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[Frankiek]

On behalf of Seppel I am posting here the final version of his beautiful Baltic Sea Map

latest DL-link 16.09.2024:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/jk5vhd5z89gz48r/BalticSea-ReleaseVersion_2.7z/file

If you would like to know more on the incredible amount of time and research dedicated to this effort please have a look at the development thread  https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,43642.0.html

Thank you

[Seppel]

Thanks for that, Frankiek!

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Guys!
IT's DONE!
After all this years, after drifting away from Il2 and map building, after returning and after several hours .. mostly at night, when kids and girl friend were asleep, I am more than happy to present you this last piece of my modest map building work shop.

The German_Baltic_Sea_1939 - map brings you the northern coast of the "Reich", the "Danzig corridor", a small part of Polands coast, the whole of Denmark and the southern parts of Sweden at the beginning of the great tragedy of WW2.
The map comes with more than 100 airfields and sea plane stations, which are all individual and handmade. Many of them are basing on maps, plans or photos of the original ones. There are also some "hidden" airfields - try to find them! The cities on this map change their appearance deppending on the countries and contain outskirts, industrial areas, train stations and individual churches. Finally you will find a huge number of smaller or bigger special landmarks, points of interest or just famous facilities of this period.



I invite you to explore my map project and -in the first place- have fun with flying!

I would be happy, if you all would report back any error like wrong textures, missing objects, trees in water and so on.
Or just post some picture, if you like.

To bring you a little view into future (and to hold the pressure on myself :-) ), I am planing a "Cold War" version for the BAT Jet Era.
But here I am still in the phase of thinking ...

At the end, I want to say thank you to all guys, that helped me to finish this project. This help mostly came with technical support, but also with information about facilities and not to forget with test flying the pre versions.
So thanks to:
Storebror, Frankiek, Klaus_109, bomberkiller; theOden, Knochenlutscher, gunny0134, Whiskey_Sierra_972, Epervier, genXgamer, vonOben, Bots84.
I really hope I did not forget anyone.

Have fun and enjoy!

Seppel


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latest DL-link 16.09.2024:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/jk5vhd5z89gz48r/BalticSea-ReleaseVersion_2.7z/file
(please note below!)

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However, one thing that is unfortunate for me is that some place name on the map is broken.
This is related to the country-specific window that each user tries.
There are many countries that do not support that font, so I think it would be good to change the place name in English considering that.

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28.10.2024:
gunny0134 is testing some files of the ColdWar-version at the moment. While doing that, we found one more German letter, that was not replaced by now.
The German " ß " was replaced by " ss " like in " Grossenaspe " f.e.

So if you want, a version two of the ALTERNATIVEsettlements_texts
https://www.mediafire.com/file/84ezemojm089x8h/ALTERNATIVEsettlements_texts/file

[genXgamer]

Thanks Seppel for creating such a wonderful map.
Not a part of the world I would normally fly, however I certainly will be downloading and checking out all your airfields and places of interest.

[andrey65]

where am I wrong?

Loading map.ini defined airfields:
[2024-03-30 10:17:08.988 UTC +7]   dT:    0   WARNING: Texture 'MAPS/_Tex/land/summer/Compans_mountain_fields_1.tga' - has non power of 2 dimensions (120 x 120)
[2024-03-30 10:17:09.458 UTC +7]   dT:    0   WARNING: Texture 'MAPS/_Tex/land/summer/GS_bob_fields_1.tga' - has non power of 2 dimensions (120 x 120)
[2024-03-30 10:17:09.734 UTC +7]   dT:    0   WARNING: Texture 'MAPS/_Tex/land/summer/fields_v2_M42.tga' - has non power of 2 dimensions (120 x 120)
[2024-03-30 10:17:09.804 UTC +7]   dT:    0   WARNING: Texture 'MAPS/_Tex/land/summer/vp_bigcountry.tga' - has non power of 2 dimensions (120 x 120)
[2024-03-30 10:17:09.806 UTC +7]   dT:    0   WARNING: Texture 'MAPS/_Tex/land/summer/fsk_country_mount.tga' - has non power of 2 dimensions (120 x 120)
[2024-03-30 10:17:09.847 UTC +7]   dT:    0   WARNING: Texture 'MAPS/_Tex/land/autumn/sk_MidCity_autumn_late.tga' - has non power of 2 dimensions (120 x 120)
[2024-03-30 10:17:09.878 UTC +7]   dT:    0   WARNING: Texture 'MAPS/_Tex/land/autumn/sk_DownCity_autumn_late.tga' - has non power of 2 dimensions (120 x 120)
[2024-03-30 10:17:10.153 UTC +7]   dT:    0   WARNING: Texture 'MAPS/_Tex/land/summer/grass_macchia_rock_v2_M42.tga' - has non power of 2 dimensions (120 x 120)
[2024-03-30 10:17:10.621 UTC +7]   dT:    0   INTERNAL ERROR: TGA: Unsupported format (unknown image type) in MAPS/_Tex/water/PacificBeachSurf.tga
[2024-03-30 10:17:10.621 UTC +7]   dT:    0   INTERNAL ERROR: LoadTextureFromTga('MAPS/_Tex/water/PacificBeachSurf.tga')
[2024-03-30 10:17:10.621 UTC +7]   dT:    0   WARNING: Error: 'WARNING: Error: 'WARNING: Error: 'WARNING: Error: 'WARNING: Error: 'WARNING'
[2024-03-30 10:17:10.621 UTC +7]   dT:    0   WARNING: TLandscape::LoadMap('BalticSea/load.ini') - errors in loading
[2024-03-30 10:17:10.622 UTC +7]   dT:    0   World.land().LoadMap() error: java.lang.RuntimeException: Landscape 'BalticSea/load.ini' loading error

[andrey65]

I'm sorry! I found my mistake. I put "_Tex" in BAT. The map is very good!

[Cycle]

.. mostly at night, when kids and girl friend were asleep

..and then much much Music over headphones! Its also my time when i go to my map!

Thanks for all your work!

[Frankiek]

I'm sorry! I found my mistake. I put "_Tex" in BAT. The map is very good!

Seppel you may wish to clarify that the textures folder is there for user that may want to install the map in different versions. Please also note that a few texture files are not working properly being jpg files saved as TGA (at least this is what Irfan view is telling me when I try to open them and use them). I also got an error when  attempted to use your version of the sk_DownCity_autumn_late.tga
and sk_MidCity_autumn_late.tga while the HSFX version of these files works very well.

[Seppel]

I wrote the texture thing in the install advice...

Oh will double check the texture files, as I was supposing, that this was your reworked folder...
And I will check your problem in my BAT.

@Cycle: Audio books! Hours of audio books and podcasts.

[Frankiek]

In any case these are minor problems and the map works well without any problem in BAT even though I prefer the HSFX rendering of the textures

[Seppel]

.... I also got an error when  attempted to use your version of the sk_DownCity_autumn_late.tga
and sk_MidCity_autumn_late.tga while the HSFX version of these files works very well.

Did you have these problems allready, when you were testing the pre version?

[Frankiek]

I don't remember now as i converted a few of your files but in any case no worries as BAT and HSFX have all the needed resources so based on the previous experience i checked out all the textures in the download.

[Rector]

Great respect for the work put into creating this wonderful map. Of course - if you lived in one of the towns that you presented on the map, you can see some differences, but - either way, admiration and respect. The map works flawlessly and missions are saved well. (BAT)