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Re: High Resolution / True Color Textures Mod
« Reply #432 on: February 12, 2013, 12:22:16 PM »

Your new experiment with bump on maps is looking superb. Amazing things
you are doing , and this underwater experiment is also amazing eye-candy.
This does not look like IL2 anymore, but a more sophisticated modern game.

As for corals, I only have many diferent images of them, someone would have to
cut them out of photos and make them the correct smaller size and place them all over a
proper sized skin for the IL2 maps. Not sure if that would work out better than just taking an
aerial photo of a real life reef from North Australia. I think teh area is called Queensland.
We could experiment and see if that might look good with the High-resolution bumps.

I just remembered I also have a nice little book I bought from Tachen about world aerial
photography.
Thousands of aerial photos but the pages are too small , even doing a scan would not look
too good for high-resolution maps  :(

 
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Re: High Resolution / True Color Textures Mod
« Reply #433 on: February 12, 2013, 01:12:13 PM »
Don't worry, I will find interesting coral reefs myself.
The above shown reef is not based on an areal photo but on this wallpaper.
http://nature.desktopnexus.com/wallpaper/762554/

This site has dozens of reefs and such of good quality. Enough to keep me busy.  :D
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Re: High Resolution / True Color Textures Mod
« Reply #434 on: February 12, 2013, 02:21:52 PM »
Oh sure! Just go and take my job.  >:(  I make shallows textures and now you have to go and do it better.  :D Now what am I going to do? I guess I'll retire.  :(  Seriously though,they look great.  8) Cant wait to see them on a map.
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Re: High Resolution / True Color Textures Mod
« Reply #435 on: February 12, 2013, 03:08:57 PM »
Your shallow textures are still great stuff! I don't fly PTO that often but after you added the coral reef to Midway I enjoyed it very very much.
The other shallows are nice too like the Aleutians one. Adds a lot to the immersion.
Your creations gave me the inspiration to make this texture.
By the way, if you have a good eye for it I used a small part of your Midway reef texture for my high rez one.  ;)

I think I will redo a small PTO map (Coral Islands/Marianas?) with high rez textures. Not that much textures to create for the islands and shallow waters. 
Oh well, I will see. It all depends on how much spare time I have.
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Re: High Resolution / True Color Textures Mod
« Reply #436 on: February 12, 2013, 03:43:57 PM »
The hard part wiht these beautifull textures is that the map you use them on cant have a lot of shallows area. In the BP Midway map they fit and look good but in the Cat Midway map there is a lot of shallows so the texture looks tiled.
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Re: High Resolution / True Color Textures Mod
« Reply #437 on: February 12, 2013, 04:33:51 PM »
A new photo just popped up in my computer posted by Uufflakke.
My computer web conection has been going "on" and "off" all day for some weird reason.

Is that a sunken ship on the reef, Uufflakke?
HeHeHe  8)  That is a very cool thing to see up close.
That adds a nice touch. Treasure hunting!

It is such a great pleasure to see many people doing some great experiments on the same
subject for this old IL2 game.
Working together for the better quality of this game adds more pleasure to our daily lives.
I am always very surprised to see new ideas being experimented on
every time I come to SAS.
I never see such things happening on other game forums. I will try my best to help out if
I can too.


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Re: High Resolution / True Color Textures Mod
« Reply #438 on: February 12, 2013, 06:27:45 PM »
outstanding stuff!
i'm a huge fan of the hi-res trees and skins.
so i can't wait to see these map textures in re-texturing packs!
highly anticipated here!
 8)
grateful for all your work!

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Re: High Resolution / True Color Textures Mod
« Reply #439 on: February 12, 2013, 08:31:52 PM »
Uufflakke That is off the charts.   :P  I wish I can use that for my OKI map.
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Re: High Resolution / True Color Textures Mod
« Reply #440 on: February 12, 2013, 10:57:07 PM »
WOW!

That's outstanding!
You guys do a lot of amazing work!
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Re: High Resolution / True Color Textures Mod
« Reply #441 on: February 13, 2013, 02:07:48 AM »
It is fun to create a coral reef texture like this and to see how it works out in game but I don't know on which map it fits best.

So I'm thinking of creating a fantasy map with several islands (similar to the Benghalli map by Avala perhaps) so I can go wild on high rez textures and don't have to fuzz about  any historical accuracy whatsoever  :D.
I have all kind of ideas of what to add already. If there is anything acceptable to show I will post it in the WIP map section.
Otherwise we get too off topic here.   ;)
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Re: High Resolution / True Color Textures Mod
« Reply #442 on: February 13, 2013, 09:14:12 AM »
Hi guys,

I'm having trouble using the High Rez Cloudmod. I have carmasters mod installed in my jsgme mods and activated and the cloudmod folder in my #DBW folder and I am not getting any clouds at all. Please help me!

Roach
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Re: High Resolution / True Color Textures Mod
« Reply #443 on: February 13, 2013, 09:33:10 AM »
@ Uufflakke, your 2048x2048 textures are awesome, truely a big step for Il2 and shows the real potential of this great mod: the maps
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