relocating D10 on desert map

[slick cowboy]

I'm desperately trying to relocate the D10 airfield on the desert map, but it's really hard to look at the planning map and pick a spot.

So far I always end up in hilly terrain or with trees in the middle of the runway....

 

Is there a more efficient way to find a good spot?

[Wrench]

http://combatace.com/topic/44621-adding-objects-to-your-target-areas/

 

general knowledge

 

i hope you know how to use the terrain editor; because depnding on WHERE you place it, you will definately have to reflatten the 'zone' and possibly even retile it to 'empty' tiles

[+gerwin]

TFDtool can do these things too, but you need to extract the desert terrain from the cat first, and convert the necessary unicode ini files to simple ansi text.

http://combatace.com/topic/68667-alternate-tfd-terrain-tilemap-editorviewer/

[slick cowboy]

i tried the tool... but hell ansi, unicode... i think my brain is rebelling now

i guess that's not for me then... i'll stick what i've got

thx anyway ;-)

[+gerwin]

Practically it means that the three ini files that matter:

-terrain.ini

-terrain_data.ini

-terrain_targets.ini

Are to be opened with NotePad (included in Windows), then click 'save as', and select ANSI.

And leave them like that, no need to change back to unicode.

...hardly a show stopper.