posted 05-21- 07:30 PM               

~Nat~

infact.. MH.. if you're reading this, have you any tips on how we place airstrips? It'd be a real big help

posted 05-21- 08:21 PM               

You guys arn't going to like this but if ya really wanted to do something ambitious.

Maybe you could writing a tutorial on how to make a new terrain and spread the info so you guys arn't the only ones doing it.

If not I would vote for.

And eastern front, winter and summer.

posted 05-21- 09:38 PM               

Great work by the way! Can't wait to fly by Palm trees!

posted 05-21- 10:14 PM               

Spanky,
I'd like to see a Burma map too but, I cant find any info on airfield locations...can you help me out?

Jerry,
Aaaah ground targets AND buildings! Wish it were possible! Unfortunately cities look like #$*% up close.

posted 05-22- 12:24 AM               

Educate me please. Are each of the buildings in the villages a seperate ground object like a tank or ship and that's why we can't do large cities, because too many kill frame rate?

Couldn't we do different detail levels for different altitudes like we do with plane lods? Or a painted on city unless up close? Wouldn't that plus a flat terrain with few other features to hog cpu/video ram give us the abilty to have a large city?

I know I'm rambling about something I don't know much about, but I'm curious. How do driving sims do it when you're driving all over Chicago up close?

posted 05-22- 05:12 AM               

My vote for eastern front ! A tutorial would be cool !

posted 05-22- 07:11 AM               

I just got stunt island the other night.

Its a 386 game and has full a full polygon city of hundreds of buildings and large forrests of trees that ARN'T billboarded.

posted 05-22- 07:21 AM               

Hey guys check out this link for some cool maps for ww2. It could help anyway.

http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/dhistorymaps/MapsHome.htm

posted 05-22- 01:07 PM               

I guess one idea is to make 2 terrains, one around an Allied base of Operations, and one around a Japanese area. Then you could just design missions that had one side always start in the air. Or, you could experiment with making a larger terrain, or a rectangular terrain. Maybe if a significant part of the terrain is over the ocean anyway, you could use a low-res repeating texture, and thus be able to afford a bigger terrain?

posted 05-22- 04:35 PM               

OK, actually they would be very very easy to build, infact, as simple as it was for me to do those trees.. the thing is the size of tile they will sit. So, although we could change the buildings and add more, it will be a bigger town, rather than a city, and yes, "could" seriously affect FR on slower machines.

As a side project anyone could try this and see how it turns out, it's a very simple thing to do to add more buildings, a case of copy and paste/position and it's done, save it and fly it, see how it looks.. really, a very simple thing.

posted 05-22- 08:46 PM               

Or why not go full hog and Europe?

posted 05-22- 10:17 PM               

If not Normandy, how 'bout a Malta fix on the Med map? Also, central Italy would be nice! (something with mountains...)

If nothing else - EUROPE (anywhere is better than nowhere at all).

Werner

posted 05-22- 10:39 PM               

Pearl Harbor would be very cool! I just wonder how much of it could be modeled without big frame rate hits?

Leave it the guys who are experts here to fill us in.

posted 05-23- 03:48 PM               

Midway.. how many airstrips does that tiny little atol have... 1

Pearl.. how many airstrips does that tiny little island have....

Now I have to agree that well know battle areas such as these are great to have.. but how maney types of mission can you get from these terrains? Not maney, and they will certainly get boring after a while, lets be candid, this Midway terrain is a learning step towards full terrain restructureing, a time for us to learn new stuff, and perfect ideas, from this great terrains can be made, we're not using the same tools that Inertia had to do all this, so it's a very tedious job, and not a quick one, but lets honest, a new terrain area after Midway will really need more AI usable airstrips, 1 or two will just make it hard for good missions.

Again I say, that anyone could do what I have done so far, and some could do what Diego has done to a pretty good level aswell, so I'm more than happy to help anyone get underway with a terrain project of their own. Once Midway is finished I'll have a better idea of the best way to go about it, so it should be alot quicker to do, but the learning itself is never quick, hey, lets face it, really speaking I'm still a newbie at this, but enthusiastic and generaly quick to learn

posted 05-24- 08:26 PM               

How about Solomons Islands?
We could fly ours corsairs in the VMF-214 Squadron! Would be fine.

posted 05-27- 08:07 AM               

Rugged and/or beautiful terrain ...

Either accurate or with poetic licence ...

P 40s, Beaufighters, Oscars, ... and given that the history of the area is a little woolly, the poetic license could reach into the planes being used ... ragtag Spits, Hurricanes etc ...