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[michel_boonstra1974]

G R E E N   S C R E E N   m a p
 (beta 2 - 4.09 only)

by Michel S. Boonstra 


This is a BETA-2 release of a green screen map I wanted to share with   you. This may be useful tool for screen shot and video capture artists.
  Beta 2 has a improvements and adds more workable angles.

DOWNLOAD LINK:  http://www.4shared.com/file/kd_eOime/IL2_Greenscreen_Beta2.html

This mod in fact contains two green screen maps; one for land based planes and one for water based planes.
These maps are accessible in the main menu -> net -> dogfight section -> mission type "Greenscreen" and in the FMB
(Full Mission Builder) so you can also edit the maps to your own wishes & needs.

*** OPTIONAL:
if you have QMBProPALFull, both maps will be available as well in the quick mission selection. Easy does it, right?


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    REQUIREMENTS
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The IL-2 game, patched to 4.09, modded.

Recommended, but not essential:
- QMBProPALFull
- Zuti's Friction mod


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    INSTALLATION
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--> Copy the "MODS" and "Missions" folders into your IL-2 Sturmovik game folder
      (click "yes" to overwrite if asked, although this mod does not alter any existing files (bar previous green screen files).

--> Browse to [your IL-2 Sturmovik folder] \MODS\MAPMODS\Maps
    and open your all.ini (with notepad, if you are not sure) and add the two lines below:

Greenscreen           Greenscreen/load.ini
Greenscreen_Water     Greenscreen/load_w.ini


**** OPTIONAL: only if you have the "QMBProPALFull" mod installed:

--> Browse to "your IL-2 Sturmovik folder"\Quicks
    and add the two lines below to your "QMBMaps.ini"

Greenscreen
Greenscreen_Water


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    NOTES
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Best settings are time set to 12:00 and no clouds.
The distance haze at altitude is present, very annoying; I spend hours trying to figure out how to regulate this, or better, get rid of it but so far I haven't been able to do so.
So you are somewhat limited with the angles you can use. I will try my best to solve this in a future update.


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    DISCLAIMER
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This is work of an amateur. Use at your own risk, bla bla.. and don't point a loaded lawyer at me. My sole intention is to add a useful feature to your IL-2 game, that's all.

Wishing you happy shooting in the virtual skies. 

Michel


EXAMPLES of work done with the help of the green screen map:

[michel_boonstra1974]

[5./JG54_s0crazty]

Thank you thank you thank you , You tried to close the Cube with mountains but the problem is not 100% solved Hope you managed to solved this ,perfect !

[michel_boonstra1974]

Another one.. 

[5./JG54_s0crazty]

[Biltongbru]

Thank you Boonstra, I have your green map up and running!   

My suggestion is to have  a "square bowl" kind of map of about 5km x5km and 2km high sides. That would solve the haze problem. The sides of the bowl must be say 45 degrees otherwise some of the sides will show shade depending on the time of day.

When making a movie the shots are seldom longer than 4 secs and a map like that would be perfect.   

It would be good to have some landscape detail to see where you fly while doing the "acting". You then do playback of the recorded mission and set the landscape detail (in video option) to very low and then only the green stay. Then you do frapping. 

[michel_boonstra1974]

Sorry for the delayed response mate. Thanks for your suggestions, I'll have a wee play with it again, somehow I'll get it done I hope
If you want the landscape detail (noise) on, you simply delete the noise.tga and noiseTL.tga from the Greenscreen textures folder.

Thank you Boonstra, I have your green map up and running!   

My suggestion is to have  a "square bowl" kind of map of about 5km x5km and 2km high sides. That would solve the haze problem. The sides of the bowl must be say 45 degrees otherwise some of the sides will show shade depending on the time of day.

When making a movie the shots are seldom longer than 4 secs and a map like that would be perfect.   

It would be good to have some landscape detail to see where you fly while doing the "acting". You then do playback of the recorded mission and set the landscape detail (in video option) to very low and then only the green stay. Then you do frapping. 

[michel_boonstra1974]

Thanks mate. It´s a handy tool. Now I just love to play with the green screened shots of IL-46 planes with backgrounds taken from my photo archive.
These compilations are actually pretty simple to do if you are into playing with Photoshop or After Effects.

[Ectoflyer]

Damn! Great mod! Thank you! 
Is there somewhere a tutorial on how to use the greenscreen? 

[5./JG54_s0crazty]

Damn! Great mod! Thank you! 
Is there somewhere a tutorial on how to use the greenscreen? 

Its a simple Green map and if you really want to use and make pictures like mine or like the above you need to understand how Chroma Key Works
And  this map is A must have , for me it is

tutorial !

[Ectoflyer]

Thank you s0crazty!    I'm still to the daguerreotype but there's always something new to learn...  

[michel_boonstra1974]

Beta 2 is out - a few improvements.
http://www.4shared.com/file/kd_eOime/IL2_Greenscreen_Beta2.html