Here's a wip map that is coming along far better than I thought. There is still lots of work to do, but basic texturing is done so I thought to share some screenshots.
It's another Pacific map, this time of Port Moresby in New Guinea up to the north coast, focusing mainly on the area around the famous Kokoda Track.
Since I'm not a hot shot when it comes to historical research on such things as airfield layouts, anyone who has any info on the airfields in this area will be welcomed, the same goes for towns, villages etc.
As far as completion dat goes, well hopefully before the summer vacation starts in July, but delays are always possible because of circumstances.
These are just some empty landscape shots, no objects yet. Just to give a feel for the colors and textures ... more smaller landscape details will be added later, things like swamps, mangroves cultivated fields, scrub and grasslands. The main landscape here is of course thick vegetation, which translates into lots of green, trees and brown patches due to land erosion. Rivers are also kept to a very strict minimum. In the real world there are myriads of streams and brooks and run-offs and whatnot in this area, but Il-2 makes rivers and waterways look like the Blue Danube or the Scheldt at Antwerp and this doesn't really look well on this kind of mountainous jungle map. So, few rivers/streams ...
The ed_map also deviates from the normal type, since the relief version had too many contrasting colors which interfered with placing names, tracks and other things necessary on a map. This type of ed_map is somewhat more subdued but hopefully legible.
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