France Map WIP

[Guest ansons2]

WOW. Being Italian and having worked in Corsica, the map is awesome.

Venice is perfect, Cagliari (sardinian women areq uite beautiful) and the shepherd in corsica. Awesome.

Which airports are you planning to include?

Anyway thank you , this is awesome

 

Hello Canadair

 

To answer your question about airports, I have put one for most of the main towns

 

Italy: Napoli, Roma, Bologna, Milano, Torino, Genoa

Sardignia: Cagliari

Corsica: Ajaccio, Bastia

 

There are other towns without airfields like Bonifacio, Oristano, Venezia, Rimini.

I hope you will enjoy the map ! Italy , Sardignia and Corsica are beautiful countries. Flying at treetops and

visiting the towns in the Map (Pause + Ctrl F12) gives me the desire to visit them !

I hope you will enjoy the map once released.

 

Best regards

 

anosns2

[Guest ansons2]

nice, nice... but try making the trees less saturated, no these really stand out from the background, make the graphics less vivid. I'm refering to Corsica shots, to be precise

 

anyway I like it!

 

Hello Stary,

 

I considered you as the Master for trees ! I will give a try at the end to make them a bit less vivid

but for now my main goal is to have contrasting landscapes thru the Map, thus for North Africa and Italy I am using your trees (thanks for them) and other ones for the other countries, I am quite happy till now with the differences. About the qty of trees, the screenshots have been taken with Terrain Detail set to unlimited. I like to have forests looking like real forests even with a bit FPS hit. I hope you will enjoy the map once finished.

 

Best regards

 

ansons2

[+Stary 2,426]

Hello Stary,

 

I considered you as the Master for trees ! I will give a try at the end to make them a bit less vivid

but for now my main goal is to have contrasting landscapes thru the Map, thus for North Africa and Italy I am using your trees (thanks for them) and other ones for the other countries, I am quite happy till now with the differences. About the qty of trees, the screenshots have been taken with Terrain Detail set to unlimited. I like to have forests looking like real forests even with a bit FPS hit. I hope you will enjoy the map once finished.

 

Best regards

 

ansons2

 

Surely I will Ansons2!

 

Not nitpicking, just an advice from my side

:yes:

 

but blend them with background, blend...

like here:

 

 

 

notice how the trees are matching the overall saturation and ground pallete of the set in the example, looks quite good I'd say

[Guest ansons2]

May 20th News

 

I have completed Sardignia and currently working on Corsica.

Here below a few screenshots :

 

Cagliari Town

 

Oristano Town

 

Corsica, 1st Screenshot

 

More Screenshots can be seen on my Website

 

Best regards

 

ansons2

 

May 31 News

Having completed Corsica and moving now to France, I just want to show you a few screenshots of Corsica Towns

 

Bonifacio Town

 

Ajaccio Town

 

Bastia Town

 

Color and diversity is Life, thus I wanted to have actual buildings pictures and colorful landscapes (not too much Stary!)

 

In the Map both Ajaccio and Bastia have an airfield near the town.

 

More Screenshots can be seen on my Website

 

Best regards

 

ansons2

[Guest ansons2]

May 31 News

Having completed Corsica and moving now to France, I just want to show you a few screenshots of Corsica Towns

 

Bonifacio Town

 

Ajaccio Town

 

Bastia Town

 

Color and diversity is Life, thus I wanted to have actual buildings pictures and colorful landscapes (not too much Stary!)

 

In the Map both Ajaccio and Bastia have an airfield near the town.

 

More Screenshots can be seen on my Website

 

Best regards

 

ansons2

 

 

September 2010 News

 

Map is still WIP, I spent the last 2 months to built a new tileset for the France country using satellite pictures (Thanks to Google Map). This is still in progress as I add tiles each time it is needed. Each area of france has its own tiles, that means a lot of transition tiles !

 

French Areas with specific tiles :

 

Provence (South-East)

Roussillon (South)

Bourgogne (Middle-East)

Aquitaine (South-West)

Landes (South-West atlantic coast with many trees !)

Vendée (Middle-West)

Bretagne (Middle-West)

Normandie (North-West)

Nord (North)

Ardennes (North-East)

Lorraine (East)

Alsace (East)

Centre (Center)

Région Parisienne (Area around Paris)

 

Rivers :

 

Rhône (done)

Loire (in progress)

Garonne (done)

Seine (to be done)

Meuse (to be done)

Rhin (to be done)

Tamise (UK) (to be done)

 

Even Great-Britain and the Sarre Area (Germany/France frontier) have their own tiles.

Here below a few screenshots of several areas

 

Except the Aquitaine Area, the trees are not yet put in place. Give them time to grow up !

 

Aquitaine

 

Bretagne

 

Centre

 

Provence

 

Roussillon

 

Vendée

 

More Screenshots can be seen on my Website

 

Still a lot of work to do to complete the whole Map, but it will be worth the wait , I think !

 

Best Regards

 

Ansons2

Edited September 19, 2010 by ansons2

[SUICIDAL 402]

Huuu LALA !!!!

 

je t'aime mon amour !!!!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Excellent progress Ansons2 is all being very good

[Wrench 9,461]

looking mighty fine ... and terrain's not too bad either!

 

looking forward to it's eventual release!!

 

wrench

kevin stein

[+Veltro2k 6,315]

[macelena 1,070]

This girl is gonna ensure some really low flying once the terrain is out

Edited September 20, 2010 by macelena

[Guest ansons2]

This girl is gonna ensure some really low flying once the terrain is out

 

 

Hi Macalena,

 

using Pause + Ctrl F12 will allow you to meet her for a gentle close talk !

 

 

ansons2

[Derk 265]

 

Mme Sarkozy ??????

 

Hou doe,

 

Derk

[fougamagister 24]

Mme Sarkozy ??????

 

Hou doe,

 

Derk

 

but please don't put her husband in the game ! :P

[Guest ansons2]

September 2010 News

 

Map is still WIP, I spent the last 2 months to built a new tileset for the France country using satellite pictures (Thanks to Google Map). This is still in progress as I add tiles each time it is needed. Each area of france has its own tiles, that means a lot of transition tiles !

 

French Areas with specific tiles :

 

Provence (South-East)

Roussillon (South)

Bourgogne (Middle-East)

Aquitaine (South-West)

Landes (South-West atlantic coast with many trees !)

Vendée (Middle-West)

Bretagne (Middle-West)

Normandie (North-West)

Nord (North)

Ardennes (North-East)

Lorraine (East)

Alsace (East)

Centre (Center)

Région Parisienne (Area around Paris)

 

Rivers :

 

Rhône (done)

Loire (in progress)

Garonne (done)

Seine (to be done)

Meuse (to be done)

Rhin (to be done)

Tamise (UK) (to be done)

 

Even Great-Britain and the Sarre Area (Germany/France frontier) have their own tiles.

Here below a few screenshots of several areas

 

Except the Aquitaine Area, the trees are not yet put in place. Give them time to grow up !

 

Aquitaine

 

Bretagne

 

Centre

 

Provence

 

Roussillon

 

Vendée

 

More Screenshots can be seen on my Website

 

Still a lot of work to do to complete the whole Map, but it will be worth the wait , I think !

 

Best Regards

 

Ansons2

 

 

November News

 

Hello everyone,

 

The Map is still WIP. I have added a lot of new tiles to include realistic harbors and towns.

Examples of added towns/harbors: Nantes, Saint-Nazaire, Orleans, Lorient, Brest, Cherbourg, Toulon, Marseille,

Saint-Malo, Caen, Ouistreham, Le Havre, Caen, Rouen. I am currently working the Seine river towards Paris.

The total number of tiles will likely exceed 800. the Map takes now a bit time to load but I can still fly it with my old rig.

 

Still a lot of work to do, but I want to have it completed.

 

Here a few screenshots of the newly added tiles/towns. Trees and Buildings will be added later !

 

Normandy towns

Caen

 

Carentan

 

Cherbourg

 

Le Havre

 

Ouistreham

 

Rouen

 

Bretagne Towns

Saint-Malo

 

Jersey Island

 

ansons2

[Wrench 9,461]

NICE harbor tiles!!!

 

wrench

kevin stein

[+PureBlue 71]

Beautiful tiles Ansons

 

But can you have more than 256 tiles?

[Spinners 15,968]

Chapeau! It looks superb! Keep plugging away mon ami.

[Guest ansons2]

Beautiful tiles Ansons

 

But can you have more than 256 tiles?

 

Hello Pureblue,

 

To answer your question : yes, I have currently ~740 tiles in the Map (I have merged SFP1 Desert, WOE Germany Tile sets + many custom made tiles for France , UK) and the number of tiles will continue to grow as I have still to add towns , harbors and roads ... I have sized the tiles to 256K to keep the memory usage as low as possible and to have

them usable in the Terrain Editor.

 

ansons2

[fougamagister 24]

super boulot, c'est impressionnant de ressemblance !

[Guest ansons2]

super boulot, c'est impressionnant de ressemblance !

 

Bonsoir fougamagister,

 

C'est normal que cela soit ressemblant vu que j'utilise des images satellites de Googlemap pour bâtir les tiles.

La France est un très beau pays et je veux que dans SFP1/WOx elle ne soit pas défigurée !

 

ansons2

[+KnightWolf45 1,147]

[+EricJ 3,937]

Keep it in English please....

[Guest ansons2]

November News

 

Hello everyone,

 

The Map is still WIP. I have added a lot of new tiles to include realistic harbors and towns.

Examples of added towns/harbors: Nantes, Saint-Nazaire, Orleans, Lorient, Brest, Cherbourg, Toulon, Marseille,

Saint-Malo, Caen, Ouistreham, Le Havre, Caen, Rouen. I am currently working the Seine river towards Paris.

The total number of tiles will likely exceed 800. the Map takes now a bit time to load but I can still fly it with my old rig.

 

Still a lot of work to do, but I want to have it completed.

 

Here a few screenshots of the newly added tiles/towns. Trees and Buildings will be added later !

 

Normandy towns

Caen

 

Carentan

 

Cherbourg

 

Le Havre

 

Ouistreham

 

Rouen

 

Bretagne Towns

Saint-Malo

 

Jersey Island

 

ansons2

 

March News,

 

The Map is still WIP, I had to buy a new PC (the motherboard of the old one has died), SFP1 runs very well under Windows 7. Here below some screenshots of the latest tiles done.

The Seine valley has been completed from the Seine mouth (Le Havre)up to the source (Seine Lakes), Rouen, Paris, Fontainebleau, Montereau tiles have been done. The Somme bay and river is done with Amiens. I am currently working on Dunkerque and Calais before moving to UK. The Nb of tiles will exceed 1000 !

On my old PC, the Map took a bit time to load up, but with the new one (8Go RAM, 1Mo Video Card) it is OK.

There is still a lot of work to get the Map completed but I expect to make it !

 

More screenshots on my website

 

Somme Bay

 

Seine lake

 

Fontainebleau

 

Paris

 

Montereau

 

Happy flying

 

ansons2

[+Veltro2k 6,315]

this is turning into a masterpiece

[+whiteknight06604 931]

Veltro took the works out of my mouth.

[+Soulfreak 6,351]

:blink:

WOW!!!!