I have PM'd Willy and he's looking into it, but he's as mystified as I am about this.
I decided to do a livery for the D18 Amphib. Loaded up Willy's paint kit from several years ago (one I had used in the past with excellent results), started with the fuselage, slapped some paint on it and used the NVidia DDS Plugin for Paint Shop Pro to convert to DDS (DXT5). To save on unnecessary critiques about why a certain process is done in such a way. . .I am not a novice at doing liveries, been doing it a long time and it works perfectly for me, thank you.
The problem is that for some reason, when the conversion is complete, I have a solid black texture. I have run other liveries I've done through the process today and every one is fine. . .just not using this livery with this paint kit. I would also add that two years ago I used this same paint kit and produced several liveries for the D18. . .no problems. . .just not today.
Program used: Corel Paint Shop Pro 2018
NVidia DDS Format Plugin_V8.55.0109.1800
Settings on Plugin menu: DXT5 ARGB 8bpp | interpolated alpha
2D Texture
No Mips
Save Flipped Vertically
Anyone ever have this problem or have any useful suggestions please chime in. Thanks
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