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# Converting Liveries Manually

!!! warning "Disclaimer"

This guide is provided with no guarantee of compatibility and meant for the conversion of liveries for personal use.

**No support will be provided**

!!! danger "Risk of Convert Liveries"
We recommend to **not** converting old liveries. Many liveries for the Asobo A320, especially the ones from livery collections are often very old, low quality and not maintained. They
may cause a number of issues and can even lead to CTDs (crash to desktop).

!!! info ""
We instead suggest downloading compatible liveries from [flightsim.to](https://flightsim.to/c/liveries/flybywire-a32nx/most-downloaded){target=new}.

To manually convert a livery made for the default A320neo to work with the new FBW A32NX, you have to edit three files in that livery's folder.

!!! info "Step One"

Open the aircraft.cfg in `..\SimObjects\AirPlanes\NAME_OF_THE_LIVERY\`

The following lines should look like this:

base_container = "..\FlyByWire_A320_NEO"
ui_type = "A320neo (LEAP)"
ui_manufacturer = "FlyByWire Simulations"

!!! info "Step Two"

Open the texture.cfg in `..\SimObjects\AirPlanes\NAME_OF_THE_LIVERY\TEXTURE.XXX`

There's a fallback which points to the Asobo A320. It should now look like this:

fallback.X=..\..\FlyByWire_A320_NEO\TEXTURE

(X = the number of the fallback)

!!! info "Step Three"

Open the model.cfg in `..\SimObjects\AirPlanes\NAME_OF_THE_LIVERY\MODEL.XXX`

The two model lines should look like this:

exterior=../../FlyByWire_A320_NEO/model/A320_NEO.xml
interior=../../FlyByWire_A320_NEO/model/A320_NEO_INTERIOR.xml

Ready to go! Launch the sim and see if it worked.
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# Liveries Guide

Best source for liveries for the FlyByWire A32NX is [FBW A32NX @ flightsim.to](https://flightsim.to/c/liveries/flybywire-a32nx/most-downloaded){target=new}.
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!!! warning "Always Keep Liveries Up-to-Date"
Our recommendation is to download the dedicated FlyByWire liveries and also to keep the liveries up to date by regularly updating especially when a patch to MSFS is released. This is important as liveries are one of the main cause for issues and CTD (crash to desktop).

## Want to Convert Liveries?

??? warning "Disclaimer"
This guide is provided with no guarantee of compatibility and meant for the conversion of liveries for personal use.

**No support will be provided**

??? danger "Risk of Convert Liveries"
We recommend to **not** converting old liveries. Many liveries for the Asobo A320, especially the ones from livery collections are often very old, low quality and not maintained. They
may cause a number of issues and can even lead to CTDs (crash to desktop).

If you have read the above two warnings and still want to convert a livery, please head to our conversion guide in the [Developer Corner](../dev-corner/livery-conversion.md).