[LAL_RONE]

There are some strange things on the Crimea map with R-one's mod:

Dry river beds and

City textures under a lot of the airfields...

-Dry river beds : the original Crimea is like this too !!! Try it ! I can do nothing for this !

- City textures under of the arifileds : Oups ! I forgot something. I repair my mistake.
You must write :
AirField0= land/summer/war.tga
(I edit my previous post to rectify my load.ini)
This "war" texture for airport is very original !!! This texture shows an airport with emergency landing zone, or somes trenches, or construction zone !

Thanks for every body for your congratulation and your "beta testing"!!!!

@VPMEDIA: I try to modify SMOLENSK like you want this afternoon, ok ?
Some map are joined :
Crimea & Kuban : so i will modifiy Kuban like Crimea !
Smolensk and Moscou maps are joined too, so i will modify Moscou like Smolensk when i will finished Smolensk...

Sorry for my poor english ... I am french !!!

[fly_zo]

Hi Zo, I did it in a different way, the "right" way, you'll see what I mean:

There's a file all.ini in the maps folder looking like

Norway Norway/load.ini
Kiev Kiev/load.ini
Manchuria Manchuria/load.ini
KhalkhinGol KhalkhinGol/load.ini
Burma Burma/load.ini
NWEurope NWEurope/load.ini
Kurland_Winter Kurland/wload.ini
Kurland_Autumn Kurland/load.ini
.....

added line

Norway_winter Norway/wload.ini

in it.

Renamed your load.ini to wload.ini (whatever name just to be different from the original and correspond to the one in the all.ini)

Added maps/all.ini in the filelist.txt.
Added maps/Norway/wload.ini
That's all! :wink:

brilliant ...just brilliant ....

Z

EDITED:

just tried it man .... works for old maps..... for norway , italy ... still need complete map folder with all map files.

still beats my solution by a mile

EDITED 2nd:

YEEEE it works!!!!! ..... and i am an IDIOT

forgot to put wload.ini into filelist !

someone please kill me !

Z

[miker8]

TO ALL THE MAPMODDERS ,; mayby its a bit too forward to say but havin said that this is, next to the soundmod , my favourite mods I also believe these mods are going to have a lot of impact to the il community...its gonna be HUGHE!,

now there is a danger that could lead to confusion....havin to choose from 10 or even more different Kuban/guadalcanal/iwo ectr....and whatever map mod, ...so mayby somehowe its a good thing to anticipate working as a team , sure I notice you already are doin that, but in the end when maps are offered as a genuine download it would be wise to agree on one iwo/kuban/guadalcanal ectr..map,

I mean can you imagine youre doin a coop and you are warned, ,..watch ur six bogey left of the harbour/moumtain..and you say; ...what the f**k are you talkin about, there is no town/harbour ?!!!...and... next you hit the ground. hi hi sure i'm dramatising , sry, but its a thought that came into my mind and hope it will sorte itself out in future, for the rest keep up the good work, ...the progess is thrilling!!

[Vpmedia]

I tested Crimea and its is so much better now, like a new map

[fly_zo]

TO ALL THE MAPMODDERS ,; mayby its a bit too forward to say but havin said that this is, next to the soundmod , my favourite mods I also believe these mods are going to have a lot of impact to the il community...its gonna be HUGHE!,

now there is a danger that could lead to confusion....havin to choose from 10 or even more different Kuban/guadalcanal/iwo ectr....and whatever map mod, ...so mayby somehowe its a good thing to anticipate working as a team , sure I notice you already are doin that, but in the end when maps are offered as a genuine download it would be wise to agree on one iwo/kuban/guadalcanal ectr..map,

I mean can you imagine youre doin a coop and you are warned, ,..watch ur six bogey left of the harbour/moumtain..and you say; ...what the f**k are you talkin about, there is no town/harbour ?!!!...and... next you hit the ground. hi hi sure i'm dramatising , sry, but its a thought that came into my mind and hope it will sorte itself out in future, for the rest keep up the good work, ...the progess is thrilling!!

There is no need for that anymore!!!!!!

Thanks to Lowfighter we can now expand map list so you can have Norway , Norway_fly_zo ...Norway_xxx ... all listed and accessible separably in FMB and game.

this is huge breakthrough by Lowfighter and no one have noticed it!!!!!!

[Bee]

Fly_zo has it right. It is chaps like him and lowfighter who will give this sim a whole new lease of life.

Hehe - Il-2 Storm of Mods

[Martin98]

this type of modding who will not kill il-2, it will rejuvenate and extend his life expectancy!!!

sorry for my bad english... i use google traduction....

[LAL_RONE]

I will only modify the old maps (Crimea, Kuban, Smolensk, Moscow ...).
I won't modify the maps created by players community. It will be for my personal use and for my squad only. As we play in closed circle (english ?), there is no problem for on-line. Each player of my squad will download my modifications.

[Bee]

I tested Crimea when online. No problems whatsoever. If it is just the textures that are different, there will be no incompatibility. Changes to mesh would be a different story....

[lowfighter]

Yes, that's a problem, and nice miker brought it. I don't know what the easy solution is.

I'm taking a "map modding vacation" now, my poor brain usually working at 10% throttle was working this period at full power... so I'll give it a break lol.
Have fun M8s!

I tested Crimea when online. No problems whatsoever. If it is just the textures that are different, there will be no incompatibility. Changes to mesh would be a different story....

[CKY_86]

With the breakthrough of being able to extend the map list, is there a possibility of being able to create brand new maps?

[LAL_RONE]

Help !!

I am trying to modify Moscou summer like New Smolensk. But I have a problem.
I don't find the name of folder and load.ini for this map (Moscou 2 in game).

For me, it should be:
Moscow/sload.ini
But it doesn't operate ....

Someone could help me to find the good name of folder and load.ini for Moscou 2 (summer) ?
Thanks !

@VPmedia : you will be happy because I modify Smolensk with brown zone !!! I will post screenshots later.

[fly_zo]

Help !!

I am trying to modify Moscou summer like New Smolensk. But I have a problem.
I don't find the name of folder and load.ini for this map (Moscou 2 in game).

For me, it should be:
Moscow/sload.ini
But it doesn't operate ....

Someone could help me to find the good name of folder and load.ini for Moscou 2 (summer) ?
Thanks !

@VPmedia : you will be happy because I modify Smolensk with brown zone !!! I will post screenshots later.

folder name is Moscow ( or you're trying to add it as new map?)
lets start with basic questions:

did you add maps/moscow/sload.ini to the filelist ? ( if you did ...check spelling)
also in files\maps check folder name for moscow and for your file

[LAL_RONE]

folder name is Moscow ( or you're trying to add it as new map?)
lets start with basic questions:

did you add maps/moscow/sload.ini to the filelist ? ( if you did ...check spelling)
also in files\maps check folder name for moscow and for your file

OK thansk, i will retry.

I am posting the new screens of Smolensk. I modified forest (darker). I added brown zone in no man's land, brown fields around the village ...
There is no plenty of modifications.

Original SMOLENSK :



My SMOLENSK :



My load.ini :

[MAP]
ColorMap = map_c.tga
HeightMap = map_h.tga
SmallMap = map_M.tga
TypeMap = map_T.tga
FarMap = map_F.tga
ReflMap = map_R.tga

[LIGHT]
LandLight = LandLight.mat
CloudShadows = CloudShadows.mat

[MAP2D]
ed_m03.tga
ed_m02.tga
ed_m01.tga

[WORLDPOS]
CAMOUFLAGE = SUMMER
MONTH=7
DECLIN = 52
PRESSURE = 745
TEMPERATURE = 17

[CUBE]
Down = Cube_bott.tga
East = Cube_right.tga
North = Cube_front.tga
South = Cube_back.tga
Up = Cube_top.tga
West = Cube_left.tga

[static]
actors.static
[text]
texts.txt

[WOOD]
Wood0 = Italy_DF/forest/summer/itawood0.tga
Wood1 = Italy_DF/forest/summer/itawood1.tga
Wood2 = Italy_DF/forest/summer/itawood2.tga
Wood3 = Italy_DF/forest/summer/itawood3.tga
Wood4 = Italy_DF/forest/summer/itawood4.tga
WoodMask2 = forest/summer/forestMask.tga
WoodMask3 = forest/summer/forestMask2.tga
WoodMiniMasks = forest/summer/MiniMask.tga
SideWood = forest/summer/ForestSide.tga

[APPENDIX]
HighClouds = Clouds256.tga
HighCloudsNoise = CloudsNoise.tga
Moon = Moon\Moon0000.tga
// CloudsMap = CloudMap4x4km.tga
ShadeNoise = land/Noise.tga
WaterNoise = water/WaterNoise.tga
WaterNoiseAnimStart = Water/Animated/WaterNoise00.tga
ForestNoise= forest/summer/ListForestNoise.tga
BeachFoam = water/Foam.tga
BeachSurf = water/BeachSurf.tga
BeachLand = water/RiverLand.tga
Tree0 = Trees\AlteredBush8a.tga
TreeLightMask = Trees\LightM256.tga

[WATER]
Water = water/Water.tga

[ROADS]
Rail = land/summer/Rail
Road = land/summer/Road
Highway = land/summer/Highway

[FIELDS]
LowLand0 = land/summer/LowLand_1.tga,2
LowLand1 = land/summer/autumnFIELDS1.tga
LowLand2 =
LowLand3 =
MidLand0 = land/Pacific/Okinawa.tga
MidLand1 =
MidLand2 =
MidLand3 =
Mount0 = land/summer/uppermount.tga
Mount1 =
Mount2 =
Mount3 =
Country0 = land/summer/bigcountry.tga
Country1 = land/summer/countries.tga
Country2 = land/summer/factory.tga
Country3 = land/summer/factoryC.tga
City0 = land/summer/DownCity.tga
City1 = land/summer/MidCity.tga
City2 = land/summer/CenterCity.tga
City3 =
AirField0= land/summer/airfieldGr.tga
AirField1=
AirField2=
AirField3=
Wood0 = forest/summer/forestGr.tga
Wood1 =
Wood2 = forest/summer/ForestFar.tga
Wood3 =
Water0 = water/water.tga
Water1 = water/water.tga
Water2 = water/CoastLine.tga
Water3 = water/Beach.tga

[Bee]

Nice!

Btw; Do you know how to substitute a darker colour underneath the forests? One thing I really like about the Burma map is the extra depth you get from the simulated shadow of the forest canopy.