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agracier

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Two New North Africa Maps - Final Stages
« on: October 22, 2012, 02:14:49 PM »
I thought members might be interested to hear of two North African maps that are nearing completion.

One is of the western Operation Torch landing zones, named Casablanca. And the other is of the Suez Canal zone. Both have already been auto-popped but still need to have several large towns/cities made (3 on each map) and sundry things like camps, depots and what not all. The same goes for the airfields. As usual with North African maps, they are sparsely populated and very arid looking. Making a reasonable depiction of the Suez Canal was something different - I mostly took info from a very detailed 1914 map which gives far different info on the size of the canal and adjacent docking areas than on present day sources like Google maps. It was also an exercise in balance to have intensively cultivated areas of upper Egypt adjacent to the harsh dryness of the desert. Hope it turns out well.




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Re: Two New North Africa Maps - Final Stages
« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2012, 02:20:38 PM »
That's great news! Keep up the good work, 8)
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Re: Two New North Africa Maps - Final Stages
« Reply #2 on: October 22, 2012, 06:44:18 PM »
Very nice, maybe the USS Ranger will be finished by the time the Torch map is finished.

cheers

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Re: Two New North Africa Maps - Final Stages
« Reply #3 on: October 24, 2012, 03:38:02 AM »
Very Cool Sir Ag  ;D

Suez Crisis anyone ?

Egyptian and Isreali Meteors   :D

Oh My God.

Top Work Ag  ;D
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Re: Two New North Africa Maps - Final Stages
« Reply #4 on: October 24, 2012, 05:16:21 AM »
Great news! fantastic addition
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Re: Two New North Africa Maps - Final Stages
« Reply #5 on: November 11, 2012, 09:48:42 AM »
Thanks, agracier. They're both welcome additions.

cheers

David Prosser
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Re: Two New North Africa Maps - Final Stages
« Reply #6 on: November 15, 2012, 04:15:16 PM »


WOW! New maps!  8) I missed seeing this post.
Thank you Agracier, your always one step ahead.
These are great locations for maps and good action. I will be looking forward to fly in them

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Re: Two New North Africa Maps - Final Stages
« Reply #7 on: November 15, 2012, 04:56:18 PM »
Awesome!! Operation Torch map.  No more "faking it" with other maps.   :) :)
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Re: Two New North Africa Maps - Final Stages
« Reply #8 on: November 19, 2012, 10:14:31 AM »
Quote from: Stratodog on November 15, 2012, 04:56:18 PM
Awesome!! Operation Torch map.  No more "faking it" with other maps.   :) :)
Right!
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Re: Two New North Africa Maps - Final Stages
« Reply #9 on: December 27, 2012, 09:42:48 AM »
These maps represent areas I have come to love via both IL-2 and Falcon, so I definately look forward to those.
Culturally, geographically (and politically) amazing theatres.
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Re: Two New North Africa Maps - Final Stages
« Reply #10 on: December 27, 2012, 09:54:32 AM »
The Suez map is in the end stages, but is encountering the typical bottleneck I experience when having to populate large cities - in this case Port Said, Port Suez, Ismalia ... it is such a chore to make them look halfway decent while keeping the objects down to a minimum. It doesn't always look very good ...

But - I do have a map just a day or so away from release hopefully. Someone is doing some beta checking and when that's OK it should be out. It will be of another arid area in this world of ours.
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Re: Two New North Africa Maps - Final Stages
« Reply #11 on: January 03, 2013, 07:18:37 PM »
Awesome looking forward to this also :)
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