, I'm sure I have to make a copy before saving any changes. Do you then replace original with edited copy? Will that do it, or leave me with textureless airplane.

Qui Gon Jay

A:

You can switch the read-only status by modifying the aircraft.cfg file. For each plane entry, the bottom line reads "editable=0". Change the 0 to a 1, and the plane is no longer read-only.

John