[agracier]

A bit more of show and tell on maps in progress.

Here are some shots of a map of Southeastern Spain, about half of Andalusia, that is coming along well too.

It will be more populated than the China map, but that part of the job still remains to be done. Terrain and roads are already finished.

And here too I've tried to be evocative of the typical Spanish landscape which can also be so contrasting all at once. I've tried to put in the reddish tint of earth, the parched feeling of high summer and the barren rock of mountains. As something different in the way of vegetation I thought that the excellent and well thought out cultivated forest textures from delvpier's woodpack mod, would be just the right thing to simulate the extensive olive and almond orchards of Jaen and surrounding regions. It's a shame different vegetation textures can't be used in conjunction with each other, but in this case I think the cultivated look fits well.

There's also a view here of how Microdem/Sturmovik show Gibraltar, for those interested in an invasion/defense of Gibraltar scenario.

Ah yes, and should anyone have any info on airfields in the region during the Civil War, I am always on the lookout for such information.

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[gunkan]

I LOVE YOU! I live in C

[kapteeni]

Some1 asked me to do map of Spain, but i didn't make it. This looks good!!!. Love the textures!

[walter_solito]

Great!!

cheers

walter

[agracier]

Some1 asked me to do map of Spain, but i didn't make it. This looks good!!!. Love the textures!

Spain has always been THE missing map in Sturmovik ... I think we're going to see many more of Spain coming out, now that the map building tutorial is being used ...

[Metatron]

That's some great work agracier, keep it up.

[mandrill7]

Agracier, the textures are looking very nice now. Did you modify them in any way?

BTW, why don't you make a map of northern Tunisia, since you seem to be working thru the entire Mediterranean?

[ftarquisa]

a great job, you are making an amazing ammount of maps lately. Keep on..

[GADGET]

Thank you for this project and your dedication

[agracier]

Agracier, the textures are looking very nice now. Did you modify them in any way?

BTW, why don't you make a map of northern Tunisia, since you seem to be working thru the entire Mediterranean?

They are textures I made from Google Earth. Over the last several months I was bitten by the texture bug, before I began to understand kevins map building tutorial. I really wanted some textures that would better approximate the dryness of a Mediterranean landscape, but without going into a desert look. I tried to get the reddish brown and the warm browns of parts of Spain, but since the landscape is so varied it also needed bare rock, whitish patches of ground and green as well.

I think I tried out some thousand textures along the way, most of them being utterly worthless. The ones here are at least some of the better results.

I didn't really modify the screencaps from Google Earth in any way, except to make seamless tiles via Paint Shop Pro 7. Mostly I left balance, brightness, color values and all that as it was. Once you start modifying those, there is no end to the results and permutations.

What i did find though was that it was best to make a whole bunch of textures from a single geographical area, say 25 to 40 of a brownish or a greenish or a grayish coloring, and to try them out by color tone on a map and then settle on a main theme.

You can then in later stages of map making, try and break up the tiling patterns in large same value RGB areas, by superimposing noise generated pixels and assigning a slightly different texture to the noise.

And on Tunisia - you anticipate things too well. I've a nice start-up map of Tunisia set up. It goes from Tunisia proper more to the west into Algeria. And I was trying out something on the Egyptian delta, for El Alamein and points west into Libya, but the Delta is a bit daunting it seems.

My big weakness however is placing objects, populating towns and creating real looking airfields and such. I think it's a lack of patience ... ha ha

Here is a view of the Tunisia map area ... but it is just in the startup stage.

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[kapteeni]

Man. You have been busy, haven't you? Pretty soon we will have all the maps that we need!
Try my method to populate the maps. And publish the maps sooooon!
seriously! Take ur time m8!

[agracier]

Man. You have been busy, haven't you? Pretty soon we will have all the maps that we need!
Try my method to populate the maps. And publish the maps sooooon!
seriously! Take ur time m8!

Starting up a map isn't hard or time consuming. I find it rather fun in fact, sort of like being let loose as a kid in a candy store ...

Here is another map that looks promising, one of Egypt. What should be interesting in this is trying to show the cultivated green of the Delta and the Nile banks, while retaining the bleak landscape of the Western Desert ...

And in this it will be possible to use the Pyramid objects !!

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[letku]

There all real beauties!

[kapteeni]

Man. You have been busy, haven't you? Pretty soon we will have all the maps that we need!
Try my method to populate the maps. And publish the maps sooooon!
seriously! Take ur time m8!

Starting up a map isn't hard or time consuming. I find it rather fun in fact, sort of like being let loose as a kid in a candy store ...

Here is another map that looks promising, one of Egypt. What should be interesting in this is trying to show the cultivated green of the Delta and the Nile banks, while retaining the bleak landscape of the Western Desert ...

And in this it will be possible to use the Pyramid objects !!

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I can help you to populate the Southerm Spain map. I'm almost done with my Kt_Viipuri. Just send PM if u need me!

[KG64_Cnopicilin]

Bloody nice!