[Acajoun]

Hi, people,
do you know if someone has produced (or is working to) a Pacific map that allows to create bomb missions from Marianas to Japan (for B29 planes: takeoffs-objective-landings)?
Thank you for answer
Silvio

[CzechTexan]

FabianFred has started a map called "OJ". Scroll down the main page a little to look for his thread.
Here is the link to it... viewtopic.php?t=5606

I don't think the Marianas islands are included though. It's just Okinawa/Japan/some of Korea.
You have a good idea to have the B-29 bases though. Maybe you could suggest to him to cut and paste the islands onto his map. In my opinion, I think it would be OK to have the bases as close as possible to Japan. The distance would be fictitious but you wouldn't have to fly for hours at a time over the ocean either.
Many of the IL2 maps are not totally accurate and have made bases closer to each other than in real life to help playability. You have a great idea.

I also think that he wouldn't mind if someone else took over the work on his OJ map. If you have any map making skills or know of someone else who might want to do it then you could add the islands too.

[fabianfred]

Actually the sea area in the bottom right hand corner of the map is empty and one could probably place an island there....of course you can even now use the stationary ships airstrips laid upon the ocean...if you do not want airstarts

[Acajoun]

Thank you for your answers, guys! The map of Japan you have indicated to me is very interesting and I wish realy insert, as you suggest, an island in the south-eastern corner of it. Unfortunately I don't know a tool I could use for producing a result "artistically" correct. If You can give me some other tips about...
Thank You again and see you later
Silvio :lol:

[fabianfred]

Maybe I'll play god and make an island for you today....just big enough for an airbase I suppose?

[Cpt_Biggles]

that would be really cool fabianfred if you would do that.

[duffys tavern]

Did B-29s fly out of Okinawa?

[fabianfred]

OK.... it's done....I copied the southern island from the pacific islands map and put it into the SE corner

and I put an airstrip on it

I'll give a link when it is sent to my site

http://www.4shared.com/dir/4397598/27d3 ... aring.html

map files folder ......'OJ&extraIsland'

[CzechTexan]

That ol' fabianfred is a cool guy isn't he?!

[Cpt_Biggles]

fabianfred i overwrote the files in my OJ map with those from your link and now the map will not load
game crashes and closes altogether?.

[fabianfred]

Sorry...as you posted this I realised that I had made a new texture but not included it...... it is now at the download site
in same folder ...called 'Texture.for.OJ.map'

I had used a texture for the City0 (in the load.ini)
called..... land/summer/fsk_country_mount.tga

it is actually the sk_country_mount texture which i changed the contrast to make it match the surrounding textures and added an f into its name

either install the new texture from the download site ...or delete the letter 'f' in that City0 line in the load.ini

[Cpt_Biggles]

works great with the new texture, just need the new b29 with the littleboy loadout from the kiwimagpie now.

[fabianfred]

If you need me to make any changes to the airfield on the island let me know......it would only need a new actors.static file to replace the one you have

I could add taxiing and parking plates etc......at the moment there are just the runway plates which are smooth to move upon....but a B-29 doesn't nose-over easily like a Spitfire ...lol.....just go careful on the taxiing

I will make a pic of the airfield waypoints for you so that you can populate the airfield with objects without them blocking any taxiing or parking waypoints.

I could also easily add an extra icon so that you can have your own a/c be spawned off the strip so that you would need to taxi to the take-off point

I tested the strip with 4x B-29 fully loaded and they took off and landed OK

[fabianfred]

[Cpt_Biggles]

I could add taxiing and parking plates etc......at the moment there are just the runway plates which are smooth to move upon....but a B-29 doesn't nose-over easily like a Spitfire ...lol.....just go careful on the taxiing

I could also easily add an extra icon so that you can have your own a/c be spawned off the strip so that you would need to taxi to the take-off point

Both of these would be great extras if you feel like adding them, just did a quick test and the island is very picturesque.