I spent 13 hours making it by layering and merging down to the 301st FW "Ft Worth,Texas" livery. I had zero issues doing this process with the Milviz T-38 liveries. I noticed that all of the F-16C_8_T.dds files are 1 mb, and my process had it up to about 4 mb, I did not think that matter? I noticed also that my layer boundary size went from aerosoft's 1024x1024 to a larger size, so i cut and past the livery to fit the 1024x1024 size and the texture still shows up black. I will add that there is a specular.dds or spec map, I have never used one of these before, as this is only my second livery to practice painting with.
If there is any advice from anyone with experience painting aerosoft, please, I am all ears.