ATTENTION! Since version 1.7.3 upload, there are reports of a false virus alert when downloading on Win11 with Windows Defender. One may try downloading it directly from Github if this happens (it worked for me). The latest release can be found at https://github.com/leandroarndt/msfs_livery_tools/releases

MSFS Livery Tools

MSFS Livery Tools is a Windows application to help creating liveries for existing aircrafts on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 (it probably works with MSFS 2024 too, but cannot extract KTX2 textures in the current version). It deals with all bureaucratic steps of livery creation, so that you can focus on your creative work:

• Package your livery and automatically create the needed files and folders.
• Create texture maps from glTF files (including those already built for MSFS).
• Extract images from glTF JSON files and compress them again to DDS format.
• Convert selected DDS images to PNG and back to DDS.
• Creating the directory structure of a package.
• Creating an "aircraft.cfg" file based on the original aircraft and variation information.
• Creating a "manifest.json" file (optionally based on the original manifest).
• Creating a "panel.cfg" file and changing:
  • variation override;
  • external registration font color and stroke.
• Creating descriptive JSON files for DDS textures (.DDS.json).
• Creating flag file for textures (.FLAGS) – not on the graphical user interface.
• Creating and updating package layout files ("layout.json").
• Managing thumbnails (converting from capture tool, resizing and adding a placeholder).

Download and install latest release (run as admin if you experience problems with file writing permissions). A shortcut will be created in your windows menu. Refer to the wiki for help.

MSFS Livery Tools uses Microsoft's texconv.exe in order to extract and compress texture files.

Supporting

If you like MSFS Livery Tools and want to support it, please consider donating or subscribing to the author's YouTube channel – indeed, the whole application has been created to customize liveries for this channel.

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MSFS Livery Tools

MSFS Livery Tools helps creating liveries for existing aircrafts on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. It deals with all bureaucratic steps of livery creation, so that you can focus on your creative work. It deals with directory structure creation, descriptors, manifests, layout files etc. It creates a complete package based on the user's project definitions, texture and configuration files.

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