Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[agracier]

Here are links to 2 fictitious maps. One is an island map, the other totally inland. Though taken from satellite imagery just as any other Il-2 map, the geography has been altered, terrain features added or moved around etc.

I made them for fun and to try out some different types of terrain textures, with colors and combinations that are a bit different from other maps. That means the terrain looks quite different and if I may say so, more colorful than usual. The Green_4 map is more or less inspired by what I think Pakistan/India might look like in its less inhabited regions. It is dry and arid with mountains and also a large amount of marshland, which isn't always easy to try and replicate, but which is something different.

Here are download links for the maps.

Stone Islands
https://www.mediafire.com/file/fz3qy1qli4ktwj5/Maps_7_ag_Stone_Islands.rar/file
actors.static with blank plates
https://www.mediafire.com/file/kknp0yziiqiivqa/Stone_Islands_blank_plates_actors.rar/file

Green_4
https://www.mediafire.com/file/0u317fttzgrz4ni/Maps_8_ag_Green_4.rar/file
missing woods dlv_green_brown_itawood 
https://www.mediafire.com/file/hr9efwl2igwyyas/dlv_Green_Brown_Itawood.rar/file
actors.static with blank plates
https://www.mediafire.com/file/s1vor6j4auibi54/Green_4_actors_with_blank_plates.rar/file

Here are the 2 edmaps, screenshots will follow later. The edmap for Green_4 is admittedly not very attractive, but it serves well enough. The terrain features were changed around too much to be able to use any satellite imagery. Hope someone enjoys the maps. They should at the least make for good dogfighting maps.







Time for an update on the Green_4 map. The map has been fairly well worked over and updated. I added villages and autopopped them, cleaned up airfields, replaced and adjusted tone and colors of several textures and (finally) got a more or less satisfactory simulation of marshlands by fooling around with the 3-D tree textures.

The best thing to do is completely replace the map with the newer version. Or with BAT to place in either #WAW or #TGA folders and install as normal.

A tip: best to not fly at noon with good weather. hazy weather or worse gives best results.

Download link version Green_4 version 2.0
https://www.mediafire.com/file/xz63o85260mjl34/ag_Green_4.rar/file

[Vampire_pilot]

Great, I love these kind of "eveyrwhere" maps
The "green" map actually looks interesting, with the overgrown rivers.

however, I have troubles with the Islands map, missing MAPS/_Tex/forest/dlv_green_brown_itawood0.tga

[agracier]

however, I have troubles with the Islands map, missing MAPS/_Tex/forest/dlv_green_brown_itawood0.tga

I'll post the tree textures. Right now they are on another computer.  You can also take the woods0/woods1 ...woods4  section from another working load.ini and use it in the Green_4 load.ini, temporaily at least. But in this case, it would be best to keep the original woods textures as I tried to make them fit the map terrain ...

I will post them in a while.

[Mick]

... many THX, Agracier ...! 

I chose the Green map, and noticed that only one texture is 8 bit/1 Mb format, most are 24 bit and 3Mb, and several are 24 bit and 12 Mb ... 

Is this intentional ...? 

[agracier]

... many THX, Agracier ...! 

I chose the Green map, and noticed that only one texture is 8 bit/1 Mb format, most are 24 bit and 3Mb, and several are 24 bit and 12 Mb ... 

Is this intentional ...? 

Not really. I suppose there are 1024 and 2048 sized textures ... I just try and get them placed on the map so they look halfway good, so the terrain looks good from the air. That's what I primarily aim for.

[Mick]

... THX for the explanation ... 

... the 8 bit/1Mb texture, and the 24 bit/3Mb ones are 1024, and the remaining 12 Mb ones are 2048 ... 

I converted them all to 1024/8 bit for my own use ... 

[agracier]

... THX for the explanation ... 

... the 8 bit/1Mb texture, and the 24 bit/3Mb ones are 1024, and the remaining 12 Mb ones are 2048 ... 

I converted them all to 1024/8 bit for my own use ... 

I can't check now as they are on another computer, but I bet the 1mb texture is from one of the old original Il-2 maps that came with the game or were made very early on.

[Mick]

... well, if my memory doesn't fail me, stock IL2 maps textures are in 512x512 format ... 

The texture that is 1 Mb 1024 is the Spain Java Stone Green one ...   

[Marat]

The maps are very beautiful!!!
But I failed to take off or land cause the runways are not smooth. Does the Green 4 map require a friction mod?

[agracier]

The maps are very beautiful!!!
But I failed to take off or land cause the runways are not smooth. Does the Green 4 map require a friction mod?

Ah yes. Green_4 does indeed need Zuti's friction mod. I made it before i realized that a 4.12 install won't take the friction mod unfortunately.

Let me see if I can place a bunch of blank plates under the runways and then post an updated actors.static

[Marat]

Unfortunately Zuti's friction mod is not compatible with my 4.13.4 version with SAS Modact 6.4. Helas

[agracier]

Great, I love these kind of "eveyrwhere" maps
The "green" map actually looks interesting, with the overgrown rivers.

however, I have troubles with the Islands map, missing MAPS/_Tex/forest/dlv_green_brown_itawood0.tga

The missing files have been posted in an updated first post.