[viking4570]

A bit of a novelty, but a lot of fun to make and fly. 1:1 scale with four functional airfields and two "emergency" airfields. A bit if a mix of the real and fictional - most of the towns and roads are real places. The airfields are fictional. The big USMC airbase at Yuma is too far south for this map. The railroad to the south is fictional.

Files and Instructions can be found here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=db6e ... eaa7bc68bc

or here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/226726519/V ... nPack1.rar

And here are basic QMB missions red none and blue none for this map -

http://rapidshare.com/files/227062353/V ... on_QMB.zip

Put these two .mis files in you /missions/quick/ folder and add the following line to the [quick] section of your conf.ini:

CustomXX=VKG_Grand_Canyon

where XX is the next number in sequence under the [quick] section.

To Install the Map:

1)Add the folder VKG_Grand_Canyon to the path:

IL-2 Sturmovik 1946/Mods/Mapmods/Maps/

2)Add the folder Grand_Canyon (containing the textures) to:
IL-2 Sturmovik 1946/Mods/mapmods/Maps/_Tex/land/summer/

3)Add to your all.ini the text:
VKG_Grand_Canyon VKG_Grand_Canyon/load.ini

Thanks to Kevin_p for a great tutorial.

A note on the textures - many of these are just slightly reworked stock textures to give a more southwest U.S. color palette. Some are brand new made by me. I also used Genetica Viewer to render some of them. I did borrow a texture from Zip_Zaps Alpen map and recolored it - it is the one called brecchia. Also, my town texture started life as the downcity texture from dlv's Sinai map.
Thanks to both of you, and I hope you don't mind. The chalk texture also is just a recoloring of someone elses work, although I'm not sure who was responsible for it. Please let me know of any bugs/problems etc. Have fun!

NOTE: This map also uses NTL_Darwin Forest textures - If you do not have those textures installed you will get loading errors. I posted a workaround on the second page of this thread.

[HansHansen]

OMG!!!!!

ever dreamed of flying in those valleys!!!

Thank you very much!!!!

[Triad773]

Looks like fun 8)

Thanks

[axal]

Thank you for sharing, Viking!
very good work!

[Dudok22]

WHAT?! WHAT?! hock: :OO AWESOME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SUPER NICE GREAT .......... THX for this map 8)

[Ramstein]

load it up with tourist busses and add sounds of them screaming while being chased down...
:lol: :lol:

[Gonzo]

Great looking map, can't wait to try it out!!

[Davidson]

HOLLY S***!! hock: THANK YOU VERY MUCH MATE!! GREAT JOB!

[Guest]

Map looks great! But im getting a load.ini error

[VonBarb.]

Looking great ! Some of these textures could be useful for African maps as well !

Cheers

Nico

[Blumax]

Thanks very much mate and for the advice on texture orientation and those textures are awesome, brilliant map!!!!

[Bombsaway]

Thank you for such a great map.

[mac-601]

Thanks! I'm downloading it now and waiting to sneak through those corridors. :-)

[walter_solito]

Hi!

AMAZING!!!!!

I'll hope to make a lot of low level flight there ASAP!

cheers

walter

[Cpt_Biggles]

getting the following error message in full mission builder - HELP

World land().LoadMaperror.java.lang.RuntimeException:Landscape"VKG_Grand_Canyon/load ini" loading error