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Looping over Guernsey (WIP) Two more tiles are made by satpic. Still 4 to do.

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.

Viva Argentina!

My view on Vietnam War is from the other side of iron curtain.

Somewhere in Argentina.

Blueprints of the Convair 201 were stolen by east german intelligence service HVA. The plane was reengeneered by aircraft factory Flugzeugwerft Dresden. From 1985 ist was built as FWD-85 Bussard.

Nice mountainsides you also find at Formosa Strait terrain in the east of Taiwan.

I had started to write a MiG-21 book some years ago, but an other author was faster and offered his manuscript to the publishing house, while i was still on writing. Bad timing.

A parked plane middle on the runway is a sign, that one of the parking positions in the airfield.ini is wrong. It's the terrainbuilders fault. Mandatory screenshots: Belgian Thunderstreaks over the English Channel.

A black plane means, that there is no texture file available. Often the LOD need a jpg file and only a bmp file is in the texture folder.

I think with 500 tod objects per tile you are on the safe side. Maybe 700 will also run. But this must tested.

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

I think that there is a limited number for TOD objects, that are accepted by the gameengine. The others are simply ignored by the game and will not appear. I saw this behaviour of the game when i tried to set to many trees on the tile. With buildings, i think, it's the same.

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

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.

L-410UVP-T Turbolet

Each east german MiG had had their own unique camo sceme.

MiG-21F-13 over the Baltic Sea.

German carrier operations with A-4 Skyhawk and Convair 201

Elephant walk.

Recon run over Sark island.

The captured F-5E Tiger during soviet flight evaluation. And for the guys who dont believe, that the Soviets had one: