26.04.2008, 23:05
Just to give an up-date about how my Burma/Thailand/Indo-china map is progressing.....
The sea now is working correctly and allows boat traffic....and I have a nice surf and sandy beaches.
The rivers are still not completed, but all the most important ones are there....Chao Praya, Menam Khong, Salaween, Menam Moon, Menam
Kok, Menam Ping,....it is very difficult to get them to follow the terrain correctly, since most of Northern Thailand, Burma, Laos, Vietnam are very
mountainous, and trying to get the rivers flowing in the valleys is an impossible task.
Thai airfields are at Chiangmai, Chiangrai, Loei, Ubon, Udon, Khorat, Takhli. Don Muang, Prachuap Khiri Khan, Kanchanaburi, Chantaburi,
Prachinburi, Petchabun, Nongkhai, Lopburi.....any important ones missing....let me know?
I want to put no more than three or four airfields in Burma and indo-china...which would be the most important for my map?
I have the following rail lines in place........ Bangkok to Chiangmai.....to Ubon.....to Nongkhai...to Kanchanaburi.....to the end of the map south of
Prachuap Khiri Khan....... any more important ones I've missed?
I need to know which lines to run in Indo-chin and Burma.......
I am still doing road construction (fortunately road and rail lines can be laid individually in the map 3D mode so I can get them to try and follow
the contours).... I am laying the road from Chiangmai to Bangkok right now....then I'll look at the one to Khorat and Nongkhai...
Please do not expect my rail and roads to be accurate in their placement....modern maps do not always accurately depict the routes used
seventy years ago.... and information for this theatre is sketchy.
Towns and Cities are being placed as I see fit...... and none of them will be of any size or highly populated with buildings.... if anyone later on,
after the map is released, plays lego and makes a nice arrangement of buildings anywhere, then we can easily incorporate them as another
edition. There are few buildings suitable for this theatre in the present Object list.
I have used suitable textures to cover the landscape and mountains, and therefore see no real need to actually put forest over 60% of the map,
which was probably jungle at that time. I intend to put forest around areas which will get the most 'close-up' views, being the airfield areas, and
towns and cities.
No Water air bases have been put on the map yet...they are easy to do ....any suggestions as to the most important ones?
Although the map is still very much WIP....if anyone who is comfortable with the MODS process of including new maps, and would like to try it
out in its present state......PM me and I'll give a link to a download.
The sea now is working correctly and allows boat traffic....and I have a nice surf and sandy beaches.
The rivers are still not completed, but all the most important ones are there....Chao Praya, Menam Khong, Salaween, Menam Moon, Menam
Kok, Menam Ping,....it is very difficult to get them to follow the terrain correctly, since most of Northern Thailand, Burma, Laos, Vietnam are very
mountainous, and trying to get the rivers flowing in the valleys is an impossible task.
Thai airfields are at Chiangmai, Chiangrai, Loei, Ubon, Udon, Khorat, Takhli. Don Muang, Prachuap Khiri Khan, Kanchanaburi, Chantaburi,
Prachinburi, Petchabun, Nongkhai, Lopburi.....any important ones missing....let me know?
I want to put no more than three or four airfields in Burma and indo-china...which would be the most important for my map?
I have the following rail lines in place........ Bangkok to Chiangmai.....to Ubon.....to Nongkhai...to Kanchanaburi.....to the end of the map south of
Prachuap Khiri Khan....... any more important ones I've missed?
I need to know which lines to run in Indo-chin and Burma.......
I am still doing road construction (fortunately road and rail lines can be laid individually in the map 3D mode so I can get them to try and follow
the contours).... I am laying the road from Chiangmai to Bangkok right now....then I'll look at the one to Khorat and Nongkhai...
Please do not expect my rail and roads to be accurate in their placement....modern maps do not always accurately depict the routes used
seventy years ago.... and information for this theatre is sketchy.
Towns and Cities are being placed as I see fit...... and none of them will be of any size or highly populated with buildings.... if anyone later on,
after the map is released, plays lego and makes a nice arrangement of buildings anywhere, then we can easily incorporate them as another
edition. There are few buildings suitable for this theatre in the present Object list.
I have used suitable textures to cover the landscape and mountains, and therefore see no real need to actually put forest over 60% of the map,
which was probably jungle at that time. I intend to put forest around areas which will get the most 'close-up' views, being the airfield areas, and
towns and cities.
No Water air bases have been put on the map yet...they are easy to do ....any suggestions as to the most important ones?
Although the map is still very much WIP....if anyone who is comfortable with the MODS process of including new maps, and would like to try it
out in its present state......PM me and I'll give a link to a download.