Posted By: Bader
NEW TERRAIN TEXTURES available (+pics) UPDATED - 05/13/07 09:20 PM
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[README]
SUMMERTERRAIN update MOD
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These textures are based heavily on the excellent work a little while ago by Marcel "Cellinsky" Aerni. Many thanks indeed to him for that work.
They have been tweaked further to overcome the most obvious patterning and also to reduce residual 'squareness' to the field systems. This is not a feature of Southern England (South of London) even today, and certainly wasn't in the 40s pre widespead mechanisation.
The textures are somewhat brighter than the stock BoBII ones and a lot brighter than Cellinsky's originals. Many people found it hard to see aircraft on the deck against those. Brighter terrain aids aircraft visibility (a very long term issue in sims).
So these textures might best be described as a 'SummerTerrain in sunlight'.
There is also a correction in this package for an item that was erroneously omitted from 2.06. namely Battle of Britain II \ObjectAdds\France_Calais.txt
Installation.
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These textures go into five sub-folders of \Battle of Britain II\ (\landmap2, \landscap, \imgmap16, \imagemap, \maskmap)
To preserve the original files, you can either backup (make a copy of) the individual files in this zip or the entire folders:
Battle of Britain II \landmap2
Battle of Britain II \landscap
Battle of Britain II \imgmap16
Battle of Britain II \imagemap
Battle of Britain II \maskmap
(Note that you will need 300M of temporary space to unzip this.)
To install, you can either
1) unzip these contents to a temporary location and copy the files over manually to their respective folder (overwriting the present files), or
2) simply unzip the entire thing into the Battle of Britain II folder (you should have the 'use folder names' option ticked (It usually is anyway) and select "Extract to Here").
[/README]
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DOWNLOAD: http://www.shockwaveproductions.com/bob_dev/PaulPics/SummerTerrain.zip
(updated download now 33M)
DOWNLOAD: http://www.shockwaveproductions.com/bob_dev/PaulPics/SummerTerrain.zip
(updated download now 33M)
So the intent of this is to have a public beta to find major issues (we have about 10 on the list right now before this would be an 'official' update).
The most visible ones are:-
1) Areas that to date have essentially been unmapped green (France away from the coast) have a repeating texture.
3) Some Bomber Command airfields need some texture reassignment.
..and some other stuff...
So feedback would be appreciated.
[README]
SUMMERTERRAIN update MOD
========================
These textures are based heavily on the excellent work a little while ago by Marcel "Cellinsky" Aerni. Many thanks indeed to him for that work.
They have been tweaked further to overcome the most obvious patterning and also to reduce residual 'squareness' to the field systems. This is not a feature of Southern England (South of London) even today, and certainly wasn't in the 40s pre widespead mechanisation.
The textures are somewhat brighter than the stock BoBII ones and a lot brighter than Cellinsky's originals. Many people found it hard to see aircraft on the deck against those. Brighter terrain aids aircraft visibility (a very long term issue in sims).
So these textures might best be described as a 'SummerTerrain in sunlight'.
There is also a correction in this package for an item that was erroneously omitted from 2.06. namely Battle of Britain II \ObjectAdds\France_Calais.txt
Installation.
============
These textures go into five sub-folders of \Battle of Britain II\ (\landmap2, \landscap, \imgmap16, \imagemap, \maskmap)
To preserve the original files, you can either backup (make a copy of) the individual files in this zip or the entire folders:
Battle of Britain II \landmap2
Battle of Britain II \landscap
Battle of Britain II \imgmap16
Battle of Britain II \imagemap
Battle of Britain II \maskmap
(Note that you will need 300M of temporary space to unzip this.)
To install, you can either
1) unzip these contents to a temporary location and copy the files over manually to their respective folder (overwriting the present files), or
2) simply unzip the entire thing into the Battle of Britain II folder (you should have the 'use folder names' option ticked (It usually is anyway) and select "Extract to Here").
[/README]
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DOWNLOAD: http://www.shockwaveproductions.com/bob_dev/PaulPics/SummerTerrain.zip
(updated download now 33M)
DOWNLOAD: http://www.shockwaveproductions.com/bob_dev/PaulPics/SummerTerrain.zip
(updated download now 33M)
So the intent of this is to have a public beta to find major issues (we have about 10 on the list right now before this would be an 'official' update).
The most visible ones are:-
1) Areas that to date have essentially been unmapped green (France away from the coast) have a repeating texture.
3) Some Bomber Command airfields need some texture reassignment.
..and some other stuff...
So feedback would be appreciated.