Operation Seelöwe

[+Baltika 85]

Incredible work!  Magnificent!

[+Gepard 11,295]

Sit rep:

The color of the small river and the Themse in London area does not really fit.

Thatswhy i'm reworking the small rivers to give them a dark, more natural looking color.

Screenshot is showing a WIP old (light blue) and new color (dark) of small rivers.

after repainting the small river tile looks more european than before.

I decided to make the small river tile as JPG, instead TGA. A JPG tile has a size of around 300 kb, a TGA has 4.097 kb. The workload for the computer was to high, so that it could happen, that during dogfight with many planes the fps rate dropped significantly. With JPG it does not happen.

Edited May 1, 2020 by Gepard

[Wrench 9,847]

without the alpha channel, you'll loose the "moving water" effect.  Be like going back to 2003, before TK gave us "moving" water.

But I DO see the point of having too high a GPU workload. As long as the End User (tm) is aware of it beforehand, it shouldn't be an issue.

The darker blue is MUCH nicer!!

[+Gepard 11,295]

I think i will release the terrain with the JPG files. The TGA files could come as goodies in a seperate folder, so that guys with good computers can install the files with water effect.

[+Sundowner 4,819]

Rivers look better without the water effect to me as I've never seen real rivers with huge waves in them. Just the reflection is fine but the movement really puts me off.

[Wrench 9,847]

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as I've never seen real rivers with huge waves in them

unless the Great Behemoth is swimming up the Thames!!! (then we'll need an X-craft to go after it!!) 

[+Gepard 11,295]

Sit rep:

The tiles of small rivers are dark now. This job has done and i'm satisfied with it. London tiling is also finished so far. Perhaps here and there some small things to do.

Now i'm going down the river Themse and i have made 2 new tiles for Tilbury docks and the near Fort Tilbury. Making tiles from black and white ´photos is not as easy as thought. (As usually)

 

The colors does not fit. Not yet.

Give me 2 weeks or so. ;-)

 

 

Edited May 3, 2020 by Gepard

[+Gepard 11,295]

Repainted the water, made the coastline fit with stock tiles and so it looks now.

Not perfect, but better than before.

Edited May 3, 2020 by Gepard

[Wrench 9,847]

it's always the transition edge (tile-to-tile) that's the nightmare!!!

this is looking REALLY good!!

[+russouk2004 6,958]

28 minutes ago, Wrench said:

it's always the transition edge (tile-to-tile) that's the nightmare!!!

this is looking REALLY good!!

indeed...top notch

[+Gepard 11,295]

Last sit rep this weekend:

First try to populate the target area Tilbury Docks:

I used factory buildings (shed roof buildings) instead long warehouses. The orientation of the buildings does not fit perfectly to the tile, because the target editor spin buildings in 5° steps.

This has to do by hand. But it is only a first try.

Finish for today.

Feierabend.

[+Gepard 11,295]

I asked GKABS for new White Cliffs of Dover.

Thats the result:

 

 

[+baffmeister 1,205]

On 5/3/2020 at 5:25 PM, Gepard said:

The orientation of the buildings does not fit perfectly to the tile, because the target editor spin buildings in 5° steps.

There is a way to reduce it to 1 deg increments using TAE. Possibly with left click or right click on the mouse. Can't remember exactly.

[Wrench 9,847]

I was able to get exact number degree headings, by just typing them in on the TAE.

I take it the cliffs are lods??? 

[Wilches 1,172]

Look to be...

[+mue 715]

On 3.5.2020 at 10:25 PM, Gepard said:

...because the target editor spin buildings in 5° steps.

Holding the shift key gives you finer control.

From the readme:

The position and heading of selected objects can be changed with the mouse:

-translation (coarse): ctrl + left click + move
-translation (fine): ctrl + shift + left click + move
-rotation (coarse): ctrl + mouse wheel
-rotation (fine): ctrl + shift + mouse wheel

 

[+Gepard 11,295]

23 hours ago, Wrench said:

I take it the cliffs are lods??? 

Correct. The cliffs are made as LOD. GKABS made them for me.

8 hours ago, mue said:

Holding the shift key gives you finer control.

 

Thanks. It works fine now for me.

[+Gepard 11,295]

Recon mission over Lympne Airbase.

Its like holding your butt into a wasp nest. A squadron of Spitfires is lining up for fast take off

And here they go:

[+Gepard 11,295]

Hawkinge Airfield of the Fighter Command

 

 

[+Gepard 11,295]

RAF Manston Fighter Command (as it was in 1940. The big runway came in 1943 as emergency landing place for heavy bombers.)

[+Gepard 11,295]

RAF Eastchurch Coastal Command

[+Gepard 11,295]

RAF Detling Coastal Command

 

At the moment i make one airbase per day. 38 bases of the RAF are on the map. So you can calculate when the terrain can be finished.

I think X-mas this year is realistic.  Or in two weeks.

 

[+Gepard 11,295]

RAF West Malling Fighter Command

 

[+Gepard 11,295]

RAF Croydon Fighter Command, an airfield mid in London.

I think i should make a new airfield tile for this airbase, so that it fit better into London.

[+Sundowner 4,819]

http://www.airportofcroydon.com/RAF.html...........