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High Malta Winter - agracier - 08.02.2009

I've a great liking for winter maps and usually you can easily replace existing textures by simply lifting the whole entry in the load.ini from a good winter map, and putting it into a non-winter map.

That's about as far as my skills in this go.

Sometimes the maps are however flawed in certain areas, such as this High Malta map with the textures from GW-Norway. I've fiddled around with the textures, replacing this and that, but with little success. I have no skill in this subject. I have no idea which texture (or lack of) is causing this back shoreline.

But perhaps this is a simple problem to which someone knows a solution? How do i get rid of the black texture on the water's edge? What i find odd is that not all shorelines are blackened, just about 50% ...

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- Checkyersix - 08.02.2009

black shorelines are caused by water on the Map_C file not matching with water on the Map_T file. Try overlaying your map_C image onto your map_T image and setting all the water areas to black.

- dunkelgrun - 08.02.2009

You can fix it by simply painting in the texture you want. In the unlocked FMB go to Object Viewer, Select 'Tile' then the particular texture you require and paint it with the mouse.

:cheers:

- asheshouse - 11.02.2009

Looks to me as if map_T.tga has been corrupted by shifting the texture sideways.
Which map files have you been editing in a graphics package?

Incidently, was there much snow in Malta in the 1940's?

- GilB57 - 11.02.2009

It also may be an empty texture slot in the load.ini file .... ?

- agracier - 11.02.2009

Incidently, was there much snow in Malta in the 1940's?
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No idea at all, nor does it matter really. High Malta is a mountainous map, I like mountainous regions and the Italian part in the upper part of the map is good to use as another region - for instance I use it for Spanish Civil War scenarios.

Thanks for the suggestions by the way.

- Lejo - 11.02.2009

Can't imagine there is any snow in Malta. Take a look at temperature tables at weathersites and in wintertime it is still 10-15 degrees Celsius.
http://www.guidetomalta.net/About-Malta/the-weather-in-malta

In 2007 Malta was nominated for having "The Best Climate in the World".

- fdelre - 11.02.2009

I've been living in Malta for nearly three years and don't remember ever seeing snow but maybe with climate change....

- agracier - 11.02.2009

don't remember ever seeing snow
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Boy, next time I retreat into a fantasy land when playing a game, I'm not ever gonna mention the word 'snow' ... ha ha

I wouldn't have thought things would be taken so literally here. But just to explain things, why for instance the upper part of this game map is a good stand-in for a Spanish Civil War setting, notice how similar this looks to the southern part of Spain, just adjacent to north Africa. With a bit of suspension of disbelief, we have Gibraltar jutting out in the south, with Cadiz to the west and the cities of Malaga, Almeria, Cartagena and Alicante on the coast. We even have a good rendering and placing of the Sierra Nevada.

So it's all just a gameland bit of tinkering. The landscape and terrain on the Malta map is however a very good stand-in for Spain and it does snow there very much indeed. Besides, there's nothing more dramatic and visually pleasing than to fly in snowy, mountainous areas in the game. Especially when the action is low down and close to the ground. There just aren't that many good maps of that sort yet.

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