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Default Map Upgrade pack 2.7
for IL-2 Sturmovik 1946 4.09b1m or later

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This map pack upgrades many map textures with more realistic or interesting ones. The result is a more immersive, colorful scenario. I tried to use the newer Burma, Italy, Slovakia and Romania textures a lot, because they're a lot more realistic then some of the old ones. The pack also inludes separate high clouds layers. I prefer to have the dense version on most maps. Important: these map mods work only in 'Perfect' mode without problems.

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Extract to, by default:
C:/Program Files/Ubisoft/IL-2 Sturmovik 1946/MODS

Uninstall a map: delete corresponding subfolder in (by default)
C:/Program Files/Ubisoft/IL-2 Sturmovik 1946/MODS/MAPMODS/maps

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Contents:

MTO, ETO maps:

- Ardennes summer & winter
- Balaton summer & winter
- Berlin
- Crimea
- Desert Online (new clouds only)
- Finsgulf summer & winter
- Italy_DF
- Kiev
- Kuban
- Kursk
- Lvov
- Moscow summer & winter
- Murmansk Summer
- Normandy
- Norway (new actors static included, delete if you got no fps problems on Banf airbase)
- NWEurope
- Prokhorovka
- Online MT (Sandsoftime)
- Smolensk
- Stalingrad summer & winter

PTO:

- Burma (only a new actors static included, delete if you got no fps problems on Imphal airbase)
- Guadalcanal
- Hawaii
- Iwo Jima
- Kyushu
- Marianas
- Midway (only a small fps improvement)
- Palau
- New Guinea
- Singapore

Online maps:

- Online1Summer
- Online2Summer
- Online3Summer
- Online4Summer (Netmountains)
- Online5Summer
- Pacific Islands (Net8islands)
- Online6Island
- Online7Islands

Recommended mod, I didnt upgraded this map because I knew this was coming: Okinawa by LAL_Rone (The link is inoperative)

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Note: There are several (high) clouds settings to choose from. You only need to change the tga filename in the load.ini. For example: open the file "C:/Program Files/Ubisoft/IL-2 Sturmovik 1946/MODS/MAPMODS/maps/Balaton/load.ini" the clouds are set here:

[APPENDIX]
HighClouds = Clouds256.tga
HighCloudsNoise = CloudsNoise.tga
// CloudsMap = CloudMap4x4km.tga
Moon = MoonMoon0000.tga
ShadeNoise = land/Noise.tga
WaterNoise = water/WaterNoise.tga
WaterNoiseAnimStart = Water/Animated/WaterNoise00.tga
ForestNoise= forest/summer/ListForestNoise.tga
BeachFoam = water/PacificFoam_.tga
BeachSurf = water/PacificBeachSurf.tga
BeachLand = water/RiverLand.tga
CoastBumpNoise = water/CoastBumpNoiseDimas.tga

you can change to:

HighClouds = Clouds256.tga (my default, dense version)
HighClouds = Clouds256_orig.tga (original, medium density)
HighClouds = Clouds256_med.tga (almost nothing, barely visible cirrus clouds for the MTO, PTO)

with 4.09b1m you got more options:

HighClouds = MTO_Clouds256.tga
HighClouds = sk_Clouds256.tga
HighCloudsNoise = sk_CloudsNoise.tga
HighClouds = LAL_Clouds256.tga
HighCloudsNoise = LAL_CloudsNoise.tga

Version history:

v1.1: fixed Mariannas, not matching textures problem - Guadalcanal, wrong actors.static on early map - Singapore, wrong actors.static - Normandy, wrong actors.static - Online MT, invisible airfield textures

v1.2 fixed Normandy textures on maps without island/british base

v1.3 Online2Summer map added, Slovakia,Bessarabia, MTO load ini files included for mapbuilding, ground airfields got matching brown texture instead of green, which was illogical

v1.4 Balaton map update, using Slovakia and Bessarabia textures

v1.5 Normandy maps update, using Slovakia and Bessarabia textures

v1.6 Ardennes, Norway update, using Slovakia and Bessarabia textures

v1.7 wood updates for: Berlin,Crimea,Finsgulf,Kiev,Kuban,Kursk,Lviv,Moscow,Net2Summer,Net5Summer,nweurope,Prokhorovka,Smolensk,Stgrad, so now PTO and ETO have a quite different wood setting thx to 4.09 textures

v1.8 Lvov map update, using more Slovakia and Bessarabia textures

v1.9 Online1Summer, Online3Summer maps added, Online2Summer map updated, using more Slovakia and Bessarabia textures, problem (loaded online instead full map) with Bessarabia load.ini fixed

v2.0 Online6Island and Online7Islands added

v2.1 Murmansk summer added, concrete and ground airport textures updated v2.2 Kursk, Moscow summer, Smolensk updated

v2.3 Berlin fixed/updated

v2.4 Kurland added, Balaton updated with new village texture by Handy, Finnsgulf updated

v2.5 Balaton winter & Stalingrad summer and winter updated using Mbug lowres winter Slovakia textures, also added new, seasonal nav maps for Balaton by LAL-Rone

v2.6 Winter Balaton, Stalingrad, Moscow update using Mbug&GilB57 lowres winter textures

v2.7 Ardennes and Finnsgulf winter added, new winter runway texture added

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