posted 01-29- 06:34 PM               

It's just too easy now. Go to batch conversion, select the terrain\dover\textures directory, press "add all", make output TIF files, at the options select "none" at tif compression, at advanced compresion select overwrite, then the same output directory as where the files come from, and start it up. 409 files in 5 seconds. If it costed me 50 hours, that little program did it 36000 times faster than I did. Arggghhhh.....
I now got the total data1.par file untiffed (had that earlier, except for all the Rhineland and Africa textures) and it all worked splendidly.
For anyone who hasn't got this program it's a must have. http://stud1.tuwien.ac.at/~e9227474/

I also got a question now. When I made DoverNight I opened the Dover textures one by one and put a layer over it. I then lowered the opacity to 80% and then coloured the new layer black.
Can't this go any faster now? I could seriously save time if there was some batch conversion for that too. I got PSP 5, is it possible with that? Or any other program?

Cu,
Poodle

posted 01-29- 06:49 PM               

Guess we gotta learn the hard way sometimes

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posted 01-29- 08:22 PM               

I am only metioning this if you find no other paint program on earth, because the tech support for the product was a pain to use. I had to get an account, register my product, and pray that the password was the same as it was. After that I had to post to a 'forum' and wait for tech support to get back. They never did, the rat bastards, and after about 2 weeks of it, I also got tired of logging in to their slow tech support page to check to see if they were still blowing me off. I'll not buy one of their products again.

posted 01-29- 08:32 PM               

IT IS GREAT! You can view all your open tifs at once in the thumbnail view, so cool

You know in batch processing you can adjust gamma, brightness, contrast, sharpness, etc... I wonder if you could get by making a night map with just this stuff. ???

My big request, a SNOWY DOVER!!! I love flying around Dover and this would rock.

posted 01-29- 09:22 PM               

If anyone has any suggestions on how to work on the maps, please mail me or sumthin about it.. Thanks

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posted 01-31- 09:33 AM               

And about SnowyDover (like it better than DoverWinter ), Zoy is the snow man . But I'll ask him how he did it all.

And Bryan, the rpoblem with the light setting is that they effect almost everything except for the terrain and the trees. I had to make new sm files for the trees and treelines which linked to the night textures. Then I opened the Dover terrain, the airfields and towns and changed the links from the normal trees to the night vegitation.
But, unfortunetaly, also farms and some other buildings have trees in them. And those sm files still link to the old normal trees.
I'll change those buildings first when making a v.1.2, and eventually I'm planning to make the whole terrain independant of the Light settings.

One big advantage of a night terrain is that it is so much smaller than a normal or snow terrain. Since most textures were coloured very dark, they get a lot smaller, and when parred or zipped they shrink enormous. Compare the 4.6 Mb for DoverNight to the 15+ Mb for RhinelandWinter. Especially when changing all the buildings too it would save a lot. And I didn't even decrease the amount of colour of the textures to 256.

Cu,
Poodle

posted 01-31- 06:49 PM               

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