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Change cowl shape in Xcub/SuperCub -- MSFS

rgp1942

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Please pardon my neophyte questions, but I am hoping to get an answer here. I am creating a video for a noted pilots Celebration of Life, and I would like to include at the end a clip of his Supercub on floats flying down the Columbia River Gorge into the sunset (ala this) -- with the hymn "Going Home" as background music. I'm using a Supercub on floats livery of the Xcub in MSFS that a person made a few years back, but is unable to help me beyond adding the floats for me. I have managed to change the N-number and a few other .DDS cosmetics. I would like to make the cowl of this livery look more like a Supercub (remove engine bump and louvers). Is this something I might manage to do with my limited graphics knowledge, or does it require a major effort using something like Blender, and a bunch of knowledge about the SDK? I am attached a picture of the plane I am trying to emulate in MSFS, and the MSFS livery showing the cowl bump and louvers. Thanks for whatever help you can provide.

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Something like this?

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This scenery object was modeled to exactly represent the aircraft you're referring to. The floats were taken from the X-Cub and you can just see the tips of the wheel mounts the real aircraft doesn't have. MSFS still has the parked plane shadow in the marina and I watched it, or an airplane just like it take off last week as I crossed the Hood River bridge.

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You can modify it for your production. It should be no problem for your friend to move the necessary animated bits and pieces from X-Cub to this, probably even swap the cockpit.

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The plane you saw taking off last week was N3898Z owned by Tom Murphy who recently passed away and it's for his Celebration of Life that I am making the videos for. It was being brought up to the airport for it's annual. I have a short video of it landing in wet grass at HR airport on it's floats. They do that here. They take off using a dolly under the floats that drops off. If you'd like to see the video send me an email at royp4674@gmail.com and I will send it to you via email. A good friend of Tom's will be taking me for a ride in N3898Z. Getting back to the project, I will be using your Gorge and Marina scenery in the video. You are welcome to come to the COL at WAAAM at 1:30pm on June 22nd to see what I come up with. Here are some videos I've created with MSFS flying in the area. These were before I knew about your Gorge scenery. I have several more featuring WAAAM planes coming up. Your SuperCub on floats is exactly what I have been looking for. You did a great job on it! You are a talented artist! Too bad it isn't a livery I can use for flying! :eek:)

p.s. The person who put the floats on this livery (images here are incorrect - it's the Savage* version) is an extremely busy working person and can't assist me further. So currently I am not working with anybody. That's why I posted here soliciting help. If changing the cowl is relatively easy -- point me in the right direction. Otherwise volunteer to do it for me?? :eek:)

* I can't use the Savage version as there are no floats for it, and the wingspan is 5 ft. shorter than a Supercub.
 
Ok well here's what I got so far. For some reason all three prop states show and it's probably something obvious, but it escapes me. Also the wakes are a bit reluctant and it's probably a contact point issue but it took me forever to realize to just lift them from the X-Cub, just to get it to float so after that I was afraid to touch them. I've sent it along, if I make any significant changes I'll update you.

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