Fellow simmers,
Here is my Livery of the PMDG 737 for MSFS2020.
The PMDG line of products use their custom utility called The PMDG Operations Center (OC2).
To maintain your entire PMDG fleet of aircraft (The DC-6 as well you own it), also provides you with a very easy way to install/uninstall/update your liveries. Please follow the detailed instructions below to install this paint. It may look like a lot of steps, but I made sure every step was covered from download to install.
NOTE: I will not offer this as a “Drag and Drop” livery as this method, while operational, does not ensure everything is created properly in the complex MSFS folder structure. When painters use the OC to package their paint, the installer takes care of all the items needed (json updates, aircraft .cfg edits, etc) automatically.
Also…should updates to the aircraft become available, the OC ensures all items are updated properly.
Here are the instructions:
1. Extract the PTP file from the downloaded zip file.
2. Place it anywhere your PC (typically the downloads folder).
DO NOT place it in the MSFS folder structure, including the Community folder (The OC2 will properly extract it there and update the Layout.json file automatically)
3. Press the Windows key on your keyboard
4. Type PMDG
5. Select the PMDG Operations Center and open as an Administrator
6. Follow these steps when Ops Center is open.
1. Click the Aircraft and Liveries menu
Choose Livery Utilities
2. Select the Simulator,Select the Product,Select the Variant
3. Click Install from PTP file
7. After the Open window opens, navigate to the folder you saved/extracted the PTP file to
8. Click Open.
9. Done
If you have any issues with the installation of the livery through the OC2, please contact PMDG Support at https://support.precisionmanuals.com/Main/
You an also go to their forums as many members can help with issues and the support team monitors there as well.
A special thanks goes to PMDG and the beta test crew I had the privilege to work with during the development of this fantastic plane.
Credits: All base textures included in my paints are included by permission from PMDG, as with any livery created by 3rd party painters. I would especially thank the PMDG Paint crew for the fantastic textures they gave us to work with, you guys are awesome!
HansH
Looks great! Thank you so much for this perfectd livery.
In the beginning I had the same problem like Majick (double ZFW + fuel consumption). Reason was that I changed the weight units to kg in Menu/PMDG Setup/aircraft/displays/page9/weight units/KG!
changing back to lbs made all work perfect again 😊
DeepSea1667
First great flight with the livery from Bristol (UK) to Zurich
The livery is great no issue at all (fuel consumption or double ZFM)
as usual nice livery !!! Well done !!!
HSSsimulations
no way this is a one star, this is the same 5-star quality as every other paint you put out. We ALL appreciate your hard work and dedication
Majick
Although it looks nice, somehow this livery manages to more than double the ZFW and the fuel consumption compared to the official liveries. Pretty unwelcome having to try to compensate for these issues.
SteveDra author
Not even sure how to respond to this. Not wanting to doubt you, but how on earth can a livery alter the ZFW by more than double and also the fuel consumption?
I used the exact same method to paint and package this as the official liveries. Being on the beta team, I worked directly with them...and with a dozen or so liveries produced, thousands of simmers not reporting an issue even remotely similar to yours, I'd have to think that the download somehow got corrupt?
Can you try deleting it and re-download and reinstall if this livery is truly the only one giving you this issue? Have you DL'd any of my others? Are they doing the same thing, because they should if we follow the logic.
Can ANYONE else here confirm these findings?
I find it a little unjust to leave a less than 1 star rating without even trying to let me help resolve the issue before leaving it.
I hope you reconsider the rating if/when we resolve it....if not, I'd really have no choice than to completely give up painting for the community as the last thing I want is to cause these kind of issues on a simmers machine.
2 years ago
piedmonitor
Wonderful! Please consider doing other Austrian -700 registrations!
foxtrotlima
Wow, this is great! In addition to all your other excellent paints. Now off to Innsbruck! A huge thanks!
dambuster8178
Another hoofin livery
Morid1n
Wonderful as usual.
When imported into ModelMatchingMagic, airline ICAO defaults to "AUSTRIAN" instead of "AUA". Any chance for a patch?
SteveDra author
You should be able to change this yourself in the aircraft.cfg
2 years ago
unfaced85
Thank you Steve for this beauty <3
eLum1nX
Kaiserschmarrn 😊
Allaryk
Any chance to get a nice Air Berlin livery aswell ?
SteveDra author
After looking at the one already out there....I'll make one as well if we don't get a better one.
I lot of issues on that AB paint
2 years ago
Sick_Simulations
Very cool thanks! Could u maybe do a Eurowings livery ? would be amazing! 😀
Tank787
Lovely, Steve. Was just about to start painting this one up myself.
SteveDra author
Thanks!
Saved you the trouble! :)
Did you paint any Navy C40s by chance? I want to do one but I'm too busy, and I know I've seen one of us do one....thought it was you.
If you did, would you considered bringing it over to MSFS?
2 years ago