My next terrain project

[+Gepard 11,289]

Jimbib sent me some static planes for populating the airfields:

Here the DC-9

[+Gepard 11,289]

I'm still on TOD object placement. The major job is done. Only the islands of Alderney and Hern are left. Two of six Alderney tiles are already populated with TOD objects.

So it looks at the moment:

At the moment this tiles are still jpg. I must convert them to tga, to make them to water tiles.

I hope, that i can finish this terrain till Easter.

[+Gepard 11,289]

All TOD objects are now placed at Alderney island.

 

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Herm island, made by sat pictures. In the background Sark island, made by stock tiles. I think i should make this island by sat pictures too.

[+Gepard 11,289]

Jimbib's static parked airplanes

at Heathrow:

at Gatwick:

at Paris Orly:

at Paris Le Bourget:

 

[+Gepard 11,289]

As promised, i started to make Sark island by using sat pictures. So it looks at the moment:

The height data does not fit to the tiles. I must adjust it later.

For comparison, in front is Herm island, where the tiles already are finished, and in background is Sark island in a very early development state.

 

 

[+Gepard 11,289]

Step 2 blendig the tiles with Sea tiles. (Stille jpg files, no tga, thatswhy no waves. Will come later.)

 

 

 

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Sark island, made with tga files. So wave structures are to see now.

There is still a little problem. The blue of the sea does not perfectly match with the blue of the island tiles. I dont know where i made the mistake. Perhaps the mask layer of the sea tiles does not match with the one of the ieland tiles. I will find it out, but this will need time.

Edited March 26 by Gepard

[Wrench 9,846]

still, it DOES look pretty damn good!!

[+Gepard 11,289]

Sark island is now populated with TOD objects.

[+Gepard 11,289]

Strange thing.

I placed an Eiffel Tower on the map, mid in Paris. In game it does not appear.

Then i placed it at Paris Le Bourget airport over a hangar, for orientation reasons. Again the Eiffeltower is not visible in game. Then i flew my test plane exactly over the said hangar and the plane collided with the invisible Eiffeltower.

One of the strange miracles of SF2 world.

Edited April 9 by Gepard

[Wrench 9,846]

is that a new tower, or the very old one from the EAW WW2 Euro map? THAT one is fouled up very badly

[+Gepard 11,289]

7 hours ago, Wrench said:

is that a new tower, or the very old one from the EAW WW2 Euro map? THAT one is fouled up very badly

It's a new tower. But new is relative. I have it since 2005 on my harddrive, but never used before.

[+Gepard 11,289]

I found an other Eiffel Tower lod on my harddrive. And to be honest: it's ugly:

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Since i made the new tiles for Alderney, Sark and Hern Island is was not happy with the look of Guernsey.

Thatswhy i have started to make new tiles for Guernsey Island. The coastline tiles and some inland tiles are already finished. The rest of the inland tiles have to be done.

The screenshots showing a flight from east to west.

The tiles right of the plane and the coastal tiles are new, the tiles left of the plane are old design.

Here you see the transition of new coastal tile and old inland tile.

Guernsey Airport is now loacted exactly on the position given by sat pictures.

It's still a long way, but it's an beginning.

Edited April 28 by Gepard

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Looping over Guernsey (WIP)

Two more tiles are made by satpic. Still 4 to do.

 

Edited April 29 by Gepard

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All tiles are made.

Now the fine tuning starts. The transition from one tile to an other still have to corrected. The water tiles have to blended with the sea tiles. Then the jpg files have to converted to tga. TGA alpha channel have to create. Then the high field of the island has to fixed. And finally the trees and buildings of TOD objects have to place.

It's a long way to go.

[+Gepard 11,289]

Swambasts Mc Donalds will be part of Battle of Britain 1960th terrain.

[+allenjb42 4,234]

Not to be a rivet (or should that be burger) counter, but unless you're going to add ActiveYear=xxxx for every branch, I think McDonalds in Europe might be a little too late for the 1960's terrain:

Now, if you had a Wimpy skin for the restaurant you could have them in England from 1954 and in the rest of Europe through the 1960's.

Wimpy (restaurant) - Wikipedia

That's not to say that having McDonalds will stop me from flying over this beautiful looking terrain.

[Wilches 1,172]

It should be set as a target, don´t you think? 

[+Gepard 11,289]

29 minutes ago, Wilches said:

It should be set as a target, don´t you think? 

As strategic target of high value!

[Wrench 9,846]

3 hours ago, Gepard said:

As strategic target of high value!

That's how I set the "hot dog stand" in its various incarnations!!!! I always laugh when it comes up as the primary target on the mission briefing screen. I gave it 300, iirc. 500 would be better, classed as "COMMAND_BUILDING"

[+daddyairplanes 10,234]

well, there once was a hot dog stand with several megatons allotted to it.....

Edited May 6 by daddyairplanes

[Wrench 9,846]

yup, the Ground Zero Cafe!!

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On 5/4/2024 at 4:26 PM, allenjb42 said:

Not to be a rivet (or should that be burger) counter, but unless you're going to add ActiveYear=xxxx for every branch, I think McDonalds in Europe might be a little too late for the 1960's terrain:

 

Tough crowd...

The irony of your post, is it's quite interesting and your eye for detail to pick up on that fact quite impressive indeed.  And I like the fact that you proposed a more proper option.   

OK,  let's try to make it better!  I did some historical research and settled on this;  hopefully a more accurate improvement...