posted 07-30- 12:13 PM               

Just posted beta 1 of the terrain, I'm obviously still working on it, but since it is now a stand alone terrain, and I don't know how long the remaining work will take, I thought it a good idea to give you guys this to start with, also future updates will probably be SM files only, so this should be the only large download you have to make.

Currently only texture 1 is available (the one I've been using), but in the next few days texture 2 will also be posted.

I've created a new section for this, so you'll find instructions and the downloads in SDOP-Midway Terrain section.

The terrain is all water at the moment, the lans is texture only, the airstrip in mission editor is not currently working.

Have fun guys, hop you like it for a taster of the finished thing

~Nat~

posted 07-30- 05:39 PM               

Yes, I hate making zips... lol

posted 07-30- 08:41 PM               

Nat, spectacular work my friend. Really fantastic! I made a mission with 15 Zero's and 10 Corsairs, with Clouds and gun smoke, etc. My frame rates never dropped below 22! And that was with planes blowing up etc.

I can't say enough good things about this terrain. I hope once it's finished we can look forward to using it in the War.

Great Work!!!

posted 07-30- 08:48 PM               

Why not get the Island from the SDOE demo?You know the thing that you download and it has the WWI aircraft in it.
You might have to modify it some since it's so hig rez, but I would think it would work, and it already has an Airfield!

Just a suggestion from someone who knows nothing about OPs.

posted 07-30- 08:59 PM               

Well, I could do that, but on those grounds I could take almost any island

The problem is, I'm still not very good in MAX, well, ok maybe not bad with ships and things, but this is different. You see, the 2 atols are on 2 tiles, 1 atol per tile, meaning they are very small. I've been trying to use the small 1 tile islands from Africa, but I've had no luck getting them right yet, especialy because I can't flatten off the top of the islands because I don't have enough points to work with. If you don't know much about OPS etc it's a little hard to explain quickly, but you can't just move the island and have the airfield move with it.

posted 07-31- 03:56 AM               

Just need somewhere for the bombers to roost.

Hope this will be an inspiration for some more pacific planes!

posted 07-31- 06:50 AM               

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posted 07-31- 07:52 AM               

OK OK I'll bow to the people that have trouble with my site and remove that fountain Java script.. I also don't know why there's so much trouble with it, I'm only on a 33.6k connection 500mhz machine and have no trouble with it, but I'll take it off tonight.

Anyway, I'm glad you all like our work, more glad that it's actualy got to a stage that I could release a beta for you guys, I had a long break from it where I learnt more about Max and OPS which really helped.. but this doesn't mean that I'll be letting off on it now cause we have a beta.. I realy want to get it finished, and find out how to do the things in OPS that I need to place that airstrip properly.

Texure2 hopefully will be posted tonight, I had alot of trouble getting it yesterday, the d/l would hang up, so I'm about to try again now then I can post it later.

Glad we're finally into a whole new theatre of operations with the game now

posted 07-31- 08:29 AM               

Excellent work! Thanks for all the hard work!

posted 07-31- 12:17 PM            

Perhaps it would be possible to put in a fixed carrier in the map to serve as an airfield.

I never succeeded in having AI-planes take off from the island map that Parsoft released. When you (painstakingly) put AI-planes on the airfielf, they will just drive a bit (until they hit a tree, or dive into the ocean) but never take off. This seems to suggest that the landing strips are fixed in the game and that the AI can only recognize fixed landing strips. Thus it would be impossible to have it take off or land on a ship-unit. The 'fixed' carrier might solve this.

Of course, in multiplay missions u don't have this problem. Most human pilots recognize the strips (but not all! it seems )

Just a thought!

posted 08-01- 10:31 AM            

This is what I meant:

Build an island or airfield that looks like a carrier and just put it (fixed) in the map, like u put in the strips on the island. For us it would look like a ship, but to the game (the AI) it would be a strip like any other airfield. (hehe... so who is being tricked there, us or the AI?)

So this is not about a movable 'ship-unit' which can be placed anywhere.

I can't see a reason why u can let AI-planes take off from airfields that look like airfields, and not from airfields that are modelled like ships.

But then again: open plane is like Chinese to me!

posted 08-01- 10:47 AM               

Also, I beleive the way airplanes take off via AI is hard coded.

posted 08-01- 11:17 AM               

No airfield, no takeoff.

Somme terrain needs airfields, midway needs an airfield on Sand Island.

making the airfield look like a Jap carrier is childs play in comparison.

P.S.

Yorktown now has superstructure and a texture. All she needs now is some guns and importing into the game.

posted 08-01- 12:16 PM               

My StringTable is in C:\Program Files\Fighter Squadron...the folder before Media

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posted 08-01- 03:54 PM               

I'll keep on pluggin away at it, cause until I have Midway fully 100% working Diego and I wont be starting the Malaysia Terrain. I can build midway to the beta release standard from scratch in 2 hours now, it's simple after all the mistakes of the past.. lol, but putting the finishing touches to it are going to take a lil longer, thats why I wanted to post the beta, so you guys can atleast have a new area to fly over while I'm finishing it off.