General Liveries & Repaints Questions & Answers

Liveries and repaints depend on correct texture files, aircraft configuration entries and compatible model variants. This hub explains where to find free airline schemes, how to install them, and how to back up or restore original FS2004 textures before editing. It also covers DXTbmp, alpha channels, common bitmap formats and the reasons a repaint may appear black, blank or incorrectly reflective.

The Fly Away team tests practical fixes for missing thumbnails, mismatched texture folders and damaged defaults. Related texture issues are covered too, including blurry Prepar3D ground imagery, mipmaps, filtering and graphics settings, helping distinguish a repaint fault from a wider rendering or scenery problem.