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gatecitycaCharter Member · 91 postsJan 31, 2003 7:34 AM

Hi,I also posted this message in the Livery forum, but I figured that since there have been a lot of repaints of PCC cars here lately, that maybe one of you could help me with this. I have noticed that for whatever reason, there is a real lack of Pacific Electric Railway cars in the file library, other than the steeple cab locomotives that Tim Muir created. So I decided to try to repaint one of the interurbans I downloaded earlier to make it resemble a PE car. I used Matt Austin's Milwaukee 1100 interurban. (I will of course get his permission before uploading a repaint here.) This is my first attempt at repainting. I used TGATools2 to extract the .ACE files and then used MS Paint to repaint the sides and ends. Now, the problem I'm having is that in the exterior view, the windows are no longer transparent, although the original interurban car I used did have transparent windows. The windows now just show up black. I did not do anything to the windows, only changed the color of the body and trim. The passenger view is okay, although I guess that is fr

Chris T.
San Bernardino, California

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