[kapteeni]

Holy crap!
I had to start from scratch again. AI planes crashed all the time to mountains. They were too high! I had to flatten mountains a bit. Thats Fine. But during messing with Photoshop i destroyed all the original mp_h and one that i have was ruined: see was rising to mountains like in Bible. there was nothing else to do, but shout: Let my people Go!! So me the Path to promiced Lapland!!

Good news is making map from zero to ready to populate took about 5-6 hours. So im more or less in the same situation than yesterday. I guess i have done my homework.

Time to create some roads, towns and harbours

Because is a DF or COOP map, i decided not to give any name to cities and places.

[Flying Nutcase]

Well it's good to hear that you're in good spirits and efficient at map making too.

Pity about the AI. They can be right twats at time. Good luck this time round.

[kapteeni]

And Screenshots from WIP:




I been done some test missions. Hope ya like the pictures!! Still lots of work to be done

[fly_zo]

liking them a lot m8 ..... superb job!


Z

[kapteeni]

Wanna do some betatesting?
pm to me and i send rapidshare link to you. Oh, what the hell. I put the link here:
http://rapidshare.com/files/96005966/Kt_winter.zip.html
Please, Gimme some feedback. Suggestions about towns and all that comes to mind.

IMPORTANT! This works only in 409 modded version.
My rig is quite lowend except graphigcard:
AMD 4000+
2Gig
Nvidia 8800 gt+1gig
Xp pro


Extract to your mapmods/maps folder . Read the read me. You find Kt_winter Kt_winter/load.ini text there. Copy it to your Mapmods/maps/all.ini and you should see the Kt_winter map in the FMB. Happy testing!
:lol: Kt :lol:

[fabianfred]

Pity about having to lower mountains....I always thought it was difficult enough to get them high

how come the AI crash.....even when waypoints are higher.. hock: or were you trying to get them to fly between the peaks...?

AI always have problems negotiating the fijords in my 633sqn mission...and they are not very high

don't ruin a map just for the stupid AI 8)

[fly_zo]

Pity about having to lower mountains....I always thought it was difficult enough to get them high

how come the AI crash.....even when waypoints are higher.. hock: or were you trying to get them to fly between the peaks...?

AI always have problems negotiating the fijords in my 633sqn mission...and they are not very high

don't ruin a map just for the stupid AI 8)

100% agree ..... or make two versions , anyhow someone will find out how to tweak AI's behavior so they won't be so suicidal anymore ... i sure hope so

Z

[kapteeni]

Hights of the mountains are almost correct. In northen Norway coastal mountains are like 1000m at highest most of the time. ( Pictures from fjords are mostly taken in southern/middle parts of Norway).But as mountains rise right from the sea, they look more bigger than in in inland highlands. AI problem was during the landings all the AIs crashed to mountains. I can make a map with steeper an narrower slopes tho. But as we all know, map making is also diffucult task, what comes to compromising between palyability and real life accuraty. Anyways, i see what i can do about mountains in next version. I

[fly_zo]

ok , one thing that needs correction .... you may want to change camouflage to summer .... cos with winter water is treated as ice ... hence there are no splashes and hydro planes are sticked like glue to it (no take off's) .... learned that with Norway winter ....

fps are ok here

Prescott 3.0HT
2Gb DDR
NV7600 GT 256Mb
audigy2

perfect mode .... water 3

and this is one beautiful map




cheers,
Z

[kapteeni]

Thanks Fly_z! Good that FPS are OK. I change that camoflache thing. Where did ya get that skin? Is it in Mission4Today? I have an other version with higher mountains and steeper coastline ready for testing probably sunday. And then i`m ready to upload. BTW everybody are welcome to mod my modded map too. Just put some screenies here now and then.

When i recovered from this map, I wanna try something else. Maybe Israel.... or East Africa .

[WhiteCat]

Very nice, thanks!! Only one doubt: If everything is snowed, how the roofs of the houses are red? Should'nt they be white? :lol:

[Trooper117]

Heating.. Poor loft insulation.. lol

[kapteeni]

Go to load.ini and change:
rooftop1 roofs/red tile.Tga to
rooftop1 roofs/snowtile.Tga 2 :wink:

[fly_zo]

Go to load.ini and change:
rooftop1 roofs/red tile.Tga to
rooftop1 roofs/snowtile.Tga 2 :wink:

priceless ! :lol: :lol: :lol:


Z
p.s. as for skin ..... M4T or Flying legends , can't remember which it was ...

[Flying Nutcase]

kapteeni,

Pleease, don't populate airfields! Give us the strip and no cam nets, no drums, fuel tanks etc. At least that's my black & white opinion. Let mission builders create customised fields.

Others' opinions?