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As promised the new Aleutians map is in version 1 and reading for use. You can download via the following link. Install instructions are included in the zipfile.

http://www.mediafire.com/?yntmz5khqki

This is another joint venture by Cracken, who choose the idea for making the map, did the research and testing.

Because of the large geographical area, we had to make some conceptual decisions on how to get as much of this vast chain of islands onto one single loadable map. We fudged a bit and moved the islands closer to one another, while sadly leaving out the middle group which contains Adak. There are however both Japanese held and American held islands on the map and more than enough open water to simulate flying great distances.

It is a sparsely populated map, bar Dutch and Constantine Harbor, the airfields and several dozens of small fishing shacks and outposts scattered about.

We might suggest playing with rain or snow as a weather factor to better simulate reality. We also kept the temperature above freezing. Without knowing the results, we once set map temperature to minus 10 and had a mild panic attack when it turned out that the map water froze over - but not in a very realistic manner.

For fun, here is a link to a war-time cartoon on conditions in the Aleutians:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se1cw5Jt ... r_embedded

If anyone is wondering, the walrus in the cartoon is a take-off on Jimmy Durante, at the time a well-known American actor/comedian.

And lastly some screenshots
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update for version 1.1


here is a downloadlink for a newly textured version of the Aleutians map. A readme install is included in the rar file. Both inks should work

http://www.mediafire.com/?coanmmwjodj

http://www.mediafire.com/file/coanmmwjodj/ag_Aleutians v1.1.rar

The new version includes winter textures from the standard UI 1.1 winter Slovakia map which are in higher resolution and give a more detailed landscape. A few small glitches in the landscape have been fixed here and there - not all by any means - and a new coast texture by avala is designated for coastlines, all of which is meant to make blending between snow and coastline brown more pleasing to the eye.

UPDATE on Fixing 'Hard Water'



Problem : Bombs falling water will leave a crater and seaplanes cannot always land on water either.

Apparently this can be fixed by a very simple editing of the load.ini file.
this is a line of text that is near the beginning of the file:

[WORLDPOS]
CAMOUFLAGE = WINTER

please change that to

[WORLDPOS]
CAMOUFLAGE = SUMMER

Apparently by editing the map to a winter map, it makes all water behave like ice, even if the water textures show unfrozen water. By changing the camouflage to summer, this should fix the hard water problem. BUT, it will give default summer skins on certain airplanes where applicable and it will not allow the use of skis on a few aircraft either - should you happen to choose a skiable model - which is a bit unlikely in the Aleutians. These are the Gladiator and Blenheim I believe.