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Blasius1 Cadet	posted 10-23- 02:11 PM hello guys, who can create a airfield in the tundra terain, or is there somewhere one? i like this terain so much, and it have good fps in the game , i think the best. hope one from u have the knowhow. best regards Blasius ------------------ IP: Logged
JG3_Jetlag Pilot	posted 10-23- 02:30 PM Make it two at opposite corners of the map and that would make for a great air combat arena (fps wise). ------------------ 9./JG3_Jetlag IP: Logged
Diego Lozano Pilot	posted 10-23- 07:53 PM Get in touch with WakeUpTailGunner on this, he is the airfield creator around here. Also check out Sv's tutorial on how to apint them up...you'll need it. IP: Logged
Mirthain Pilot	posted 10-23- 07:58 PM Hey Nat... couldn't you work up some of your ground unit magic and make a nice dirt field... some boxes, couple of tents, perhaps a german one and a plain one... the german one uses the parked Stuka? ;} I don't know how well it would work, but worth a try.. .perhaps take only one tile, change it to green, like a feild, then we could place units on that? Mirthain=FC= IP: Logged
wakeup tailgunner Pilot	posted 10-24- 01:42 PM A dirt field is easy. You just re-paint the tiles in the airfield super texture, and there you have it. One thing to watch out for though! The way the edges blend with the terrain is a bodge. The terrain has 'featureless' areas where the airfields sit, otherwise you get some horrible edge effects! See Diego's re-paint of Africa screenshots, and you'll see what I mean. Lovely paintwork, but you can see the join! Airfield wise, yup, as soon as I get a few minutes, I can stick a few airfields into the Tundra terrain. Luckily, the problems I mentioned above just don't happen when practically everything is White!!!!!! I am doing a similar thing with Nat's Midway terrain to create a 90% water terrain with just a few islands. A couple will have airfields on them, whilst others may have some additional targets to go for! With all the Pacific planes being worked on, many with a Navy theme, I think this one is a must. Especially when 2 of the Airfields will be Aircraft Carriers! And the AI will use them too!!!!! IP: Logged
Sv Pilot	posted 10-24- 01:58 PM You can easily blend an entire new replacement airfield into the surounding terrain, like I did with the WWI aerodrome. It is only a problem to create brand new airfields, or trying to create a new airfield in a new custom terrain. Basicaly, you just blend the new airfield into the old one, that way the outside areas of the old terrain still blend into the terrain. ------------------ -Sv =FC= WWI in SDOE! IP: Logged
graymon Pilot	posted 10-24- 09:58 PM Excuse me butting in.How about an alpha(?seethru)texture with just the runways with the buildings painted on top of this as a base.This would enable the airfield to be placed anywhere on any terrain without having to worry about blending in as all that would be visable would be the runway/buildings anyway. IP: Logged
Blasius1 Cadet	posted 10-25- 12:02 AM hello gents, i �ll try it same. but i can t open the datafile from the tundra terrain. how to open?. i need it , because i �ll paint a nice airfield. or maybe one from u can sent me a terrainfile (tif) from the middle of the terrain or from near of a corner. hope, i wish a possible thing. regards Blasius, thx ------------------ IP: Logged
wakeup tailgunner Pilot	posted 10-25- 03:11 AM It's a thought Graymon, but ...... I dread to think what an Alpha texture the size of an airfield would do to the framerates! Fear not, though!between Diego, SV and myself, I think we have just about sorted airfields now.... Blasius, check out SV's re-paint tutorial on airfields. It is clear and easy to follow, and it will tell you exactly what tools you need to do a re-paint. There is also a general terrain re-paint tutorial on Nat's site. On the downside, just painting an airfield on the terrain isn't the real deal here. Airfields are seperate defined objects, and lots more needs to be done to make them work! IP: Logged
Blasius1 Cadet	posted 10-25- 12:20 PM hello, maybe u dont know , i m a german . my english is good for a small talk, that�s all. hard to understand the english soups in this tutorial. maybe u understand german? then u can translate this english stuff in german . or forget my question about a tundra airfield was only only only aaaaaaaaaa question, sniff sniff. blasius , ------------------ IP: Logged
Sv Pilot	posted 10-25- 12:52 PM Well a texture needs to be mapped to a mesh, so you either have a normal terrain texture or an alpha texture. If you tried to apply the alpha texture to a new mesh on top of the terain, that new mesh would need to match the exact shape of underlaying terrain. This defeats the purpose. Airfields are tricky, it would be easier if they were just painted on the main terrain supertexture, but then you would lose the freedom to disable the airfield per mission. IP: Logged
Commando Pilot	posted 10-25- 02:24 PM Blasius, try this web page for tranlations http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/translate.dyn May not be too good for technical translations but worth a try. IP: Logged
Rendsburger Pilot	posted 10-25- 02:50 PM Hallo Blasius, was ist denn genau dein Problem? Vielleicht kann ich dir helfen. Gru�,Rendsburger IP: Logged
Blasius1 Cadet	posted 10-25- 11:42 PM hallo rendsburger, nun, mein "problem ist ganz einfach, ich kann dei data file von dem tundra terrain nicht �ffnen. mir wurde vorgeschlagen, wie du ja selber lesen kannst, dass ich sv seite besuche und mir davon anleitungen hole.nur!!!!!!!! ich kann mich schon durchmogeln in der anleitung, doch sind viele ausdr�cke in englisch und mein englisch ist fern davon perfect zu sein . das ist mein problem. ich will ja auch gar nicht flugzeuge oder objekte zusammen basteln , nur einfach ein flugfeld in die tundra bringen.ich will ja fliegen und nicht modellieren. aber danke f�r deine frage. servus blasius ------------------ IP: Logged
Rendsburger Pilot	posted 10-26- 05:48 AM Blasius, ich habe zwar die Tundra nicht, also wei� ich auch nicht welches File du nicht �ffnen kannst.Ist es ein .par file dann brauchst du Bigmunger um daraus lesbare Dateien zu machen,nutze das unbig tool. Bigmunger ist in den parfiletools enthalten(kannst es hier downloaden).Kannst du die tiffs nicht �ffnen, sind sie sehr wahrscheinlich komprimiert, dann must du untiff.exe benutzen Beschreibe dein Problem bitte etwas genauer! Bin aber erst am Sonntag wieder aus Berlin zur�ck,werde vorher nicht antworten k�nnen. Rendsburger IP: Logged

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