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[SAS~Tom2]

This is to give you something jet-capable for the northern area of Europe.




Hi ladies and gentlemen,

this is a jet airbase mod of agracier's amazing Lapland map.


Edit, new link in post No 34 for all files!

https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,31708.24.html

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OK, same map in two parts to get the  entire add-on of trees and tex as well as other stuff in.

Just follow the folder structures (and the readme for the additional files. )

https://www.mediafire.com/?kio2kxxby4xk8kl

https://www.mediafire.com/?1gvpg754gvm5131


If you already have agracier's map installed, you only need the extra trees textures for textures, I made a small edit for Lapland autumn, added 2 bump files after checking all textures.




The below link and blue stuff is now more redundant except you like confusion.
You need the pack from here, at least the textures from agracier's download. And the fix files from page 2.
https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,20446.0.html

Download, install as per instructions and backup the ag_Lapland map folder, so you can switch back to the WWII version anytime. E.g. rename to "-ag_Lapland". The textures are identical.
Then download this and add it to your map's folder instead, e.g. IL-2 Sturmovik 1946\#DBW\Mapmods\Maps.

https://www.mediafire.com/?6ronc2j0d2153j5


But I added an alternative forest load.ini as for the summer version and, more important, edited the water look for the summer and autumn version.
A photo recon has shown that Lapland very often, from above, reflects the sky's colour and the endresult is a rather dark to strong reflecting blue. .as often seen on the North Sea as well.
Since we fly most of the time, I went for that. Just check any Google result list or the Lapland Water /Sea etc..results.
Some will show what I mean, also depending on the daylight. The bluish water looks very nice when flying over the land with these amazing water areas spread all over the landside by agracier, an amazing job. If you dislike the water, replace the load.ini's water entry with the entry from the stock maps:
.."
[WATER]
Water    = water/Water.tga
"
..

Added and tested in a small but stressy test circle airbases to make the map jet operation capable.
Therefore I had to make minor adjustments for height and tex here and there and also delete the original air fields.

Following areas now have new bases:
Alta
Works, except AI nos 2 and 3 will vanish after parking.


Banak
Works, but I cannot promise the AI will not cause troubles with very fast jets (fast while on approach) after one has touched down.
However, the base was tested and looks just fine to me.-The posit was chosen after testing multiple placements in FMB.


Ivalo
Dual directional base with one active runway east/west or west east.
In RL one runway with a half section of a 2nd runway.


Enontekio/Enontekiö Air Base (new as per RL naming)
Worked very well, had to do minor adjustments to get it going.
Very nice runway tex for takeoff and landing cockpit views.


Kautokeino
Works well, be aware of planning the waypoints, AI will hover 2-3 meters over forest, looks aweseome.
Since this is a rather remote looking "highway strip" type of base on Google, I gave it a very small base.


I spent quite some time, also thanks to my friend "Snail" from the FreeFalcon dev team/BMS Falcon forums, getting info which potential military airbases would be in the area, yet all the official mentioned Swedish, Norwegian and Finnish mili bases are outside the remote area of this map.

However, all bases are definately there in RL and surely military capable.
For Kautokeino, Norway, a hint: ..in Sweden you find MANY air strips on enhanced highway routes, quite interisting.
That was why I gave that one a concrete field, thanks to SAS~farang65.

All airbases are directly taken from work by SAS~Mission_bug's South Vietnam map in Dixiecapt's 1968 version and from SAS~farang65's ElSalHonNic map.
So credit for the bases goes to these three gentlemen.
Credit for the map of course to agracier!

Airfields: ..made some edits but the basic layout of the bases is almost 100% the one from South Vietnam and ElSal.
For Banak, I had to edit a lot to allow the AI to taxi and not crash and burn hehe.

Rest info on this screen:



More screens:

















(soon)







Hope you will be able to fly there with no issues.

Thorsten


This will load in 4.09m, but in my HistoMod (old version 4) old game install, Banak and Enontekiö airbases where missing objects and looked therfore sad. JP, if you read this, I have a screen with a log and may also run a logfile test.
Seems we miss some objects in Histo.
Saw that also with the Djibouti mod (same base as Banak)

[SAS~Tom2]

PS:
Thanks for tips/test test to SAS~farang65, SAS~BravoFxTrt, The_Alaska_Man, UP~Boomer and spdr109.
 
Need to learn more about modding bases. ???
Chose this map for bases because I like agracier's style here very much and espcially the autumn version with its decent brownish texture tiles and dedicated wood, which looks very amazing at low to medium altitudes and contrasts well with the small lakes.

Chrs

[BravoFxTrt]

Groovy Thorst.  Im going straight to Lapland, Thanks Good Friend!

[SAS~Tom2]

Thanks Bravo, my friend!
Don't be shy if anything porks, I can try to edit or improve stuff. This is not intended to be perfect but mainly to give players a jet capable northern scenario on top of SAS~farang65's kickass WIPs and the airbase map work by The_Alaska_Man.
But since most of it is already finished and copied + pasted base work, new probs should be rather unlikely and I tested every base.

[352nd_Hoss]

You could rename your Lapland map like The Alaska Man did on his redo of the Sinai map, he just changed the bases and the map remained the same, here's an example of what he did...

Sinai(dlv) dlv_Sinai/load.ini.................. Original stock map
TAM_Sinai TAM_Sinai/load.ini..............  The Alaska Mans redo

I had asked him to rename it so I could use it on the same campaign I was building, I used his with smaller less populated airbases for 1948 and the heavier populated stock map for 1956.  If you did this mission builders could do the same thing and build campaigns or coops spanning both eras without having to mess with the all.ini

You could call yours T2_Lapland, or TOM2_Lapland

[The_Alaska_Man]

That's right Hoss,

I made the All.ini TAM_Sinai TAM_Sinai/load.ini

And the MAPmods folder, TAM_Sinai

So you could make it TOM_Lapland TOM_Lapland/load.ini

Folder name, TOM_Lapland

Might make it easier for people, who want the original map and your version, that why I did it 

[SAS~Tom2]

Yes, I considered this like I did with my Sidi Ifni mod. But any player can do this as well by simply renaming the map to ag_Lapland2 and then adding a string in the all.ini that reads:
ag_Lapland2 ag_Lapland2/load.ini
ag_Lapland2_Autumn ag_Lapland2/load_Aut.ini
ag_Lapland2_Winter ag_Lapland2/load_Winter.ini

Will try that later, should work easily and then post a 2nd link with the same map renamed.

For missions to load in both versions, you also simply can open them and rename the map line for the  change.

Tom

[SAS~Tom2]

Now renamed to "jets" version: ag_Lapland_jets
Ok? :

Easy autumn QMB Pro missions, simple red/blueNone as base to edit and RedScramble ready to intercept bad guy.

https://www.mediafire.com/?n9d2wks6l3zlhs9


Map:
Insert "ag_lapland_jets" into MAPMODS/maps.

And add lines to all.ini as in instruction.
https://www.mediafire.com/?wmp1sjfn686936p

Voila.

Cheerio

T.

[NS~mati140]

Great for WW3 scenarios - this area saw a lot of trafic during cold war

[farang65]

Very Cool Thorsten   

Looking forward to flying this week end.

Cheers for the jet wks and update   

Kirby

[zsoltfireman]

Great!

[Gaston]

Great, thanks ! but on any version (old or new), I got a java error with the autumn map, which does not load... anyone else has the same issue ?