[Salmo]

TRUK ISLANDS BETA

Feel free to post feedback, ideas, links to historical info, pics etc that may assist with research & map building.

LATEST RELEASE

1.0 Beta (17 May 2009) http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=59ca ... b9a8902bda

Install Instructions -
1. Extract the archive file in your game root folder. Map files are automaticaly put into the required folders.
2. Add the line "Sal_Truk Sal_Truk/load.ini" (without quotes) to the all.ini file in your game-root/MODS/mapmods/maps folder

NB - This map requires AAA Unified Installer 1.1 map textures to load correctly

SCREEN SHOTS

[Checkyersix]

Excellent. This should be a great addition to the game. I look forward to bombing the crap out of those airfields!

EDIT: P.S. I believe it's spelled "Truk". Cheers m8!

[ijeremiah]

Great I've been waiting for someone to do this map.

[walter_solito]

Hi!

This map will be a great addition to the sim!

I'll try to search something to help you and I'll post ASAP!

Have a nice work!

cheers

walter

[MrGoldfinger]

YES, a really good idea! The Truk lagoon! I am looking forward...

[Stratodog]

This is from a book about CV-10 the USS Yorktown. The book is "The Fighting Lady" by Reynolds.

BTW I think this map is a very exciting idea. Good luck on your work and thanks in advance for what ever comes out of this effort.

[CzechTexan]

Good looking maps guys. Look forward to it!

[MrOblongo]

That image Stratodog posted would be a very nice ed_m01 hock:

[viking4570]

That image Stratodog posted would be a very nice ed_m01 hock:

+1

[Stratodog]

What's an ed_m01 ?

[JAMF]

What's an ed_m01 ?

Could be the "knee map", which we toggle on screen with "m"?

[MrOblongo]

Yes, that one...always wanted some historical nav chart to put as kneemap...that would be cool. But is hard to make it be exact size/scale of the real map... anyway.

[mandrill7]

The knee map is drawn from all 3 edmaps (or 2 in some maps) depending on the scale of the knee map as you click on it and adjust it. I have my 3 edmaps differently coloured in my Belarus map and all 3 come up at different times with the knee map.

The edmaps are the 2D maps which appear when you first bring up the map in the FMB, before you zoom into the terrain focus.

Probably not possible to use an outside map as the edmap, as you have to match EXACTLY in scale and layout to the other maps.

[Salmo]

Thanks for comments & info so far everyone. I have some pictures to use for making airfields & sea plane bases. Any other pics of facilities, defenses & infrastructure at Truk during WW2 would help.

Doblon Island seaplane base http://www.pacificwrecks.com/airfields/ ... hotos.html
Eten Island airfield http://www.pacificwrecks.com/airfields/ ... hotos.html
Moen Island airfield no1 http://www.pacificwrecks.com/airfields/ ... index.html
Moen Island airfield no2 http://www.pacificwrecks.com/airfields/ ... index.html
Moen Island seaplane base http://www.pacificwrecks.com/airfields/ ... index.html
Param island airfield http://www.pacificwrecks.com/airfields/ ... index.html

[JAMF]

Probably not possible to use an outside map as the edmap, as you have to match EXACTLY in scale and layout to the other maps.

Actually should be quite easy. You just use the original as a "see-through" layer and stretch/shrink the outside map till it fits.

Scans of silk maps would work too, as I imagine they would be the ones carried.


I have a few "silk-scarf" cloth maps that I got on Ebay, Kanazawa/Sendai (repro), Burma/Siam (44c/d), S-Borneo/Java/S-Sumatra and a west Pacific currents chart.