+Wrench Posted April 4 Posted April 4 21 hours ago, Gepard said: Sometimes i simply fly around and watch the landscape. I think that's part of the fun of terraforming -- using either the free camera and zoom around, or free-fly a mission. Sometimes it's amazing what we can accomplish with this old, creaky terrain engine 1 Quote
+Gepard Posted April 4 Author Posted April 4 Has someone an idea how to increase the distance of TOD object appearance? Quote
+Gepard Posted April 8 Author Posted April 8 31 of 33 farm tiles are done. Tomorrow i will do the last 2 tiles. Afterwards i will focus on coastal tiles. 5 Quote
+Soulfreak Posted April 9 Posted April 9 On 4.4.2025 at 10:07 PM, Gepard said: Has someone an idea how to increase the distance of TOD object appearance? Check this Michael: 2 Quote
+Gepard Posted April 9 Author Posted April 9 9 hours ago, Soulfreak said: Check this Michael: Thanks, that was exactly what i was looking for. Sitrep: All 33 farm tiles are finished. Tomorrow i will start to work on the farm to sea transistion tiles. During the test flights i had a lot dogfights with Air Force Phantoms. And i must admit, that i like the F-5E Tiger more and more, the underdog of the 1970th fighter planes. I love this little butcher bird. 1 2 Quote
+Gepard Posted April 10 Author Posted April 10 The first coastal tile is nearly done. The TOD-objects are placed. At the moment i'm thinking whether i should change the color of the shore a little bit. Will have a look at the sat pictures first. 3 Quote
+Gepard Posted April 13 Author Posted April 13 Some coastal tiles with TOD trees and buildings. 3 Quote
+Gepard Posted April 15 Author Posted April 15 All Farm to Sea tiles are now finished. Tomorrow i will start to rework the City to Sea tiles. 5 Quote
+Gepard Posted April 21 Author Posted April 21 Sitrep: Slow progress while placing TOD objects and trees on the tiles. Slow but steady. Still to do are the city to sea and forrest to sea transistion tiles. 4 Quote
+Gepard Posted April 30 Author Posted April 30 I'm still on trees planting. Some impressions: 4 Quote
+Gepard Posted May 2 Author Posted May 2 SitRep: All trees at the city outskirt tiles are set. Tomorrow i will start to set trees on the city to sea tiles. I think i should make some research job, which kind of trees are in the outskirts in the norther USA. At the moment i have a mixture of oaks and spruce or firs. 5 Quote
+daddyairplanes Posted May 3 Posted May 3 sounds about right for Michigan. theres only a couple dozen types to choose from in Michgan alone..... 1 Quote
+daddyairplanes Posted May 3 Posted May 3 might have asked before, after your recent Screenshot Thread post will ask again how far into Illinois are you going with this? thats effectively my home town (its kinda complicated), and it does have small airport about where the left edge of the "R" is on this map Quote
+Wrench Posted May 4 Posted May 4 And don't forget that mean pepper steak in the Joliet slammer ... curious if the U-505 will be in Chicago, as an Easter Egg (tm) Quote
+Gepard Posted May 4 Author Posted May 4 17 hours ago, daddyairplanes said: might have asked before, after your recent Screenshot Thread post will ask again how far into Illinois are you going with this? thats effectively my home town (its kinda complicated), and it does have small airport about where the left edge of the "R" is on this map Do you mean this airport? Quote
+daddyairplanes Posted May 4 Posted May 4 well, last time i was there was 1999 it might have gotten bigger since, esp since Miegs Field in Chicago got bulldozed Quote
+Gepard Posted May 4 Author Posted May 4 SitRep: The first city to sea tiles are now fitted with trees. 3 more tiles are still to be done. Quote
+Gepard Posted May 4 Author Posted May 4 6 hours ago, daddyairplanes said: well, last time i was there was 1999 it might have gotten bigger since, esp since Miegs Field in Chicago got bulldozed Thats how it looked in 1998: 3 Quote
+daddyairplanes Posted May 4 Posted May 4 that looks abit smaller than the first pic i swear i do not remember the second runway. but i was not ever above it, and most of my time in the 90s was at NAS Glenview when they had their airshow (in conjunction with the Chicago Air and Water Show iirc). but all those memories were a literal lifetime and a few wars ago for me. i mainly mention it to try and bring my home town into game 2 Quote
+Gepard Posted May 6 Author Posted May 6 Ups, small problem. I forgot to save the last changes in the TOD file. So half of the newly planted trees disappeared. Shit happens. Tomorrow i will try it again. 2 1 Quote
+daddyairplanes Posted May 7 Posted May 7 23 hours ago, Gepard said: Ups, small problem. I forgot to save the last changes in the TOD file. So half of the newly planted trees disappeared. Shit happens. Tomorrow i will try it again. oof sucks more when its self inflicted than something like a system crash or power outage right before you pause to save Quote
+Gepard Posted May 7 Author Posted May 7 Sitrep: Only one sea to city tiles still has to be done. That's how it looks at the moment: I was experimenting with TOD houses. It would be nice if i could put as many small houses as necessary on the map. But this would overload the game engine and only 500 per tile would appear in game. So i thought, that i could place only bigger houses, as shopping centers and skyscrapers. But skyscrapers should be visible from far distances and should not disappear from 10 km or so. So i think i will make the skyscrapers as normal target objects in a seperate target area. But for the inner city with the skyscrapers i still must create a new tile. It is still a long way. 3 Quote
+daddyairplanes Posted May 7 Posted May 7 asked it before, will ask it again why not multi house tod objects? i know the texturing would be a pain, but just keep the houses simple (youd be suprised how many American neighborhoods have cookie cutter houses) you have a 500 object limit, but could you have this instead of this 1 Quote
+Wrench Posted May 8 Posted May 8 the hard part about using the lego style, is getting them to follow the "streets". especially when there's curved ones. For example, look at the massive building blocks on many maps (India/Pak, one of the Euro ones, other I can't remember). They're a nightmare to work with when trying to add 'targetable' items. Below is not the worst, but couldn't find the one with the nicely colored buildings 1 Quote
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