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[farang65]

Hi There,
Finally remembered how to put a map in BAT and be able to work on it too.
I am using SAS Modact Act to work on it and obviously The Jet Age to fly and test 

Something jogged my memory from a long time ago.

Does BAT dislike pacific ground airfield plates and desert airfield plates?
Just wondering cause of this

SAS Modact BAT no problem 




The jet age changed to Concrete airfield plates



You are looking at Luang Prabang and Lima site 36
Concrete strips not very immersive.

I also recall with the last BAT map of mine in BAT Kuril islands and Attu islands some strips were changed to concrete.

Do I have to add them into The Jet Age objects static.ini etc. ?

Cheers,
Kirby

[Vampire_pilot]

at one point, Monty made an era specific change with plates. DOF does not have any concrete fields while JTW will show much more concrete.
Basically, an airfield will  can show differently depending on Era module.

[farang65]

Thanks for that,

Will see how to put them into the jet age manually,
Then they will look better. 

I noticed I still have to put in sfs files for objects pack in SAS Modact BAT

All objects are in the jet age ha ha

Cheers,
Kirby

[Vampire_pilot]

all objects and plates are present under teh same name in each era module in BAT. it is one common database and list. But some objects and plates can appear differently!

we are spanning 1912 to 1992 here....

[farang65]

Well, Have been doing a bit of a look see 

ALL other modules
TJA. TGA DOF has huge static.ini like 1.5/6 or so file size. 

On the other hand
SAS module only has a static.ini around 227  file size

SAS



The Jet Age



Nahkon Phanom Thai Royal Navy base

All other modules are fine.
I kept a SAS original static ini copied and pasted one from TJA and still no go.

still tinkering with this 

Cheers,
Kirby

[Vampire_pilot]

BAT era modules and SAS are independent, there is no common development!
I only talk about the era modules. #SAS folder is not an era module, just a sandbox!

[farang65]

ok,

So it looks like add in all the objects to SAS Modact version like usual.
Using Boomer's object sfs files and copy and paste static ini entries like normal. 
Then any other objects in MAPS/3do
Then static ini entries.

This is ALL jogging my memory basically 

By the way, really enjoying ALL the new aircraft I have missed out on for some time testing strips 

Cheers,
Kirby

I actually prefer the old dark pcp plates for Nakhon Phanom they suit better 

[Vampire_pilot]

Maybe I do not fully understand your approach but my recommendation is:
If you want to make a JTW era map, than just build it in JTW environment! Do not tool around in SAS folder, just make sure it looks good and works in JTW!