Map Building for Beginners - Printable Version
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Hi Kevin - farang65 - 13.03.2009
I
ve chosen my small project for this week end
Downloaded everything as required.
At the moment just trying to find a suitable Google Earth cracked version.
This week end's project Espirito Island with maybe a couple of surrounding islands.
Got some greast info on airfields there from Pacific Wrecks web site.
There was a fighter strip and two bomber strips
Baa Baa Black Sheep hee we come.
Cheers Kirby.
Christ if I think I can do this project from your tutorial I am sure ALIEN 12 could even have a go.
Cheers Kirby
Reply to farang65 - kevinp - 14.03.2009
Hi farang
Sounds like an interesting project
Let me know how you get on. I need feedback on any problems people might have following my instructions.
Good luck
- ftarquisa - 15.03.2009
this tutorial is actually very good, thanks
- EasyRider - 15.03.2009
Hi there Kevinp
I have read a bit of the manual you created and have found it very interesting.
I can see you put a lot of time and thought into it, thank you very much
Easy
- Rammjäger - 16.03.2009
Excellent tutorial!
I hope you find time to extend it someday with tutorials for roads/railways, bridges and airfields ( I think there is already one for airfields somewhere).
- Neil Lowe - 16.03.2009
Great work on the tutorial, that'll help lots of people make a start at making maps.
Cheers, Neil
Hi Kevin - farang65 - 16.03.2009
Firstly, Fabian Fred gave me his builder.ini and conf.ini for map making. Some time ago that was the first time I was able to see the grey grid on the map with unlocked fmb
Sunday computer died got a new cpu and 8800 Nividea G force.
I found a map builder.ini from Fly Zo and a conf.ini from lowfighter. Searching the site
I can see the islands from the Pacific Islands map. I can see the coast line but I can not see the water. The ocean is black. I can not see the thick grey grid on the land masses.
Is this normal?
I have a map making game with just a UTVS and an Arado float plane to fly around on the map no other planes.
Map Making game works fine I am using 4.09. C drive
My other game is Uni installer D Drive
Cheers Kirby
Looking forward to Espirito Santos Island and possibly surrounding islands over the next week or so
- silverliu - 17.03.2009
A lot of thanks
farang65 - kevinp - 17.03.2009
Hi Kirby
Black ocean is not normal unless there is a black ring all around the edge of a blue ocean, this is normal.
It's a complete mystery to me.
Hi Kevin p - farang65 - 17.03.2009
I have been working today he he he.
I got a colour map and a red map ready for cropping stage.
Naturally its not just an island. I have a chain of islands.
Am interested to know possible sizes for cropping.
Yours was 50 90 762 480 and 1.40 ratio from memmory in the Gimp cropping rectangle
[img]
![[Image: espiritoislandchaingrey.jpg]](http://www.uppic.net/te/espiritoislandchaingrey.jpg)
[/img]Other Colour Pic see below.
Cheers Kirby
Hre's the colour pic - farang65 - 17.03.2009
![[Image: espiritoislandchaincolour.jpg]](http://www.uppic.net/ie/espiritoislandchaincolour.jpg)
Cheers Kirby [/img]
- CzechTexan - 17.03.2009
This map making tutorial is very helpful. Thank you.
However, I need a better explanation on how to smooth runways in MapH. Maybe I overlooked it in the tutorial? I'm using Gimp.
- Guest - 17.03.2009
Thankyou !
- MrOblongo - 17.03.2009
Cant get GIMP to work...
[code]The installer couldn't determine in which subdirectory are the GTK+ libraries placed (C:\Program Files\GTK2-Runtime\bin or C:\Program Files\GTK2-Runtime\lib).
Please reinstall GTK+ before running the Setup again.
If you already tried reinstalling GTK+, uninstall it, and get a new installer from .
farang65 - kevinp - 17.03.2009
Hi Kirby
The size ratio can be anything you like. I just chose 1.40 because thats the size of the Full Mission Builder screen. Sorry if I didn't make that clear, maybe I will re-write that bit.
Your map looks really exciting.
Cheers