[Download] Caucasus Map
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Added airfields by Kurganinsk and by Mostovskoy to fill in the empty area.

Revelations have appeared to me! I worked on the 2D edm_01 and 02 and improved the look significantly. In the process of choosing the best size of the 2D maps and fiddling with the texts I discovered how texts work. This may not be news to some people but it may help other amateurs like myself.

As in my previous maps and in other maps I've seen, all texts (ie, region names, small village names) always show from zoom out to zoom in on the FMB. Stock IL2 maps and others like Mbug_Slovakia winter have large texts that disappear as you zoom in and small village texts only appear as you zoom in...and they appear on the 3D landscape too....this is the effect I was searching for and I discovered how to do it.

When placing a text on your map, there are three boxes below the colors with checks in them. These checks determine when the name appears as you zoom in.
If you want a large text, for example: BLACK SEA, to disappear as you zoom in, then only check the first box, other boxes empty.

After discovering how texts appear as you zoom in, I still had the problem of my texts not appearing on the 3D landscape (zoom in all the way). I noticed agracier's Hankow map and Mbug's map have this effect.
.... so I looked at agracier's sizes for his 2D maps which was the only difference, and the answer is right there!

I changed my 2D map sizes.
edm_02 = same size as map_T and map_H
edm_01 = 4 x size of edm_02

Now my texts work like they do in stock IL2 maps!


Problem now is that I need to change a lot of small village names to only appear as you zoom in close.
So I looked at the code in the text file and discovered which place number affects when the name appears on map.

It's the first single digit number after the first two series of numbers:
xxxxxxxx xxxxxxx 7 (numbers after that determine location and last number is color).

number 7 = texts show all the time
number 6 = texts only show as you zoom in close
number 1 = texts only show when zoom out


If this "secret" was already out there in some tutorial then I missed it. Anyhow, now I know the secret and sharing this info might help others.
All the Best!
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