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Sorry I don't have any other GOG files for EAW. It seems GOG currently only offers v1.20 for download. See screenshots.

I have it here setup_european_air_war_1.20_(45828).exe eaw.exe = 1.431.040 bytes / CRC32: C757AE47

daddyairplanes/Nightshade. Good to hear that. I will keep that in mind. :)

Appreciate that. The aim is to stick to the Falcon 4 world, which depicts the situation in the 1990's. Not the 1950's. The map tiles already define airfield locations. The falcon 4 link gives it a touch of nostalgia. I found this sometime last year, and used it identify the airfields. https://maps.falcon-bms.com/ ( The BMS Korea there is a slightly tweaked version of the original Falcon 4 map, but it is mostly the same. ) I don't know if people actually use this Strike Fighters terrain conversion for something, other then me?... Wish I also had a conversion of Falcon BMS "MidEast 128". It looks neat: https://forum.falcon-bms.com/topic/23905/bms-4-37-theater-list

Hey Wrench. I see it in the screenshot. But In the game, and in TFDtool as well, there are no missing tiles. I would have seen it by now. Since I have been staring at this terrain long enough. Maybe TEA has a maximum amount of tiles limitation? I never really use TEA. (I do use Andy's LOD-viewer an TOD-editor)

It has been a year since. Past december I added 36 new .tod files to the terrain (=buildings and trees), amongst some other small adjustments. But I never uploaded it, until now. Also added an unrelated download package to my website: Ropucha Landing Craft.

There are 9 known version of LODs. It goes v0 to v8. Last official 3DSmax exporter makes v5 ones. v8 came with SF2 North Atlantic Wings over Israel expansion 2010 (not SF2) can use up to v4. IIRC. You can check the version of a LOD file with a hex-editor. v0 has no "LOD" header and starts right off with the number of nodes at byte 1. All other versions have their version-number in the 8th byte of the file. I do not use Blender much, so I don't know about the specifics there.

The promised update is available now. At least; the city tiles are now added. I did not get to the river tiles, because the Falcon 4 terrain conversion took too much time already. The default install still retains only the stock IcelandNA targets. So to have populated harbors and some other tweaks, refer to the standalone variant files, as found in the 'standalone' subfolder. The Terrain Objects .tod file tuning was also brought over to the Novalogic terrain conversions, so these are also slightly updated now.

Upload no.11 The height-map is now upscaled to 4x the tile-map size. The main reason is that the Strike Fighters engine seems to run better with this change, for some reasons I don't know... It gives better frame-rate and has visually better horizon terrain buildup. So the _Data ini settings from the first post do no longer apply. It was not easy to upscale the height-map in a way that retains sharpness in the mountain- and ridge-tops. Had to program a custom upscale in TFDtool, then blend it with some filtered variants. It should be good now. Added some target-area's in the hills and at the DMZ. This is where the terrain looks best. The DMZ is not quite so demilitarized now. There are around 40 .tod terrain objects now. Solely for the full city tiles. Tailor-made to fit these. Then the usual tile-map and tile-texture adjustments.

AFAIK it is like this: - You can open the aircraft main ini with LOD viewer, and that is the best way of making it display properly. - You can open the .lod model file, but then LOD viewer assumes there is a main ini file with the exact same name (before extension) and tries to open that. For example: When the lod file is named phantom.lod and the ini file is F4.ini, then LOD viewer will not find, read or use the F4.ini file, and it will not know about texture subfolders.

Back to the classic tileset. Upload No.7 is there. -Rewrote TFDtool randomized auto-rotate of certain tiles, to be as smart as I could possibly see it. Then applied it. - More manual adjustments of 45 degree road/river tiles. - Photoshop adjustment of 4 tiles. - Added 3 blue airbases. The ones which were historically significant. Edit: Upload 8 - Added harbor target area for blue and red. - More tile mapping adjustments and tile texture adjustments. - Renamed one airfield.

There were a few moments that I was tempted, but I just better not start on that. I should give it a rest. Reflect on what to do with this. Upload no.6 is there now. It has some minor tiling adjustements. One targetarea was moved to a flatter tile. NKorea Such'on MiG-29 airbase was added to the targets. Okay, now for the next teaser. And don't get too excited because this proof of concept is hitting the memory limits of the game engine, and for many configs it will not load up. 1st image is for comparison plain Falcon 4 tiles and tile placement, tweaked by me. Other five images are the Falcon BMS 4.33 tileset. Which has a crazy amount of 2880 tiles. AFAIK The Falcon engine originally had a loading-tile-subsets-on-demand system, to prevent having to keep all tiles for Korea in memory at once. But the SF2 game has no such system. It is impossible to say how much tiles SF2 can handle because it depends on the host OS and tile resolution and amount of water alpha and maybe even the space required by aircraft skins. I have seen quite few hangs at loading yesterday, went downsizing tiles again until it did load up. This huge amount of tiles is again cause by Falcon's lack of rotation support for tiles, forcing them to make more tiles instead. I don't know who made this tileset, yet. I am not sure if I should release it. I like the set in general, In places it is the best the game has ever looked for me IMHO, but the village tiles with the blue roofs are looking rather 'restless' like a garbage heap.

Upload no.5 is available since now. Yeah, no.4 was there too, but I did not announce it. The ReadMe of the package is now proper. Lots of tiling work again. AFAIK all the most obvious 'Immersion Breakers' of the original terrain tile-mapping are now out of the way.. Adjusted the Nations.ini Some more targetting work. I am also using an old AMD Radeon. I did change the _Data today as to render the terrain well on my system, with the minimal amount of changes from the defaults. In the [terrainmesh] section that is.

@EricJ It was configured as a compromise like this: Navalmap=true is combined with the Navy nations being below the first nation in the nations.ini. Like making USN the 2nd or 3rd there. This allows for automatic fleet generation when the player has a Navy plane with matching carriers, without forcing several mission types to solely be aimed at an enemy fleet. In general though. I don't know if this strange terrain works for everyone's system. Before my earlier _data.ini adjustments it was funky. The terrain has behaved well on my system since. @Gepard. the tiles are 128x128 but it takes four to cover a stock SF2 tile area, so in that regard it compares to 256x256 tiles. Other then that, it is what it is. I am not claiming this terrain is better then something else, or even good. I don't even know why I converted it. I was actually wanting to try something else but got carried away. Upload no. 3 is up. - Some lake tiles are now water-alpha prepared. - More work on avoiding tile repetition in the farm and swamp areas. Now also applied to roads and rivers. (but the 'greener' grass farm areas are still todo...)

Alpha version no.2 is now available for download. Together with TFDtool v1.16. The water alphas are now there. 270 tiles have been converted into a .tga file with alpha channel holding the water area. The farm tiles are now rotated randomly, to be less repetative. (Could not do the same with roads, yet, as the roads are not drawn exactly in the middle of the tile...) Looked at the Hi-Tiles Allied force set. But was not convinced of it being a good replacement for Korea. Also tried some things with the BMS 4.33 tiles again. But the files with the same name are NOT a drop in replacement. Forests and hills match, but cities and farms and their transitions are not matching up. Also these tiles look less flexible in time periods, the urban areas obviously looking somewhat modern.