03.04.2008, 12:56
Well I remade the map at 75% and the FMB+ worked fine. Perhaps I will try 90% tomorrow. I doubt my files are not made incorrectly for it to work with normal FMB and not with the modded FMB tools. Perhaps I am at a memory limit and loading the enhanced FMB puts me over the limit?
Yeah Cheech, for this scale of map you could never poulate the whole thing. I need to think about how I want to do it.
I like using the whole map as a base instead of cutting the country into chunks. It looks good and adds a touch of realism when mapping out your missions to see the familiar shape of the country and know exactly where you are in relation to it. I have always felt diconnected from the world playing the small IL2 maps that show a non-descript rectangle of land in the map every mission.
There seems to not be much of a memory hit at all (at least in my fast system) in loading or playing with a huge map. So either I could minimally cover many sections of map the map that saw aerial combat during the SCW, or I could make multiple maps using the same full scale map and concentrate on populating certain sectors of it for different phases of the war.
Once I get this FMB full scale issue realized (or learn I have to go with a smaller scale) I would like to post it and have people with lesser systems try it out for performance.
I will also be relying on Delco's auto-pop to help populate this map, taking much of the work out of it.
Now if only I could find somone able to rework many of our existing planes into new planes, early versions detuned to SCW era levels of performance......
..and my apologies to any Portugese flyers out there as I do not plan on populating that country at all since I must conserve resources and this is for the SCW.
Yeah Cheech, for this scale of map you could never poulate the whole thing. I need to think about how I want to do it.
I like using the whole map as a base instead of cutting the country into chunks. It looks good and adds a touch of realism when mapping out your missions to see the familiar shape of the country and know exactly where you are in relation to it. I have always felt diconnected from the world playing the small IL2 maps that show a non-descript rectangle of land in the map every mission.
There seems to not be much of a memory hit at all (at least in my fast system) in loading or playing with a huge map. So either I could minimally cover many sections of map the map that saw aerial combat during the SCW, or I could make multiple maps using the same full scale map and concentrate on populating certain sectors of it for different phases of the war.
Once I get this FMB full scale issue realized (or learn I have to go with a smaller scale) I would like to post it and have people with lesser systems try it out for performance.
I will also be relying on Delco's auto-pop to help populate this map, taking much of the work out of it.
Now if only I could find somone able to rework many of our existing planes into new planes, early versions detuned to SCW era levels of performance......
..and my apologies to any Portugese flyers out there as I do not plan on populating that country at all since I must conserve resources and this is for the SCW.