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[agracier]

Regarding Galicia and Narvik: a simple but important question: these are WIP's, I understand that, but will the airfields stay in the exact same place in the final version? If so I could even start doing some campaign work on them!

That is something that I can promise. Airfields, as they stand now, WILL remain in the same place in the finished version.

It is possible that more airfields will be added, certainly to Galicia as during the SCW there were airfields all over the place, since simple grass fields often sufficed for the aircraft of those days. (For instance, I´m now up in Aragon, in the low mountains. For years we have been passing the municipal football/sport fields which are located in a rather narrow valley somewhat inconveniently located outside the village. I recently found out that they used to be a Republican airfield during the SCW. Afterwards they were converted into a sports field. Though you would never see it in their present state. But now I know why they are located where they are.)

But anyway, yes all the airfields that are on the maps now, will remain as they are.

I would bet on more airfields being added. But none moved around or deleted.

So you can go ahead with what you have in mind without risking your work being in vain.

[mandrill]

My Army Group Centre map is back on the table and will be finished in Beta in about a month and available for d/l.

The Beta will just have airfields, bridges and terrain for now and populating will have to be done through the fall.

The map will cover the area Polotsk - Babruisk - Gomel' - Bryansk - Vyazma and will include Smolensk and the upper Dnepr River.

[Whiskey_Sierra_972]

My Army Group Centre map is back on the table and will be finished in Beta in about a month and available for d/l.

The Beta will just have airfields, bridges and terrain for now and populating will have to be done through the fall.

The map will cover the area Polotsk - Babruisk - Gomel' - Bryansk - Vyazma and will include Smolensk and the upper Dnepr River.

Great loaction!!

Looking farward to the beta release!

[SAS~Poltava]

Mandrill!

That also sounds like a great project. Looking forward to it! There is a strange lack of new Eastern Front maps.

[Aty2]

thanks, today and tomorrow empezace to learn how to manage and edit the map, I have to say that you want me on the map

[Baco]

Any news about Java?

[Cracken]

I wanted to start my own thread, but perhaps am not one of those chosen ones so I post it here. Agracier has always followed my map requests, I like a child always wanted more and more without giving any help to him, so I want to change this.

After having read this book about Latin American Wars I thought more maps for these areas should be made. http://www.4shared.com/document/KHbZrWe_/Hikoki_Latin_American_Air_Wars.html http://www.4shared.com/file/FlFFkaF9/Latin_American_Air_Wars_PDFs.html

After discussing it with agracier, I decided to slowly make templates of farms, hamlets, villages  and towns for any possible future Latin American areas. These could be used for any Latino American maps. And of course, not only agracier will be allowed to use these - I will make them for the public benefit.

I am making these in one map that anyone has - Midway. I have UP 2.01 (contains canon's UK objects, delvpier's Egyptian objects) + Southern European houses by UUfflakke.

Here is a sample of a "farm" I have just made.



Note that it does not have any effect that I placed all the objects on water. Objects from my *.mis file can be transferred anywhere in a future map. (And doubled, trebled...etc.)

[agracier]

Any news about Java?

Do you mean Western Java - Batavia map? ... well, it´s the same old story. Map as good as finished but awaiting populating - especially the city of Batavia with its somewhat special Dutch Tropical style, like ´Rotterdam in den Tropen´ ... ha ha.

Anyway, the populating is once again the reason it hasn´t been posted yet.

https://www.mediafire.com/?c2yy0wjr4em
https://www.mediafire.com/?oodwnmzxqzy

[agracier]

Note that it does not have any effect that I placed all the objects on water. Objects from my *.mis file can be transferred anywhere in a future map. (And doubled, troubled...etc.)

That´s the way to go ... anyone can make templates like these, either in the map maker and saved as actors.static files, or if you don´t have the map maker, then you can make these in .mis file format, as a mission without any planes.

Map maker is a bit easier as objects are grouped together by author. In a .mis file you have to know the object number you wish to choose ... and the list can be long ..

But either way works fine and once you get the hang of it, it gets easier.

Also remember that you can turn the landscape off and work on a ´waterless´ map for instance, which makes it easier to place objects.

With templates of towns, villages, farms, hamlets, airfields, harbors, supply dumps, trenches etc etc saved on standard maps like this, it should make populating maps much easier. Then map makers or whoever can copy and paste and rotate or make changes to these templates and end up with a very varied map, even though working from the same templates ...

[Baco]

Agracier,Thnaks I can populate soem part of it if you want!.

[agracier]

Agracier,Thnaks I can populate soem part of it if you want!.

Sure, any and all help is always welcome regarding populating a map. This is so much different from all the other aspects of map making, which is really only graphics manipulation. Populating requires much more patience than making the other parts ...

Anyway, if you have any templates made or make any, I´ll be back home by 10 September or so and be able to start back with the maps.

[Fusek]

Do you mean Western Java - Batavia map? ... well, it´s the same old story. Map as good as finished but awaiting populating - especially the city of Batavia with its somewhat special Dutch Tropical style, like ´Rotterdam in den Tropen´ ... ha ha.

Anyway, the populating is once again the reason it hasn´t been posted yet.

https://www.mediafire.com/?c2yy0wjr4em
https://www.mediafire.com/?oodwnmzxqzy

Thanks. I'll take look if I can help populate this when I have some time. Part of my family is from that area