posted 05-03- 08:42 PM               

Fully mapped terrain with 1 single Island (Malta) with working AI airstrip, some mods to the island altering the elevation and form of mountains.

Rest is water.

Idea (can do this).. Placeable islands via Mission Editor.

I'm thinking of re working the terrain and building another island with usable airstrip in the bottom left (opposite corner from Malta) and maybe a dash of small islands through the terrain.

Please list any thought's or ideas, plus if anyone would seriously like to work with me on this to add more or perfect what I can do, let me know.

Please guys, keep the ideas realistic, I'm not an expert at this LOL

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posted 05-03- 10:38 PM            

your in pursuit of someone they go into the valley for cover and you follow them in only to find out staying away from the valley walls take more concentration than it is to shoot I guess it's not the most realistic, but it would be cool in my opinion.

posted 05-04- 12:14 AM               

1. If you're doing pacific, please do a complete island chain, not miscellaneous "Looks Pacific" mish-mash stuff.

2. If you're doing the med, please ensure Hydrographical, Architectural and Topographical Accuracy! Our current Malta annoys me to no end...

Go Nat Go!

Werner

posted 05-04- 12:55 AM               

Argon, the water is water, and flat, I posted in Tech to Hippie about his Lodhac prog that can do this (change material values) and he's shown me what to do, so.. although the tiles that were previously land still actually need the material value altering with LODhac, yes, the water is/will be water, looks like pacific water.. and if you try to land on it, will feel like it aswell.. LOL

Werner.. very good point, I'll look up some Pacific maps to see which one would leave the least work.. I say this because as I said, I'm not brilliant and the "fine tuning" so the less to do the better (and because it's tedious work it'll keep my interest longer.. need a good kick sometimes to get it going)

posted 05-04- 02:16 AM               

I'm also interested in some canyons but I would rather a pac map right now.

posted 05-04- 10:48 AM               

Maybe you could have the island chain on the left, with a Japanise carrier on the top right and US carrier on the bottom right.

It would be even better if you could add it on a placeable carrier or moving carrier (ala Pete), but I know this is already asking for a lot.

I wish you luck. I hope this works out.

posted 05-04- 02:33 PM               

if you're really considering redoing the Rhineland please drop me a mail. I've had the same thing in mind, but less by modelling, but rather converting a DEM (if I try hard enough I might get a converter together).

posted 05-04- 05:58 PM               

Raider, it is possible, but not for me right now, I'm not advanced enough yet to quiet get a grip of putting an airstrip on a Carrier, I'm very sure that ppl more advanced in OPS and SM work could do it though.

As for adding working airstrips as placeable objects.. I don't think it can be done, the problem comes in Mission Editor, I can't see how to have the models airstrip added to the list of available airstrips (understand?) and without that.. yer buggered

Roy.. yes I am thinking about re doing Rhineland, but mainly as a battle terrain, gorges, tight canyons etc, some things to fly and fight through for good fun rather than realistic terrian, but that wil be after the Pacific is finished, least then I'll have learnt more and be able to apply it better to that terrain then.

Jerry, I do my best with the textures to keep them sharp at low altitude, it's tedous but worth it, just means you have to zoom right in and make sure whats been done hasn't blurred.

posted 05-04- 07:40 PM               

As for what I'd want from a terrain: I also just like the idea of having an island chain. I don't care if its realistic, but why not, since it will please more people.

I would also be interested in seeing if a more complex city could be added to a map (more buildings/houses)... and I'd love to see a China/Burma terrain, with those tall mountains rising up out of Guilin. Of course we'd need the P40 and some Japanese bombers for that... I've heard the Chinese were flying some I-16s, but pretty much got beat around by the Japanese.

posted 05-04- 09:00 PM               

The problem still is... the terrain starts to look jagged when I draw it up into mountains, I'm still learning Max, so I'm not entirely sure on how to smooth these out, thats why I've previously tried to recruit a little team of people to assist on this, all the big parts I can do myself, but the small refinements such as smoothing I'm not very good at.

Diego is going to be working with me on this, he has terrain experience and the step from texturing to terrain building is a very small one.. and from what he's shown me in the past.. he can do some wicked texturing

Still, if anyone with Max experience would like to assist, I'm open to offers