Hello guys, this was originally made for a different sim and unfortunately the actual aircraft uses at least six textures just for the fuselage and wings
A few more do the pilot, wheels and floats so as it is the aircraft cannot be skinned unless someone wants to make a set of templates for each of those
skins, quite a feat that I doubt anyone would want to undertake. Not sure where Edlor found the aircraft but as far as I know there was no mention of the templates being with the plane so sadly we are stuck with what we have.
Could it be re-mapped?
It might be possible to shrink each texture and incorporate them all into one texture, however, you will then need to take the original mapping of the part and try to fit it into the new texture, that means taking every part into your 3d program and opening up the parts map to place it in a new position, again quite a task.
Failing that you could completely re-map the existing meshes as though you were making the model in the first place and create a skin that way, again, all the parts would need to be re-done!
Besides the above we do not know what the original author who's model this was specified we could do with it when Edlor asked for permission to use it so it might be he/she would not want us to do that kind of work to the original but use as is. Even making the changes we have could go against that but as they do not really alter the overall model hopefully it is okay.
So far the only thing I have altered was the strut for the fuselage wheels, that is the existing part for the floats but I pulled in the vertices at one end to make it for the wheeled version and altered the orientation slightly before deleting anything else that was not needed. I was going to re-map it but there was no room on the float texture so it gets its colour from the same place as before on the template:
Here you see the original undercarriage, I was going to remove the red part but went in a different way, these are images I originally emailed
to Alex so at the time I was mulling over what could be done and experimenting:
This shows what I reduced to make the new strut:
All the other undercarriage parts removed to give us the new wheeled undercarriage:
Take care and be safe.
Wishing you all the very best, Pete.
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Topic: Edlor - de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter (Read 9690 times)
