[fly_zo]

Ok gentleman, been mucking around with height, with the very good help of fly_zo (Can't express how much I can thank you mate ) and the following results are in:

colour values R:255 G:255 B:255 equals to 4000-4030 meters altitude.

Hope this helps

thanks for info m8


Z

[Skunkmeister]

I'm not sure I have the right tools to modify map_h and map_T...No matter what I do to them nothing changes.

I'm also beginning to wonder if Slot map the size I have it will be possible.

[fly_zo]

I'm not sure I have the right tools to modify map_h and map_T...No matter what I do to them nothing changes.

I'm also beginning to wonder if Slot map the size I have it will be possible.

what are you using ? for map_T.tga use only pencil tool .... no blur is allowed .

[Skunkmeister]

Well that may be part of the problem then...I'll look in to that. As for map_h I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

As for Solomons map, FMB starts to load, after 20 seconds it crashes with load.ini error. Still, its progress! before it would not load at all and just give me the load.ini error.

[CKY_86]

Ok gentleman, been mucking around with height, with the very good help of fly_zo (Can't express how much I can thank you mate ) and the following results are in:

colour values R:255 G:255 B:255 equals to 4000-4030 meters altitude.

Hope this helps

thanks for info m8


Z

Most weclome mate

[asheshouse]

Struggling to get started!!

I've already set up an Ardennes folder to play around with and that loads into FMB ok. So I must have the basics right.

I'm aiming to set up a template for north east France including the Ardennes so the Ardennes map is not big enough. Singapore seems to be about the right size and shape.

So I've extracted the SFS fb_maps*.SFS to create a master folder set, and copied the contents of the Singapore folder into /files/maps/NEFrance -- a new sub folder.

renamed load.ini to ash_load.ini. Made entries in filelist.txt and all.ini
no changes to map file names yet.

In FMB ash_NEFrance appears but ash_load.ini doesnt load. error message appears

Any ideas?

MWmap_c.tga created ok. So I can edit that --- any idea what the pixel scale is. The image is 8000x5408 pix

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So time has now moved on since I posted that.
I've changed the folder name from NEFrance back to Singapore
Still have ash_NEFrance appearing in the menu of FMB, but now it loads up ok.
My folder does not have fb_map_R.tga, or fb_map_M.tgs, or ed_map_t.tga, all of which appear in ash_load.ini. So maybe the programme was not able to find those files?
Anyone know where to get them from?

[RAF_Leigh]

Question

how do you extract the .SFS files??

[fly_zo]

Struggling to get started!!

I've already set up an Ardennes folder to play around with and that loads into FMB ok. So I must have the basics right.

I'm aiming to set up a template for north east France including the Ardennes so the Ardennes map is not big enough. Singapore seems to be about the right size and shape.

So I've extracted the SFS fb_maps*.SFS to create a master folder set, and copied the contents of the Singapore folder into /files/maps/NEFrance -- a new sub folder.

renamed load.ini to ash_load.ini. Made entries in filelist.txt and all.ini
no changes to map file names yet.

In FMB ash_NEFrance appears but ash_load.ini doesnt load. error message appears

Any ideas?

MWmap_c.tga created ok. So I can edit that --- any idea what the pixel scale is. The image is 8000x5408 pix

=================

So time has now moved on since I posted that.
I've changed the folder name from NEFrance back to Singapore
Still have ash_NEFrance appearing in the menu of FMB, but now it loads up ok.
My folder does not have fb_map_R.tga, or fb_map_M.tgs, or ed_map_t.tga, all of which appear in ash_load.ini. So maybe the programme was not able to find those files?
Anyone know where to get them from?

in singapore there are two versions .... check you copied all the right files

ok those are all files in my default singapore:

actors2.static
actors.static
ed_m01.tga
ed_m02.tga
ed_m03.tga
load2.ini
load.ini
map_c.tga
map_c.tga_table
map_F.tga
map_h.tga
map_T.tga
texts2.txt
texts.txt

[fly_zo]

PLEASE NOTE !!!!!!

.... after consultations and rechecking version 2 ..... everything works fine now!!!!

i was able to add new land to finsgulf this morning !


so version 2 is ok !!!!!!

[fly_zo]

Question

how do you extract the .SFS files??

app: sfs extractor : d/l forum downloads section

.... extract all sfs files into same folder .....

[asheshouse]

in singapore there are two versions .... check you copied all the right files

ok those are all files in my default singapore:

actors2.static
actors.static
ed_m01.tga
ed_m02.tga
ed_m03.tga
load2.ini
load.ini
map_c.tga
map_c.tga_table
map_F.tga
map_h.tga
map_T.tga
texts2.txt
texts.txt

Yes. I copied all of those in to a folder which is now called Singapore.
I have changed load.ini to ash_load.ini

It loads ok at the moment using ash_NEFrance in FMB, but if I change the folder name to NEFrance it creates an error when loading. Yes I have changed the entries in filelist.txt and all.ini to show the correct folder path. This is not a show stopper at present because I can just leave the folder as Singapore and carry on but at some stage I may need to access the missing map files. fb_map_R.tga; fb_map_M.tgs; ed_map_t.tga

[fly_zo]

Yes. I copied all of those in to a folder which is now called Singapore.
I have changed load.ini to ash_load.ini

It loads ok at the moment using ash_NEFrance in FMB, but if I change the folder name to NEFrance it creates an error when loading. Yes I have changed the entries in filelist.txt and all.ini to show the correct folder path. This is not a show stopper at present because I can just leave the folder as Singapore and carry on but at some stage I may need to access the missing map files.

well if its loads ok with ash_NEFrance than recheck names of files in filelist.txt and path in all.ini

Z

[asheshouse]

No luck. Tried changing folder back to NEFrance and changing paths in filelist.txt and all.ini but still fails to load with message NEFrance/ash_load.ini : loading error

Changed folder and path back to Singapore and it all works again, so I'm going to ignore this and carry on regardless.

[Skunkmeister]

Ash, what files did you modify? I'm working with Hawaii to create the Aleutians, and turns out my map_T had some blurring in it which caused the map to not want to load. Oh and Zo, check it out:



turns out that when I was saving with GIMP to tga, it was using compression to create the file. I turned off compression, as well as getting rid of all the blurries and now it works. Since the Aleutians are far up north, I will need textures a la Norway to map the textures.

I also succeeded in removing the water tiling entry in load.ini, so now the Aleutians map only concentrates on the portion where the islands are. I'm basically using this map as a test bed for the Slot.

[asheshouse]

I havent altered any of the Singapore files yet. I'm just trying to get the folder and file structure working properly. When I have the files in a folder called Singapore it opens ok in FMB. If I change the folder name to NEFrance, and change the file paths in filelist.txt and all.ini to use the new folder name it no longer opens in FMB. -- I'm not too bothered because I can progress with the map mods anyway, using the Singapore folder, but it would be nice to get the folder names right.