Douglas C-47 v3 Livery Thread

[ayrton74]

Update Heads Up: C-47 V3 Drag-Em-Oot Texture


I did some fine tuning on the Drag-Em-Oot texture.

Changes Include:

Improved nose art
Reduced contrast on lower surfaces on the stripes.
Improved alignment of upper and lower surface colors around nose, wing roots and cowl flaps.

You might want to update your skin if you have already downloaded.
http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforum...7&linkid=21744

Thks GMAN - Very Nice Job

[Ranger75]

The fine C-47 V2 repaint of the present-day museum aircraft 'Canadian Armed Forces C-47 DOUGLAS C47A Dakota C-FROD 12927' by Mako8841 [texture.Canada.zip] was modified and updated for the C-47 V3 to represent CC-129 12933 as it appeared during the last decade of Canadian Forces service in the 1980s.



Will be uploaded soon.

[fuzz1]

Thanks for your effort once again Gman. Frankly, I would not have thought it possible to improve upon Drag-Em-Oot. Already superb.

[Obie311]

Quick let's get out of here before the authorities realize that we don't have an N Number.

Found at: flightsim

douglas_c47_v3_private_livery_red.zip

Here's the theme song for your livery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opBe5z0qwRE

Obie

[MustangL2W]

Gman - I'm having problems with "Drag-Em-Oot" being quite blurry. Nothing like your screen shots which are crystal clear. Any Ideas? I've downloaded your latest version and no better.

[rdaniell]

Here's the theme song for your livery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opBe5z0qwRE

Obie

Thanks for the song Obie. Fits perfectly. It also fits my new ride. I had to pay Ole Willy at Merc Air a good bit of "boot" but I swapped out the old DC-3 for this surplus C-47.

We're waiting on some government types to arrive who wanted us to transport some kind of equipment somewhere. Just hand my co-pilot the money along with the destination and we're good to go.

To all you'll who made this aircraft available to us, thank you. I'm having way too much fun with it.

RD

[CaptainMal]

Ranger75:

Thanks for the CAF repaints. Will download soon.

The fine C-47 V2 repaint of the present-day museum aircraft 'Canadian Armed Forces C-47 DOUGLAS C47A Dakota C-FROD 12927' by Mako8841 [texture.Canada.zip] was modified and updated for the C-47 V3 to represent CC-129 12933 as it appeared during the last decade of Canadian Forces service in the 1980s.



Will be uploaded soon.

[triflyman]

Try placing a "_" between Qantas and VH-EAR in the .cfg texture= entry.

That fixed it...thanks. I just copied from the Readme file and now see that was missing.

[Timmy74]

Brings back memories Matt! Thank you very much for doing this one! Do you know if Jankees is going to redo the PNGDF paint by any chance?

Cheers,
Tim.

[Jafo]

Try placing a "_" between Qantas and VH-EAR in the .cfg texture= entry.

That's a mildly annoying trait caused by the site, it seems. The uploads have no underscore and match the aircraft.cfg entries, exactly as on my machine. The site apparently adds the underscore and screws with the functionality/simplicity.

Edit...have re-uploaded all 3 with amended instructions to match renamed files...

[Butcherbird17]

Finished this one.





Joe

[Bushpounder]

NICE job, Joe!

Don

[jeansy]

[Jafo]

Finally 'happy' with the silver paint on A65-98 so time to upload...



Edit....which it has been.

RAAF A65-98 [cn:16354-33102] [sn:44-76770] was built as a C47B-30-DK at Douglas Aircraft, Santa Monica California in April 1945 and was delivered to the RAAF under "Lend-lease" agreement [callsigns VHRFO and VMHJZ] as A65-98. She is now VH-OVM - 'Melbourne's Gooney Bird'.

[Ian Warren]

Brilliant paints , Joe that VARIG Sweet , Matt , RAAF equal , I'm off to a very slow start, little to much on my plate at the mo... the lot of them Jafo ..

[Adamski_NZ]

Does anyone know if it's possible to make the MJ C-47 (in P3D) use the real-world environment for reflections - as opposed to the [fake] specular map texture? I suspect it'll be a flag in the .mdl file <!--??-->.

A2A do this superbly for the T-5 Texan. A glossy livery picks up the real runway markings, clouds etc. Looks superb! Would be great to have this enabled for the C-47.

[banjoman1960]

Does anyone know if it's possible to make the MJ C-47 (in P3D) use the real-world environment for reflections - as opposed to the [fake] specualar map texture? I suspect it'll be a flag in the .mdl file <!--??-->.

A2A do this superbly for the T-5 Texan. A glossy livery picks up the real runway markings, clouds etc. Looks superb! Would be great to have this enabled for the C-47.

nice idea,
and thank´s for your nice paint´s.i like a lot........
but wat about menory use and performance..........i think we all run p3d close to the limit of oom´s if we use orbx,rex,weather, multiplayer and other?
if so ,then maybee a option to decide wat you want......
with the texan i need lower settings,most i fly inside the vc,but when you fly online,and other use hd paint´s and it get in your view,then the frames drop´s
so maybee enjoy as is now,i think it look´s stunning.

cheers
ralf

[jeansy]

[Adamski_NZ]

That's a great looking livery, Matt - I'll wait for it to appear on OzX!!!

As to the T-6 ... I didn't find it too bad on framerates - but my system is a slideshow anyway!!! I did wonder, though, what impact all that extra processing might have.

Adam.

[AussieMan]

​Matt, shouldn't that read A65-83?

[DaveWG]

Does anyone know if it's possible to make the MJ C-47 (in P3D) use the real-world environment for reflections - as opposed to the [fake] specular map texture? I suspect it'll be a flag in the .mdl file <!--??-->.

A2A do this superbly for the T-5 Texan. A glossy livery picks up the real runway markings, clouds etc. Looks superb! Would be great to have this enabled for the C-47.

It's easy enough to enable using MCX (I've done mine), but for best results the whole material settings / texture mixture would need tweaking to make the most of it.

[jeansy]

​Matt, shouldn't that read A65-83?

Ahh crap, yes I never noticed it even when I was doing the readme and upload

fixed its no longer a link trainer

[gman5250]

Does anyone know if it's possible to make the MJ C-47 (in P3D) use the real-world environment for reflections - as opposed to the [fake] specular map texture? I suspect it'll be a flag in the .mdl file <!--??-->.

I've also tweaked my model in MCX with positive results. You can anticipate the usual impact on FPS, so your settings will need to be monitored. My system handles it fine with sliders full right and making 45+FPS in the air.
Be sure to look at the "allow bloom" tag as well as "use global environment map as reflection".

FYI When using my skins:
I've optimized all of my metal textures for use with Dynamic Reflections in P3D.
They are also fine with DR disabled, or in FSX.

Performance Notes:
This skin is one of my 4096 x 4096 32 bit textures...aka "rock crusher" @85.3 megs per sheet. I run these skins to find where the breaking point is in P3D/FSX. If I run a typical flight, say KRNO to KLAS with full autogen saturation, ASN live weather @ sliders WFO , over one or two of my scenery packages, I may see a lag in performance when I come into KLAS if I have autogen max. My KLAS scenery is a hybrid of FS Dreamteam/Aerosoft Mega Cities Las Vegas with my own annotated buildings/vegegation...and it's huge. The system still crunches it pretty well, so I'll go out on a limb and say that the V3 C-47 can run Dynamic Reflections, even though it is pushing the threshold. I've pumped up autogen saturation in the Prepar3D.cfg (IMAGE_PIXELS_FOR_AUTOGEN_POLYGONS=2048), so I'm asking an awful lot from the CPU/GPU.


Prepar3D 3.3.5 | DR Enabled | Sliders Full Right | MSE Photoreal somewhere over Nevada

[jankees]

Do you know if Jankees is going to redo the PNGDF paint by any chance?

Cheers,
Tim.

Just got back from my holidays.
I may look at the PNGDF again, but as far as I can see the only difference would be the engine textures? Or am I missing something?

[banjoman1960]

That's a great looking livery, Matt - I'll wait for it to appear on OzX!!!

As to the T-6 ... I didn't find it too bad on framerates - but my system is a slideshow anyway!!! I did wonder, though, what impact all that extra processing might have.

Adam.

yes,it t6 is not bad,i like a lot.........in freeflight i get everywere my set 31 fps............

but if you fly only online with a lot other,and they use hd textures,than you get a framerate drop,or problems with oom

so i think a nice feature,but need option to switch of.........

but if more stuff comes like this,i think i need a better card,still use the 680 at moment

cheers
ralf