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Okay friends. In the last time i got a lot of questions how i make my terrains. Instead a Tutorial i will show you the development of a terrain in my way, step by step. I know there are other ways and i dont think that my approach is the one and only. But if you want to follow my way you will be soon be able to create your first own terrain. LESSON 1: Laying the Foundation Step 1: Basics The first step of terrain development is to decide to do it. This decision is of major importance. I know a lot of people have a lot of good ideas over which area of this big world they would love to fly and fight, and then they wait that someone else will make a terrain for it. But be sure, if you want something, then do it yourself. Its better then wait for ages. This was also the way how i came to the terrain building. I wanted to fly over the Sinai and Jordan valley. No terrain was available and no one was interessed into making the terrain, also i builded Israel terrain myself. It began small and it became bigger and bigger and i think it will be a never ending story. Lets say we want to make a Kashmir terrain. Now it is to decide which basic game we want to use for the terrain. SFP1, WOV, WOE or WOI. I choose WOE. It is widely used in the community and we will find some more target objects for placing on the map than in the other games. Step 2: Tools What tools i need. 1. TK's Terrain Editor (TE) 2. Cat extraction program (i use SFP1E Extract Utility) 3. a paint program (i use paint shop pro) 4. Windows Notepad editor Step 3: Terrain folder creation With Windows explorer i open the folder Wings over Europe/ terrain. In this folder i create the folder Kashmir Open the Kashmir folder and create the subfolders backup and tileset. Later you will see for what they are usefull Step 4: Filling the Kashmir folder with live Then i use the SFP1E tool and open the file GermanyCE.CAT. I extract the files: GermanyCE.ini GermanyCE_DATA.ini GermanyCE_Dogfight.ini GermanyCE_movement.ini GermanyCE_nations.ini GermanyCE_Targets.ini GermanyCE_Types.ini This files are now in the GermanyCE folder. Copy them into Kashmir folder. (Not the big GermanyCE.CAT) Now rename the files into: Kashmir.ini Kashmir_Data.ini Kashmir_Dogfight.ini Kashmir_Movement.ini Kashmir_nations.ini Kashmir_targets.ini Kashmir_types.ini Open file Kashmir.ini with notepad editor Press CTRL+H (STRG+H) and replace GermanyCE with Kashmir Change Fullname of the terrain from Germany into Kashmir. And enter the line: (for WOE) CatFile=..\GermanyCE\GermanyCE.cat or (for SFP1) CatFile=..\desert\desert.cat or (For WOV) CatFile=..\VietnamSEA\VietnamSEA.cat Save and close the file Then copy file Kashmir_DATA.ini into your backup folder. Why, i will tell you later. Now we have laid the foundation of making the new terrain. You could now start the game. You will find the terrain Kashmir in the single mission screen, but if you start it you will see, that it is still Germany. Could not be different, because we have till now only renamed original files. The next step will be to play a little bit god and create a new world. But this will be part of LESSON 2. Which will follow soon.

You can get it running on SFP1 with some tricks. You will need a WOE based tileset. And you must edit the file Formosa.ini Search the line CatFile=..\GermanyCE\GermanyCE.cat and replace it with CatFile=..\desert\desert.cat The only problem will be that you will not have some target objects, like the Powerplants which are included in GermanyCE.cat, but not into desert.cat.

http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?autoc...l=1&id=6163 I have uploaded the new Beta some minutes ago. Now we must wait till the administrator will give its okay.

In Vietnam war the Vietnamese Air Force used MiG-21PF pairs with mixed armament. No 1 with R-3S Atoll and No.2 with UB-16 rocket pods in the intercepter role. And in reality today, tank crews are trained to use their main gun against Helicopters. The V0 of the main gun is high enough to hit an hovering or slow moving heli at longer ranges.

The ports of the western side of Taiwan are now finished. Ports of the eastern side i had to scrapp because using ALT+N button caused very often crashes in the mountains west of the ports. The bridges of Taiwan are done, the SAM network of Taiwan is done, the EWR stations are placed. Some retiling of the terrain is done ...... I think the date for releasing the next Beta version is soon.

Why all people believe this tale of the white strip on the cockpits of soviet planes? I have nerver seen such a strip on our birds!

Do you has made the MiG-27 flyable yourself? I had the same problems when i made TK's MiG-27 flyable for WOE. The best would be, download my bird, and check out the differences in the data.ini

For test reasons i use a FW-190 when i make a WWI terrain. Its nice.

I get randomly CTD. Dometimes the LOD disappears. Strange thing. But else, a very nice bird.

After some development work on BoB terrain i faced the problem of CTD while flying over Paris. This problem is caused by the EiffelTower. I had to delete the Eiffeltower to solve it. 2 Questions. 1.) Has someone else the same problem? 2.) Has someone a better Eiffeltower available?

Fjords are very challenging. You will face the "water climbs the hill" problem. Not very nice and very time consuming to solve it.

The relating lines starts with [FrontLine] and end with EndShow=21 simply overwrite this complex

With nightfighter missions, (i normaly use the He-219 UHU) i faced very often daylight fighters which flew bomber escorts during night. Its stupid to fight a Spitfire or Mustang with an Uhu.

To flatten airfields is easy. Make a citylist. In this citylist designate the airfields=true. Save the list and then use level airfield function.

Heavy flak use Schrappnell (sorry dont know the english term). Would be nice if we would have such warhead. But the increasing the explosive warhead may be a good starting point for improving Flak efficency.

Strange thing. Okay. Lets try it on following way. 1. you must have an folder wwi/terrain/vogesen with all files relating to Vogesen terrain. 2. you must have the folder wwi/terrain/cambrai with all files relating to TK's Cambrai terrain 3. In folder cambrai you must have the subfolders Fall, Snow, Spring 4. In this subfolders you must have all files which TK put into this folders plus the two files i made (FRRheinG.tga and FRRheinK.tga) for Vogesen terrain. If you has deleted the subfolders Fall, Snow, Spring you has a problem with the seasons, because the game will not find the neccessary files. In this case a reinstallation of the subfolders Fall, Snow, Spring will be neccessary. If you dont want to have them into your wwicambrai folder, you can place this subfolders into Vogesen terrain folder. Then you must edit the file Vogesen.ini. The lines you find below. Simply copy ond overwrite the existing lines. I hope my answer will help you. [Terrain] TerrainFullName=Vogesen DataFile=Vogesen_data.INI TargetFile=Vogesen_targets.INI TargetTypeFile=Vogesen_types.INI MovementFile=Vogesen_movement.INI NationsFile=Vogesen_nations.INI BriefingText=Vogesen_briefing.INI DogfightFile=Vogesen_dogfight.INI DogfightOnly=FALSE CatFile=..\wwiCambrai\wwiCambrai.cat Longitude=5.221 Latitude=49.176 [Map] FilenameFormat=Vogesen-Map%d.bmp Width=250000.0 Height=250000.0 NumZoomLevels=2 [WeatherChance] ScatteredChance=25 BrokenChance=25 OvercastChance=17 InclementChance=8 [season001] Directory=..\Vogesen\Snow StartDate=1/1 EndDate=1/27 ScatteredChance=0 BrokenChance=40 OvercastChance=50 InclementChance=10 [season002] Directory=..\Vogesen\Fall StartDate=01/28 EndDate=04/14 ScatteredChance=25 BrokenChance=40 OvercastChance=17 InclementChance=8 [season003] Directory=..\Vogesen\Spring StartDate=04/15 EndDate=06/20 ScatteredChance=40 BrokenChance=25 OvercastChance=17 InclementChance=8 [season004] Directory=..\Vogesen\Fall StartDate=09/21 EndDate=11/25 ScatteredChance=25 BrokenChance=40 OvercastChance=17 InclementChance=8 [season005] Directory=..\Vogesen\Snow StartDate=11/26 EndDate=12/31 ScatteredChance=0 BrokenChance=40 OvercastChance=50 InclementChance=10

It isnt complicate. 1.open file israel2_movements.ini with notepad editor 2.copy the lines i posted above and overwrite the relating entries in the movement.ini file. 3.Save the file Thats it.

To no.2 question i can't tell you something. This is a problem of the game and I'm not the big guru to know the answer. To question no.1. The seasons. Do you has FE with the expand pack or only the original game? The terrain is written for the Expansion Pack. Without it it will have no seasons, because the seasons are a newly introduced feature which are not part of FE. Other solution could be, that you has renamed the Cambrai terrain folder.

To the frontline [FrontLine] FriendlyBase=Brownsville Airport EnemyBase=Laredo International Position[001]=24400,110115 Position[002]=186872,181809 Position[003]=141312,260881 Position[004]=121235,296236 Position[005]=109944,309776 StartShow=4 <<<<<<<this is wrong EndShow=12 <<<<<<< this is wrong try follow entries StartShow=1 EndShow=5 thats all :;-)

Working with TE harm the xxx_data.ini file. TE write an old version of the data.ini file. Thatswhy it is the best way to have one original _data.ini in backup. Perhaps the TE is the reason for your problem.

My work on Vogesen terrain comes to an end. Thatswhy i'm playing with the though to make a terrain in 1:1 scale covering Taiwan, the Formosa Street and a little bit of China. Is there an interesst in the community for such a terrain or would it be wasted time?

Some minutes ago i uploaded the first Beta of Formosa Street (Taiwanhixai) terrain. I think in some hours it will be available for download.

I would like to put a little bit water into your wine, but the Century Fighters were all not the top. I would favor the french Super Mystere instead of the F-100 or F-101, the Mirage III or the MiG-21 instead of the F-104, the british Lightning would i set over the F-102 or F-106 and as strike plane i would choose the F-4 instead of the F-105. And my favorite bird would be the F-5 Tiger.

IL-10 had a better armament and was aerodynamicly surerior to the IL-2