Experienced painters please help!

[FirstOfficerTom]

Hello,

My brother and I spent a little while in photoshop creating our first livery for the Carenado PA-28 Archer II.

However, having put it in Planemaker and the sim, we find that a panel section of the livery is not rendering, we have moved about the polygons on the file to see if that changes anything, it doesnt.  All the liveries packaged with the aircraft work fine, just not ours

Picture of the aircraft in Planemaker with panel missing:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/36/screenshot20110628at165.png/

The fuselage png we used:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/204/cararcherfuselage.png/

Any clues?

Tom

[Nicola_M]

This may make it easier for people to see the problem.

[FirstOfficerTom]

sorry I tried attaching it but an error message kept coming up,

thanks

[Dozer]

Hi Tom, I can see the problem!

The white panel is some kind of luggage door. Possibly a separate object from the rest of the fuselage. It looks like the texture for it is in the panel between the two sides of the fin in the bottom left of the image:

[WombatBoy]

For some reason that door/hatch thing is mapped to a different area than the rest of the fuselage. In the attached picture I've highlighted the area that you'll need to paint to get that hatch to show up right.

Edit: Looks like Dozer got there first

[Dozer]

haha, the benefits of scrawling all over the picture in GIMP and scaling it down so the detail is illegible rather than nicely and exactly highlighting it :-)

[FirstOfficerTom]

I cannot thank you guys enough!

Thank you so much!

I would have never noticed that myself

Thankyou!  ;D ;D ;D

[Kaphias]

For the future if this ever happens again and you can't find where it is, draw some (I start with 4) colored blocks on the paint, then look at the plane and see what color the area you want painted is. You can then repeat the process in the square to narrow it down if you need to.

[Dozer]

I noticed there was textured detail of the baggage door latch in your screenshot, then just looked for that latch on the texture!