[Skunkmeister]

Non mod users can still use them, if they are just re-colours of existing maps. If they are new editions to the map list (like the superb Winter Norway) then they will need to have the sound mod installed.

Are you saying that you can modify the load.ini of maps for straight 4.08? How?

Oh and would it be possible to add the place names to maps like NWGermany?

[fabianfred]

so I got the new winter norway map running Ok....how can i add the Guadalcanal and Kuban maps you guys made to the map list in FMB too?

[fly_zo]

so I got the new winter norway map running Ok....how can i add the Guadalcanal and Kuban maps you guys made to the map list in FMB too?

Ok here it is :

1. in maps"desired map folder" ... place your modified xxload.ini file ( note! name must be different than original load.ini)... in same folder you can have different load.ini files for that map as many as you like ( for example wload.ini...dload.ini...

2. in all.ini ...files\maps\ ... ( file comes with my norvay winter map) add your mod maps ( custom names are ok) like this:

Croatia Italy_DF/croload.ini
Norway Norway/load.ini
Norway_winter Norway/wload.ini
Kiev Kiev/load.ini
Manchuria Manchuria/load.ini
KhalkhinGol KhalkhinGol/load.ini
Burma Burma/load.ini

first goes your desired name than game map folder / nameof ini file

3. update your filelist for all created xxload.ini files


bonus: for diferent names of towns on the same map .... make xxtexts.txt file in map folder ...open xxxload.ini for desired map and replace name for texts.txt file... like this:

[static]
actors.static
[text]
texts.txt

[fabianfred]

Thanks Fly...thats Ok with the Kuban map...but the Guadalcanal one is just a tga file with no .ini !!??

[LAL_RONE]

Hi everybody.

I continue my work about old maps. After Crimea, Kuban, Smolensk and Moscow (thanks fly-zo for your help to find correct name folder !!), I reworked on Crimea. A guy of my squad create a Crimea Campaign, and he need a winter version.
I choose to do the map differently as the traditional method. In Crimea there is very little snow, then I don't cover the map with snow texture.
What do you think about this :





But I have a big problem : I can't add this map as a new map like Normay_winter. It doesn't operate ... I don't understand why ... So I substitute the load.ini ...

My load.ini of winter_Crimea :

[MAP]
ColorMap = map_c.tga
HeightMap = map_h.tga
SmallMap = map_M.tga
TypeMap = map_T.tga
FarMap = map_F.tga
ReflMap = map_R.tga

[LIGHT]
LandLight = LandLight.mat
CloudShadows = CloudShadows.mat

[MAP2D]
ed_m03.tga
ed_m02.tga
ed_m01.tga

;map_edm.tga
;map_m.tga
;map_ed.tga
;map_ed_d.tga
;map_ed_Air.tga

[WORLDPOS]
CAMOUFLAGE = WINTER
MONTH=11
DECLIN = 43
PRESSURE = 745
TEMPERATURE = 1

[CUBE]
Down = Cube_bott.tga
East = Cube_right.tga
North = Cube_front.tga
South = Cube_back.tga
Up = Cube_top.tga
West = Cube_left.tga

[static]
actors.static
[text]
texts.txt

[WOOD]
Wood0 = Italy_DF/forest/summer/itawood0.tga
Wood1 = Italy_DF/forest/summer/itawood1.tga
Wood2 = Italy_DF/forest/summer/itawood2.tga
Wood3 = Italy_DF/forest/summer/itawood3.tga
Wood4 = Italy_DF/forest/summer/itawood4.tga
WoodMask2 = forest/summer/forestMask.tga
WoodMask3 = forest/summer/forestMask2.tga
WoodMiniMasks = forest/summer/MiniMask.tga
SideWood = forest/summer/ForestSide.tga

[APPENDIX]
HighClouds = Clouds256.tga
HighCloudsNoise = CloudsNoise.tga
Moon = Moon\Moon0000.tga
// CloudsMap = CloudMap4x4km.tga
ShadeNoise = land/Noise.tga
WaterNoise = water/WaterNoise.tga
WaterNoiseAnimStart = Water/Animated/WaterNoise00.tga
ForestNoise= forest/summer/ListForestNoise.tga
BeachFoam = water/Foam.tga
BeachSurf = water/BeachSurf.tga
BeachLand = water/RiverLand.tga


Tree0 = Trees\AlteredBush8a.tga
TreeLightMask = Trees\LightM256.tga

[WATER]
Water = water/Water.tga
WaterColorATI = 0.180 0.225 0.157
WaterColorNV = 0.214 0.272 0.232

[ROADS]
Rail = land/summer/Rail
Road = land/summer/Road
Highway = land/summer/Highway

[FIELDS]
LowLand0 = land/Pacific/Okinawa.tga
LowLand1 = land/summer/fields_midland_ian.tga
LowLand2 = land/summer/fields_dry2a.tga
LowLand3 = water/CoastLineOki.tga

MidLand0 = land/summer/fields_midland_ian.tga
MidLand1 =
MidLand2 =
MidLand3 =

Mount0 = land/Pacific/ChichiGrass.tga
Mount1 = Italy_DF/land/summer/mount_top2.tga,2
Mount2 =
Mount3 = land/winter/Snow3.tga

Country0 = land/summer/bigcountry.tga
Country1 = land/summer/countries.tga
Country2 = land/summer/factory.tga
Country3 = land/summer/factoryC.tga

City0 = land/summer/DownCity.tga
City1 = land/summer/MidCity.tga
City2 = land/summer/CenterCity.tga
City3 =

AirField0= land/summer/fields_midland_ian.tga
AirField1=
AirField2=
AirField3=

Wood0 = land/summer/mount.tga
Wood1 =
Wood2 = forest/summer/ForestFar.tga
Wood3 =

Water0 = water/water.tga
Water1 = water/water.tga
Water2 = land/summer/fields_midland_ian.tga
Water3 = land/summer/uppermount.tga



PS: When I will be finished my work, I think I create a .rar maps pack with all the maps I modify, if you want ?

[Faucon]

if you want ?

Yes !!

[LAL_RONE]

OK Faucon, je ferai

[Bee]

While you guys have been taking care of the land, I've been looking at the sky.
I darkened the sky by removing the annoying 24 hour sunset. Also managed to make the high stratus layer much more dense. Haven't figured out how to reduce the mmon glow yet though.

The map is a separate install of the default Berlin Map (thanks Fly_zo for the how-to). In the second shot you'll notice the mini map is different. The idea is to make that eventually look like a radar screen, as I'm hoping to make a standalone nightfighter version of the game (more about that later). This will involve getting rid of the fake clear plastic overlay that the mini map has. Plus making replacement plane icons that look like tiny blips.
If anyone finds out what .tga's make up the plastic cover and leather map surround, plus get rid of the grid lines - please let me know!!!

[fabianfred]

what's that you've done then Bee?

[Bee]

I changed the declination of the sun from 50 to DECLIN = 1
Also, I changed the existing appendix data to this :
[APPENDIX]
HighClouds = CloudsNoise.tga
HighCloudsNoise = CloudsNoise.tga

The idea is to make a whole bunch of duplicate maps, each with different seasonal conditions. Both in the landscape and atmospheric. Also the in-flight map would be different for each. Several for example, would be obscured by varying degrees of 'Window'. Tin foil chaff dropped by RAF bombers to hide them from radar. I haven't nailed the look of it yet, but an example of the idea is below. A cloud of window is on the left. In the upper right is a single bomber.

When you build a Nachtj

[uf_josse]

Ca fonctionne comme une nouvelle carte chez moi, R-one....

Voici comment j'ai fait

1 - name your ini file (for example) "crimeawinter.ini" put this file in files/maps/crimea

2 - in file files/maps/ all.ini added line "Crimea_winter Crimea/crimeawinter.ini"

3 - in filelist.txt added line "maps/crimea/crimeawinter.ini"

4 - cherry on the cake, as we say in french : in file "files/i18n/maps_ru.properties" added line "Crimea_winter Crim

[Neil Lowe]

oooooh Spooky, nice one Bee

Cheers, Neil

[LAL_RONE]

Super JOSSE Merci, je teste

[fly_zo]

so I got the new winter norway map running Ok....how can i add the Guadalcanal and Kuban maps you guys made to the map list in FMB too?

.... rename load.ini that came with kuban mod into xxload.ini .....
.... for guadal ..... copy original load.ini from extracted sfs files ... rename it xxload.ini ...

it's the same for all maps
Z

[fly_zo]

@LAL_RONE: Fantastic work ...like it very much !!!!


@ Bee:

brilliant....just brilliant

Z