Reduced Alpha opacity and game crashes

[Rjel]

I don't believe this to be a bug and it seems to be self induced, however twice I've tried to fly the P-47 with a skin I've created and had the game lock up when going into the QMB. I've had to exit the game with Task Manager. When I go back into the game and QMB, it's basically a blank screen, once with a couple of plane icons to select, once without any to select a mission. Clicking on the icon did not allow me to proceed. Restarting the game didn't fix the problem and rebooting didn't either. I've reinstalled the game twice and solved the issue of the missing maps. No big deal there.

 

Doing more research leads me to believe that it is how I'm putting the Alpha layer into me template might be causing the issue. I've started to experiment with the Alpha layer trying to reduce its effect on NMF skins by lower the opacity to 70%. I reintroduced it to the Channel layers at a reduced opacity. I've since found a thread stating the opacity has to be at 100%. I've put the same skin into the game prior to this with out any issue. It only popped up once I started messing around with the Alpha layer. Or am I missing a step when editing the Alpha that is causing my crashes? The sim has been incredibly stable otherwise, both before and after the last major patch. I'm kind of stumped here.

Edited February 10, 2019 by Rjel