posted 07-27- 08:19 PM               

Hey Jag, you know what this is gonna be about I have a problem that I
reckon you can help me with..

I've been trying to make the Midway terrain stand alone, but I'm having
trouble with it, I looked at your pac terrain, you've used your own tile
names and have what was the rhineland now on it's own, showing the textures
you want, and I just don't seem to be able to do that with Midway (wierd, I managed it with snowy dover), is there
any chance you've got time to check it out and see if you can help us?

I know you're leaving soon, so do worries if you're too pushed for time.

posted 07-30- 12:13 AM               

I D/Led the tundrasuper.tif and made my pacific skin from that. I then opened up the asc file in the tundra.sm (I forget the exact name). I then noticed that all the texture references were tundrasuper.tif.... I just used the replace feature in my text editor to replace JUST tundrasuper with pacificsuper. Then I went through and changed all the tundra references to pacific (for some reason FS has reference to a pacific (that exact name) terrain. So instead of modifying everyones Startup.ppf file (I believe it's in there) I ran with it. Since I had all my texture references pointing to pacificsuper tifs, I just renamed tundrasuper.tif to pacificsuper.tif, diced it up and put it in the textures folder. (Don't forget about the in flight map and the mission briefing map, and the mission editor map. Those haveto be renamed and put into their right folders)

posted 07-30- 12:28 AM               

Anyway, I got it all fixed up earlier on tonight, so now Midway-beta1 is just this moment being sent to Diego for a browsing over before I release it hopefully Sunday night.

Current expected d/l size id 21mb, and due to upload restrictions on Xoom it will be in 3-5 parts (although I want it this way in anycase)
there will be 2 texture maps availablr for download, a one with a light blue ocean texture and one with a darker texture, screen shots of both will be posted for viewing, but there's no reason you can't download both and change them as and when you feel like, this will not create mismatches of CTD's.

There is still work being done, so this really is only a beta, but once you have the beta, and alterations will be purely in the SM file structure, so updates will only be very short downloads.

For the full version we fully expect to have an AI usable airstrip placed on midway atol, and I also need to build up the small atols and convert polys on them to land. So the beta terrain right is now all water and the land is texture only. You can only use aircraft carrier takeoffs and airborne missions.

SDOP is brought to you by Nat and Diego

posted 07-31- 07:57 PM               

I don't know if you could have runways on them the AI would understand though. Maybe.

TS