Working on some new terraine

[Guest Ranger332]

heres a preview of some terraine Iam working on its a bit slow as I have to completly recreate and replace each tile of the game :)

[Guest Ranger332]

Afew more

[fng2k]

S! Ranger-

Looking good! But I just wanted to let you know that TK does plan to release his Terrain Editor app eventually, which will save you lots of time, and help the prevent premature blindness and sleep deprivation caused by manual tile placement. (been there, done that... :D ) I don't know TK's timetable on this, but it's in beta right now, and it's very slick. 8)

 

Code Wizard Keith Bedford and I are also finalizing an adapter utility which will enable the many custom terrain and tiles sets built for European Air Wars by fans to be adapted for use in SF:P1. It will also allow fans to use the Terrain Editor to make new EAW and Gunship maps.

 

More on this over at SimHQ here, and here

 

Here's southern Germany, using SagginB's latest Spring terrain set:

 

 

And that same map in TK's editor:

 

 

So stay tuned....

 

fng

[Guest Ranger332]

hear about that but could never get the editor

[Guest Ranger332]

here are some other things that one may use

 

http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~y0013390/...0/terlinks.html

[Guest Ranger332]

worked late so taking a break just remapped some buildings

 

unless something realy good is mapped will post updates on this thread weekly.

[SDirickson]

Like the sandy runway / taxiways.

 

Is this a Kola Peninsula Campaign?

[Guest Ranger332]

ok If you tired of the same old buildings give um a paint job,but you will need to convert to bmp to use it

some of what you will get

(also set it at 256x256 24 bit)

[DarkPaladin]

I dont know if you ment to or not, but that ground looks almost EXACTLY like my Alaska, perfect artic rendition, I look forward to this very much, can finaly fly terrain that feels right to me.

[Guest Ranger332]

thank you got the idea form an overhead ( was taken from a c-123 at about 13000 ft) pic I took will training at Fort wainright while attending Northen Warfare School. took the photo converted it to bit map and did the cut and past thinky :)

[SDirickson]

Wait, so where exactly is the terrain based? The Bering Strait?

[Guest Ranger332]

the pic was taken near the northen Warfare center in Alaska

some thers were from North Dakota.

[SDirickson]

I meant the map at the very top of the topic. Doesn't exactly look like North Dakota to me, lol.

[Guest Ranger332]

the mao on top is a different terraine Iam working on Its just made up that is the inational planned form now the hard part moving the sea tiles to the right spots lol. Iam working on two typens of terraine one winter for the Korea Campaign, and the second is a europa style land mass like England but with a smaller channel.

[SDirickson]

Ahh, gotcha. Once I get my new PC, I'm gonna start playing SF a lot more. Can't wait to try your terrains.

[Guest Ranger332]

For winter there will be Three sets comming out Major Lee has been working on his the longest(think hes waiting till the second service patch is relesaed). Deuces has one they are working on when not working on Tainted Ciger. And mine that will be an addon for the Korean Campaign None of these works are in any way related other then they will be in SFP1. Mine are a combanation of cut and paste from old photos I took on depolyments,and tiles that were cleaned to solid white panels and then painted/sprayed over(my tiles are in 256x256 size 24bit color) the tile setup is from the out of the box configuration from the game.start with a blank 256x256 bit map color in your texture save as is and match the name to the tile you whant it to replace. that is all there is to it,to get an additional random pattern rotate the tiles so things dont alway point the say way.

[Guest Ranger332]

This is what Deuces is using to do tiles but as I did not have full versions of those programs I went for a more simple method with programs that are already in pc's.

the Bryce program is very good but the ones I saw were priced at $149

 

Major Lee has a writeup on making a campaign

http://www.major-lee.net/

 

Next major project will be a campaign working off the new terraine I will be following Major Lees format for these I already have sone sinlge mission for the korea effort.

[+Dave]

Hey Ranger

 

Post the photos you are working off. I want to see what you are working with.

[Guest Ranger332]

np ---------even took them from the off the page I store them on

a good example is the last one just cut and paste and bam ya got snowy terraine

[Guest Ranger332]

yelding these after a lil bit of tweaking

[Guest Ranger332]

where I got the start from ;) and the reasone we were up there

[Guest Ranger332]

now just took this it is an untouched snapshot the tile wasent embossed of sharpned prior to adding to the terraine. the edges were left from the older tile i had and is over my older effort so you can see the single tile joining. the one tile took only 25 min start to finish, but to look good takes longer softer tones,and other tweaks make it look alot better;)

[Guest Ranger332]

winter bata for Koran campaign-----still haveing probs with the coastal tiles

[+Deuces]

What kind of problems are you having with the coastal tiles?

[Guest Ranger332]

Winter warpaint

 

 

 

sorry bout the double zip file just look at one they are both the same.